The aim of this study is to examine the interaction between a group of multilingual, twelve-year-old children, and three libraries. The children live in a suburb of a larger city. The three libraries are their school-library, the library in their suburb and the main library in the city. We have examined if and how the children use the libraries, what the libraries mean to them in their daily life and what their possibilities are when it comes to participate in and influence activities and collections at the libraries. We have pursued qualitative interviews with sixteen children in grade six and three librarians, working with multilingual children at the three libraries.

Swedish university libraries traditionally collect recreational readingmaterial only to support the teaching and research interests of theirinstitutions. However many university libraries hold a substantial yetunspecified collection of popular fiction. This thesis investigates theextent of these collections and examines academic librarians' viewsabout students' recreational reading in the academic context and theirattitudes towards the role of fiction and of readers' advisory inacademic libraries. The theoretical framework includes literature andresearch about the benefits of reading for pleasure, collections' rolesand readers' advisory strategies. The empirical material was gatheredthrough quantitative surveys sent to academic librarians in Sweden.The results show that academic librarians are positive about thebenefits of recreational reading for university students.

This essay concerns sponsorship of libraries within Sweden. It takes its starting-point in the libraries economical situation where resources are decreasing. The main purpose of the essay is to investigate how sponsorship is used in public libraries. The main questions are:o Why are sponsorships appealing to libraries? o What does the processes of sponsoring look like? o What are the possible risks concerning sponsor-ships ? could it endanger libraries democratic role? o How does library staff reflect on the role of libraries in contemporary society? In our study we chose to investigate the sponsorship issue from the sponsored libraries perspective.

Hur m?nniskor definierar h?lsa varierar, m?nniskor prioriterar ?ven h?lsan p? olika s?tt. Idag ?r det m?nga som hoppar av tr?ningen innan en beteendef?r?ndring hinner ske. Det ?r viktigt att k?nna till hur motivation fungerar eftersom det ger en ?kning av kontroll, utveckling samt beteendef?r?ndring.

Magnetresonanstomografiska underso?kningar av bro?sten (MRT-mammografi) har utfo?rts i o?ver tva? decennier. Underso?kningen go?rs vid mammografiskt oklara fynd, planering info?r kirurgi samt vid kontroll na?r det finns o?kad risk fo?r bro?stcancer. Informationen info?r en mag- netresonanstomografisk underso?kning a?r avgo?rande da? information anga?ende underso?knings- procedurer o?kar patientmedverkandet vilket kan gynna bildkvalite?n info?r diagnostik.

Utgångspunkten för denna uppsats ligger i subjektivt upplevda brister i ljudkvalitet vid konsertplatsen Dalhalla. Dalhalla är ett gammalt kalkbrott som byggts om till konsertplats med sittplats för tusentals besökare. På repertoaren återfinns musikdramatiska verk och opera likväl som pop- och rockkonserter. Enligt ansvariga ljudtekniker i Dalhalla finns vissa uppmätta brister vad gäller bland annat enhetlig täckning av publikytan. Utöver detta har det från flera håll yttrats missnöje över ljudets kvalitet.

The aim of this thesis is to answer whether a group of databases dedicated to selling books or a group of databases dedicated to lending books is more efficient. The measurements used to determine the efficiency of the two kinds of databases are Cumulated Gain and precision in modified versions. The inquiry has been conducted thus that the same 18 queries have been put forth to six databases and these results have consequently been judged according to relevance on a 4-graded scale by five respondents. The rankinglevels have then been merged to one average value per respondent and ranking. These values have then been used to determine CG/iCG/nCG and P@n per query, rank 1-10, per database and per group (the groups being STORE (BUTIK) and LIBRARY (BIBLIOTEK).

Denna studie handlar hur konsumenter so?ker information om produkter via internet. Det talas om att konsumenter genomga?r en process, kallad beslutsfattandeprocessen, da? konsumenten avser att genomfo?ra ett ko?p. Den mest citerade beslutsfattandeprocessen besta?r av fem steg, da?r det andra steget i processen utgo?rs av informationsso?kning.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to describe the development of the most important libraries in Skövde, starting from 1830. We conclude our examination about 1940, when the municipal library has been active for almost ten years, and the libraries started by the temperance and working-class movements have been deposited at the municipal library. In order to explain this process we describe the development of the Swedish public library and its predecessors, such as reading societies and the popular national movements? libraries, as a background and comparison to the early libraries in Skövde.

The purpose of this study is to examine how immigrant authorsare mediated in texts. The study is based on three magazines which are directed towards the library sector. These texts have been published from the year 2000 to the year 2012. The study focuses on two of these magazines, namely Bibliotek i Samhälle and Biblioteksbladet. The study focuses on authors who write in the swedish language, but who still seem to be perceived as immigrant authors.

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how librarians andteachers work together and with the help of other researchtry to understand what influences this cooperation. The studyis based on the following questions:1. These two professional groups have differentprofessional identities and work in two differentprofessional cultures. How does this affect theircooperation?2.

Det a?r sva?rt att sa?tta ord pa? vad man menar na?r man pratar om musik. Jag a?r intresserad av varfo?r det sa?llan ga?r att finna definitioner av genrer na?r diskussionen om dem a?r sa? stark, speciellt na?r det ga?ller snarlika genrer som troligtvis a?r uppdelade av en eller flera anledningar. Syftet med min underso?kning a?r att utveckla vidare kunskap om vilken betydelse det har att skilja pa? tva? snarlika subgenrer inom samma metagenre.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary scientific subject which connects biology, biomedicine and information science. Bioinformatics generates new biological knowledge by using computer methods and biological databases and can thereby play an important role for the understanding of diseases and be used for development of new medicines. The appearance of bioinformatics has thereby had a big impact on biomedical research.In this study, I have examined bioscientists' use of bibliographical databases, bioinformatic databases/web sites and bioinformatic tools and their needs of support concerning these resources. I have also examined which support the scientific libraries offer their users concerning bibliographical databases, bioinformatic databases/web sites and bioinformatic tools and have compared it with the needs the libraries think that the users have and the needs the users state that they have.The results from the study show that there is a wish for library support concerning bibliographical databases, bioinformatic databases/web sites and bioinformatic tools. The wishes of the respondents are in contrast to the libraries' view about bioscientists interest concerning bioinformatic databases/web sites and bioinformatic tools.

In the library community there is a continuous discussion about enhancing user interactivity on library websites, according to the principles of Web 2.0, called Library 2.0. The purpose of this thesis is to study how librarians conceive Library 2.0. The focus is on the study of the librarians? conceptions of user interactivity on the website, and if the librarians conceive that their professional role is affected by Library 2.0. The study is implemented methodologically by interviewing six librarians and using phenomenography as an approach.

Syftet med denna studie ?r att belysa om ett samband p? kort sikt finns mellan l?nsamhet och investeringsniv? i det privata n?ringslivet. ?tta industrigrenar med f?rmodat h?ga investeringsbehov har valts ut f?r huvudstudien och inkluderar stora nationer inom den Europeiska Unionen. ?tta andra industrigrenar har valts ut f?r en k?nslighetsanalys.