Person

• Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society

• Libraries handling risk – to manage safety and enable trust
• Delaktighet i folkbibliotek: krav eller möjlighet?
• Framtidsdialoger

• Medical humanities research node
• Lund Critical Library Studies

• Lokalsamhällets bibliotek - kan meröppet öppna dörrar?

In my PhD thesis, written at Copenhagen University, I use a Foucault-inspired point of departure. The thesis investigates how users are governed at public libraries in Denmark and Sweden with staff-less opening hours, but also how they transcend governing. My resent research interest is to explore how the library materially and discursively is constructed as a safe place promoting trust.

Books (1)

• Engström, L. (2019). Att skapa självstyrande individer; effektivitet och motrörelser : Styrningsrationalitet och icke-rationalitet i bibliotek med obemannade öppettider. Köpenhamns universitet. Dissertation.
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Articles (3)

• Engström, L. & Olsson Dahlquist, L. (2020). The will to activate library users and the making of citizens : How different rationalities influence the notion of participation in a library context. Library Quarterly, 90, 314-331. University of Chicago Press.
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• Engström, L. & Rivano Eckerdal, J. (2019). Public libraries as promoters of social sustainability?. Information Research, 24. Thomas Daniel Wilson.
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• Engström, L. & Rivano Eckerdal, J. (2016). In-between strengthened accessibility and economic demands : analysing self-service libraries from a user perspective. Journal of Documentation, 73, 145-159. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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Conference contributions (2)

• Engström, L. & Rivano Eckerdal, J. (accepted/in press). Public libraries as promoters of social sustainability?.
• Rivano Eckerdal, J., Olsson Dahlquist, L. & Engström, L. (2020). Lund critical library studies – a new research group. IDEALS. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to lear Ning and Scholarship : iConference 2020 Proceedings. iSchools.
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Reports (1)

• Engström, L. (2020). Lokalsamhällets bibliotek : kan meröppet öppna dörrar?. Lunds universitet. Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper.
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Reviews (1)

• Engström, L. (2020). Främjar bibliotek verkligen demokrati?. bis : Bibliotek i Samhälle, 31-31. Föreningen Bibliotek i Samhälle.

• ABMM01, ALM: Introduction to Studies of Archives, Libraries and Museums