Denna designpedagogiska undersökning baseras pÄ ett empiriskt material som med en etnografisk inspirerad metod med participatory design som grund för deltagandet, undersöker rÀtten till individens visuella uttryck i det offentliga rummet, sett ur ett maktperspektiv inom det socialkonstruktionistiska fÀltet. Syftet Àr att skapa en mötesplats som kan möjliggöra för boende i Orminge att ta plats med visuella avtryck i ett kollektivt skapande. I Orminge, som Àr en förort till Stockholm, har undersökningen Àgt rum i form av en workshop, en aktion och en utstÀllning. Under tre veckor i oktober 2010 kunde biblioteksbesökare till Orminge Bibliotek delta i en öppen workshop. Deltagarna, de boende i Orminge och tillika besökare till Orminge Bibliotek, "mÄlade med trÄd" pÄ duk och bestÀmde sedan platser dÀr den broderade duken skulle placeras ut i det offentliga rummet.

The purpose of this master's thesis is to describe and analyse the origin and development of the library of WorkersŽ Educational Association in the community of Oskarström. This library is special because the organisation run it much longer than usual, until 1977, and to find an answer to why, we have the following questions: Why does the library of WorkersŽ Educational Association start their activity in Oskarström, and how does it develop, in relation to premises, librarians, financing, the stock of books and the numbers of books out on loan? What is the reason that the library in Oskarström is municipalized as late as 1977? The methods we use are hermeneutics and evaluation of the sources. The library is founded in 1914 and become important for the workers. Important sources of income are the subventions given by the state, municipality and other associations.

The Swedish group contribution rules do not include a right to deduction for cross-border group contributions unless the receiving company is taxable in Sweden. There has been much discussion regarding whether the rules are compatible with EC law. On 11 March 2009 the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court ruled ten cases concerning the right to deduction for cross-border group contributions. In three of these judgments deduction for a group contribution from a Swedish parent company to a foreign subsidiary within the EEA was allowed, despite that the subsidiary was not taxable in Sweden. The main purpose of this master thesis is to analyse whether the interpretation of the Supreme Administrative Court concerning the right to deduction for cross-border group contributions is compatible with EC law.

The purpose of the present qualitative study is to create knowledge about librarydigital services and their marketing to patrons with disabilities in Armenia, on theexample of the National Library of Armenia, as well as, to discover opinions of theNLA librarians and patrons with disabilities about the importance of library digitalservices to people with disabilities. Literature review and qualitative interviewing has been employed as methods to collect the empirical data. The results have been analyzed and discussed based on the library-marketing model of marketing research, marketing segmentation, marketing mix strategy and marketing evaluation suggested by Koontz & Gubbin (2010). It has been concluded, that 1) e-accessibility issomething new at the NLA and the NLA does not provide equally available knowledge, resources, services, facilities to patrons with disabilities, because of the following main challenges: lack of continuous funding and support from the state, lack of appropriate facilities and technologies, lack of qualified staff, and historicallyinherited library infrastructure impediments; 2) no library service marketing is conducted to patrons with disabilities at the NLA; 3) the opinions are that provisionwith such services is very important to people with disabilities, since they allow those people to gain access and use information in formats adopted to their various needs, and, of course, they become integrated into the modern society. The important role of a library as a non-discriminator and copyright protector in a developing country when delivering digital library services to patrons with disabilities has also been discovered..

This thesis examines what and in which language young people in Sweden with other linguistic backgrounds than Swedish read, as well as if they have access to the literature that they demand, how they use the library and what kind of role the library plays to them. The chosen method was quantitative and it consisted of a questionnaire as this method is useful in quantifying phenomena, which is the purpose of this thesis. The investigation shows that the studied population is bilingual. I hope that the thesis points out the range of the problems and that these issues need to be solved within the society and not the within the family. We need to make use of the resources of the young immigrants, as their cultural competence, in some cases even bi-cultural competence, can be useful for the Swedish society.

The aim of this study is to examine how teenage boysperceive the public library. How do they utilize the resourcesprovided by a public library? What are their thoughtsregarding what a public library offers in terms of services toits visitors? Four qualitative interviews with teenage boyswere done for the purpose of this study. The study showsthat these individuals perceive the library as a resource foryoungsters, women, elders or people with disabilities orspecial needs, but not themselves..

Bakgrund En ryggm?rgsskada p?verkar funktionen och f?rm?gan att kunna vara delaktig i dagliga aktiviteter p? flera s?tt. Personer som drabbats av en ryggm?rgsskada har visat sig ha st?rre risk att utveckla psykisk oh?lsa ?n den ?vriga befolkningen. De som i ett tidigt stadium efter skadan m?r s?mre psykisk har ?ven en ?kad risk att isolera sig och inte vara delaktig i aktiviteter i samh?llet.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to investigate children?s librarian?s perspectives on children?s literature and reading of fiction books. This is a comparative study of Swedish and Lithuanian librarians. The main questions to be answered are how children?s librararians at public libraries motivate their selection and purchase of fiction for children and what kind of considerations there are behind the purchases.

