In the Swedish school library discussion, the most prominent role of the school library haslong been that of cultural centre in the school, with the main goal being to encourage children'sreading. During the 90ies there were signs of a shift in focus to the role of information centre,giving active support across the whole range of the curriculum, in the independent researchingwork of the students. At the same time severe budget cuts caused great worries for the future.The interest for the school library media centres increased during this time, many differentorganizations said they wanted to fight for better school libraries. The purpose of the presentwork was to find out who they are, what they want and what their ideal school library lookslike. Fourteen organizations were studied, focus was on activities during 1995. The methodsused were; analysis of curriculum text linked to a model for describing library activities;interviews with representatives of the different organizations; text analysis of the journals ofthe organizations and a search in a reference data base. The main results were the following:The new national curriculum does not mention schoool libraries. Despite this, an interpretation,made by a librarian, shows many passages in the text pointing to a great need of a stronglibrary function in the schools as they tum to the more resource based, problem solving learningemphasized by the curriculum. The results also show that, despite joint efforts to strengthenthe school library media centres, a general agreement on the role of the library in the schoolhas still not been reached. A comparision between the result of the interviews and the analysisof the official journals of the organizations showed a discrepancy in the view of the importanceof the school library in implementing the new cumculum. The search in a reference data baseshowed that during 1995 school library issues were of real interest in the library press only,with very few articles in educational press or daily papers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-18219 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Omstedt, Britt |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) |
| 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 |
| Relation | Magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid Institutionen Bibliotekshögskolan, 1401-5358 ; 1997:9 |
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