The public libraries of Sweden are governed as public organizations, that means they obey under municipalities, with their own agendas and policy documents, all while also adhering to the Library Act (SFS 2013:801) of Sweden, a law act that highly empasizes democratic values. The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to discuss and analyze the local municipal library policy documents of Sweden, in an attempt to determine the homogeneity of Swedens public libraries and the goals they strive for, or at least what goals they say they strive for, with emphasis on social sustainability. The following questions were discussed : “How is the concept social sustainability phrased in the public library plans and to what extent is it present in the plans?” Also, “In accordance with the library act, public libraries should strive for the same goals, but under which areas of the library policies do these terms of social sustainability appear?” A combined qualitative and quantitative content analysis was made utilizing public library policies and gathering information about mentions about or regarding social sustainability, democracy and participation. The results indicate that the goals are the same, yet they apear under different parts of the libraries work and services and more often than not they adheir to the library it self and the local community.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-26525 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Jansson, Joakim |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT |
| 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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