ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how a particular type of organizational texts—annual or activity reports—narrate an organization's activity and through this narration compose the organization's performance and deals with public libraries. It aims to examine one of the surfaces at which the discourse emerges and to intercept the modes of constituting that discourse before these have sunk too deeply into the organization's logic, as may be the case, for example, in industrial organizations. The chapter focuses on the narrative structure of these reports. It describes how activity reports provide positive accounts of the organization's activity, how these accounts are organized as multiplot stories, and how they appear in a serialized manner. The chapter explores how activity reports narratively construct an organization's performance. Library activity reports are written in a plain language, which is, roughly speaking, somewhere between spoken Swedish, official Swedish and newspaper Swedish.
