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Submitted by Luziana Lessa (luziana@rb.gov.br) on 2015-11-17T18:09:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Medeiros, Ana Ligia - DESCONHECIDA PELA COMUNIDADE E DESPREZADA.doc: 1864192 bytes, checksum: 861b219eee0d771f23b0d89505e08020 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-17T18:09:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Medeiros, Ana Ligia - DESCONHECIDA PELA COMUNIDADE E DESPREZADA.doc: 1864192 bytes, checksum: 861b219eee0d771f23b0d89505e08020 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / "A tese teve como tema central a situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, a partir da visão de atores políticos e pesquisadores que, de alguma forma, estiveram ou ainda estão ligados a estas instituições. Em entrevistas realizadas no período de junho de 2014 a fevereiro de 2015, foram levantadas questões sobre a possível crise institucional na atualidade, o impacto das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs), a situação das bibliotecas brasileiras e sua relação com a comunidade, além das expectativas sobre um Plano específico para a área. Para embasar o levantamento empírico, percorreu-se brevemente a literatura que aborda a história da instituição, revelando como esta tem se adaptado ao contexto, refletindo tempo e espaço, e mudado a visão de sua relação com o seu público, a sua comunidade. Como o tema tem sido tratado na literatura internacional também foi considerado. A literatura apontou para temas que contribuem para um novo entendimento da instituição no uso das TICs, na formação de cidadania e nas relações com a comunidade, neste sentido aparecendo em destaque a ideia de biblioteca pública, como criadora de capital social. Em relação às bibliotecas brasileiras foram abordados o pensamento e a atuação de três intelectuais que refletiram e atuaram na área da biblioteca pública. Foi, também, analisada a evolução das políticas para a área, sendo estas exemplificadas com as boas práticas em bibliotecas públicas. A partir da base oferecida pela literatura foi elaborada a metodologia a ser empregada nas entrevistas. Optou-se pela aplicação de entrevista semiestruturada visando possibilitar aos entrevistados liberdade na formulação das respostas. As opiniões dos entrevistados destacam a má situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, tendo sido oferecido nos depoimentos diversos ângulos para o entendimento da invisibilidade institucional na perspectiva das suas comunidades e do desprestígio político da biblioteca pública brasileira." / "The thesis was focused on the situation of Brazilian public libraries, from the perspective of political actors and researchers who, in some way, were or are still connected to these institutions. In interviews performed from June 2014 to February 2015, questions were raised about the possible institutional crisis today, the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the situation of Brazilian libraries and their relationship with the community, as well as expectations on a specific plan for the area. To support the empirical survey, it toured briefly the literature addressing the institution's history, showing how it has always been adapted to its context, and the view of its relationship with its audience, its community, has also changed. The literature pointed to issues that contribute to a new understanding of the institution in the use of ICTs in the formation of citizenship and relations with the community, to that effect appearing highlighted the idea of public library, as creator of social capital. Regarding the Brazilian libraries, the thought and action of three outstanding intellectuals who reflected and acted in the public library area were considered. The development of policies for the area was also analyzed, and illustrated with good practice in public libraries. The methodology adopted was semi-structured interviews aiming to allow respondents freedom in formulating the answers. The opinions of respondents highlight the plight of Brazilian public libraries, and offer different angles to understand the institutional invisibility and its lack of prestige. "

Submitted by Rachel Pereira (rachelprr@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-12-17T18:36:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese final REV_Gilda nov 15.pdf: 1846031 bytes, checksum: 7d6c244709230f5c7b1384dcf8b8920a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-17T18:36:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese final REV_Gilda nov 15.pdf: 1846031 bytes, checksum: 7d6c244709230f5c7b1384dcf8b8920a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / A tese teve como tema central a situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, a partir da visão de atores políticos e pesquisadores que, de alguma forma, estiveram ou ainda estão ligados a estas instituições. Em entrevistas realizadas no período de junho de 2014 a fevereiro de 2015, foram levantadas questões sobre a possível crise institucional na atualidade, o impacto das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs), a situação das bibliotecas brasileiras e sua relação com a comunidade, além das expectativas sobre um Plano específico para a área. Para embasar o levantamento empírico, percorreu-se brevemente a literatura que aborda a história da instituição, revelando como esta tem se adaptado ao contexto, refletindo tempo e espaço, e mudado a visão de sua relação com o seu público, a sua comunidade. Como o tema tem sido tratado na literatura internacional também foi considerado. A literatura apontou para temas que contribuem para um novo entendimento da instituição no uso das TICs, na formação de cidadania e nas relações com a comunidade, neste sentido aparecendo em destaque a ideia de biblioteca pública, como criadora de capital social. Em relação às bibliotecas brasileiras foram abordados o pensamento e a atuação de três intelectuais que refletiram e atuaram na área da biblioteca pública. Foi, também, analisada a evolução das políticas para a área, sendo estas exemplificadas com as boas práticas em bibliotecas públicas. A partir da base oferecida pela literatura foi elaborada a metodologia a ser empregada nas entrevistas. Optou-se pela aplicação de entrevista semiestruturada visando possibilitar aos entrevistados liberdade na formulação das respostas. As opiniões dos entrevistados destacam a má situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, tendo sido oferecido nos depoimentos diversos ângulos para o entendimento da invisibilidade institucional na perspectiva das suas comunidades e do desprestígio político da biblioteca pública brasileira / The thesis was focused on the situation of Brazilian public libraries, from the perspective of political actors and researchers who, in some way, were or are still connected to these institutions. In interviews performed from June 2014 to February 2015, questions were raised about the possible institutional crisis today, the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the situation of Brazilian libraries and their relationship with the community, as well as expectations on a specific plan for the area. To support the empirical survey, it toured briefly the literature addressing the institution's history, showing how it has always been adapted to its context, and the view of its relationship with its audience, its community, has also changed. The literature pointed to issues that contribute to a new understanding of the institution in the use of ICTs in the formation of citizenship and relations with the community, to that effect appearing highlighted the idea of public library, as creator of social capital. Regarding the Brazilian libraries, the thought and action of three outstanding intellectuals who reflected and acted in the public library area were considered. The development of policies for the area was also analyzed, and illustrated with good practice in public libraries. The methodology adopted was semi-structured interviews aiming to allow respondents freedom in formulating the answers. The opinions of respondents highlight the plight of Brazilian public libraries, and offer different angles to understand the institutional invisibility and its lack of prestige.

