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.

Heart failure is the most common reason to hospitalization among persons over 65 years old. Self-care is an important part in the treatment of heart failure, but poor information and knowledge limits the ability of self-care and increases the risk of admission to hospital.The aim of the study was to investigate what information patients with heart failure describes that they receive from health care personal, how information is perceived, who provides the information, and on what occasions it is given. The aim was also to investigate whether patients' perception of knowledge about heart failure increased after hospitalization.The study is cross-sectional study with a descriptive design. A consecutive selection was used. A questionnaire was filled in by 28 participants.The study has shown that patients with heart failure largely experience information about heart failure inadequate.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to describe the information behaviour of six adults with dyslexia with focus on how they handle information problems. The data consists of literature and interviews with six persons with dyslexia. The theoretical framework used in this study is Anders Hektors theory about human information behaviour as well as concepts and theories from the library and information science field. Ten information activities are used to describe the informants information behaviour. Answers are sought to the following questions: · How do the informants describe their backgrounds and their reading- and writing disabilities? · What problems do the informants meet in the context of information in their everyday lives with reference to ten particular information activities? · How do the informants solve these problems? The study showed that the main problems for the informants appeared to be difficulties with reading and spelling, problems with the appearance of the information, lack of time and stress while reading and writing as well as problems with lack of awareness about dyslexia.

Att klara vardagliga aktiviteter är viktigt för människan, möjligheten att påverka sin dag, göra egna val och umgås med andra på egna villkor. Kognitiva funktionsnedsättningar medför svårigheter att ta emot, bearbeta och förmedla information och innefattar bland annat förmågan att minnas, orientera sig i tid och rum och problemlösning. Allt fler personer med funktionshinder är i dag i behov av hjälpmedel som kan ge en ökad livskvalitet. Kognitiva funktionsnedsättningar uppmärksammas allt mer i samhället och utvecklingen av nya produkter går snabbt framåt. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur arbetsterapeuter inom kommunal verksamhet upplevde sitt arbete med förskrivning av kognitiva hjälpmedel.

Background: Several accounting scandals have caused a development from rules-based to principles-based regulation. Swedish municipalities follow the principle-based recommendations issued by RKR (The Council for Municipal Accounting). An explicit requirement of component depreciation has been introduced prior to 2014. The principles-based regulatory framework raises some choices regarding the introduction and demands that professional judgments are made. There is some risk that comparability decreases.

SammandragSyftet med mitt arbete är att jämföra hur bokstavsinlärning kan se ut i en Montessori förskoleklass, Reggio Emilia-inspirerad förskoleklass samt en årskurs etta i en kommunal skola. Jag vill ta reda på om det finns tydliga likheter/skillnader mellan de olika verksamheterna och hur det påverkar barnets fortsatta läs- och skrivinlärning. Jag har utfört 15-minuters observationer i de tre olika verksamheterna för att själv vara med och uppleva miljön samt se hur olika inlärningstillfällena kan se ut. För att komplettera observationerna skickade jag även ett mail med intervjufrågor till de tre lärarna/förskollärarna som de svarade på och sedan skickade tillbaka till mig. Genom detta fick jag bland annat svar på varför de jobbar som de gör, vilket synsätt som låg till grunden för undervisningen samt hur de tror att barn lär sig bokstäver bäst. Mitt resultat visar att lärarna/förskollärarna jobbar på olika sätt med bokstavsinlärning.

Introduktion: Varje år skadas fler än100000 patienter av hälso- och sjukvården. Vårdskador innebär ett vårdlidande och påverkar samhällets hälsoekonomi. Sjuksköterskor har ett huvudansvar för det direkta omvårdnadsarbetet och är skyldiga att rapportera avvikelser. Trots att patientsäkerhetsarbetet är ett prioriterat område inom vård och omsorg visar forskning att sjuksköterskor inte rapporterar alla avvikelser som sker på arbetsplatsen. Syfte: Studiens syfte är att belysa sjuksköterskornas erfarenheter av att avvikelserapportera inom kommunal hälso- och sjukvård.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how four Swedish retail companies describe their information management in connection to ethical trade. My purpose is also to examine how this information management relates to organizational learning. My questions at issue are ? ?Which activities related to information management in connection to ethical trade is described by the companies?? and ?How can these activities and statements be related to organizational learning?? My method of investigation is to perform qualitative interviews with representatives from the retail companies and relate the results to theories on information management and organizational learning, mainly theories of double-loop- and single-loop learning. The information management literature address issues such as information needs, information sources and information seeking.

