“Investigation: Massdigitalisera Sweden’s cultural heritage,”

“the Swedish library needs to be strengthened and the state must step in with efforts to get a greater integration of school libraries in education, writes erich Fichtelius, national coordinator for the biblioteksutredningen, on DN Debate.”

“the Investigation hands over to the minister of culture, Amanda Lind (MP) on Thursday. In the proposed a package of reforms on the six points, which in different ways relates to the strengthening of, inter alia, school libraries, libraries for national minorities and indigenous people, multilingual library and digital library services. This would cost 250 million annually, according to Fichtelius.”

“The national biblioteksmyndigheten should also be tasked with coordinating a mass digitisation of the Swedish knowledge and cultural heritage of newspapers, books, magazines, sound and image, writes the investigator.”

“Sweden needs according to the investigation, a ten-year digitaliseringsplan for Sweden to catch up with the outside world and live up to its political goals.”