Z39.50 is a standard protocol designed to create an interface between diverse computer databases for diverse information needs. Since it has to be adjustable it is also complex and demands a certain degree of expertise when being set. However, the aim of this paper is not to make a theoretical description but to examine certain conditions in practice. From the perspective of Swedish research libraries two principal hypotheses are examined: 1) the implementation of a given technology (Z39.50) is primarily influenced by social circumstances, and 2) the way in which the technology is implemented will bias the results of information retrieval. For this examination we need a framework of theories concerning the relationship between technological development and society, organisational theories and database theories.

This thesis is about how the library can help immigrants integrate into theswedish society. By studying leading documents of the libraries in Malmö,Stockholm and Umeå in search for how the relate to work consideringimmigrants and integration I have studied the library as a bridge betweenbeing included and excluded in the society. The thought is that the libraryopens the door to new worlds both for immigrants and born swedes toobtain knowledge about a culture different from their own.In my thesis I reached the conclusion that library on a day to day basisworks with the integrationprocess for immigrants. Although the leadingdocuments should evolve since they show gaps and seem somewhatmisguiding in their presentation of the libraries function. The librariesshould work more with analysis of the environment that they are active in sothat they are more individualized for the people around it.

This study investigates the use of the social network Facebook among 67 Swedish libraries; 27 academic libraries and 40 public libraries. Data is collected through an analysis of the libraries? Facebook pages and through an email survey. To analyze the data, a series of statistical analyses were performed.The results indicate that the public libraries more actively posted Facebook updates than the academic libraries and that the libraries that had a policy for use of Facebook/social media more actively posted updates than those libraries that did not have such policy. The libraries use Facebook mainly to post links and photos and to announce events, provide book recommendations, and to emphasize special occasions.

This is a two years master?s thesis that studies five libraries. The purpose with the paper was to look at a specific material and study how it expresses itself around the architecture of the buildings, an if the descriptions were different depending on the library, public library or university library. The conclusion is that the ways of describing the library buildings have varied; depending on one part time and one part evolution. The way library buildings look and have been used has changed over time also, and as well how people perceive and talk, or in this case write about them..

Barnfridsbrottet inf?rdes i juli 2021. Trots viss oro fr?n flera remissinstanser, best?ende bland annat i att barn n?rmast skulle tvingas vittna mot en f?r?lder och att barnets ber?ttelse riskerar att bed?mas mindre trov?rdig med h?nsyn till barnets ?lder och mognad, inf?rdes best?mmelsen och den b?de mottogs och utnyttjades v?l fr?n start. I arbetet unders?ks hur barns vittnesm?l beaktas, hanteras och v?rderas fr?n f?runders?kning till domstolsprocess i m?l r?rande barnfridsbrott.

Detta arbete handlar om timplanen och dess inverkan pa? elevers la?rande och vilken roll elevinflytande pa?verkar la?rarens sa?tt att fo?rha?lla sig till uppsatta ma?l utifra?n timplanens utformning. Va?r studie a?r en mindre underso?kning och vi vill inte pa?skina att va?r studie pa? na?got sa?tt a?r va?gledande men vi ser ga?rna mera forskning i a?mnet. Studien har hja?lpt oss som framtida musikpedagoger att sja?lv fa? en inblick i na?gra musikla?rares vardag och fa? olika syn pa? la?randet i stort.Vi fann i va?r underso?kning att det ra?der missfo?rsta?nd eller okunskap na?r det ga?ller timplanens roll i en la?rares vardag, respondenterna hade sva?rt att definiera vad begreppet timplan inneba?r.

The purpose of the study was from the perspective of young people that has completed a stay at HVB-home. The respondents are between 15-21 years both boys and girls. The basic questions were: How do the respondents look upon this HVB-homes service process? How do the respondents look upon this HVB-homes service contents? How do the respondents look upon this HVB-homes service regarding available information and how the staff is available? What positive and negative experience do they have from their stay at the HVB-home? We also wish to get a picture of what is important to change to improve the quality on this HVB-home. To receive answers to those questions we formed a questionnaire.

The purpose was to examine how the pre-schools used the public libraries in two Swedishtowns. We also examined if and how the pre-schools and the public libraries were coopera­ting.Literature showed that it is possible to stimulate children's language development and this is a duty for pre-schools and public libraries. We sent an inquiry to all pre-schools divisions in both towns. We interviewed two librarians. Our results showed that the pre-schools did use the libraries to a great extent but they didn't cooperate with the libraries in the sense that they had elaborated agreements.

The purpose of this essay is to examine what happens with library e-resources after implementing the discovery tool Summon. Summon provides a Google-like experience and uses multiple facet options when users need to narrow their discovery. Observations of change in the libraries e-resources with regards to database searches, click-throughs in linkresolvers and full text downloads are examined through looking at earlier reports and statistics from libraries in America and England. This provides a way to compare with Chalmers University of Technology?s Library.

