The purpose of this study has been to follow how the Swedish press covers the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest. To do so, I have followed how the image of The Ark, a Swedish rock group, changed in the press during Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. They won in Sweden, but in the big European finale they ended up in 18th place. The study is based on a discourse analysis with the focus on the social dialogue of the band in the newspapers. I have applied the analysis on 14 articles published the day after Melodifestivalen and a week ahead, and 14 articles published the day after the Eurovision Song Contest and a week ahead.

?Facebook has become as natural as having a phone? The use of social media in three libraries in the Umeå region ? an evaluationSocial media has come to be an integral part of people?s everyday life, as well as the business world in terms of communication and marketing. More and more libraries also embark in the use of social media, and the purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of social media in three libraries in the Umeå region. The libraries all use Facebook as their current, primary social media. Thus this study focuses partly on the analysis of the content on each library?s Facebook page, and partly on the experiences of the responsible librarians. The evaluation is based on a mix of existing tools in evaluating social media that are relevant in a library context.

The role-playing game attracts a growing number of practisers. The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine role-playing literature as phenomenon in libraries through librarians´ attitudes. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with eight librarians: one personal interview with two librarians and six e-mail interviews with six librarians at different libraries. The paper starts with a definition of the term ?role-playing game?, its different categories and genres and a description of its background.

The purpose of this thesis is library work in exile, more specifically The Kurdish library in Stockholm (?Kurdiska biblioteket?). The Kurds have a long history of exile, forming a part of their national and cultural identity. I have therefore chosen in the analysis three concepts: nationalism, ethnicity and culture. The Kurdish library is unique and is different from a traditional library in many ways.

Ett Allt är möjligt hus lokaliserat i den gamla porslinsfabrikens lokaler i Gustavsbergs hamn. Ett interaktivt Cirkus Cirkör-hus där det även ska rymmas bibliotek, konsthall och porslinsmuseum. Ett öppet landskapsformat rum skapar publika ytor och sammanbinder de olika funktioenrna i huset..

In the wake of the electronic revolution digital library has become one of the central themes concerning libraries. The present study takes up the question whether digital library can function in the same way as the conventional library. The question can obviously be posed from different perspectives, e.g. technological-, the user-, or the organizational perspective. The study investigates if (and how) digital library can have the same functions as the traditional library.

Libraries exist around us and for most of us they are a part of our every day life. But how often do we stop and think about their meaning?Libraries in fiction are usually not the center of the narrative, they play a role quietly in the background and offer a backcloth to the story. Yet they are a vital part of the story. Without them a big part of the magic in the stories would be lost.And what is their role in our lives? What do the libraries mean to the books they harbor, the readers who seek them out and society in which they have their axiomatic role?This essay?s focus is my story ?Between the shelves?, which is about the young girl Julia and the mysterious passageway she discovers in her local library.

Målen med svensk klimatpolitik är att minska det svenska oljeberoendet och koldioxidutsläppen. Då privatbilismen står för en stor del av Sveriges oljeanvändande har en ökning av andelen miljöbilar i fordonsparken därför blivit ett viktigt inslag, vilket har lagt grunden till en gynnsam försäljning av miljöbilar. I denna uppsats undersöktes miljöbilsförsäljningens utveckling månadsvis tidsperioden oktober 2004 till april 2007. För att analysera miljöbilsförsäljningen skapades en jämviktsmodell som sedan testades empiriskt genom ekonometriska körningar. Modellen förklarade 89% av andelen sålda miljöbilar per månad och variablerna inkomst, modellutbud, drivmedelspris och subventionen av miljöbil på 10.000 kronor som infördes i april 2007 visade sig vara starkt korrelerade med andelen miljöbilar.

Målen med svensk klimatpolitik är att minska det svenska oljeberoendet och koldioxidutsläppen. Då privatbilismen står för en stor del av Sveriges oljeanvändande har en ökning av andelen miljöbilar i fordonsparken därför blivit ett viktigt inslag, vilket har lagt grunden till en gynnsam försäljning av miljöbilar. I denna uppsats undersöktes miljöbilsförsäljningens utveckling månadsvis tidsperioden oktober 2004 till april 2007. För att analysera miljöbilsförsäljningen skapades en jämviktsmodell som sedan testades empiriskt genom ekonometriska körningar. Modellen förklarade 89% av andelen sålda miljöbilar per månad och variablerna inkomst, modellutbud, drivmedelspris och subventionen av miljöbil på 10.000 kronor som infördes i april 2007 visade sig vara starkt korrelerade med andelen miljöbilar.

