Literature Promotion in Public Libraries – Between Policy, Profession and Public Management

Kann‐Christensen, Nanna; Balling, Gitte

doi:10.18261/issn2000-8325-2011-01-02-08

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“…Lyngsoe Systems (2014) distinguishes between value-activities and non-value activities where material management is the latter whereas activities and service are the former. This shift of the meaning elements of the practices at public libraries; to decrease the non-value activities (e.g., managing materials) and increase the value activities (e.g., meeting the patrons), has been mentioned previously in numerous studies (see for example Huvila et al, 2013;Kann-Christensen & Balling, 2011;Thorhauge, 2010;Wandi, 2019).…”

Section: New Materials and Meaning Elementsmentioning

confidence: 56%

“…Ørom wrote as early as in 1993 about how technology challenged the librarian's identity as a promoter of culture and as an expert at information retrieval and would be replaced with a focus on service, instead of enlightenment (cited in Kann-Christensen & Balling, 2011). As the users' perspectives and their wants and desires are becoming more important for librarians, it is not surprising how the idea of librarians as experts and users as laypeople has become outdated Huvila et al, 2013).…”

Section: Library Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The informants emphasized their increased knowledge of what parts of the collections are being used, which goes hand in hand with the user-oriented collection management (Saponaro & Evans, 2019, p. 183). This shows how it is important for the librarians to provide resources that the users ask for (Kann-Christensen & Balling, 2011). With the use of smart technology, it is possible to manage data efficiently to be able to provide so-called smart service.…”

Section: Less Knowledge Of Individual Itemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Easier material management - at what cost?

Liljegren

2022

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Intelligent Material Management System, IMMS, was developed in a collaboration between Lyngsoe Systems, a commercial company, and public libraries in Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, with the aim to reduce the time staff spend on managing library materials. The aim of this article is to shed light on what IMMS means for the library practices and hence for the librarian profession. Two research questions will guide the analysis: How do librarians and IMMS interplay at the public library in Copenhagen, Denmark? How does the implementation of IMMS impact the library practices at the branch libraries in Copenhagen, Denmark? With the theoretical lens of practice theory, the article shows how new norms and rules as well as new tools and objects are implemented with IMMS. Librarians need to be able to work with the new objects and tools, the new norms and to create an inspiring library room for library users. Their relation to collection management is changed, and their ability to evaluate materials is not needed in the same way when it comes to selection of titles for the collection. This sometimes creates a tension between the librarian and the system, especially when the librarians’ role in the practice is to perform the decision-making by the algorithm, and not to use their skills to evaluate resources.

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Section: New Materials and Meaning Elementsmentioning

confidence: 56%

Section: Library Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Less Knowledge Of Individual Itemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Easier material management - at what cost?

Liljegren

2022

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“…at digitaliseringen af biblioteket var en måde at sikre personalet mere tid til at igangsaette andre aktiviteter, herunder f.eks. netop kulturelle arrangementer (Huvila et al, 2013;Kann-Christensen & Balling, 2011;Liljegren, 2022;Wandi, 2019). Den senere digitalisering af folkebiblioteket gennem implementering af Cicero og IMS er ligeledes blevet begrundet med at det kunne skabe mere tid for personalet til at møde brugerne (Liljegren, 2022).…”

Section: Digitalisering I Folkebibliotekerne I Danmarkunclassified

Det performative samspil mellem digital infrastruktur og kulturelle arrangementer i den professionelle praksis i danske folkebiblioteker

Schreiber,

Moring

2023

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The aim of the study is to examine the recursive intertwining of humans and technology in practice in Danish public libraries. Drawing on Karen Barad´s theory of agential realism, the paper suggests that the public library is investigated not through an ontology of separateness between digital infrastructure and cultural activities, but through a relational view focusing on their constitutive entanglements. The empirical focus in the article is on material-discursive practices of professionals in Danish public libraries and consist of qualitative interviews with 32 professionals from 10 Danish public libraries carried out in autumn 2022. Through a material-discursive lens of entanglement, the study analyses the narratives of the professionals when describing their libraries and their work practices. Based on the empirical material two themes are chosen for closer consideration. One theme is 'Cultural events, book exhibitions and front-line services´, while the other is ´Statistics of library loans and purchases of materials'. In the first theme, the digital infrastructure appears as a passive information resource. Due to budget cuts and importance of what the professionals articulate as "the institutional visibility", the digital infrastructure stays in the background in favor of cultural activities. In the second theme, it becomes clear that the digital infrastructure is no longer passive, but on the contrary very controlling for a number of practices, e.g. managing the collection, organizing the physical library and predicting users´ needs. By focusing on material-discursive practices, it becomes possible to articulate these differences and their implications. The paper concludes that the chosen analytical lens of entanglement helps to address essential consequences of digitalization, and hereby contributes to discussions of future institutional strategies for Danish public libraries.

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Breaking New Ground

Albinsson¹

2019

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, May 2013, after having spent the previous three decades working in music management. In the late 1970s, he started the Norrland Opera Symphony Orchestra. He served for many years as County Music Director and Production Manager with the Musik i Väst (Music in Western Sweden Foundation). Before returning to academia, he served as the Planning Director at the newly established Vara Concert Hall. His research is directed towards various aspects of cultural economics.

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Literature Promotion in Public Libraries – Between Policy, Profession and Public Management

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Easier material management - at what cost?

Easier material management - at what cost?

Det performative samspil mellem digital infrastruktur og kulturelle arrangementer i den professionelle praksis i danske folkebiblioteker

Breaking New Ground

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