Bakgrund: Uterustransplantationer utg?r en ny behandlingsmetod som ?nnu inte ?r etablerad inom h?lso- och sjukv?rden. Syftet med ingreppet ?r att ?ka livskvaliteten f?r kvinnor med livmoderfaktorsinfertilitet. Kvinnor som lider av ofrivillig barnl?shet upplever ofta sorg, psykisk stress och nedsatt sj?lvk?nsla relaterat till sin infertilitet.

The aim of the study is to examine how different factors,such as views on how knowledge is produced and howlearning takes place, effect the way an academic librarymanages space. This is done by looking into how a specificlibrary, namely Library & Learning Resources (LLR) at theUniversity of Borås, by re-planning the building?s structure,design and functions, can support the students? differentstudying habits. The analysis is performed by using a theoreticalperspective built by a model first created by thearchitect Daniel Koch. The model is designed to look uponhow space produces meaning and knowledge.

The aim of this research review is to map research about how children relate to nonfiction, and how adults, represented by parents, librarians and teachers, relate to children?s nonfiction and its possible purposes, and also the similarities and differences between them, according to current research.A theory of three different ways to look at reading is applied to the material concerning adults? views of children?s nonfiction. To show children?s views, themes are extracted from the research material, using an analysis model of four different ways to read.Studies show that most children as well as adults perceive children?s nonfiction in a traditional way as a means to gain knowledge and facts, and primarily related to school work.Nonfiction can also help children with reading difficulties to practise reading, by stimulating their interests. Many children read nonfiction because they prefer to read ?real stories? about actual people and events.

The purpose of this essay ("Gateway to the Past. An archaeological quality controlled subject gateway as a resource for higher education in Lund") is to examine how a quality controlled subject gateway could increase the quality of the information supply for the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University. The essay gives a brief background to subject gateways and also describes the Department and its subjects (prehistoric archaeology, medieval archaeology, osteology and classical studies) . The essay consists of a questionnaire distributed to parts of the target group as well as an investigation of three particular subject gateways: NordArk, ARGE and The Labyrinth. The essay also contains an exposition of how archaeologists seek information, of the structure of the archaeological subjects and of classification systems for quality controlled subject gateways.

The Internet offers an abundance of information. This information is easy to access in technical terms, however it is difficult to find. At present there is a wide variety of search services to choose from. This master's thesis is about selecting the appropriate search service for a certain question. Are different types of services suitable for different types of questions, and if so, which services for which questions?To answer this, I have undertaken one theoretical and one empirical study.

The purpose of this master's thesis is to describe the expansion of Sundbyberg public library during the decade 1954 to 1964. Our focus of interest is the library?s concentration on public relations in 1954.During the experimental year 1954 a public relations librarian, Bianca Bianchini, was employed. Her task was to introduce thelibrary to the citizens of Sundyberg who were not already using it. As a background to this concentration on public relations we also describe the early development of the public library in Sundbyberg.

This case study examines the new media presentation system in Alby public library. The aim is to explore if the contemporary Zeitgeist, wich according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, could be described as liquid modernity, has affected how the system was formed. The purpose is to find out how that would affect users and staff of public libaries of the contemporary. Interviews were conducted with the library staff, and plans and documents concerning the media presentation system was examined.The empirical part of this thesis starts with a study of the process that resulted in the new presentation system while the second part examines the system as such. I discovered that both the media presentation system, and the process which preceded it, contained aspects that could be traced to liquid modernity.

Syftet med undersökningen är att synliggöra barns och vuxnas uppfattning om barnboken. Vi vill få kunskap om vad föräldrar, pedagoger och bibliotekarier har för roll genom att delge barn den kunskap och det innehåll som barnboken ger. När viss undersökning visar att barnbokslån går ner och annan undersökning visar att barnboken är viktig för barn, både språkligt och socialt, vill vi sätta detta i fokus.Metoden grundar sig på kvalitativa studier genom enkäter med intervjufrågor till föräldrar, pedagoger och kommunens bibliotekarie samt intervjuer av barn på våra arbetsplatser. Undersökningen sätter vi i perspektiv till våra styrdokument Läroplanen för förskolan 1998 samt literatur vi anser relevant för vårt examensarbete.Slutsatsen vi har dragit av genomförda undersökningar är att pedagoger och föräldrar samt biblioteken har ett stort ansvar när det gäller barnboken och varför den behövs. Det finns olika vägar att gå för att väcka barns intresse och hur vi gör är upp till varje vuxen att ta beslut om - huvudsaken är att vi läser för barn.

