Uppsatsen handlar om Piteå stads Hantverksförening från år 1877 fram till föreningens 50-års jubileum 1927. År 1877 gick hantverkarna och fabrikörerna i Piteå samman och grundade Piteå stads Hantverksförening. Syftet med föreningen var att värna om yrkenas förkovran, hantverkets framtid och utveckling, den enskilde hantverkarens inflytande samt medlemmarnas utbildning. Genom Piteå stads Hantverksförening levde gesällproven vidare och mellan åren 1877-1927 delade föreningen ut 111 gesällbrev till lärlingar som ansökt om att bli gesäller. Föreningen inrättade även en kostnadsfri undervisning för lärlingarna, grundade ett eget bibliotek, samt bidrog till att det inrättades ett folkbibliotek i Piteå stad.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to examine the discourses of concepts related to diversity and ethnicity in Swedish cultural policy. It focuses on how the society is presented in different contexts and how people with a different ethnic origin than the majority, are represented in the cultural policy of the Swedish State. The study is restricted to concern immigrants. Six governmental cultural policy documents, reaching over a time period of eight years 1995-2003 are examined as follows: Which key terms are used in the presentations? Which contexts and discourses can be distinguished? Have the discourses changed over the time period examined, and if so, how? The theoretical starting point in the thesis is the discourse perspective of Laclau and Mouffe.

The purpose with this study is to map the research front and the research base in information science, by using the bibliometric methods bibliographic coupling and author-co citation analysis. The research questions are: 1. What is the nature of the research front in information science, regarding which areas that are being studied? 2. What is the nature of the research base in information science, regarding which authors who are most cited, and how they can be grouped? The data used in the study were gathered from articles published in the journal Journal of the American society for information science and technology, published between 2004-2006, respectively 1986-2006.

Syftet med denna studie var att erövra kunskap över hur modersmålsstöd kunde bedrivas i förskolans verksamhet samt lyfta fram pedagogers tolkningar av uppdraget. Jag har utfört kvalitativa intervjuer av fyra pedagoger verksamma vid två olika förskolor, bägge förskolor med ett högt antal flerspråkiga barn i barngruppen. Studien visade att uppdraget om modersmålsstöd sågs som betydelsefullt av samtliga pedagoger trots att ingen av dem ansåg att de bedrev modersmålsstöd, främst på grund av deras definition av begreppet. För att kompensera brister i resurser gällande språkligkompetens i modersmålen utgick samtliga pedagoger med ett förhållningssätt som gynnade flerspråkighet, det redogjordes för dels bibliotek och föräldrasamverkan som resurs i uppdraget. I och med detta menade jag att det bedrevs en form av modersmålsstöd i varierad utsträckning på bägge förskolor.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate what attributes were used in story-time activities, why attributes were used in story-time activities and what functions they have. The study is based on qualitative methods in the form of a literature studies, observations and interviews. The interviews were undertaken with two storytellers from the same public library. The story-time activities were adapted for children from three to six years of age. The study suggested that there was a connection between story-time activities and a social and cultural perspective.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to compare classification codes and feature headings of three different universal classification schemes SAB, UDC and DDC, when classifying archaeological literature. The aim is to determine whether a subject analysis of a title generates similar feature headings in the three systems, and to find positive and negative things about each system from an archaeological point of view. The comparison and the analysis of the 22 chosen archaeological monographs showed that the subject analysis of the titles didnt always generate similar feature headings. This could depend on several things, for example different interpretations of the subject analysis of a document, less knowledge about the system and/or the subject, or the fact that its not the same classifier that creates the codes. The study also showed that the different classification systems did treat the subject archaeology a bit differently, and that its difficult to say that one of them is better for classifying archaeological literature.

The main purpose of this thesis has been to identify and discuss problems connected with the preservation of newspapers in Sweden. Another purpose was to see if the preservation of newspapers has been influenced by the fact that preservation studies in general concerns printed monographs and digital materials. This qualitative study is partly based upon interviews with four librarians experienced in working with newspapers and preservation. The thesis deals with cultural heritage in general and on a more specific level with newspapers where the following questions are dealt with: Why preserve? Who preserves? How to preserve? and What is preserved? Strategies used for preserving newspapers such as paper, microfilming and digitization are described as well as legal deposit, the Swedish microfilming programme and TIDEN, a digitization project of newspapers.

