Utvecklingen av det digitala folkbiblioteket - När visionerna liknar verkligheten
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As the way of communicating and accessing information has changed radically over thepast decade so has the way the public libraries operate to reach the citizens. In thesetimes the demands of what a public library should be and offer the visitors havechanged. One should have the option to access the digital public library at any givenhour of the day, from anywhere in the world and at least have the same possibilities ofinformation as the visitors at the non-digital, "real" library.In this Master's thesis we will analyze and discuss the condition of the Swedish digitalpublic library of today, 2006, and the forward thinking work with the issues ofdevelopment in this matter. In order to do this we set out to examine the attitudetowards the public digital library among the staff at a small number of Swedish publiclibraries and their supporting institution, the county library. Moreover, the attitudesdefined have been compared to the actual status of the services and medias at the publiclibrary websites.In conclusion, we have detected a certain standardization of what the digital publiclibrary consists of today. All libraries examined have an idea of what the digital publiclibrary should be, which is in line with their visions and their mission statements for thedevelopment. The visions are often very meager, and the issue is rather the absence ofvisions than achieving the goals set up by the vision.The absence of visions can be explained by various causes. The public library is verymuch on their own in the development of their digital issues. There are very littleguidelines of what the digital public library should be. The supporting institution, thecounty libraries, seems to suffer the same problem. There are however examples oflibraries with great visions and highly developed e-services as a result of competentstaff and good economic resources, but this is mainly concentrated to the larger cities.