Detta är en undersökning om hur högstadielärare gör skönlitterära val åt sina elever i ämnet svenska. Vår undersökning begränsar sig till verksamma lärare och vi vill se hur lärarnas val påverkas av begrepp som kanon, populärkultur och skräplitteratur. Undersökningen har ägt rum på en skola i Småland, kallad Smålandsskolan, och en skola i Blekinge, kallad Blekingeskolan.Undersökningen har genomförts med intervjuer av lärare under vår VFU (verksamhetsförlagda utbildning) där vi har ställt frågor utifrån en intervjuguide som vi i förväg skapat. Frågorna handlade om vilka undervisningsämnen lärarna hade, deras erfarenheter, vilken litteratur de använder i skolan och slutligen hur de ställer sig till kanonbegreppet.Resultaten visar att lärare påverkas av kanonlitteraturen när de väljer litteratur åt sina elever, men i olika stor utsträckning. Undersökningsskolornas skönlitterära utbud påverkas även av skolornas budget och om skolan har ett bibliotek.

The aim of the paper is to examine how public libraries can develop their services for children with ethnic minority backgrounds as a user group. This is achieved through studying the conditions for library services provided for children aged 9-12 in this group by public libraries in suburbs densely populated with ethnic minorities. The paper uses both a literature review and empirical research on the community libraries in Rinkeby and Rosengård as well as the town library in Lund. Services potentially available to these groups are analysed and discussed in the later chapters. The overall conclusion is that those services provided for ethnic minority children are largely the same as those provided for in children library services in general.

Bakgrund: Hj?rtstopp drabbar hundratusentals m?nniskor i v?rlden ?rligen. Trots att fler m?nniskor ?verlever beskrivs l?ngvariga fysiska, psykiska, sociala och existentiella konsekvenser. Omv?rdnadens roll ?r central f?r ?terh?mtning och anpassning till livet efter h?ndelsen, d?rf?r beh?vs mer kunskap inom omr?det.

The starting point for the present study is that the physical environment can enhance the learning processes of children. We want to contribute to more focus being placed on this within library and information sciences. Our main aim is to illustrate how the physical environment can facilitate the learning of children. In order to achieve our aim, we examine a concrete physical environment, namely the children?s department at the main library in Kungsbacka.

The purpose of this study is to examine if digital public libraries are serendipitous environments. Serendipity in this instance is defined as finding something unexpected and valuable, while searching for something else.A survey was conducted at two Swedish digital public libraries, where the patrons were asked to fill in a questionnaire online. The questions were based on the work on serendipitous digital environments by Lori McCay-Peet, as well as considerations of human factors that could possibly influence serendipity.The result indicate that a majority of patrons experience serendipity at the digital library, although it?s still more common to do so at the physical library or on other web sites. The result also confirms the importance of taking human factors into account when studying serendipity.

While almost 23 percent of the students in the Swedish upper secondary school are foreigners, only a fraction of the school libraries? collections consists of literature written in other languages than Swedish or English. This study examines how five school librarians experience the task of working with literature composed in foreign languages in the multicultural and multilingual school of today. The results of the qualitative interviews are analyzed in relation to the legislation and policy documents that the school libraries are working by, and also in relation to the theoretical framework of sociocultural theory and the theories on second language acquisition developed by linguist Jim Cummins.The study shows that while multilingualism is discussed as an important matter in the legislation and policy documents that the school libraries work by, the librarians in this study largely view the question of foreign literature as peripheral. Most part of the librarians connects first language reading to leisure-time activities rather than curricular activities, and stresses that the Swedish language should be prioritized in Swedish schools.

The SAB-system (Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek) was created almost a hundred years ago and has often been viewed as insufficient among many academic libraries. KB (Kungliga Biblioteket) has therefore decided to change to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) which means that the Swedish libraries are now facing a challenge that involves a change to a new classification system. This is a comparable situation that occured when the SAB-system was created. The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine the Swedish library sector´s approach to a new classification system, first to the SAB-system and then to DDC.