Selection and purchase of feature film to the library- a study of librarians´ work with feature films in the public library

The aim of this thesis is to examine how librarians are workingwith the selection and purchase of feature films in Swedish publiclibraries. I was interested in examining the underlying reasonsbehind the selections. I chose to focus on how librarians areworking and reason about the library´s film collection.The purpose of my study is to answer the following questions:• How are librarians working with selection and purchase offeature films in the public library?• What factors motivate librarians´ selection of featurefilms?• What do librarians reason about the public library filmcollection?To answer these questions I performed interviews with sevenlibrarians in five different public libraries. The results of theinterviews have been analyzed on the basis of the theories andtheoretical model of Sanna Talja. I used a translated and modifiedversion of Talja´s model in my analysis.Results showed that the economy was a factor influencing theselection and purchases of films. The accessibility to the films wasanother factor that influenced the librarians. Librarians can onlypurchase films with licenses that can be lent to borrowers.Librarians have to purchase films from the contracted sources.Most of the librarians strive to that the library should have a variedfilm collection. They buy both old films as classics but also morerecent films. Some also buy narrower films as an alternative to thecommercial filmsProgram: Bibliotekari