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 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.

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.

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.

In this paper, we will reflect on implementing innovation in Library and Information Science in Boras, Sweden. In our role as lecturers in Library and Information science we develop courses trying to match the complex needs of the Swedish society, and even in relation to the needs in Europe in change. The starting point for our reflexion on the needs of innovation is the statement made by Octavia-Luciana Porumbeanu in her article Implementing Knowledge Management in Romanian Academic Libraries: Identifying the Elements that Characterize their Organisational Culture (2010, p. 549): one of the most useful solutions that can be adopted in order to survive and to be successful in a society is to implement a knowledge management process, this is specially true of countries like Romania, with a rapidly developing economy, following the collapse of the post-war communist regime. We mean that even Sweden is struggling for survival and success, from their point of view being a well-done country. It is not enough with knowledge only; there is also a need of innovation. There are many people having knowledge and good skills but how to stimulate and learn the students to take advantage of their brain and possibilities out there, perhaps when organizing the knowledge of other people in their future role? In this paper we will present an ongoing case about an ongoing development with focus on a course called Project management, development and evaluation. In focus in this discussion there is the need of developing the often so called library culture, new kind of managers and the ability to add value to ideas in a way that is derivate from the reality. In other words, also, there is a need for implementing innovation management processes. We will develop our case from the educational theories and the nature of innovation and societal innovation system improvement in Sweden, and especially at the Swedish school of a library and information science in Boras.

Abstract: In this paper we reflect on implementing innovation in Library and Information Science education in Borås, Sweden. In our role as lecturers we meet students and through them shape the presence and the future of libraries. Also we aim to match the needs of society in times of change. The main method for higher education is the courses we create and the educational methods we choose. Often the importance of this is forgotten. This paper presents a course called “Project management, development and evaluation”. In this course we try to give students some new tools for managing creativity and innovation in their future librarianship.