This Masters thesis is analysing four Swedish novels written by first time authors published between 1993-2002. The purpose is to make the fictitious main characters illustrate what conditions and obstacles there can be for the individual of today to create a self-identity. Anthony Giddens ideas about the self in the late modern society are used as a theoretical framework. In the core of Giddens theory is the concept of reflexitivity which means that the self must be constructed in a continuous fashion because the overall conditions in society are subject to constant change. The questions posed in this study are dependable on Giddens in general and the concept of reflexivity in particular.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the three main translation methods used in experimental Cross-language Information Retrieval CLIR research today, namely translation using either machine-readable dictionaries, machine translation systems or corpus-based methods. Working notes from research groups participating in the Text Retrieval Conference TREC and the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum CLEF between 1997 and 2000 have provided the main source material used to discuss the possible advantages and drawbacks that each method presents. It appears that all three approaches have their pros and cons, and because the different researchers tend to favour their own chosen method, it is not possible to establish a "winner approach" to CLIR translation by studying the working notes alone. One should remember however that the present interest in cross-language-applications of information retrieval has arisen as late as in the 1990s, and thus the research is yet in its early stages. The methods discussed in this paper may well be improved, or perhaps replaced by others in the future..

Idag finns de varor vi behöver tillgängliga att köpa och de tillverkas ofta långt bort i andra delar av världen. Tyg-, sybehörs- och garnaffärer läggs ned i Stockholm, samtidigt som intresset för att göra själv tycks öka. Denna bakgrund synliggörs genom aktuella rörelser i gränslandet mellan design, konst och hantverk som har gett idéer till mitt designpedagogiska projekt och redskap för att analysera det. Dessa rörelser har ofta politiska eller konsumtionskritiska motiv och en vilja att uppmärksamma, tillgängliggöra, förändra eller förbättra någonting, nära eller i en annan del av världen, med det egna skapandet som redskap.I uppsatsen besvaras frågeställningen: Hur förhåller sig barn i åldrarna elva och tolv år till möjligheten att lämna avtryck i en offentlig miljö i området där de bor? Detta undersöks genom ett designpedagogiskt projekt på biblioteket i en förort i södra Stockholm där ett rum för 9-13-åringar skulle skapas.

The aim of this thesis is to study different aspects of the public libraries' investment in public access computers connected to the Internet. What level of accessibility can be found at the surveyed libraries concerning the number of computers open to the public, as well as chat and email services? What activities have been taking place with the computers in focus, and what have the goals of these activities been? Is there any control of content, and what aspects of the Internet are, if that is the case, subject to censorship. And how do the governmental policies relate to the surveyed libraries' intentions and activities regarding the Internet? In order to answer these questions, each main library in the 42 largest towns of Sweden was surveyed response rate: 100 %.

My purpose with the study is to investigate if it is possible to argue in favor of organizing public libraries according to the client based theory. To create a base to argue from I have studied UFO, a department focused on young adults at the age between 15 and 25 at the public library of Malmö. This case study, performed by investigating the documentation of UFO as well as conducting an interview with the project leader, is the base from which I then can argue for or against the idea of organizing public libraries according to the client based theory. Public libraries should always reflect the communities they serve. This challenges the staff of different libraries in different regions to arrange their organizations accordingly to their local population and to be flexible enough to follow the changes of this population.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how student nurses seek and use information and libraries. Furthermore, I want to know how they think information can be used in their future occupation. Seven student nurses were included in the study. A qualitative method with personal interviews was used. The analysis of the empirical material was made according to a socio-cultural perspective.

Being able to reflect, evaluate and justify your views is an important part of adult life. Moral education can be a path to develop this knowl-edge; however, it is possible that the moral education gets more obscure when it is not a separate subject. The purpose with this essay is to examine the need of moral education and the presence and the framing of moral education of seven teachers in religion. The purpose is also to analyse where and how the moral education should be included in the curriculum. The survey was conducted through qualitative interviews with a hermeneutic approach.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study the information needs of the homeless. The main focus is to investigate what kind of information needs that are to be found among the homeless and also how information is exchanged and shared by the group. Another aspect of our study includes the sources that are used to fulfil these information needs. The homeless use of the library, as one of these sources, is also examined.