The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on how evidence-based librarian and information practice (EBLIP) is understood and practised at some Swedish hospital libraries, and also to analyze how EBLIP functions as a strategy to bridge the gap between research and practice as described by Haddow & Klobas. The theoretical framework for the study is partly based on Haddow & Klobas description of the gap between research and practice in the field of LIS and partly a description of the EBP-process which plays a key role in the use of EBLIP. Interviews have been done with four people, three librarians, all with management experience, and an academic development officer, active at three different hospital libraries where EBLIP is practiced. All informants believed that it is important to make use of research results in order to improve services and practice. In their efforts to apply the research findings the informants face a number of hindrances, which indicates a gap between research and practice.

Musikmarknaden har genomga?tt stora fo?ra?ndringar da?r fysiska inko?p av CD-skivor fasas ut till fo?rma?n fo?r molnbaserade tja?nster med stro?mmande media. Konsumenternas vanor fo?ra?ndras i takt med denna utveckling da?r sociala medier och andra Internetbaserade tja?nster fa?r en allt sto?rre roll. Syftet med denna uppsats a?r att identifiera Uppsalastudenters konsumentbeteende med avseende pa? musik.

Detta a?r en uppsats som underso?ker hur barn relaterar till platsen de bor pa? samt hur platsen pa?verkar hur de ser pa? sin identitet. Uppsatsen a?mnar a?ven granska barns syn pa? sin framtid utifra?n uppva?xten pa? denna plats. Platsen som underso?ks a?r Tierps kommun och barnen som deltar i studien ga?r i la?g -och mellanstadieklasser pa? grundskolor i kommunen.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the accessibility for persons with disabilities to service, materials, and the library building in one Swedish public library, and also to see what guides the development of accessibility at this library. In order to do this we have studied guidelines and political documents to se how this library responds to them. To our case study, data have also been collected by qualitative interviews, and observation of what this library offers impaired persons at the library?s web site, in special materials, facilities, and the functionality of the library building.

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine how public librarians and people engaged in sports associations think of the possibility of collaboration between their organizations regarding children and youth and furthermore how they think this collaboration and collaboration in general would or should be practiced. This is done in the light of the increasing necessity of collaboration in today?s information society as well as the view that reading and sports could make a good match. Focus is placed on the libraries? perspective and also on the respondents? perceptions and thoughts.

Integration projects at two libraries: multiculture, meetings and possibilities takes its start in the fact that Sweden is populated with people from many different nations. The libraries have a unique possibility to arrange integration projects as a supplier of culture and information. This case study focuses on two integration projects arranged by two libraries; the library of Jönköping with the project Brobyggarbiblioteken, and the library of Kortedala which was involved in the project Ordbron. My purpose is to find out how these two libraries chose to work with integration, migrants and multiculture. The aim is to examine if the library could function as a passway to the Swedish society, and to find out if the library can facilitate for migrants to maintain contact with their native country.

Detta a?r en uppsats som underso?ker hur barn relaterar till platsen de bor pa? samt hur platsen pa?verkar hur de ser pa? sin identitet. Uppsatsen a?mnar a?ven granska barns syn pa? sin framtid utifra?n uppva?xten pa? denna plats. Platsen som underso?ks a?r Tierps kommun och barnen som deltar i studien ga?r i la?g -och mellanstadieklasser pa? grundskolor i kommunen.

The purpose of this Master thesis is to increase the knowledge about how public libraries can contribute to fulfil political programmes aimed towards integration. To achieve this we have conducted an evaluative case study about a public library in Sweden and the activities they carried out within the framework of the metropolitan policy programme Storstadssatsningen?. The questions raised consider which the political aims for integration within this programme were, which activities the library did accomplish, what the result in comparison with the politically decided aims was, and what conclusions can possibly be drawn from this? The theoretical framework consists of theories regarding evaluation, political programmes, integration and segregation, and public library-activities.

Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes towards the labour movement?s strategies, goals and organisational issues in Swedish Miners? Union?s (Gruvindustriarbetareförbundet, hereafter Gruv) paper, Gruvarbetaren 1917-1925.The theoretical starting point is Engels? view on the class state. This perspective turns the question of socialism and the way to get there into an issue of working class power over the state. Another theoretical perspective is the partition of the labour movement into a trade-unionistic branch, seeing unions as financial organisations of interest, and a pro-state one, considering unions as political organisations.During the period investigated Gruvarbetaren was quite radical and advocated a firm class struggle strategy towards employers. Since these were considered unreliable, class struggle was seen as the only way to better the conditions for the working class.

