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978-951-44-9143-6.Pdf GOOD BOOK, GOOD LIBRARY, GOOD READING Aušra Navickienė Ilkka Mäkinen Magnus Torstensson Martin Dyrbye Tiiu Reimo (eds) GOOD BOOK GOOD LIBRARY GOOD READING Studies in the History of the Book, Libraries and Reading from the Network HIBOLIRE and Its Friends Contents Preface .................................................................................. 7 Magnus Torstensson Introduction ......................................................................... 9 Good Book Elisabeth S. Eide The Nobleman, the Vicar and a Farmer Audience Norwegian Book History around 1800 ................................ 29 Lis Byberg What Were Considered to be Good Books in the Time of Popular Enlightenment? The View of Philanthropists Compared to the View of a Farmer ....................................... 52 Aušra Navickienė The Development of the Lithuanian Book in the First Half © 2013 Tampere University Press and Authors of the Nineteenth Century – A Real Development? .............. 76 Aile Möldre Page Design Maaret Kihlakaski Good Books at a Reasonable Cost – Mission of a Good Publisher: Cover Mikko Reinikka the Case of Eesti Päevaleht Book Series ................................ 108 ISBN 978-951-44-9142-9 ISBN 978.951-44-9143-6 (pdf) Good Library Suomen Yliopistopaino Oy – Juvenes Print Stefania Júliusdóttir Tampere 2013 Reading Societies in Iceland. Their foundation, Role, Finland and the Destiny of Their Book Collections ........................... 125 Contents Preface .................................................................................. 7 Magnus Torstensson Introduction ......................................................................... 9 Good Book Elisabeth S. Eide The Nobleman, the Vicar and a Farmer Audience Norwegian Book History around 1800 ................................ 29 Lis Byberg What Were Considered to be Good Books in the Time of Popular Enlightenment? The View of Philanthropists Compared to the View of a Farmer ....................................... 52 Aušra Navickienė The Development of the Lithuanian Book in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century – A Real Development? .............. 76 Aile Möldre Good Books at a Reasonable Cost – Mission of a Good Publisher: the Case of Eesti Päevaleht Book Series ................................ 108 Good Library Stefania Júliusdóttir Reading Societies in Iceland. Their foundation, Role, and the Destiny of Their Book Collections ........................... 125 Martin Dyrbye Early Discussion on How to Use Film in the Service of Library Promotion and the First Danish Library Film of 1922 ........................................................................ 166 Nan Dahlkild The Spirit of the Place: Landmarks of Scandinavian Library Architecture and Design ........................................... 194 Alistair Black Buildings of Hope: The Design of Public Library Buildings in the UK in the 1960s, with a Case Study of the Scandinavian-Inspired Holborn Central Library ......... 228 Good Reading Ilkka Mäkinen Leselust, Goût de la Lecture, Love of Reading: Patterns in the Discourse on Reading in Europe from the 17th until the 19th Century ...................................... 261 Arvydas Pacevičius Bad Readers of a Good Library over 100 Years Ago in Vilnius: Vilnius Public Library Diary in the Context of Public Library Movement in Lithuania ............................. 286 Preface As Magnus Torstensson says in his introduction, this is the second book produced by the network HIBOLIRE (the Nordic-Baltic Re- search Network on the History of the Book, Libraries and Reading) and its friends. The path that has led to the printed book has been long and winding. We are grateful to the authors for their patience concerning the long time they had to wait for the publishing of their valuable contributions. Many people and several institutions have made this book project possible. We are thankful to the anonymous referees, who evaluated the articles. The Walking Seminar in the beautiful Scanian district Österlen in southern Sweden that was the starting point of the project was financed by the support from NordForsk that our network received during the years 2006–2010. The Faculty of Communication of the Vilnius University was generous in providing means for the language checking and editing of the articles. The language checking was done by Jon Anderson. We especially thank the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås for their support to the book project and the printing of the book. We also are happy that the Tampere University Press accepted to publish our book. 7 Dedication There is one person who has been the initiator and soul of the book project. He is Magnus Torstensson, a passioned library historian, a teacher of generations of