-Jag älskar att vara kvinna! Eller, vad är det för kvinnligt med Kvinnobiblioteket?
1995 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year))
Student thesisAlternative title
I love being a woman! Or, what´s feminine about the Women´s library? (English)
Abstract [en]
"What's feminine about the Women's library?" This library, Kvinnobiblioteket, is a
branchoffice at Björkskatan in the city of Luleå, and the introducing question is the
startingpoint of this essay. To find some possible answers is its object.
One way of describing what's feminine about Kvinnobiblioteket is through presenting its
objective, ambitions and methods of working. That is done mostly in a chapter headlined
"Kvinnobiblioteket", and shows how the women's perspective concerns for exarnple
purchase of books and magazines, displaying of books, the opening hours, design etc.
Although the focus in the survey is not in the former kind of description, but in the interviews
being made during a two week long period of time with ten women at Kvinnobiblioteket
(both library user and personnel) at spring 1995. The results of the interviews
then have been compared with theories from psychological-, feminist-, literature- and
library and information sciences, as we11 as to former surveys and essays.
The material together leads to some keywords that seem to be important when trying to
find out what's female about the women's library. They are, for example, such as:
accepting, care, solidarity, sensitive ears and keenly awareness of the customers needs,
commitment and willingness to cooperate. The meaning of the keywords are somewhat
expressed in the objective of the women's library, to stress female knowledge and
experience, to make them visible.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) , 1995.
Series
Magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, ISSN 1654-0247 ; 1995:20
Keywords [en]
kvinnobibliotek, personal, matchning, användarorienterad
Keywords [sv]
kvinnlighet, kvinnofrågan, läsning, biblioteksanvändare
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16516Local ID: 2320/10949OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-16516DiVA, id: diva2:1308404
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