The purchasing procedure had been far from professional, which made it impossible to evaluate what was ordered and what was payed for. What was evident was that the libraries examined did not show any advantages that would not have been able to obtain in ordinary public institutions. Three years later The results from the 1993 survey were not encouraging and not unambiguously in favour of contracting out. A quick survey, March 1996, showed that all libraries except one were still run by contractors. However, the wave of contracting out public libraries have faded away.
Newcomers are more or less non existent.
The whole thing of contracting out of public libraries has become a lame duck. The experience of contracting out Swedish public libraries causes some principal questions. Garbage collecting is a very important public service in a civilised society. And if not properly operated it will immediately cause damage. The explanation probably is that there is a principal difference between garbage collecting and public libraries.