New Frontiers in Public Library Research

Carl Gustav Johannsen serves as Head of the Department of Library and Information Managment at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, Denmark.Leif Kajberg is a consultant for the International Relations and Research Administration at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Part 1 Introduction: Public Library Research in the Nodric CountriesPart 2 Part I: Digital Public LibrariesChapter 3 Librarians' Experiences of Introducing the Internet in the Public Library: A Study in Southern CaliforniaChapter 4 Web-Based Community Information Services in Public LibrariesChapter 5 A Poem Lovely as a Tree? Virtual Reference Questions in Norwegian Public LibrariesChapter 6 Implications of the Concept "Samhällsinformation" for the Public Library Field in SwedenPart 7 Part II: Library Management and ValuationChapter 8 The Public Library, Networked Information Resources and the Concept of Learning CenterChapter 9 Valuation of Public LibrariesChapter 10 Between New Public Management and Ethics: Library Management under Cross-PressurePart 11 Part III: The Challenges of the Multicultural SocietyChapter 12 Usability Studies and Focus Groups as Methods for Developing Digital Public Library Services in a Multiethnic SocietyChapter 13 National Identity as Cultural Policy with Emphasis on the Library as an InstitutionChapter 14 The Intercultural Encounter between Danish Public Libraries and Ethnic Minority UsersChapter 15 Classification of Religious Literature: Some Thoughts on the Dilemmas of UniversalismChapter 16 Ethnic Diversity in Danish Public LibrariesPart 17 Part IV: The Historical DimensionChapter 18 Architecture and Design of Danish Public Libraries, 1909-1939: Between Tradition and ModernityChapter 19 Foreign Influence on the Development of the Danish Public Libraries with Emphasis on the Association Denmark's Popular Book Collections, 1905-1919Chapter 20 Institution, Modernity and Discourse: Three Perspectives on Public Library HistoryPart 21 Part V: Professional IdentityChapter 22 The Meaning of the Public Library in People's Everday Life: Some Preliminary Results from a Qualitative StudyChapter 23 The Public Library as a Social FieldChapter 24 Users' Library DiscoursesPart 25 Part VI: Issues and PerspectivesChapter 26 The Heritage of Public LibrarianshipChapter 27 Research PerspectiveChapter 28 Summing Up: Practitioner's PerspectivePart 29 IndexPart 30 About the ContributorsPart 31 About the Editors

the book's many thought-provoking papers are worth reading. This book should be in the collections of library school libraries and in the professional development collection of larger public libraries.