The aim of this study is to look at censorship and attempted censorship of books about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) people in public libraries in the USA. People from the public can submit formal challenges to a book at the library when they find the material offensive which can lead to those books being taken away from the library shelves. The questions asked are why GLBT- literature is being challenged, and sometimes banned, and how do the libraries deal with the challenges to the books.It is nowadays the people from the public, rather than the government or the librarians that are behind many cases of removal of books with homosexual themes. The study presents some of the fictional GLBT- literature that has been cause for much controversy in the USA. All the five examples mentioned are children?s books concerning GLBT- themes and are among the most challenged books in American libraries in the past twenty years.

Digitala v?rdtj?nster har blivit alltmer popul?ra i Sverige under de senaste ?ren, men det r?der delade meningar bland forskare och v?rdanst?llda om huruvida dessa har en positiv p?verkan p? v?rdsamh?llet eller inte. Denna uppsats syftar till att unders?ka hur kostnaden f?r utoml?nsers?ttning i samband med anv?ndningen av privata digitala v?rdtj?nster har p?verkat v?ntetiderna inom prim?rv?rden. Detta g?rs genom en regressionsanalys, d?r ytterligare variabler s? som bra sj?lvskattad h?lsa, median?lder, ekonomisk standard och eftergymnasial utbildningen kontrolleras f?r.

Studiens syfte är att lyfta fram och jämföra olika elevers lösningsstrategier och tankemönster vid benämnda uppgifter. Är det kanske så att svaga problemlösare, inte bara förenklar arbetet genom att fokusera på symboler och nyckelord utan att de även, avstår från återläsning av texten och kontroll av lösningen? Genom ljudupptagning vid observation av elever som tänker högt under pågående arbete, studeras deras sätt att läsa och lösa följdriktiga uppgifter, motstridiga uppgifter och flerstegsproblem. Studien omfattar även intervjuer i syfte att ta reda på elevernas uppfattningar om svårigheter i benämnda uppgifter. Vid analys jäm­förs elevernas arbete och uppfattningar utifrån följande aspekter: beräkningsstrategier, läsförståelsestrategier, återläsning och lösningskontroll.

Arbetet handlar om hur man med hjälp av LabVIEW 8.0 kan lösa olika uppgifter. Uppgifterna löses med hjälp av ett DAQ-kort. DAQ-kortet gör det möjligt att mata in signaler, som sedan behandlas efter behov i programmet och därefter skickas ut genom DAQ- kortet till olika komponenter som man vill styra. DAQ-kortet klarar att behandla både analoga och digitala signaler. LabVIEW 8.0 och dess historia, DAQ-kortet samt de olika processerna/uppgifter beskrivs mer utförligt i arbetet..

Syftet med undersökningen var att granska vilka vardagliga situationer en grupp elever i skolår 5 associerade aritmetiska uppgifter till. I de aritmetiska uppgifterna var alla fyra räknesätten representerade då elever har olika förmågor att knyta an olika räknesätt. I studien undersöktes även om anknytningarna eleverna gjorde var rimliga i relation till verkligheten. Vi valde att använda en enkät där eleverna skrev räknehändelser till givna aritmetiska uppgifter med utgångspunkt i deras egen vardag. Undersökningen visade att mer än hälften av eleverna inte hade kunskapen att knyta an aritmetiska uppgifter till vardagliga egenupplevda situationer.

The aim of this study is to illustrate conceptions held by librarians and library and information scientists about weeding practices of printed books in public libraries. The study has been carried out by performing a series of qualitative interviews with librarians and by study of earlier research relating to the subject of weeding. The results have been analysed by utilizing a textual analysis method called idea and ideology analysis using so called dimensions to analyse and structure the results. The results indicate that weeding at Swedish public libraries is carried out by a mixture of objective and subjective methods, with certain statistical elements. Weeding procedures mainly appears to be legitimized according to what one refers to as knowledge of the local community, although lack of lending are cited from time to time.

Vårt forskningssyfte är att undersöka ett antal modersmålslärares arbete ur olika perspektiv. Utifrån det empiriska material som vi med olika metoder samlat söker vi svar på följande frågeställningar: Vilka centrala uppgifter har modersmålslärare i svensk skola 2009 samt hur ser modersmålslärares arbetssituation ut? Vi har intervjuat modersmålslärare, skolledare och grundskollärare för att ta del av deras uppfattning. Vi har även ställt frågor till ett antal modersmålslärare via en enkät. Vi fann att bland de uppgifter modersmålslärare har framstår kulturförmedling som den tydligaste.

