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Dissertation Information for Sanna Talja

NAME:
- Sanna Talja

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Tampere (Finland) (1998)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: Musiikki kulttuuri kirjasto: Diskurssien analyysi

Abstract: The research focuses on library users' interpretations of the functions and principles of public libraries' music services. The analysis of users' library discourses shows that the users' interpretations do not in any way differ from the official definitions made by library professionals. Despite a widely shared "ethics of versatility" there are significant differences in conceptions about the main functions of the music library. The core concepts "quality", "equality", "diversity" and "user-centeredness" receive very different intepretations in different speaking contexts. The repertoires are called "the general education repertoire", "the alternative repertoire" and "the demand repertoire".

The second part of the study explains the existence of different library discourses by contextualizing them in a broader historical framework. Library talk is compared to talk outlining national cultural politics and radio broadcasting politics, which can be seen to contain the same mutually different interpretative repertoires. It is shown how the ways of interpreting the concepts "art", "culture" and "the civilized human being" has changed during the time period 1950-1996, and how the different "ideals of civilisation" practically influence the ways of interpreting the functions of the library institution and other cultural institutions. The different ideals of civilisation are called "the common culture repertoire", "the critical repertoire" and "the mosaic culture repertoire".


MPACT Scores for Sanna Talja

A = 0
C = 1
A+C = 1
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2009-05-25 19:55:49

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