Submitted by Luziana Lessa (luziana@rb.gov.br) on 2015-11-17T18:09:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Medeiros, Ana Ligia - DESCONHECIDA PELA COMUNIDADE E DESPREZADA.doc: 1864192 bytes, checksum: 861b219eee0d771f23b0d89505e08020 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-17T18:09:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Medeiros, Ana Ligia - DESCONHECIDA PELA COMUNIDADE E DESPREZADA.doc: 1864192 bytes, checksum: 861b219eee0d771f23b0d89505e08020 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / "A tese teve como tema central a situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, a partir da visão de atores políticos e pesquisadores que, de alguma forma, estiveram ou ainda estão ligados a estas instituições. Em entrevistas realizadas no período de junho de 2014 a fevereiro de 2015, foram levantadas questões sobre a possível crise institucional na atualidade, o impacto das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs), a situação das bibliotecas brasileiras e sua relação com a comunidade, além das expectativas sobre um Plano específico para a área. Para embasar o levantamento empírico, percorreu-se brevemente a literatura que aborda a história da instituição, revelando como esta tem se adaptado ao contexto, refletindo tempo e espaço, e mudado a visão de sua relação com o seu público, a sua comunidade. Como o tema tem sido tratado na literatura internacional também foi considerado. A literatura apontou para temas que contribuem para um novo entendimento da instituição no uso das TICs, na formação de cidadania e nas relações com a comunidade, neste sentido aparecendo em destaque a ideia de biblioteca pública, como criadora de capital social. Em relação às bibliotecas brasileiras foram abordados o pensamento e a atuação de três intelectuais que refletiram e atuaram na área da biblioteca pública. Foi, também, analisada a evolução das políticas para a área, sendo estas exemplificadas com as boas práticas em bibliotecas públicas. A partir da base oferecida pela literatura foi elaborada a metodologia a ser empregada nas entrevistas. Optou-se pela aplicação de entrevista semiestruturada visando possibilitar aos entrevistados liberdade na formulação das respostas. As opiniões dos entrevistados destacam a má situação das bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, tendo sido oferecido nos depoimentos diversos ângulos para o entendimento da invisibilidade institucional na perspectiva das suas comunidades e do desprestígio político da biblioteca pública brasileira." / "The thesis was focused on the situation of Brazilian public libraries, from the perspective of political actors and researchers who, in some way, were or are still connected to these institutions. In interviews performed from June 2014 to February 2015, questions were raised about the possible institutional crisis today, the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the situation of Brazilian libraries and their relationship with the community, as well as expectations on a specific plan for the area. To support the empirical survey, it toured briefly the literature addressing the institution's history, showing how it has always been adapted to its context, and the view of its relationship with its audience, its community, has also changed. The literature pointed to issues that contribute to a new understanding of the institution in the use of ICTs in the formation of citizenship and relations with the community, to that effect appearing highlighted the idea of public library, as creator of social capital. Regarding the Brazilian libraries, the thought and action of three outstanding intellectuals who reflected and acted in the public library area were considered. The development of policies for the area was also analyzed, and illustrated with good practice in public libraries. The methodology adopted was semi-structured interviews aiming to allow respondents freedom in formulating the answers. The opinions of respondents highlight the plight of Brazilian public libraries, and offer different angles to understand the institutional invisibility and its lack of prestige. "