As public libraries in Sweden receive the bulk of their budget from local government funding, which has stayed static or, at best, seen small increases, libraries have been faced with inadequate resources with which to satisfy increasing expectations from users. As few libraries are over-funded in the first place, ways may have to be found to combat this situation. The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine alternative sources of funding for Swedish public libraries, and my main focus of interest is that of sponsorship. The method used is a literature study combined with an empirical study, in which interviews were conducted with five persons each with long experience of working with public libraries. The literary study deals with the concept of sponsorship, and the motivations for companies to sponsor are also examined.

This study examines the closure of public libraries, and the nonprofit organizations takeover of them as a phenomenon. The aim is to understand why the nonprofit takeover is common and what the takeover symbolizes and if the discourse in media invokes the views on libraries and the profession.Interviews were made with librarians, politicians and representatives of a nonprofit organization to study different sides of the phenomenon. Other empirical data were found in local and national newspapers and media-channels. I discovered that public libraries are highly valued by both politicians and the community. The study also showed that a library in a community makes people feel valued.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to survey what personal encounter at the library can signify, and to examine Swedish public libraries? policies for personal encounter. The posed questions are: What does personal encounter at the library signify? How are users and library staff represented in the collected policies? What do the policies say about digital encounter? 290 e-mail queries were sent to Swedish public libraries in May 2010. Of 140 responses, 107 stated that they did not have a written policy on personal encounter.

This thesis deals with questions about competences and qualities that librarians inpublic libraries find that they need to be qualified suppliers of literature (books andmagazines).Our aim is to problematize the competence of the profession in relation to promotingliterature, knowledge in literature and reading habits. We want to know what librariansthemselves think about their own competences when it comes to supplying andpromoting literature. Does it have to be a leisure interest or do they get the possibility toread during working hours?What do librarians think it means to be a qualified promotor of literature and how dothey acquire the right competence? Do they believe that their competence correspondswith the occupational requirements? How much of their knowledge about literature andpromoting literature comes from personal interest and commitment?We primarily used the theories about competence by Per-Erik Ellström. One of thetheories is the one of implicit and explicit knowledge.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the situation for ebooksin Swedish public libraries. The background is anincreasing lending of e-books in public libraries, with anacquisition model formed when e-books were more of anexperiment in a few libraries. The debate has escalated in therecent years and in this thesis I aim to investigate thelibraries? experience with e-books and the current pricemodel. The empirical material comes from interviews witheight head of public libraries in the Västra Götaland region.As theoretical background, I have used Michael Buckland?sfour roles of collections and price models from Lee andBoyle.My results show ambivalence with the price model.

Syftet med detta arbete är att studera ett undervisningssätt för att individualisera matematikundervisningen. Tanken är att använda sig av matematiska uppgifter som utmanar varje elev i en grupp. Undervisningssättet som ska studeras ska genomsyras av en strävan efter att eleverna ska nå nästa utvecklingszon med hjälp av en matematisk uppgift som kan upplevas som ett matematiskt problem. Utgångspunkten i detta examensarbete är ett socialkonstuktivistiskt perspektiv där det kulturella och det sociala samspelet spelar en avgörande roll för att erövra kunskap. Ett ramverk är framskrivet och ger kriterier för vad lärarens roll, gruppens roll samt uppgifternas karaktär har för betydelse i strävan att nå en individualiserad matematikundervisning med hjälp av matematiska uppgifter. Dessa kriterier ligger till grund för det studerade undervisningssättet. En grupp bestående av 12 stycken elever på det naturvetenskapliga programmet har arbetat med fem matematiska uppgifter vid fem lektionstillfällen.

The aim of this Master's thesis was to examine the political and cultural reasons for making music materials compulsory at Danish public libraries by the new library act of 2000. The aim was also to examine how the public libraries have responded to this reform. To answer these questions a literature study was conducted as well as interviews. The results of the literature study indicated that the main reason for making music materials compulsory is to increase the influence of the library users. The study of the debate concerning the new library act showed that a majority of the Danish political parties as well as the Danish library organizations had a positive attitude towards the new obligation.

In writing this study, I wanted to examine which principles of organization that are possible for Swedish public libraries to use, and what these principles mean for the libraries customerorientation. This is done by examining a number of written sources, as well as studying the organization of six public libraries. I found several possible principles, but a number of principles have been more commonly used than others. Historically most public libraries were organized according to the functions needed to be carried out within the organization, but today it is much more common to use subject-based organizations, with some examples of organizing according to user-groups and needs. I have also encountered the possibility of organizing according to the sources that are to be handled, or the way in which these sources are used by the customers.