Flera nya tjänster som Mina utgifter och Smartbudget vittnar om ett tilltagande intresse bland konsumenter att planera sin ekonomi. Matvaror utgör en stor del av det genomsnittliga hushållets budget och är därmed en kostnadspost som kan göra stor skillnad i hushållets ekonomi.Detta examensarbete ska undersöka möjligheten att jämföra matvarors pris på olika affärer med hjälp av en Android-applikation och genom att fotografera texten på kvitton. Texten kommer sen processas och sorteras för att få ut nödvändig data som sen kan sparas undan i en databas. Färdiga Algoritmer och OCR-motorer har utvärderats och implementerats i applikationen direkt genom så kallade C-Bibliotek. Dessa gör det möjligt att utan större problem vidareutveckla applikationen för iOS eller Windows Phone.Projektet och Android-applikationen visar på möjligheterna att använda färdiga C-bibliotek samt telefoners kamera för att enkelt sålla ut och spara undan den informationen som är relevant för konsumentens del..

The following thesis will examine how a smaller library manages the prioritization of media between Swedish and 'minority language'. We are also interested in the challenges and problems that can occur in such work, as well as how the librarians think about their role in the integration process. We have studied this through several qualitative interviews with librarians as well as earlier related research. The results show that librarians display a high propensity of appreciation related to working with minority languages and consider this an important aspect of their profession ? they fully ingratiate and accept the importance of helping the immigrant population in learning Swedish.

Cataloguing electronic documents makes new demands on libraries. This thesis discusses the metadata formats Dublin Core and MARC which are, individually or in combination, commonly used for object description in the digital library.The formats are studied with particular emphasis on characteristics such as underlying reasoning (ambitions during the development of the formats), flexibility (possibilities of expansion and adaption to new demands) and interoperability (cooperation between different metadata formats). The formats are dealt with in their context, i.e. we discuss what types of documents the formats are meant to describe, what environment they were originally created for, what functions they are meant to fill (to find, identify, select and acquire/obtain entities), and also how these factors are related. The Swedish projects SAFARI (which uses Dublin Core) and NetSök (which uses MARC) are presented briefly.

Arbetets syfte har varit att klargo?ra hur Nybro Energi ABs miljo?dator utfo?r sina bera?kningar och om bera?kningssa?ttet den anva?nder a?r korrekt.Genom att ha kritiskt analyserat hur miljo?datorns bera?kningar a?r strukturerade genomfo?rde vi kontrollbera?kningar och kunde med hja?lp av DU-teknik skapa en laborationsmall fo?r ja?mfo?relsebera?kningar och o?vriga tester.I resultatet finns en ja?mfo?relse mellan laborationsmallens och miljo?datorns utra?knade pannverkningsgrad vid olika tidpunkter. Ha?r framga?r a?ven miljo?datorns formelstruktur och hur vardera formel ha?nger samman.Ur resultatet kan slutsatsen faststa?llas att miljo?datorn utfo?r korrekta bera?kningar eftersom pannverkningsgraderna sta?mde o?verens. Eventuella felka?llor sa? som ma?tfel gjorde dock att ett sa?krare resultat hade uppna?tts om en mer grundlig och genomga?ende underso?kning gjorts, da?r alla givare och enheter som fo?rser miljo?datorn med information kontrollerats.Avslutningsvis ges na?gra fo?rba?ttringsfo?rslag som Nybro Energi AB kan go?ra fo?r att sa?kersta?lla att miljo?datorn utfo?r noggrannare och mer verklighetstrogna bera?kningar. .

This master´s thesis in Library and Information Science examines the experiences of children who read to a dog. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the interactions between the librarian, the readingdog-handler, the child-ren and the dogs and what the benefits from the interactions might be. The aim is also to examine how the child-ren express their literacy during the readingsessions and how to develop the readingsessions at a specific library. The author follows a reading dog project for seven weeks, in collaboration with a specific school and library. Action research was used as a research strategy, and since action research is done on the basis of practice, a coll-laboration with the participating children, the librarian and the readingdog-handler was significant in this study.The theoretical framework concists of theory and concepts from the sociocultural theory developed by Ro-ger Säljö, and human-animal studies with concepts from Donna Haraway.

Att attrahera kompetent personal a?r mycket avgo?rande fo?r att fo?retag ska prestera va?l i framtiden, och fo?r att lyckas med detta a?r det viktigt att fo?retag har ett bra anseende. Anseende a?r dock en komplex tillga?ng och besta?r av flera dimensioner. Syftet med denna uppsats a?r att ta reda pa? vilka dimensioner av anseende som a?r viktigast fo?r att attrahera kompetent personal.