Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the shaping of public libraries as an
infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere through a comprehensive literature review …

History and case study are two diachronic research strategies commonly used to study
political discourse as it relates to public libraries. Though suitable for some studies, these …

Public libraries and public spheres have been widely studied over the past three decades. In
recent years, several studies have comprehensively reviewed past research results to reveal …

In the article our aim is to analyse theoretically the questions:(1) what is the relevance of
institutional approach in research about cultural policy and cultural institutions, and (2) how …

Purpose This article presents a discussion of how librarians' engagement in certain social
movements manifests itself in public libraries, how librarians justify their engagement with …

This paper presents a conceptual model of information behaviour. The model is part of the
Search Situation Transition method schema. The method schema is developed to discover …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to discusses people's images of public libraries, and
whether or not they constitute a barrier to institutional change. Design/methodology …

A theoretical framework for understanding public library development is presented; plural
agonistics is used in combination with an approach inspired by posthumanism. The …

Purpose–This article aims to identify threats perceived by Swedish public library directors as
the most prominent. Design/methodology/approach–A web questionnaire was sent to public …

The article presents the search situation transition (SST) method for analysing Web
information search (WIS) processes. The idea of the method is to analyse searching …