{"title":"4 The Institutions Go Digital","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"21 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":"131173542","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":"6 Organization and Funding of Digitization in the Visegrád Countries","authors":"M. Tóth","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-006","url":null,"abstract":"countries’ common platform and common background in the way they approach the digitization of the cultural heritage. We found that these processes are first and foremost directed by technological solutions. The countries followed different paths related to the aims of digitization of cultural heritage.","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"1 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":"114167980","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":"14 Democratic Coexistence, Tiny Publics and Participatory Emancipation at the Public Library","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"35 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":"132517121","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":"7 Institutional Convergence and Divergence in Norwegian Cultural Policy: Central Government LAM Organization 1999–2019","authors":"Andreas Vårheim, Roswitha Skare, S. Stokstad","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-007","url":null,"abstract":"Rayward’s prediction describes expectations in the LAM (libraries, archives, and museums) field that technological change and digitalization would produce coordination gains and institutional mergers over time. In Norway, The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM–utvikling – Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek ogmuseum), fromhere on referred to asABM–u, was established in 2003. The digitization of documents such as books, journals, archival material andmuseum objects, and with this increasing similarity in working methods between the sectors was an essential argument in the process leading up to the creation of ABM–u:","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"55 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":"129296985","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":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"39 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":"124144147","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":"8 LAM Professionals and the Public Sphere","authors":"R. Audunson, H. Hobohm, M. Tóth","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-008","url":null,"abstract":"The role of archives, libraries and museums is changing. During the last decades all three professional fields are witnessing profound paradigm changes. At least on a programmatic and theoretical level, New Librarianship, NewMuseology and New Archival Thinking are being developed (see for example Buschman 2003; Lankes 2011; Vergo 1989; McCall and Gray 2013; Ross 2015; Simon 2010; Huvila 2008; MacNeil and Eastwood 2017; Theimer 2018). In the light of digitalization and other global developments all three institutions revisit their role as platforms, increased participatory interaction with their potential communities and their effective mission in the society. The transformations in the digital society seem to foster similar changes in the three fields which are not only digital and not only technology triggered (Rasmussen 2019). They emphasise new roles beyond the mere information collection and dissemination function for all three of these institutions (Smiraglia 2014). In addition to the traditional roles of preserving and promoting the cultural heritage and being arenas for learning, there is an increased focus upon their role asmeeting places and arenas underpinning the public sphere with the mission of sustaining democratic values in societies (see for the field of libraries Buschman 2018; Hobohm 2019; Rivana Eckerdal 2017; Widdersheim and Koizumi 2016). How do professionals in the respective LAM fields perceive the challenges related to this new focus on their role asmeeting places and arenas for promoting the public sphere? We will investigate this question in this paper. Two trends are of particular importance regarding the topic of our research. One trend can be termed the social turn, Söderholm and Nolin’s (2015) assertion that we are in the middle of what they call the third community wave, the start of which dates from the turn of the century and continues to the present day. Klinenberg’s perspective on libraries as important parts of the social infrastructure can","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"87 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":"116601556","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":"13 Libraries and Democracy in Germany. As Perceived by the Public in Contrast to the Professionals","authors":"H. Hobohm","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-013","url":null,"abstract":"This study in the context of project ALMPUB “Archives, Libraries, Museums as Public Sphere Institutions in the Digital Age” takes as its starting point the fundamental criticism voiced by Paul Jaeger and others (2013), namely that discussions on the relationship between libraries and democracy lack empirical evidence. This takes into account theNordic approach that considers the three key institutions of knowledge – libraries, archives and museums – together. Project partner Håkon Larsen provides an overall conceptual explanation of why these three institutions are comparable as public spaces and arenas of political discourse (Larson 2018). The current research landscape has been explained in a report published in the Journal of Documentation and the results of representative population surveys in six countries are given in another recent article in the same journal (Audunson et al. 2019a, 2019b). The initial analyses of the survey of occupational fields were presented at CoLIS 10 (the conference “Conceptions of Library and Information Science” taking place every three years) in Slovenia in June 2019 (Audunson, Hobohm, Tóth 2019, see also Audunson, Hobohm and Tóth, this volume). The starting point of the European project with partners from more than six countries was to establish the extent to which national populations attribute different roles to libraries in comparison to other countries, but also in comparison to the self-perceptionsof libraryprofessionals in each respective country. Theproject is explained in more depth in the present volume. The starting points are similar projects by Ragnar Audunson and his team who for over two decades have dedicated themselves to understanding the role of the public library as a place in society (cf. e.g. Audunson 2005). The European network “Libraries in Urban Space” can be traced back to an interdisciplinary conference in Potsdam in 2012 with the title “The City of Flows – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Digital City in Analogue Spaces”.","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"86 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":"126166082","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":"17 The Joys of Wiki Work: Craftsmanship, Flow and Self-externalization in a Digital Environment","authors":"Erik Henningsen, Håkon Larsen","doi":"10.1515/9783110636628-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628-017","url":null,"abstract":"Public discussions on digital technology and the Internet tend generally to be framed in epochalist terms and to be rife with utopian and dystopian projections of our imminent digital futures (Du Gay 2003; Henningsen and Larsen, this volume). As many observers have noted, in recent years a shift in the tone of such discussions has occurred, as the optimism that accrued to the Web 2.0 and social media 10–15 years ago has waned, with darker visions being brought to the fore. Today, a probing of the role of social media as vehicles of misinformation, commoditization, andmass surveillance looms large in popular and scholarly discussions alike (Fuchs et al. 2012; Van Dijck 2013). However, there is one notable exception to this trend in the current flora of social media: since the turn of the century, Wikipedia and platforms based on the wiki-technology have been a constant source of positive wonder among commentators. This relates to the democratic nature of the Wikipedia organization, to the deliberative aspect of content production, and to the platforms’ persistent avoidance of commercialism (FirerBlaes and Fuchs 2014; Van Dijck 2013; Wright 2010).1 Prosumers (Ritzer et al. 2012; Toffler 1980) have contributed millions of articles for Wikipedia and other wiki-platforms. The true wonder of wiki-platforms is their capacity to mobilize contributors in great numbers and to incite them to write and edit articles. Based on a case study of the Norwegian local history wiki platform lokalhistoriewiki.no, we seek to understand what motivates contributors to engage in wiki work, and how this can be specified theoretically. We argue that wiki work is an avenue for the exertion of craftsmanship (Sennett 2009), and that it involves psychological processes of flow (Csikszentmihalyi 2008[1991]) and social processes of self-externalization (Elster 1989).","PeriodicalId":341262,"journal":{"name":"Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age","volume":"54 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":"131951580","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}