Ordinary Dirichlet series, of which the Riemann zeta function is the most important, play a prominent role in classical analysis and number theory, and in modern mathematics. It is well-known that the Riemann zeta function has a single pole at the point s=1. The present thesis investigates both the behaviour of various zeta functions near this point and the function spaces of ordinary Dirichlet series they can be said to generate. Chapter 1 gives a comprehensive overview of the thesis and offers brief surveys of related results. Chapter 2 introduces a new scale of function spaces of Dirichlet series and explains the local behaviour of the reproducing kernels and establishes local embeddings into classical function spaces. Other such ...