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Ragnar Andreas Audunson

Ragnar Andreas Audunson

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 52, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 951 06 395
  • Office: +47 672 38 295
E-mail
  • ragnar.audunson@oslomet.no
Affiliation

Field of study

Multiculturalism   Library and information politics   Knowledge Management   Social capital   Meeting places   Public libraries

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

  • Political Dynamics of the Cultural Sector (POLYCUL)

    This project depart from the hypothesis that explanations for developments in cultural policy, and in particular its failure to realize programmatic goals, are found in the dynamics of interest-based politics that at work in the cultural sector.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Evjen, Sunniva ; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Eskola, Eeva-Liisa (2025). Libraries in urban cultural politics. Journal of Documentation.
https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-03-2025-0078

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Hajdu, Ágnes Barátné; Kiszl, Péter; Bella, Katalin (2025). Public libraries as public sphere institutions in a period of crises, conflicts and wars. The theory of low-intensive meeting places revisited. Journal of Documentation. Vol. 81.
https://doi.org/10.1108/jd-03-2025-0067

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Eskola, Eeva-Liisa; Evjen, Sunniva (2024). Location, Location, Location. The media debates on the New Central Libraries in Oslo and Helsinki. Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT). Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nkt.27.1.3

Rydbeck, Kerstin; Johnston, Jamie; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Vårheim, Andreas; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Jochumsen, Henrik (2022). Social reading and the public sphere in Nordic public libraries: a comparative study. Information Research: An international electronic journal. Vol. 27 .
https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2234

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Jochumsen, Henrik; Rydbeck, Kerstin (2022). Library history of the Scandinavian countries. Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Larsen, Håkon (Ed.). Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4715432

Valtýsson, Bjarki; Kjellman, Ulrika; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2022). The impact of digitalization on LAMs. Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Larsen, Håkon (Ed.). Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4201284

Edquist, Samuel; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Huvila, Isto (2022). Do collections still constitute libraries, archives, and museums?. Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Larsen, Håkon (Ed.). Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3443658

Johnston, Jamie; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Mierzecka, Anna; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Hobohm, Hans-Christoph; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Toth, Mate; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Jochumsen, Henrik; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Evjen, Sunniva (2021). Public librarians' perception of their professional role and the library's role in supporting the public sphere: a multi-country comparison. Journal of Documentation.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2021-0178

Bjørklund, Beate; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2021). Qualification requirements in Norwegian public libraries - an analysis of job advertisements. Information Research: An international electronic journal. Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.47989/IRPAPER889

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Andresen, Herbjørn ; Fagerlid, Cicilie; Henningsen, Erik ; Hobohm, Hans-Christoph; Jochumsen, Henrik; Larsen, Håkon ; Vold, Tonje (2020). Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Public Spaces in a Digital Age. ISBN: 9783110636628. 370 p. De Gruyter Saur.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636628



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Textbooks

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2021). The Long and Winding Road: The History of Oslo's New Main Library. ISBN: 9789638926050. 11 p. Magyar Könyvtárosok Egysülete.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3315627



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Research reports

Evjen, Sunniva ; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Johannsen, Carl Gustav (2012). Placing the public library – a comparative analysis of political perceptions. Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3789890

Aabø, Svanhild; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Sæter, Oddrun; Moseid, Tone; Bergli, Veronicha (2012). Framtidas bibliotek på Furuset - en mulighetsstudie [et oppdrag for Alna bydel, Oslo kommune]. 80 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3615316

Hjortsæter, Ellen; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Barstad, Johan (2007). Skulebibliotek i Norge : kartlegging av skulebibliotek i grunnskole og vidaregåande opplæring. 178 p. Høgskulen i Volda, Møreforsking Volda.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4367398

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Nordlie, Ragnar; Aabø, Svanhild (2005). Finansiering og organisering av digitale tjenester. 32 p. Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum (ABM-utvikling).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3297993

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Westerheim, Ingeborg (1989). Undersøkelse om informasjonsbehov og bibliotekbruk i Miljøverndepartementet. 42 p. Brodd.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4526835



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Dissemination

Evjen, Sunniva ; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Eskola, Eeva-Liisa (2024). Libraries in urban cultural politics. 13th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research 2024.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4938884

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2023). Folkeopplysningens tilbakekomst.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4710384

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Henningsen, Erik ; Larsen, Håkon ; Røyseng, Sigrid; Hansen, Louise Ejgod (2023). Locating the politics of cultural policy. Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT). Vol. 26.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4994338

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2023). Folkeopplysningens tilbakekomst. Huvila, Isto; Hedemark, Åsa (Ed.). p. 8-21. Uppsala universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3542116

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Evjen, Sunniva ; Eskola, Eeva Liisa; Widen, Gunilla (2023). New central libraries in Oslo and Helsinki - Perceptions of the public library in two cultural projects in Norway and Finland. Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research. Københavns univedrsitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4216834

Rydbeck, Kerstin; Johnston, Jamie; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Vårheim, Andreas; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Jochumsen, Henrik (2022). Social Reading and the Public Sphere in Nordic Public Libraries: A Comparative Study. Conceptions of Library and Information Science - CoLIS11. Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3571932

Tóth, Máté; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Vårheim, Andreas; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Johnston, Jamie (2022). Collaboration and convergent development across libraries, archives and museums. 12th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research: ICCPR 2022. University of Antwerp.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4959486

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2022). 34 år med årets bibliotek: er det en tvikling i hba som blir sett på som godt og nyskapende bibliotekarbeid?. Bob : Bok og bibliotek. Vol. 2022.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3255375

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas (2022). Om å holde tunga rett i munnen: vi trenger grundige prinsipielle debatter om bibliotekene som offentlighetsarena. Bob : Bok og bibliotek. Vol. 88.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3487661

Audunson, Ragnar Andreas ; Evjen, Sunniva ; Widén, Gunilla; Eskola, Eeva-Liisa (2022). New central libraries in Oslo and Helsinki: a comparative study on the public debate on two major cultural projects in Norway and Finland. 12th. International Conference on Public Policy Research. Internaional Conference on Cultural Policy Research.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3704988



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