In this Bachelor thesis, we examine how the work of the librarian has changed over the past three decades. The research questions focus on the changes in librarians´ roles and working tasks regarding factors like technique, meetings between librarians and visitors and also how to give service to visitors.We have conducted interviews with librarians at university libraries as well as public libraries. In all, there were four interviews. We have also compared the two types of libraries.We have looked closely at these factors: the tasks of the librarians, the skills needed, how the library has been used as a democratic arena, and what kinds of meetings there are among librarians and users of the library. From these themes we have created interview questions, and our analysis is structured according to the themes.We have worked from a theory on different kinds of identities within the profession.

The purpose of this study is to investigate librarian?s opinions concerning literature with state supported distribution and how to mediate and market these in the library. The types of mediation and marketing that have been studied are positioning, labeling and oral mediation.The study is qualitative with interviews at seven main public libraries in central Sweden. The respondents of the study were responsible for the literature with state supported distribution within the library.The study is based on a theoretical frame of reference containing theories from Jofrid Karner Smidt, regarding librarian?s mediation in libraries, and François Colbert?s theory on marketing planning for arts and culture.The results of our study showed that librarians have both positive and negative opinions when it comes to the literature with state supported distribution.

Syftet med studien är att analysera personalens upplevelser av en patientnära e-hälsotjänst med hjälp av ett sociotekniskt systemperspektiv som tar hänsyn till sociala, organisatoriska och tekniska faktorer. Vi ville närmare undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar personalens användning av e-hälsotjänsten, hur e-tjänsten integreras i det dagliga arbetet samt hur e-hälsotjänsten har påverkat interaktion och informationsförsörjning mellan vårdgivare och patient.Hälsoplaner som införs i syfte att fungera som verktyg för både personal och patient är ett aktuellt område och det är relevant att se den kliniska uppfattningen av e-hälsotjänsten eftersom ny teknik och nya lösningar inom hälso- och sjukvård påverkar de kliniska rollerna och arbetsprocesserna inom hälso- och sjukvården.Studien genomfördes med blandad metod som innebär att kvalitativa och kvantitativa data samlas in parallellt och prioriteras lika. Datainsamling gjordes genom intervjuer och enkätundersökning.Resultatet visade att personalen upplever Min hälsoplan som ett värdefullt bidrag till vårdprocessen framförallt ur patientperspektiv. Områden som upplevs begränsa användandet är av teknisk natur. Resultat och analys visar tydligt att flera områden påverkar varandra när det kommer till upplevelse och användning av e-hälsotjänster i vården och vikten av att ha ett helhetsperspektiv samt en organisation som tar hänsyn till hur interaktion mellan aktörerna påverkar personalens uppfattning och upplevelse av Min hälsoplan.

Studies have shown that library employees often choose not to use readers? advisory tools but to instead rely entirely on their own experience, often doing the library user a disservice. However, very few have looked at why this is so. This thesis looks at to what extent thirty individual employees in thirty Swedish public libraries use readers advisory tools when helping a patron find a good book, with the major focus on what motivates them to use these tools and why some choose not to use them. It was found that readers? advisory tools where not used with any consistency and that many things influence the library employees? use of these tools.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to investigate how public library users consider the knowledge of the librarians and to examine what the users expect from the librarians. To begin with, we contemplate our own view of the librarians, their knowledge and what help we expect at the library. Realising that we do not expect particularly much from librarians, although we have studied to become librarians for two years, we assume that the regular library user does not expect much either. This assumption resulted in our decision to investigate this particular question.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of and examine how library blogs are realized at public libraries together with the views among librarians regarding the realization of library blogs.The questions we wanted to answer were: ? How is the library blog realized at the public libraries in this study? ? What are the views among the librarians in this study regarding the realization of the library blogs?The analytical model in this thesis is Connie Crosby?s six steps on how libraries successfully can realize their blogs. Four of the six steps were selected: planning, implementation, marketing and measures of success. The methodology used for this study was semi-structured interviews. Two interviews were conducted with three librarians that have partial responsibility of their respective library blogs.The results of the study show that the process of the library blog can look different in different libraries, and that the respondents had clear views on how the realization of a blog should be done.

This qualitative study is based upon interviews with librarians. It investigates the librarians? opinions on material adapted for disabled people and examines strategies used to market user friendly services for the disabled. The study explores librarians? views about streaming directly on the internet.

