Part 1 Introduction: Public Library Research in the Nodric Countries
Part 2 Part I: Digital Public Libraries
Chapter 3 Librarians' Experiences of Introducing the Internet in the Public Library: A Study in Southern California
Chapter 4 Web-Based Community Information Services in Public Libraries
Chapter 5 A Poem Lovely as a Tree? Virtual Reference Questions in Norwegian Public Libraries
Chapter 6 Implications of the Concept "Samhällsinformation" for the Public Library Field in Sweden
Part 7 Part II: Library Management and Valuation
Chapter 8 The Public Library, Networked Information Resources and the Concept of Learning Center
Chapter 9 Valuation of Public Libraries
Chapter 10 Between New Public Management and Ethics: Library Management under Cross-Pressure
Part 11 Part III: The Challenges of the Multicultural Society
Chapter 12 Usability Studies and Focus Groups as Methods for Developing Digital Public Library Services in a Multiethnic Society
Chapter 13 National Identity as Cultural Policy with Emphasis on the Library as an Institution
Chapter 14 The Intercultural Encounter between Danish Public Libraries and Ethnic Minority Users
Chapter 15 Classification of Religious Literature: Some Thoughts on the Dilemmas of Universalism
Chapter 16 Ethnic Diversity in Danish Public Libraries
Part 17 Part IV: The Historical Dimension
Chapter 18 Architecture and Design of Danish Public Libraries, 1909-1939: Between Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 19 Foreign Influence on the Development of the Danish Public Libraries with Emphasis on the Association Denmark's Popular Book Collections, 1905-1919
Chapter 20 Institution, Modernity and Discourse: Three Perspectives on Public Library History
Part 21 Part V: Professional Identity
Chapter 22 The Meaning of the Public Library in People's Everday Life: Some Preliminary Results from a Qualitative Study
Chapter 23 The Public Library as a Social Field
Chapter 24 Users' Library Discourses
Part 25 Part VI: Issues and Perspectives
Chapter 26 The Heritage of Public Librarianship
Chapter 27 Research Perspective
Chapter 28 Summing Up: Practitioner's Perspective
Part 29 Index
Part 30 About the Contributors
Part 31 About the Editors