This study investigates minor cultural institutions’approaches to digitalization and how problems in connectionwith digitization processes may be resolved. The methodsused for this study include structured interviews with fiveminor cultural institutions, a semi-structured interview and agroup interview with experts in digitization. The results wereanalyzed through the identification of themes in theempirical material.The results show that there are a number of factors affectingminor institutions’ digitization, for example, the need todigitize complete or parts of collections, staff views ondigitization, financing, national interest in regional heritagecollections and finally, strategic decisions to preserve ormake available the digitized material. The study also showedthat the solution to these problems can be found incollaboration between cultural institutions, improvedcommunication between cultural institutions and theDepartment of Culture as well as cooperation with larger andmore experienced institutions.

Inom ramen for Energimyndighetens projekt “Spara och bevara” har Högskolan på Gotland bearbetat och översatt kapitel 21 i “2007 ASHRAER HANDBOOK Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning APPLICATIONS”. ASHRAE är namnet på den amerikanska ingenjörsorganisationen American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. baserad i Atlanta i USA. Bearbetningen är gjord av Tekn.Dr. Jan Holmberg vid Högskolan pa Gotland i samarbete med konservator Monika Fjaestad vid Riksantikvarieambetet. Syftet med denna publikation är att på svenska sprida de utomordentligt väl underbyggda översikter av problem att beakta vid förebyggande konservering och energibesparing i historiska hus och kyrkor, som presenteras i kapitel 21.

Denna studie handlar om samlingar och barnens möjlighet till inflytande och har barnens egna perspektiv som utgångspunkt. Syftet med studien var att försöka komma åt barnens egna tankar och synpunkter på den ofta traditionsbaserade aktiviteten samling. Frågeställningarna jag använt mig av för att uppnå studiens syfte lyder som följande: Vad har barn för uppfattningar om samlingar? Vad anser barnen att de har för inflytande över samlingarnas utformning och innehåll? Metoden som användes för att få fram resultatet var gruppintervjuer med barnen. Resultatet har sedan analyserats med hjälp av relevant teori och tidigare forskning om bland annat barns perspektiv och barns inflytande. Studiens utfall pekar på att barnen har en övergripande negativ inställning till samlingar och att möjligheten till inflytande, enligt barnen, förefaller i stort sätt obefintlig.

The purpose of this study is to contribute with knowledge about how floating collections can be distributed in different areas of a city. The focus of the study is to see how the library use that influences the floating collections is distributed across the city of Gothenburg and what consequences it may have for access to media in different locations around the city. The research questions posed are: How is the use of library collections distributed in a city with a floating collection? How does user influence shape the local collections in a floating collection? and How do librarians in Gothenburg deal with the effects of a floating collection? The empirical material is official statistics collected from libraries in Gothenburg. The statistics include the number of reservations, borrowed media and returned media from each library and also the turn over rate of the circulation. The theoretical framework that is being used is Michael K. Bucklands theory of the roles of collections. The results show that the collections are unevenly distributed in some areas, that users are more inclined to make reservations for media incertain areas and that librarians sometimes make reservations to their workplace to even out unbalances.

This paper describes the development of direct and indirect service at the former Gothen­burg city library. This was during this period of time not the public library of the town, but a scientific library mostly serving the college, although also open to the public. Furthermore the services offered in Gothenburg are compared with those of the two old Swedish university libraries in Uppsala and Lund. The investigated direct serviceforms are "making material available", "guidance", and "localities". The indirect service areas are "the catalogue" and "the personnel and their competence".The conclusion is that the differences weren't that big and that Gothenburg city library was a modern library providing about the same services as you could find in Uppsala and Lund. In some instances Gothenburg city library also seems to have provided better service. This is especially true concerning user education where they offered courses already in 1939 which perhaps made them first out in Sweden.

