This study of Swedish history Books for grade 9 will examine and compare what the Books say about The Holocaust and how it is presented. I analyse how the Books present The Holocaust and how it is portrayed. I use questions to evaluate the content of the texts and thereafter I compare them to each other. My hypothesis is that history Books are affected by the society in which they are written. Therefore I think that comparing Books from different years, I will be able to see a difference between the Books when it comes to the way they choose to present The Holocaust.

The purpose of this study was to examine gender depiction in picture Books in preschools. Our experience is that many picture Books contain old-fashioned gender stereotypes. During the analysing process, we used the following theories: Yvonne Hirdman?s theory about the stereotypic gender contract and Lev Vygotskij?s theory about experiences increasing our ability to fantasize. We read through 154 picture Books in two preschools and categorized them into two categories: normative and non-normative Books.

The purpose of our master thesis was to investigate how a multicultural society is reflected in childrens Books picture Books, Books for children and young people, published in 2002. We found this issue interesting since children of today experience a change in society, where people of many ethnicities, cultures and religions live together to a greater extent than before. Since children in their everyday life are exposed to these different cultures, we think they also should be exposed to them in the Books they read. In order to enhance an understanding of why such Books are important to children, especially immigrant children, we have in our thesis included a passage with childrens linguistic development, identification and stereotypes. Other passages concern libraries and their roles in a multicultural society.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine to what extent series Books for children and youth are included in the acquisitions of public libraries. It also examines which needs series Books fulfil among a group of 13-15 year old children. The main question of this thesis was: To what extent do libraries provide series Books for children and youth? An inquiry investigation showed that a majority of the libraries in Sweden provide these Books. The main reason to provide the Books was that the demand is large.

The purpose of this this thesis is to evaluate the Books that the Library Project "Give me five" uses accoring to their own project objective. Starting in the discussion of censorship that took place in Swedish media, the goal of the project is to defend picture Books that portray child's inner and outer worlds. Some of the Books are selected by librarians and some preschool teachers themselves have chosen. I have a in a thematic analysis examined if the Books' themes meet the requirements of the project goals and if there is any difference on the Books that preschool teachers chosen and the ones that the librarians have selected. I have in a image analysis investigated whether they have used Books that challenge children's imagery, and if the Books portray children's outer world.

The purpose of this paper is to find out which characteristics the female and male characters have in five selected horse Books in children's literature. I have analyzed five horse Books by Professor Maria Nikolajeva?s gender roles schedule. I have chosen to do a qualitative text analysis and the questions I chose to ask for the Books are: Which characteristics does the girls and the boys have in the selected horse Books according to Nikolajeva?s gender chart? What is the relationship between the main characters and the horse/horses according to the theories of Backman? What does the typical horse book look like today? What I come to conclusion in my paper is that all the horse Books I analyzed have female main characters, and the girls in these Books about horses take a lot of space and demonstrate themselves strong.

The aim of my thesis was to examine if educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how picture Books depict gender and if the Books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think picture Books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what educators think about gender equality through picture Books. The study is based on analysis of five picture Books and interview with five educators.The results of analyzes showed that picture Books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate if gender stereotypes are mediated to children between 0-3 years through Books suitable for their age. This thesis concerns Books that are available in public libraries. The content will be analysed by using a combination of methods, both content analysis of all the Books in our study and a qualitative analysis of a smaller number of these Books. With inspiration from both Robert Connell and Yvonne Hirdman and their theories of gender and gender stereotypes, this material was read and we wanted to examine if Books for very young children might establish stereotypes. Our analysis showed that many known stereotypes are common in these Books.

The purpose of this thesis is to study the usage of and attitudes towards electronic Books among graduate and PhD students at Karlstad University. The main questions are: How do graduate and PhD students use electronic Books? To what extent are electronic Books used compared to printed Books? To find the answers, a user study was carried out at Karlstad University library. The results show that a majority of the respondents are aware of the possibility to use electronic Books but prefer to use printed ones if they have to choose. Many respondents also complained about difficulties reading a text on the computer screen.

The purpose of this essay was to do a research about if the language in Swedish role-playing Books is used correctly and if the composition along with the possible language errors makes the Books hard to understand.This research was also about to find out why these problems occurs and if the authors are aware of them.I choose Books from two Swedish role-playing games, Eon and Drakar och Demoner. I read them trough, noted the mistakes made and put them together in a scoring table. I also did a LIX-test on the Books and interviewed one of the authors.The results shows that the Books to Eon is harder to read than the Books to Drakar och Demoner and this agrees with the vision the authors of the Books claims to have.The results also shows that it is not only the language mistakes and the composition that makes the Books hard to read, but also the choice of difficult words and badly formulated rules..

The aim of my thesis was to examine if educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how picture Books depict gender and if the Books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think picture Books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what educators think about gender equality through picture Books. The study is based on analysis of five picture Books and interview with five educators.The results of analyzes showed that picture Books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.

The purpose of this study is to analyze picture Books from a gender perspective. The Books are found in a book box that the libraries send out to preschools. This study is based on the following questions:How are boys and girls portrayed in picture Books?Do the picture Books encourage or discourage the principles of equality found in the Curriculum for the Pre-School and the equality work conducted in the preschools?I performed a qualitative text and picture analysis of 12 picture Books. I used Maria Nikolajeva and Kajsa Wahlströms schedule of typical masculine and feminine qualities and activities when analysing the picture Books.

The main purpose of our thesis is to discuss the subject e-Books from a Swedish public library perspective. The aim of the thesis is to locate and analyse statistics in regards to lending electronic Books in public libraries. With this background a text analyse have been done, which views different arguments about e-Books. We have studied the current statistics about lending e-Books to the public users, the statistic material was gathered from the two main providers of e-Books, eLib and E-biblioteket. With this statistic report as a background, arguments from scientists, journalists and users of e-Books have been studied.

The purpose of this paper is to describe how librarians andusers think of electronic Books in libraries. My questions are:-What are electronic Books, and how do they work?-How has electronic Books been implemented by librariansin the libraries and on the libraries? websites?-How do users describe their view of electronic Books?-How do the librarians and users think of electronic book inthe future?To be able to answer these questions I have studied relevantliterature, made qualitative interviews with two librarians attwo similar libraries and I had dialogues with several usersElectronic Books were introduced 2002 at the two libraries.In the beginning the libraries made different types ofmarketing, but today they only have the website withinformation. Their purpose was to try this out and offer theusers a new media. So far, there are few users who borrowthese Books, and maybe it depends on technical conditions.According to the dialogues I had, most of the users have noidea what electronic Books are.

The purpose of this essay is to examine and compare how womanliness and manliness reveal themselves in different children?s Books, mainly focusing on the concept of gender, in both text and images aspects. The questions I have chosen to interrogate are the following:How is the male and female role represented in children's Books from a gender perspective, in both images and texts? What gender is generally the main character in children's Books? What clothes are the characters wearing in children's Books? What kind of occupations do the characters practice in children's Books? What kind of qualities or attributes do the characters possess in children's Books?When it comes to the selection of the method, I have chosen the use a qualitative method, where I use both a text and image analysis. The essay is based on Hirdman's and Hardning's gender theories and alsow on Nikolajeva's theorie about male and female.