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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2001
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED459747 |
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- Establishing a Research Service in the Norwegian Parliament: Why the Right Time Was Now. Floistad, Brit Foreign Countries Government Libraries Library Development Library Services Reference Services Research Libraries User Needs (Information) Users (Information) This paper discusses the establishment of a research service in the Norwegian parliament. The first section presents some general assumptions regarding a research service in parliament. The second section describes the first initiative, a mandate in the 1970s to establish a commission to clarify the need for such a service. The third section introduces the process of establishing the research service in the late 1990s. The fourth and fifth sections discuss a newspaper debate among politicians on this issue that began when the opposing parties stated that they did not fully trust the government's handling of a certain matter. The sixth section summarizes the commission's report on the "why" and "how" of establishing a research service. The seventh section describes the establishment of the research service in October 1999. (MES)