This paper describes and discusses the challenge of creating a theoretical framework for library management in different countries, namely in Finland, Romania and Sweden. Management as an academic discipline is by its very nature diagnostic and interdisci-plinary, but how can a researcher overcome the aspect of different cultures in different countries being expected to be found? In this paper the author presents reflections from a framework used in a recent study of these three countries (Mäntykangas 2018). The framework was compared with building blocks and is based on the idea of managers’ various levels of responsibilities, the highest level being contributions to society.

The author reflects on her use of study visits as an instructional method for incoming foreign students studying library and information science under the European Union's ERASMUS program of student exchange in higher education. The study visits are likened to Hannah Arendts "go visiting" metaphor on a philosophical and political level. The author discusses results, limitations, and recommendations based on her reflections about this methodology.

This paper came up from a question on how the future libraries and especially the organization, are affected by the digitizing of information, e-books and research as well as the more and more sophisticated tools to be connected to the internet. Based on some general questions we focused on the following areas; visitors, management, organization, business model and traditional books vs. e-books. We also looked into some Swedish cases to see how the development has affected the libraries up until today.

Obiectivul acestei lucrări este să discute pe scurt cerinţele funcţiei de director de bibliotecă în societatea informaţională, folosind Suedia anului 2012 ca exemplu. Au fost analizate trei reclame din Suedia de recrutare a personalului pentru funcţia de director de bibliotecă. Termenii apăruţi sunt trataţi pe scurt şi sunt trase concluziile necesare.