The aim with this Master's thesis is to study the debate that takes place in the local community when a public library branch is threatened by closedown through the local newspapers. Through this it is our aim to understand why the debate takes place, and why so many people gets concerned with it. By relating this debate to contemporary research of library- and information science, and the discussion in three major Swedish library journals, we have found the answers to these questions. By studying the debate, we found six subjects that where essential for this study. These were Politics and economics, Urban and rural districts, Democracy and accessibility, The service of the library, The meeting place and To replace a closed down library.

The purpose of this study is to examine and explain why three Swedish public libraries failedin their ambition to act as information services for small and medium-sized firms (SMF). To support this purpose two major assumptions are made:1) Public libraries who plan to run this kind of "business" must act with the same means as "professional" services.2) The service must be adjusted to the information needs of the customer.Based on these assumptions sixteen factors which are crucial to the "success" for this kind of service are presented.Applied to the information services of Lidkoping, Sölvesborg and Västervik, these factors reveal a number of shortcomings and mistakes made by the libraries.To understand this result these information services are seen as parts of a traditional Swedish public "library-thought". It is shown that, fundamental ideas in the way the public libraries are defined, like the responsibility to act in a neutral and democratic way, also characterised the three information services.These ideas together with the opinion of SMF as a "rational" information-consumer resulted in information services who did not meet the information-needs and information-behaviour of SMF..

In this thesis I have investigated four housing corporation?s information about garbage disposal for their tenants (primarily immigrants who just arrived to Sweden).   Interviews with renters, employees of the housing corporations and employees of Eskilstuna Energi och Miljö indicates that the garbage information need to be improved to be better adapted to the target group.    To solve this information problem I decided to create an information chart, consisting of illustrations and legible text which informs the renters of how and, above all why it is important to recycle.   The aim of the project is also to increase the renters? commitment and motivation in recycling and also; make the housing corporations, other organizations and authorities aware of how important it is to adapt information to different kind of groups. The aim in Information Design is always to work from the needs of the recipients..

Studies of the information needs of library patrons are necessary in order for the library to serve the community. Alas, studies of non-heterosexual persons are rare in the field of Library and Information Science in Sweden. This study aims at examining the information situation of women in same-sexed parenthood by means of analysing their situation as norm-breaking. The study is done through examining the specific information needs of this group, how they seek and receive information, what barriers they encounter and what function the library has in this information situation. A queer theoretical approach to heteronormativity in combination with McKenzie?s two-dimensional model of information seeking is used to perform a qualitative analysis of the material.

The aim of this study is to investigate variations of conceptions among prison librarians, concerning mediation of information from an ethical perspective. We have performed interviews with nine librarians and used the phenomenographic approach when analyzing the material. Sixteen categories of conceptions were found, distributed on four aspects of the phenomenon, the act of mediating information to inmates. The results show a variety of conceptions among the librarians. The four aspects cover conceptions about the inmates as users of the library services in prisons, conceptions about the information need of the inmates, conceptions concerning policies, guidelines and laws and conceptions about information access in the prisons.

En miljö som byggs tillsammans med de individer som bor och använder platsen har möjligheten att öka individens dagliga fysiska aktivitet. När individer görs delaktiga i planeringen av den egna närmiljön skapas en social hållbarhet och möjlighet att bygga stödjande miljöer. Miljöer som är användbara, trygga, säkra och främjar hälsan är viktiga för folkhälsan. I Kalmar kommun arbetas med att skapa delaktighet i samhälsplaneringen genom förbättringsvandringar och utvecklingsdialoger. Då kommunen tillsammans med innevånare undersöker bostadsortens förutsättningar och utvecklingsbehov.

Uppsatsen handlar om politikers och tjänstemäns syn på bemötande samt deras kunskap om de lagar som gäller för personer med funktionsnedsättningar. Med bemötande menar vi den inställning man har till varandra men även samhällets övergripande syn uttryckta i lagar och förordningar. Studien bygger på litteraturstudier och intervjuer med politiker och tjänstemän i en mindre kommun..