The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine the discourses about the future of Malmö City Library expressed by the chief librarians Sven Nilsson and Elsebeth Tank. Furthermore, our intention is to study the relation between the two. The questions posed in the study are: how does chief librarian Sven Nilsson express the future of Malmö public library between 1989-1997? How does chief librarian Elsebeth Tank express the future of Malmö City Library between 2008-2010? How does Sven Nilsson’s and Elsebeth Tank’s thoughts and visions of the future correlate? Our theoretical and methodical building ground is in the discourse analytical field, with Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories about discourse and society, as startingpoint. The method used is discourse analysis. The results of the analysis gave us four different discourses per chief librarian. The result of Sven Nilsson reveals: The qualified personal discourse, The well supplied media discourse, The discourse of the self educated user and The discourse of the social room. The result of Elsebeth Tank reveals: The discourse of the innovative personal, The discourse of the edited media collection, The discourse of the interactive user and The discourse of the library without walls. We also found connections between the chief librarian’s visions about the future.