Swedish librarians, a warm-hearted friend and colleague. He has been one of the editors of this book but he did not know that we, the rest of the editors, all the time thought that this book truly is his creation. Magnus has recently retired from his post as lecturer at the University of Borås, but he is as active as ever in the field of library history. Therefore we dedicate “The Good Book, Good Library, Good Reading” to him as an appreciation of his friendship, loyalty and inspiration. Magnus, we love you! The Editors 8 Introduction Magnus Torstensson University of Borås, Sweden Cooperation within the library field has a long tradition. Before the 19th century it consisted mostly of librarians travelling to other countries to see and study libraries and to learn from them. In the early 19th century exchange programs between learned libraries were intensified through German initiatives. The exchanges included docto- ral theses, university yearbooks and, especially, scientific journals. In 1877 an international library meeting was held in England and in 1895 The International Bibliographical Institute was founded in Brussels. During the second half of the 19th century libraries began to develop dramatically, particularly in the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). Public libraries developed to well-equipped libraries that provided a service to people of all ages and social classes in society. Library associations and journals were founded from the second half of the 1870s and the ideas behind this development spread to Northern Europe in the 1890s. During the 1920s the library sector developed heavily in the Nordic and Baltic countries and national library associations with 9 library journals were founded if not some years earlier. International conferences, with the first being held in Turku in 1991. Regarding and regional library meetings became increasingly common during library history, the contacts between teachers/researchers in the Nordic this period. The first Nordic Library Meeting was held in 1926 in countries became more intense. At the same time the theme was broad- Hindsgavl, Denmark, and the International Federation of Library ened into other parts of book history, especially the history of reading. Associations and Organizations (IFLA) was founded in 1927 at its In 1990 the IFLA Congress was held in Stockholm. Just before the inaugural meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. During this period library Congress an International Seminar on “The History of Reading and cooperation developed between the eight sovereign Baltic and Nordic Libraries in the Nordic Countries” was arranged at the Västerås City states that existed at the time. Between 1918–1944 Denmark and Library by the Round Table of Library History and the Round Table Iceland were united as two sovereign states ruled by a Danish king. on Research in Reading both within the IFLA. The proceedings of the After the Second World War, Baltic-Nordic cooperation ceased due seminar were published in a special edition of Libraries & Culture, to the loss of the sovereignty of the Baltic states. Now connections No 1, Winter 1993, Volume 20.[1] In the proceedings there is an had to go via Moscow or Leningrad. article on “The Tartu University Library and Its Use at the End of the New possibilities for cooperation emerged during the late 1980s Seventeenth and the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century” by Arvo and it again became possible to travel directly from the Nordic to the Tering. In 1992 the Round Table on Library History arranged an Baltic countries. During this period Baltic-Nordic library coopera- International Symposium on Baltic Library History in cooperation tion was reinvigorated. The Baltic countries won their independence with the Library Association of Latvia and the National Library of again after the fall of the coup in Moscow in late-August 1991. Now Latvia. There were 81 delegates from 10 countries at the Symposium cooperation could be intensified between the eight, now again all including the three Baltic States: Denmark, Finland and Sweden. The independent, Baltic–Nordic states. seminar is presented in IFLA Journal 1992:3 [2]. After 1991 cooperation was intensified between the departments During the early 21st century many contacts have been created of Library and Information Science in the Baltic and Nordic Countries. in the Baltic and Nordic countries between teachers and researchers There had already existed a long, close connection within the Nordic within the history of books, libraries and reading. Through support and Baltic frameworks, but the Baltic-Nordic contacts were new. Very of Nordforsk, an independent institution operating under the Nor- important in the cooperation became NORSLIS, the Nordic
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