Vi har underso?kt tja?nsteerbjudanden i hotellbranschen. A?ven om alla hotell utga?r fra?n samma ka?rntja?nst, o?vernattningen har tja?nsteutbuden uto?kats pa? senare a?r.Syftet med arbetet a?r att pa?visa vilka likheter respektive skillnader vi ser mellanhotellfo?retagen Tegne?rlundens och Scandics tja?nsteerbjudanden och hur kundno?jdheten a?rmed dessa tja?nsteerbjudanden?Vi gjorde en ja?mfo?relse mellan hotellens utbud genom att granska deras hemsidor samt en enka?tunderso?kning av deras ga?ster. Detta gjordes fo?r att kunna sta?llas mot Gro?nroos teorier om det grundla?ggande tja?nstepaketet och den totalt upplevda kvaliteten.

Bakgrund: Tillverkande företag har ställts inför ökade kundkrav och konkurrens underde senaste åren och tvingas arbeta med verksamhetsutveckling för att överleva påmarknaden. Slöserier som förekommer i tillverkningsprocesser påverkar lönsamhet ochinnefattar aktiviteter som kund inte är beredd att betala för. Kartläggning av värdeflödehar därför utvecklats för att identifiera och eliminera slöserier i ett produktionsflöde föratt effektivisera ett företags processer.Syfte: Uppsatsen syftar till att kartlägga värdeflödet från inleverans av stationer tillbehov i slutmonteringen. Vidare syftar studien till att identifiera slöserier av detkartlagda värdeflödet samt genom förbättringsförslag reducera slöserier.Metod: Uppsatsen följer ett positivistiskt synsätt med ett deduktivt angreppssätt.Datainsamling av empiri har gjorts genom en kvalitativ fallstudie som innefattarobservationer, ostrukturerade och semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Urvalsmetod somanvänts är ett bekvämlighetsurval som bottnar i ett snöbollsurval.

Denna underso?kning bygger pa? en kvalitativ metod och fokuserar pa? unga tjejer som la?ser bloggar och deras uppfattning och tolkning av dem. Vi vill underso?ka varfo?r unga tjejer la?ser bloggar, om la?sarna ser upp till bloggare och om la?sarna a?r kritiska till na?gon blogg eller en del av en blogg. Fo?ljande fra?gor intresserar oss da? bloggar a?r ett fenomen som har o?kat enormt de senaste a?ren.

The purpose of this Master Thesis is to investigate whether the technical service available in the "Reading and Writing Corner" has an influence on the total quality of service in a public library. This service is intended to give sensory/print-handicapped persons access to information. The title KOM LOSS is a Swedish expression for "come on" and LOSS is short for reading and writing support. I have chosen to study three libraries in the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden. The thesis examines total quality from the aspects of goal steering, accessibility, education and marketing.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how purchasingmanagers in bookshops and public librarians reason withregards to their selection of fiction literature. Nineinterviews have been conducted in this qualitative studymade in the spring of 2013; four librarians, four bookmerchants, as well as a market director of a major chain ofbookstores. Our focus has been particularly directed toascertaining what influence the cultural-political mission oflibraries have had on the process of selection, as well as theextent to which factors such as demand and quality play apart in both organizations. We have been interested inseeing how libraries and bookstores compare with regards tothese factors, because of obvious differences in their goalsand purposes. Librarians see both the benefits and flaws intheir way of working, as well as in the way in whichbookstores conduct their business, and vice versa, that theyare often successful in cooperating, like when arrangingvisits from authors etc.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att få en inblick i om och hur förlusten av sockenkyrkan påverkade livet i Nedertorneå-Haparanda församling socialt samt religiöst och i så fall hur eventuella förändringar yttrade sig när de efter kriget 1809 förlorade hemkyrkan på Björkön-Pirkkiö till Ryssland. Församlingskyrkan blev efter gränsdragningen kvar på ryskt område. Eftersom kyrkan ansvarade för ett flertal nuvarande statliga uppgifter under denna tid, har jag funderat på hur undervisning, fattigvård samt sjukvård fungerade utan kyrka och prästerskap. Hur förrättningar och gudstjänster fungerade i en sådan komplex situation är ytterligare faktorer jag studerat närmare.För att ta reda på hur det förhöll sig med detta under den här tidsperioden har jag ägnat mig åt litteraturstudium; vilket till största delen varit av historisk karaktär. Det har rört sig om kyrkohistoria, studium av samhällsutveckling, samt allmän global och lokal historia.Utifrån det samlade materialet har jag kommit fram till att livet påverkades ur flera aspekter för invånarna i Nedertorneå-Haparanda församling när de förlorade sockenkyrkan 1809.