Inledning: En studie i ämnet om erfarenheter av förändringsprocesser i terapiprocessen i jagstrukturerande psykoterapi. Det kliniska arbetet vilar på terapi med unga personer i psykos, beskrivna av psykoterapeuter.Frågeställningar: Hur visar sig utveckling och förändring hos konfidenten? Hur kan dessa kopplas till metodens faser och teoribildning?Metod: Urvalet är fem verksamma psykoterapeuter vilka valt ut kliniskt material med unga personer i psykos. Studien är kommen utifrån en hermeneutisk och fenomenologisk metod vilka vilar på två delar, en deskriptiv del och en kvalitativ del, där litteratur och tidigare forskning adderas till intervjumaterialet. Till detta har likaledes ett fenomenologiskt raster lagts.

The aim of this study was about how librarians in Sweden work with their web page to reach young people between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. Most of the youths in Sweden today use Internet every day for several reasons, and the library should have an obvious place there as well. It shouldbe obvious because almost all youths uses Internet every day and therefore the library needs to be seen there as well to reach out to them. Earlier research has shown that librarians and youths think differently in this question. Youths think that the library web page is more important for the librarythan the librarians do.How do the librarians work with marketing for youths on the web page? Do their policy documents help them in their work?To study this area we have interviewed librarians from six quite large public libraries from different parts of thecountry.

National libraries hold large, valuable repositories of often unique materials. How can we ensure that the knowledge is accessible without endangering the materials that hold the knowledge? Digital preservation is meant to solve this problem. With more and more material being accessible digitally, users are expected to do more and more of the finding on their own, instead of being guided by librarians. What kind of knowledge do the librarians have, that cannot be mediated through a system? How is the knowledge of experienced librarians passed on to new librarians? What is the difference between physical and digital materials? I have interviewed senior and junior librarians of Det Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen, Nasjonalbiblioteket in Oslo, the National Library in Helsinki, and Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm to learn about their journey to knowledge of their collections.

Detta arbete undersöker hur den så kallade minoritetsreformen, som kom 2010, har påverkat arbetet med material på samiska på Umeå stadsbibliotek. För att ta reda på detta har vi använt oss av kvalitativa intervjuer med bibliotekarier på stadsbiblioteket och Samernas bibliotek samt en representant för Umeå kultur. Intervjuerna visade på ett antal utmaningar och svårigheter i detta arbete, framförallt knutet till beståndsutveckling och förvärv samt synliggörandet av den samiska litteraturen. Analysen förhåller sig till och bygger vidare på tidigare studier som berör de svenska bibliotekens arbete med de nationella minoriteterna och minoritetsspråken. Det som framförallt framgår i såväl intervjuerna som källmaterialet är ett tydligt behov av utrymme och resurser för arbetet samt material som tilltalar de tänkta användarna.

Denna studie har ägnats åt att studera och fördjupa kunskapen kring skamaffekten i relation till negativa kroppsupplevelser. Det har skett genom en litterarstudie vars utgångspunkt har varit tre frågeställningar.Den första frågeställningen har berört hur skamaffekten kan beskrivas. Som svar på denna frågeställning visar studien att skammen har många markörer, att skammen har sina tidliga kroppsliga uttryck, att skamupplevelsen är en mycket obehaligt upplevelser och att människor på en mängd sätt försöker skydda sig från skamupplevelsen. Till följd av alla skyddsmekanismer kan skamaffekten uppträda i en högst förklädd form och vara svår att identifiera som just skam. Studien visar även att skam som en social emotion påverkar den relationella förmågan på ett högst negativt sätt.

This master's thesis reports on our investigation of how the public librarian's professional identity is formed and what it is formed of. We have considered factors such as: education, competence and daily tasks. In order to fulfil this aim we have used a literature study on concepts such as competence, education, professional identity and profession. We have also carried out an empirical study where we have interviewed nine librarians on public libraries. The method of analysis is qualitative.

Minnets tematiska och berättartekniska funktion i Eyvind Johnsons roman Strändernas svall (Fredrik Smeds, C-uppsats i Litteraturvetenskap, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, vt 2003). Författaren redogör först för romanens handling och jämför kompositionen med den i Odysséen. Vidare studeras berättare och synvinkel. Därefter följer en genomgång av minnena och berättelserna, främst Odyssevs?, men även Nestors och Menelaos?.

The study is based on three Swedish novels published in 1945,1956 and 1964, and three Swedish novels published in 1998, 2008and 2009. The aim has been to investigate how librarians are portrayed in Swedish literature, as well as a comparison between the older and the newer literature. What librarian images are portrayed in the analyzed literature? Is the portrayal mostly positive, negative or neutral? Are there any clear differences in how librarians portrayed in newer and older Swedish fiction? If so, what are they? The method used has been qualitative content analysis where relevant paragraphs have been coded and divided them into categories of appearance, personality, and professional identity. The conclusion is that the librarian is often portrayed as an intellectual and somewhat high-strung bibliophile.