Malmö stadsbibliotek och framtiden ? En diskursanalys av två stadsbibliotekariers tankar och visioner
The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the discourses aboutthe future of Malmö City Library expressed by the chief librariansSven Nilsson and Elsebeth Tank. Furthermore, our intention is tostudy the relation between the two. The questions posed in thestudy are: how does chief librarian Sven Nilsson express the futureof Malmö public library between 1989-1997? How does chieflibrarian Elsebeth Tank express the future of Malmö City Librarybetween 2008-2010? How does Sven Nilsson?s and ElsebethTank?s thoughts and visions of the future correlate?Our theoretical and methodical building ground is in the discourseanalytical field, with Ernesto Laclau?s and Chantal Mouffe?stheories about discourse and society, as startingpoint. The method used is discourse analysis.The results of the analysis gave us four different discourses per chief librarian. The result of Sven Nilsson reveals: The qualified personal discourse, The well supplied media discourse, The discourse of the self educated user and The discourse of the social room. The result of Elsebeth Tank reveals: The discourse of the innovative personal, The discourse of the edited media collection, The discourse of the interactive user and The discourse of the library without walls. We also found connections between the chief librarian?s visions about the future.