This article explores how the notion of participation informs policy documents in a public library context. Library users are expected to manage on their own, to a large extent, as society calls for self-governing, active subjects who are willing to participate. To explore this notion of participation, we utilize the concept of problematization and analyze policy documents regarding the public libraries of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. Although all of the documents are concerned with participation and user involvement, they have different points of departure and call upon different rationalities. Whereas the outlined policies of the Malmö libraries problematize social inclusion, the Copenhagen libraries primarily problematize inefficiency. Despite this contrast, increased participation seems to be the proposed solution in the policy documents of both cities. An analysis of these documents shows the complex and sometimes contradictory meaning of the concept of participation, depending on which rationality is put into play.

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激活图书馆用户和公民的意愿：不同的理性如何影响图书馆背景下的参与观念

本文探讨了参与的概念如何在公共图书馆环境中为政策文件提供信息。图书馆的使用者有望在很大程度上自行管理，因为社会要求自治的，主动的，愿意参加的学科。为了探索这种参与的概念，我们利用问题化的概念并分析有关丹麦哥本哈根和瑞典马尔默的公共图书馆的政策文件。尽管所有文档都涉及参与和用户参与，但是它们有不同的出发点，并要求不同的合理性。马尔默图书馆的概述政策使社会包容性出现了问题，而哥本哈根图书馆的问题主要是效率低下。尽管有这种对比，增加参与似乎是两个城市政策文件中的建议解决方案。对这些文件的分析表明，参与概念的含义复杂，有时甚至相互矛盾，这取决于发挥何种理性。