This thesis examines the correlation between the Swedish National Library Strategy and the Swedish National Security Strategy. These strategies originates from two different political fields that seemingly has nothing to do with each other. However, in the Swedish National Library Strategy, it states that public libraries in Sweden should be a part of the nation’s civil defense, and therefore be a part of Sweden’s total defense system. In the National Library Strategy, libraries are considered vital in order to sustain a strong democracy, this is described through the libraries focus on educating citizens in media and information literacy (MIL), as well as the librarians role as an independent and neutral information intermediary. Libraries would therefore enrich the civil defense through a crisis, or a wartime situation. However, in the National Security Strategy the vital role of public libraries within the defense system is not being discussed. The statement from the National Library Strategy has been met with a lot of questions and dispute. The reactions of the statement is in fact the premise of this thesis. The subsequent ignorance of the statement requires further knowledge, which this thesis establish. A comparative qualitative content analysis is applied to find similarities and differences between the two political fields, in order to understand the statement made in the Swedish National Library Strategy. The source material of this thesis consists of these two strategies, as well as further selected reports and research papers that is linked to the two strategies. The results of this thesis show that there is a communal discussion about threat scenarios, and that there are a mutual goal of a strong upheld democracy in both of the policies. However, the results show that there are differences in how to encounter and overcome the threats. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

In this thesis we explore the idea presented in the Swedish National Library Strategy (2019) to tie the public libraries closer to the nation’s total defense system. The purpose of the study has been to understand which problem this idea was formulated as a solution to and how the suggestion is problematized by information science professionals, using critical discourse analysis methods developed by Carol Bacchi. Our material consists of the finalized National Library Strategy, its first draft from 2018, and the referral responses by various interested parties, as well as interviews with 15 public librarians, library directors, and scholars of information science. We discuss how the psychological defense relates to the librarian’s statutory duty to facilitate citizen participation in deliberative democracy and to counteract misinformation. We also ask how the library professions might be affected by an active involvement in future civil defense efforts. Our results show that the National Library Strategy construes the idea as a security problem by portraying our society as affected by growing political tensions, rapidly spread misinformation, and chaos, making the total defense suggestion into a meaningful solution. In our interviews with information professionals, some respondents viewed the total defense as an extension of their work to advocate democracy and intellectual freedom, whereas others perceived ethical tensions and incongruity between the two missions, referring to traditional library ideals of political neutrality and independence. All respondents based their reflections of the total defense idea on the importance of deliberative democracy and the library’s prominent place in promoting it, but with differing perspectives of its relationship to the total defense system as either problematic or emblematic. Drawing on these results, we argue that a total defense mission is compatible with librarians’ professional ethics and statutory democracy advocacy, as long as libraries can continue to foster free opinion formation and unbiased information evaluation independent from state interests during wartime and times of crisis. This is a two years master's thesis in library and information science.

Text in English / Legislation plays an important role in the provision of public and national library services. However, in Zambia libraries that perform the functions of public and national libraries are operating without a legislative mandate. As a result, there is a fragmentation of library services as there is no single institution which performs all the functions of a national library service. Although several efforts were made before to enact national library service legislation, no Act of Parliament has been passed to date (2014). This study sought to provide empirical evidence to refine our insight of the benefits of having national library service legislation and the consequent implications of not having any legislation in the provision of library services. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaire administration to public library staff; interviews with senior government officials, and executive members of the ZLA and ZALICO; and document analysis on text from grey literature. The existence of the statistical significance of association between “Importance of library legislation” and “Provision of library services in Zambia” was measured and confirmed using Pearson chi-square χ2. Public library facilities, services and collections in Zambia were found to be below par, and it was concluded that this was due to lack of library legislation. The study recommends that appropriate legislation that puts together the functions of public and national libraries under one institution be enacted in Zambia as soon as possible. It is also recommended that further research be undertaken to investigate the current status of library facilities, services and collections in selected neighbouring countries where library legislation has been passed. / Information Science / M.A. (Information Science)

Text in English / Legislation plays an important role in the provision of public and national library services. However, in Zambia libraries that perform the functions of public and national libraries are operating without a legislative mandate. As a result, there is a fragmentation of library services as there is no single institution which performs all the functions of a national library service. Although several efforts were made before to enact national library service legislation, no Act of Parliament has been passed to date (2014). This study sought to provide empirical evidence to refine our insight of the benefits of having national library service legislation and the consequent implications of not having any legislation in the provision of library services. Quantitative data was collected through questionnaire administration to public library staff; interviews with senior government officials, and executive members of the ZLA and ZALICO; and document analysis on text from grey literature. The existence of the statistical significance of association between “Importance of library legislation” and “Provision of library services in Zambia” was measured and confirmed using Pearson chi-square χ2. Public library facilities, services and collections in Zambia were found to be below par, and it was concluded that this was due to lack of library legislation. The study recommends that appropriate legislation that puts together the functions of public and national libraries under one institution be enacted in Zambia as soon as possible. It is also recommended that further research be undertaken to investigate the current status of library facilities, services and collections in selected neighbouring countries where library legislation has been passed. / Information Science / M.A. (Information Science)