The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine if public libraries live up to the expectations that the society have when it comes to giving information technology service to older people. The reason behind this is to highlight the target group older people in swedish library plans, because they are the group in the society that feel least involved in the digital society. The method in this study consist of a content analysis where sixty-two library plans have been reviewed. Based on the background, four themes have been selected in the results section, the digital divide, digital participation, the public library as an institution and the elderly. The themes together with Eriksson-Zetterquist description of the new institutional theory and Warschauers model for literacy and ICT-access, formed the content of the analysis section. The findings show that the majority of the library plans have not mentioned elderly people in a digital context. The most common context to mention the elderly are in reading promotion. Older people have also not been identified as a priority target group within the institution, which reflects on the contents of the library plans.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-96966 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Ekelund, Lisa, Johansson, Lisa |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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