The aim of this thesis is to examine how two young adult departments at two public libraries work and what profiles the young adult departments have. To examine the work and profiles at the young adult departments I have used the following questions: What are the ideas about working with young adults? How are the two departments in this study working whit young adults? What or which are the profiles of the young adult departments in this study?To answer the questions above I used a qualitative method based on interviews with the librarians responsible for the young adult departments. To complete the interviews I studied the libraries Internet sites and official documents. The examined departments are located at two city libraries and were chosen manly for their focused age group, 15-25 years and that the departments are well established.To analyse the results I used the theoretic model of Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen about the role of the public library.

The purpose of this study is to focus on library service for children in a hospital, which in turn is seen in relation to a traditional children s library. Four aspects of library work were investigated. These aspects were working methods, partners of co-operation for the libraries, media policy (acquisition, use of the collection and circulation procedures), as well as programme activities for children.The research method was qualitative and comparative in nature, consisting of case studies of two libraries : (1) the library in a children s hospital, known as Bokskogen at Astrid Lindgren s children s hospital in Stockholm and (2) a traditional children s library, the children s department at Eslövs city library. In each library interviews were conducted. The investigation shows that the librarians in the hospital library must be more outreaching and active in order to stimulate children to use library materials.

Denna rapport beskriver utvecklingen av en Instant Messaging klient som implementerats som en sprÄkwrapper. Klienten anvÀnder ett kÀnt öppen kÀllkods-bibliotek vid namn libGaim för att fÄ tillgÄng till Instant Messaging tjÀnster. Klienten fungerar som en sprÄkwrapper till detta bibliotek, och lÄter andra applikationer nyttja biblioteket genom ett databasgrÀnssnitt. Arbetet har utförts Ät och hos Evolve i Karlstad. Systemet som utvecklats klarar att hantera vanliga Instant Messaging-funktioner sÄ som uppkoppling av konto, nedkoppling, Àndring av status, visa kompisikoner, och hÀmtning av information angÄende kompisar.I beskrivandet av arbetet med detta system ges bakgrundsinformation angÄende wrappers och Instant Messaging, och dessutom angÄende de verktyg och metoder som anvÀnts likt byggverktyget SCons och utvecklingsmetoden eXtreme Programming.

Skolan Àr en mÄngkulturell mötesplats dÀr barnen mÄste lÀra sig att förstÄ och acceptera varandra. För att lyckas med detta sÄ kan barnlitteratur vara ett bra underlag för diskussioner kring mÄngkulturella frÄgor. Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur barnlitteratur gestaltar mÀnniskors kulturella olikheter. Vi har undersökt hur utbudet ser ut pÄ VÀsterÄs och Enköpings bibliotek gÀllande barnlitteratur som lyfter fram teman och motiv som kulturmöten, utanförskap, fördomar och normalitetens reaktioner. Studien belyser ocksÄ hur dessa teman och motiv gestaltas i barnlitteraturen.

Hedersmorden p? Pela Atroshi och Fadime Sahindal v?ckte stor uppm?rksamhet p? den sociopolitiska agendan i Sverige i b?rjan av 2000-talet och blev startskottet p? en splittrad hedersdebatt, om huruvida morden kunde f?rklaras kulturellt eller som en del av det universella patriarkatet. Idag ?r de flesta politiker och forskare eniga om att hedersrelaterat v?ld och f?rtryck ?r kulturellt betingat och fenomenet har f?tt ett erk?nnande i det svenska samh?llet. Denna kvalitativa studie unders?ker socialsekreterares f?rst?else och resonemang kring kulturella f?rest?llningar i relation till v?ld och f?rtryck i hederns namn samt hur hedersv?ld utm?rker sig fr?n v?ld i n?ra relation.

Studiens syfte Àr att belysa hur organisationen Malmö Stadsbibliotek arbeta med ungdomar via nya medier och dÀrigenom lyfta fram strategiska förslag inom omrÄdet. Malmö Stadsbibliotekets arbete med ungdomar och nya medier studeras genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fem anstÀllda och en innehÄllsanalys med retoriskt perspektiv av webbplatsen Ungdomssidan. Strukturer rörande digital kommunikation med ungdomar synliggörs och problematiseras i förhÄllande till tidigare forskning, historiska och teoretiska ramverk. Det teoretiska ramverket tar ansats frÄn kultursociologen Pierre Bourdieus teori om kulturella fÀlt och tre centrala begrepp och teoretiska ramverk inom: kommunikation, makt och interaktivitet. Det framgÄr att Malmö Stadsbibliotek inte arbetar mÄlgruppsanpassat via nya medier. Det finns inte nÄgon digital verksamhet för ungdomar med en möjlighet till interaktion mellan ungdomar eller med personalen.

The purpose of this thesis is to create conditions in order to plan lighting to a library room after children's needs and wishes, and to gain deeper knowledge about how children experience different lighting environments and what they perceive as good lighting. I was given the task by Huskvarna library to design a lighting plan for their children's department. This is part of the project "Library 2.1-room as a medium" that is going on at Huskvarna library since fall 2007. My questions at issue are: 1. What do children consider as good lighting in a library? 2.