How does governmental cultural policy regulate event activities at the public library? An examination of national cultural policy at two public libraries in Sweden.

This Master thesis aims to study the relation between Swedish governmental cultural policy and cultural events at two Swedish public libraries. The Masters thesis demonstrates how national cultural policy regulates every part of the public library. This demonstration is a result based upon national cultural policy documents and interviews with employees at two public libraries in Sweden. The conclusion that national cultural policy regulates this part of the public library is drawn with help of the circle of culture as applied in Culture Studies and Michel Foucault theories of power. The thesis contains the answer of four questions, two involving cultural policy and the other two events at the library. The main question of this thesis is the same as the title; How does governmental cultural policy regulate event activities at the public library? The conclusion of all these questions shows that the relation between governmental cultural policy and the activity of events at public libraries is strong in several ways.Uppsatsnivå: