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<tr> <td width="379" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#004f51"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr height="5"> <td width="379" height="5" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="379" class="text"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#004f51"> </td> </tr> </table><br> </td> </tr> </table> </b><span class="text"> <B>SWEDEN</B><P> <B>Publications to be excluded on quality criteria?</B><BR> When the library in Falkenberg cancelled the two afternoon papers Aftonbladet and Expressen there were just a few negative reactions. The same thing happened in Lysekilde and many libraries have followed suit over the past years and nobody seems to have voiced a protest.<P> - If there is a demand for the afternoon papers, I think the library should stock them. Then the question of quality does not arise - says library consultant in Luleå, Detlef Barkanowitz. - You have to take into account what people want to read and not think in terms of what is good and what is bad. Neither in Finland nor in Norway has there been any debate on quality - one provides people with what they feel should be available in the library with no special regard to old traditions and culture. Some people consider the debate on the presence or non-presence of the afternoon papers in the libraries a kind of moral panic, drawing parallels to the banning of 'unsuitable' books during the 1970s.<BR> <div align="right">Biblioteksbladet 9/2005</div><P> <B>NORWAY</B><P> <B>Norwegian language under pressure?</B><BR> A dissertation on the value of the public libraries has attracted attention in Norway because of its only being available in English.<P> T<I>he Value of Public Libraries in Society</I> is written by Svanhild Aasb&oslash;, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. 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