{"title":"5 Norwegian National Policies for Digitalization in the LAM Sector – Imperative and Implementation","authors":"S. Stokstad","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-005","url":null,"abstract":"In a press release in October 2019, the Ministry of Culture stated that the National Budget for 2020 represented a historic commitment to the National Archives, and more specifically to the start-up of the development of national joint solutions for preservation and dissemination of digital archives (Ministry of Culture 2019). Similar objectives were identified in a white paper from 1999 about the LAM institutions in a digital age (Ministry of Culture 1999). Why is the development of solutions still in a start-up phase, 20 years later? Digitalization in the LAM sector has been regarded as a prerequisite for enhancing the public-sphere infrastructure and strengthening the roles and functions of LAM institutions, and it has been an imperative for decades. But digitalization as imperative has some difficult aspects, such as the tendency to sacralization (Henningsen and Larsen, this volume) and other factors that make the concept unclear when it comes to implementation (Blomgren, this volume). What shall be implemented, how, by whom, and at which costs? The concept of digitalizationmay includemanydifferent aspects, such as digital access to collections, the use of social media, strengthening of digital skills among the inhabitants, and increased user contribution. This is a study of the implementation of two aspects of digitalization in the LAM sector in Norway: digitization of analogue material and long-term preservation of born-digital materials. The aim is to deepen the understanding of the national policies in this field. These policies may not be fully formulated in white papers and other policy documents; they should also be regarded in light of the implementation policy and the steps that may or may not be taken in order to realize the objectives expressed at a more abstract level. The study may also contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms of governing the LAM sector in general. The scope of this study is LAM institutions for which the Ministry of Culture has state responsibility that are regarded as central for achieving the digitalization imperative. This includes the National Library for the library sector and the National Archives for the archives sector. For the museum sector, the Arts Council","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114223662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9 Perceptions and Implications of User Participation and Engagement in Libraries, Archives and Museums","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127443436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"16 Libraries and the Sámi population in Norway – Assimilation and Resistance","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122477148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"11 Reading Between the Shelves – the Library as Perspective in Life and Profession","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124912396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"2 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114115299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Audunson, Herbjørn Andresen, Cicilie Fagerlid, Erik Henningsen, H. Hobohm, Henrik Jochumsen, Håkon Larsen
{"title":"1 Introduction – Physical Places and Virtual Spaces: Libraries, Archives and Museums in a Digital Age","authors":"R. Audunson, Herbjørn Andresen, Cicilie Fagerlid, Erik Henningsen, H. Hobohm, Henrik Jochumsen, Håkon Larsen","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-001","url":null,"abstract":"The research that will be presented in this book documents a seeming paradox: in spite of massive digitalization of our everyday lives, libraries, archives, and museums are heavily used as physical spaces and meeting places. The role of LAM-institutions as physical spaces seems to be increasing. Does the massive digitalization we are experiencing lead to a growing need for and appreciation of physical spaces and meeting places?","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134406464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2 LAM institutions: a Cross-country Comparison of Legislation and Statistics on Services and Use","authors":"Kerstin Rydbeck, Jamie Johnston","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-002","url":null,"abstract":"Many factors influence the ability of libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) to fulfil their role as public sphere institutions. This chapter aims to give an overview of the current situation of LAM institutions in the partnering countries of the ALMPUB research project by reviewing the legislation and the national statistics on services and use. The overarching purpose is to provide a background for the following chapters written by researcher partners from the participating countries. The countries included in the project are Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, and to some extent Iceland and Poland, which were not part of the initial research team. This chapter has separate sectionson libraries, archives, andmuseums. These sections include overviews of the purpose statements in the legislative acts in the participating countries, the methods used to collect national statistics, and the national statistics on services and use across the countries. Lastly, a broad comparison is made of the LAM institutions in the summarizing discussion. The collection of national LAM statistics presents various methodological challenges when attempting to make comparisons across countries; however, these challenges can also be seen as a part of the result. The aims and focus differ widely across countries and across the three sectors. The statistics gathered, or not gathered, have implications about what is deemed important as well as about whether the respective sectors can be regarded as part of a common field of practice. The statistics and information about LAM legislation in the eight countries are presented in Table 2.1 (see appendix). Unless otherwise indicated, the information in the text is based on Table 2.1. Links to legislative documents and national statistics are included in the reference list.","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133258314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Vårheim, Henrik Jochumsen, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Kerstin Rydbeck
{"title":"12 The Use of LAM Institutions in the Digital Age","authors":"Andreas Vårheim, Henrik Jochumsen, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Kerstin Rydbeck","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-012","url":null,"abstract":"chives, and museums. We present findings (quantitative data) on reported digital visits versus physical visits to the institutions and display the variation in types of visits between the six countries surveyed relative to the user demographic characteristics: age, gender, immigrant or native, education, home Internet access, urban/rural, and income.","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127744964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 The Digitalization Imperative: Sacralization of Technology in LAM Policies","authors":"Erik Henningsen, Håkon Larsen","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-003","url":null,"abstract":"In most Western countries, cultural policy is at base a matter of public funding of the culture sector, and hence a question of money. At the same time, this is a domain of policy that is heavily invested with ideas that explain and justify the need for public expenditure on the culture sector. European cultural policies have for several decades been legitimized with reference to specific overarching ideas, being activated by policy actors and managers in cultural organizations. These ideas have guided the development of policies, as well as functioned as the normative grounds on which policies have been based. Some of the ideas are normative principles (e.g. universal access to culture, the right to participation, freedom of expression), while others are concerned with emergent trends of social, cultural, and technological development (e.g. globalization, cultural diversity). Since the mid-twentieth century onwards, notions of democratization of culture, cultural dissemination, and cultural participation has guided the formulation of cultural policies in Western Europe. In the 1990s as well as the 2000s globalization and cultural diversity became important overriding concepts in cultural policy discourses. Since the turn of the century, digitalizationhas emerged as another guiding concept in the formulation of cultural policies, or as what we will refer to as a “policy imperative”. In accordance with dictionary definitions, “imperative” is an authoritative commandor call for action. Here, onemay think also of Kant’s “categorical imperative”, which refers to an ultimate and universally applicable moral principle or rule of action.Whenwe talk of policy imperatives in this chapter it denotes the fact that ideasmay take on the commanding force of an imperative, regardless of their objective or normative validity. This imperative force may be shortor long lived and restricted to certain groups or domains of social action. More specifically, we use the concept of policy imperatives in reference to ideas that take on the character of self-explanatory and universally binding calls for actionwithin a given field of policy. These are ideas actors within the policy field can openly reject or protest only at the risk of being perceived as irresponsible, foolish or morally corrupted. By virtue of this, the ideas become obligatory reference points in the formulation of policies and organizing concepts in policy discourses. Today, digitalization is","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115576288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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