01014nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001600043245016300059856004000222300001200262490000700274520057300281022001400854       2020                            d1 aIsto Huvila00aLibrarians on User Participation in Five European Countries / Perspectives de bibliothécaires sur la participation des utilisateurs dans cinq pays européens  uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/772363  a127-1570 v433 aThis study reports the results from an international survey of library professionals and investigates cross-national variation of their attitudes towards user participation and its role in public libraries by comparing differences between librarians in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, and Germany. The results show how conceptualizing attitudinal patterns as discursive interpretative repertoires and mapping them to activity systems is helpful in explicating different constituents and takes on user participation and its consequences in libraries and library work.  a1920-7239