The aim of this thesis is to compare two different classification schemes with each other and see what the differences and similarities are when classifying literature concerning film and television. One of the schemes is of general kind, Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek (SAB) and the other is a special system, FIAF Classification scheme for literature on film and television. The focus of the examination is on comparing the structure, contents and division of firstly the main classes and secondly on comparing the notation and the auxiliary tables in the schemes. The theoretical framework of the comparison is based upon theory of classification but the conclusions drawn are though mostly of a more subjective character. In addition to the comparison itself interviews have been made with four libraries, two with experiences of SAB and two with experiences of FIAF.

Studiens syfte var att studera hur ingången till socialtjänstens arbete med vuxna kan se ut i en svensk kommun samt hur karaktäristiska, så som ålder, kön och ansöknings- eller anmälningsorsak, hos ärenden och målgruppen förändras över tid.Metoden som användes var kvantitativ, en så kallad fallstudie, och materialet som studien grundades på är data insamlad vid socialtjänstens vuxenenhet i Umeå. Dessa bestod av utskrivna Excel-ark som fyllts i av enhetschefen för hand och materialet täcker två tolvmånadersperioder (juli 2006 - juli 2007, juli 2010 - juni 2011).Resultatet visade att den vanligaste ålderskategorin för båda perioderna är 21-25 år med en medelålder för kvinnor på 39 år och män 37,5 år den första perioden (2006/2007). För den senare perioden (2010/2011) var medelåldern 39,5 för kvinnor och 38,6 för män. Männen utgjorde en större del av klientgruppen båda perioderna, och den vanligaste förekommande aktualiseringsorsaken för båda könen och perioderna var alkohol (lika vanligt förekommande som narkotika för män 2006/2007). Ärenden blev i hög utsträckning fördelade till ansvarig socialsekreterare samma vecka som ärendet inkommit till enheten.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att ta reda på vilka tankar som finns angående helhetsperspektivet i den stundande gymnasiereformen Gymnasieskola 2007 (GY-07). För att få reda på detta intervjuades två rektorer och åtta lärare som fick ge sin syn på den kommande reformen. De tillhörde två olika program, ett studieförberedande respektive ett yrkesförberedande och dessa program kontrasteras mot varandra. Resultatet visar att alla informanter har en positiv inställning till reformen men att det yrkesförberedande programmet är mer positivt inställda än det studieförberedande programmet som hyser mindre tillförsikt till implementeringen av reformen..

This master thesis is based on the sociocultural perspective. A qualitative research study was conducted to investigate children's attitudes towards reading, texts and libraries.The theoretical background is constituted by ideas from the new sociology of childhood, literacy-studies and reader-response theory.The study was conducted with 23 children, 13 girls and 10 boys, participating in focus groups.The results of the study reveal that children's literacy-activities in school are strongly influenced and limited by adults. Children's interest in pictures and non-fiction-reading do not correspond to the school institution that favors traditional media and fiction. The study also reveals a gender division between children's literacy-activities that tends to grow with age. All the children in the study regard libraries as book-houses and wished for libraries that combine activity and serenity.The thesis shows the importance of being aware of, and engage in, children's reading-interests and reading-practices if the reading stimulating activities in schools and libraries are to be successful.

The purpose of this study is to examine young people?s opinions about libraries using social media for communicative and marketing purposes. There are three research questions: What do young people think about libraries using social media for communicative and marketing purposes? Do they want to interact with libraries in social media and, if so, in what way? Are their opinions and their will to interact influenced by what kind of relationship they have with libraries, their reading habits, and whether or not they use libraries? digital services? Prior research is divided into three themes: library development, marketing, and young people. The theoretical framework is made up of a combination of relationship marketing, using Evert Gummesson?s three catchwords relationships, networks, and interaction, and the engagement pyramid, as depicted by Brit Stakston.

The subject of this master thesis concerns the area of change in libraries, with special orientation towards privatisation. Its aim is to investigate how privatisation is portrayed in one of Sweden?s largest library magazines, Biblioteksbladet, in order to gain insight into why these portrayals are what they are, and what consequences they might get. Three theoretical viewpoints create the general base of the thesis; first, Fairclough?s critical discourse analysis (CDA) theory on the relations between text and society; second, Audunsson?s theory concerning how change is dealt with in public libraries; and third, a conceptual framework on privatisation consisting of definitions and perspectives of the phenomenon.