The main purpose of this work was to examine the information behavior of nonfiction publishing Company editors. Three problem areas were presented and expressed in the following questions:- What is the information need of the editor in every day work?- Which sources of information do the editors use when they are looking for information and how do they make use of them?- Are there any factors that have an influence on the information behavior of the editors and in what way do the factors effect the information behavior of the editors in their everyday work? And finally, do the editors experience any factors as barriers to information behavior?Six editors, all with academical background, all employed in different publishing companies were interviewed. The result of this study have been analysed within a theoretical framework influenced by the work of Tom Wilson, Lars Höglund and Olle Persson and Block and Lagberg. The result shows that the editors had various regular needs of information in their every day work.

Dagens konsumtionsvarumarknad präglas av hård konkurrens, där stora och små företag agerar. För att lyckas på marknaden måste alla aktörer bedriva en strategi, som passar såväl marknadens krav som företagets egen organisationsform. Trenden idag är att stora företag blir allt större, vilket skapar marknadstäckning och skalfördelar. Detta gäller även för konfektions- och ekiperingshandeln, där rikstäckande aktörer tar allt större marknadsandelar från enskilda fackhandlare. De stora kedjorna drivs i olika former såsom aktiebolag, franchising och frivilliga fackkedjor.

Information overload is by no means a new concept, but has come to prominence the last decade. A generally accepted definition of the phenomenon does not exist. The main question in this master thesis is how to define information overload in order to create a connotative concept for information science. This thesis reviews the nature and causes of information overload, and considers possible solutions, both individual and technical, and their relevance to the information professional. The review of the results shows that researchers seldom or never give a legible definition of what the concept information holds.

Customer information is to be seen as an essential part in service development. The company should be aware of how their customers experience their services. The company can get access to customer information through complaints from their customers. All information obtained from the customers is not possible to use when developing new and existing services. The information has to be analysed before it is possible to use it for service development.This paper describes if Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) uses their customers as a source of knowledge when developing new and existing services and in that case how.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process of transferring information from science to "the field" of environmental protection in Sweden. I have studied four Swedish environmental organizations, Greenpeace Nordic, WWF Sweden, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and Friends of the Earth Sweden to see how they search/get information. I have also studied the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and its role as sender of information, since it is the authority which is responsible for environmental information in Sweden. I have used information and communication theories as a help to analyse my results. While working on this paper I realized that my methods were not the best.

This thesis examines information seeking and information needs at the Swedish Government Offices. The Government Offices comprise the Prime Ministers Office, the Government Ministries and the Office for Administrative Affairs. Approximately 4 500 members of staff are employed, of whom around 120 are political appointees. For this study, interviews have been conducted with 15 senior officials and political appointees at the Government Ministries and the Prime Ministers Office. The interviews have been supplemented with literature studies based on user studies research in library and information science.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva behov av information och stöd hos kvinnor med bröstcancer. Metoden som användes var en litteraturstudie och inkluderade både kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar. Tio studier inkluderades och resultatet presenterades i tre huvudkategorier: Information, stöd och sjuksköterskans uppfattning om behov av information och stöd, detta behov måste identifieras individuellt efter varje kvinna med bröstcancer. Dessa kvinnor uppskattade information om möjligheten att bli botad, behandlingsalternativ samt recidiv. Yngre kvinnor hade större behov av information om sexualitet än äldre.

The aim of this master thesis is to study how teachers in adult education view the phenomenon of information seeking in education. We have interviewed adult education teachers, and the method used when working with the data was phenomenography. We found three categories in our material: 1. Information seeking is the student?s responsibility; 2.

 I denna rapport undersöks hur ett antal kundspecifika faktorer som belåningrad, bank och inkomst påverkar svenska hushålls individuella bolåneräntor. Metoden som används är multipel linjär regression med transformeringar av förklarande variabler. Transformer som används är log-linjär, linjär-log, log-log samt styckvis linjär. Datan innehåller ett stickprov om ca. 7000 rörliga bolån från juli 2013 insamlade av organisationen Villaägarna på frivillig basis.

The information market is constantly changing. With new and improved information technology more people get access to more information faster. However, the number of people educated to handle information also increases. Business intelligence has for a long time been a well-known tool for companies to be competitive. Because of the increased access to information the competition between companies has intensified and more people have become aware of the advantages of business intelligence and how it can help them compete.

The purpose of this study is to investigate information seeking habits among young persons with mild mental disability. We wanted to know how they seek information in everyday life, barriers they experience when seeking information and also if they consider the library to be a source of information.The theoretical background of this study is based on the works of T. D. Wilson and Michael Buckland. Wilson?s model of information seeking behavior and seeking information was used as a tool analyzing the results from the interviews.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the information needs in the character subjects of the students at a vocationally oriented program in the Swedish upper secondary school. I also examine from which sources the students get the information. I want to create a wider understanding of information seeking processes at a vocationally oriented programme. The main focus is the students? own thoughts and opinions about their information needs and information seeking processes.

Syftet med vår studie har varit att studera hur några unga män reflekterar kring köp av sexuell(a) tjänst(er) samt till vilka eventuella diskurser om köp av sexuella tjänster som dessa reflektioner kan tänkas anknyta till. För att svara på vårt syfte har vi valt oss av följande frågeställningar: Hur diskuteras köp av sexuella tjänster utifrån en individ- och samhällsnivå med fokus på fri(villig)het och ansvar? Är detta förhållningssätt någonting som förändras utifrån om köpet görs på olika arenor som internet eller utomlands? Påverkar köparens eventuella motiv bakom köpet diskussionen kring köp av sexuella tjänster? Vilka diskurser kring prostitution uppkommer i deras diskussion och vilka är de mest framträdande? Vi har genomfört tre stycken internetbaserade fokusgruppsintervjuer via msn-chatt och sammanlagt deltog 13 intervjupersoner, 11 via fokusgruppsintervjuer samt ytterligare två via e-post. Vår urvalsgrupp, unga män i åldern 18-29 år, rekryterades via öppen annonsering på två olika ungdomsforum, Ungdomar.se samt Fryshuset.se samt via Facebook.com. Som ett försök att förstå de olika resonemang som lyfts angående köp av sexuella tjänster i de övergripande samhällsdiskurserna inspireras vi i studien av att koppla intervjupersonernas reflektioner till fem olika förståelsediskurser; sexköp som ekonomisk verksamhet, sexköp som våld, sexköp som social konstruktion, sexköp som drift och sexköp som beroende.

The purpose of this Bachelor?s thesis is to examine university librarians? perceptions of information literacy, of students? information literacy and of education in information literacy. The focus is on how they perceive the students? information literacy development during their university studies. Also of interest in this study is how librarians think that their teaching in information literacy should be included in the students? other courses. Three librarians at a Swedish university library were interviewed using qualitative interviews.

Some word processing programs save information that not all users of the program are aware of. This information consists of a number of things. Example of that is who the writer of the document is, the time it took to write it and where on the computer the document is saved. Text that has been changed or removedcan also be saved. This information is not shown in the program and the user will therefore not be aware of its existence.