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Kulturrådsboken Högspänning: En fallstudie om biblioteksaktörers värdeskapande handlingar
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
The governmentally supported book Högspänning : A case study of value-creating library actors (English)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this thesis is to study the valuation process of a work of fiction by actors within or linked to the library system in Sweden, to identify who these library actors are as well as the value regimes that they express. The theory of value was devised by Barbara Herrstein Smith (1988) and states that a work of literature, through encounters with different actors within the field of literature, acquires several different values. This theory was concretized and put into practice by Ohlsson, et al. (2013) and Forslid et al. (2015) who discovered values within five categories as well as two value regimes. Högspänning, written by Henrik Bromander, is a work of fiction that received state supported distribution from Kulturrådet in year 2019. This means that the book was distributed to more than 280 public libraries in Sweden. This thesis follows Högspänning and its value negotiation process through encounters with different library actors, from publication in January 2019 to November 2020. Actors within or linked to the library system were identified by the collection of public digital documents containing value judgements through searching for them online. The results of the thesis show that Högspänning meets 16 different library actors who express different values and who perform various acts of value creation. The finding that is of most interest is the fact that librarians, with both professional and personal knowledge of literature, can be found in the intermediate range between the two value regimes. 

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2021.
Keywords [sv]
Kulturrådsbok, Kulturrådet, Högspänning, Bromander, värdeförhandlingar, litterärt värde, bibliotek
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Information Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-24971OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-24971DiVA, id: diva2:1530634
Available from: 2021-02-24 Created: 2021-02-23 Last updated: 2022-03-02Bibliographically approved

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