National libraries hold large, valuable repositories of often unique materials. How can we ensure that the knowledge is accessible without endangering the materials that hold the knowledge? Digital preservation is meant to solve this problem. With more and more material being accessible digitally, users are expected to do more and more of the finding on their own, instead of being guided by librarians. What kind of knowledge do the librarians have, that cannot be mediated through a system? How is the knowledge of experienced librarians passed on to new librarians? What is the difference between physical and digital materials? I have interviewed senior and junior librarians of Det Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen, Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo, the National Library in Helsinki, and Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm to learn about their journey to knowledge of their collections. These collections are meant to function as a national memory. In discussing the how they learned, I compare this with how this knowledge is being passed on, preserving the nation's memory. I conclude that the focus on digitization of the collections is risking to close off the regions of the closed stacks even more, as librarians are either not allocated the time to do research, or not replaced when they retire. For the memory of the nation, and for the progress of knowledge, it is important to have staff trained in research, and also to have time allotted to pursue the advancement of their fields.

The aim of this study is to compare how three local librarieshandle their collections, and to compare this with handlingcollections at national level. I have investigated librarian’sopinions of their collections and how they take care andpreserve them for the future. It has also been studied if thelibraries collections of old material contains more than justold book rarities.In this study I had compared my respondents answer withSvante Beckman and Magdalena Hillström`s theory ofmuseum`s four idealtypes. Their view of a museum is in theforms of a treasury, archive, school and a theatre. Theanswers of the interviews are compared with the fourdifferent ideals from the museum, and from that conclusionsare drawn. The main method that I have used for this study isqualitative interviews that handle different aspects ofthis subject. My respondents have been four differentlibrarians from three local libraries in three counties.The results of the study were that all three libraries saw thattheir collections both have a regional and national value, andthey represent both the social and cultural history of thatcounty. Another result was that all three libraries felt that theaudience should have the pleasure to view both the originalof the collections and digital versions. Finally the studyshowed that the libraries would like that older collections inlibraries should get the same protection as Cultural Heritage. / Program: Bibliotekarie

This study explores the heritagisation of war trophies in early modern Sweden. The ways in which contemporary artefacts have been historicised and charged with new meanings through specific practices are analysed. These practices form part of a process enacted by a network of human agents and objects constituting an early example of heritagisation. The empirical material comprises selected objects in the collection of the Swedish Army Museum, archive documents and printed royal decrees and resolutions. By examining objects as well as contemporary texts on the collecting and the display of the trophies, a process that has influenced collection management in museums of today is recorded and analysed. The study adheres to the interdisciplinary field of Critical Heritage Studies and proposes that a critical approach to the production of heritage might be applied also to early modern times.   Sökord: War trophies, collections, antiquarian practices, cultural heritage

Syftet med studien är att skapa en djupare förståelse för hur pedagoger i förskolan utmanar barn matematiskt i samlingen. Studien genomfördes med hjälp av observationer samt ljudinspelning och anteckningar som stöd. Studiens resultat visar att interaktionen går från att vara mer individuell till att kräva mer samarbete. Interaktionen mellan pedagog och barn karaktäriseras av att pedagogen tar fram material och att pedagogen bekräftar och upprepar det barnen säger. Barnen utmanas i sitt matematiska tänkande genom att pedagogen ger barnen en konkret uppgift i ett konkret syfte, genom frågor och genom att pedagogen utvecklar uppgiften

Archaeologists excavate to find out more about our prehistory. The more artifacts we dig up and preserve the more the potential to extract knowledge about the past from them grows. But some people are starting to get worried how we are going to be able to keep all the things we excavate. The museums are already filled to the brim, but the stream of new objects does not stop.  We are, according to those people, in a curation crisis. This study aims to investigate how the laws and regulations of disposal of the archaeological artifacts in museums collections translate to practice. Through interviews and analyzing laws and guidelines I aim to study how those in charge of disposal navigate between the need of more archaeological material versus the need to make more room in the collections, and how the guidelines over disposal gets implemented in practice. The conclusions of this paper is that Swedish museums employees generally thinks that the guidelines are easy to work with, however they rarely dispose of archaeological artifacts, instead they rely on it being done in the field.