Framväxten av biblioteket i Vaggeryd en studie över de faktorer som kom att påverka biblioteksutvecklingen i Vaggeryd under åren 1862-1953
The purpose of this Masters thesis is to examine the growth of the library in Vaggeryd. We have analysed how four factors influenced the library development during the years between 1862 and 1953. The four factors we have studied are development of society, collective actors, librarys economy and individual actors. We have worked with the following question: · How have the four factors: development of society, collective actors, librarys economy and individual actors, influenced the growth? We have focused on the changes that the industrialization brought on the society development, and on the growing of the non-governmental organisations. The collective actors consisted of institutions, associations and organisations and they are: The parish library in Byarum, the temperance movements library, and the working-class movements library. The individual actors consisted of single persons. The library history of Vaggeryd began in the year of 1862 with a suggestion of establishing a parish library in Byarum. The next step was the foundation of the temperance movements library in 1913. In 1923 the working-class movement, ABF, started their library. The three libraries financed their activity by various means. The main sources of income were the subvention given by the state and the municipality. Other important sources of income were the gifts from associations and single persons. In 1932 there were some discussions about a fusion of the three libraries into one, but they didnt become a library in Vaggeryd until 1953.