The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate upper secondary school Librarians conceptions of fiction mediation. By using a phenomenographic method, the different conceptions of the specific phenomena, how the Librarians conceptualise their work with mediation of fiction, are made clear. The aim of the method is not to study what fiction mediation is constituted of, but rather how upper secondary school Librarians understand it. Qualitative interviews were held with eight upper secondary school Librarians about their conceptions of their working tasks, the meaning of fiction for youths, reading promotion, inspiration to purchase of fiction, free voluntary reading and if the importance of fiction has changed over time. The results showed that the upper secondary school Librarians conceptualise their working tasks as both changeable and repeatable.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe how Librarians inSwedish public libraries use Facebook and Twitter in themediation of literature. Our study focus on the Librarians? role inthat process. The research questions are:? How do the Librarians in this study regard mediation of literature through Facebook and/or Twitter in relation to othermediation strategies?? What goals and purposes do the Librarians give in the selection of literature that they promote on Facebook and/or Twitter?? What do public Librarians think about the future for mediation of literature through social media, how will it evolve?The methodology used was qualitative interviews.

The aim of this two years master's thesis is to examine public Librarians? views of their pedagogical role towards school children, and to illustrate the relationship between public libraries and schools as a background for the role of the public Librarians. The theoretical framework is Carol Cullier Kuhlthau?s theory of the roles of Librarians as mediators in reference work (Levels of Mediation) and in education (Levels of Education). The main question of the study is: How do public Librarians view their pedagogical role towards elementary school pupils and high school students? Related questions regarding the use of the public library for school purposes, the communication and cooperation between the public library and the schools, the difference between public libraries and school libraries and the Librarians? view of pedagogical work are also made.The method used is qualitative interviews.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the attitudes of Librarians towards young people's approaches to libraries and reading. The study also includes statements of the young as regards their own library usages and reading habits, as well as the attitudes of youth leaders. The latter are compared to the statements of Librarians, and serve as referential frameworks. 28 interviews were performed, of which 22 with young people. The interviews and the following discussion were based on five themes; the library as a room, usages of the library, reading habits, the library as an institution, and library changes and developments.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how acquisition of film for children and young adults in public libraries is carried out. The aim is to investigate why the Librarians think a library should have film, if the Librarians are bound by acquisition policies and where they retrieve information about films. We also want to know where the films are bought, how the distributors are perceived and how the Librarians see their own sphere of competence. The thesis is a qualitative study and is based on interviews with children?s Librarians in six public libraries.

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine how blogs are used by public libraries for marketing purposes, and how Librarians who blog perceive their blog as a marketing tool. The thesis is based on a qualitative study conducted using asynchronous e-mail interviews with Librarians representing eleven different library blogs. The theoretical framework and concepts are taken from marketing theory, including Kotler's marketing mix, relationship marketing, and theories on the marketing of non-profit organisations, knowledge organizations, the Internet, and blogs. Our results and analysis reveal that libraries use blogs because they are an easy tool to use, they represent a new way to inform users about the library, they are a way to improve contact with the users and a way to reach potential users. According to the Librarians we interviewed, blogs can be used to market libraries in a number of different ways: by disseminating information on the library and its various media and events, by providing a forum to demonstrate the skills of the Librarians, and as a way of changing the image of the library.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine the Librarians? perception of the users of children?s and young people?s literature. Questions posed in this study are: How are the Librarians described according to appearance, personality and interaction with the users? How are the Librarians described compared to former studies on the subject? Which perception can be seen, based on Douglas Rabers?s theory which describes the role the public libraries can take in the society? The study is based on content analysis. We have examined 15 descriptions of Librarians in both picture books and literature for young adults, published between 1985 and 2006.

This master thesis focuses mainly on the concept of quality and how the Librarians responsible for phonogram purchase use it. The main object is to investigate how the Librarians responsible for the purchasing of phonogram works when in the process of selecting the phonograms and how they speak about the concept of quality. Based on this main object four problems has been addressed. The empirical material is interviews made with the seven Librarians responsible for phonogram purchase at seven Swedish libraries. The result of this investigation is analyzed based on a theoretical framework created by Sanna Talja, which focuses on what a phonogram collection should contain.

The main purpose of this thesis was to examine how hospital Librarians worked with young people at a children?s and young people?s hospital in Sweden. We wanted to see how they promoted their health with culture and cultural means such as book trolleys. We did a case study, and made three qualitative interviews with the hospital Librarians. The purpose was also to find out what the hospital Librarians thought of young peoples.

The aim of this thesis is to study the reading habits of Swedish Librarians visualized by Librarians from Götabiblioteken ? a collaboration of 14 public libraries in mid-Sweden ? focusing on the reading done on their spare time, even if work-related. We started with a survey sent out to 74 Librarians in October 2013, answered by 56, and followed up by interviewing 7 of them in November.We tried to answer these questions:To what extent does the working Librarians read on their spare time compared to before they started working?What literature do they read, now compared to before they started working?To what extent does their perception of what they should have read affect their private reading?In what way does a librarian in the beginning of their career differ in reading habits from the reading habits of a librarian with many years in the profession?The result of our study shows that most of the Librarians read as much or more than before they started to work. They are more selective in their choice of literature and are affected by their work in it in different ways.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate how some children's Librarians view their working situation. There is one main question and three subquestions at issue: How is the working situation of the children's Librarians today described by agents on the library field? - Are children's Librarians ascribed any value and has this changed during the last three decades'? - What is the apprehension of children's Librarians and what qualities should they possess? - What is considered to be most important about work of children's Librarians'? The thesis is based on qualitative interviews with children's Librarians, library managers and library consultants. The interviews are analysed by the help of Pierre Bourdieu theoretical concepts; capital, habitus, field, doxa and distinction. Today, children's Librarians are ascribed capital by their librarian colleagues because of their specialist qualifications.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the collaboration between school Librarians and teachers in primary school, in order to illustrate how the two professions can work together, how they see their own roles and how they look at the other professionals´ roles. We also discuss earlier studies in LIS concerning collaboration between teachers and Librarians. The method of investigation is qualitative interviews with practicing school Librarians and teachers, we interviewed three school Librarians and three teachers from three different schools in the same county.  As a basis of the discussion and analysis Andrew Abbott's theory of professions is used. The thesis shows that collaboration differs between the schools.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate what the work situation of children's Librarians looks like in the year 2000, after the changes in society which took place since the 1980's. Did the tasks of children's Librarians change during the nineties, and if so, in what way and why have they changed? Which new knowledge needs emerged for children's Librarians during the nineties, and what was the cause of these new needs? Finally I want to know which needs for professional development arose, and how these needs are fulfilled. The thesis is based on qualitative interviews with children's Librarians, library managers, library consultants, one representative of the Swedish school of Library and Information Studies and one member of SAB's children and youth committee. The study reveals that the identity of children's Librarianship is strongly associated with the stimulation of language and reading.

The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine what expectations a few, adult, frequent library users have on Librarians' competences at a specific library. We also aim to compare how well the library users' expectations relates to how the Librarians describe their own competences.The method used to gather the empirical information in this study is the qualitative semi-structured interview. We interviewed six library users and the four Librarians who are employed at the library where we placed our study. The results of our interviews were analyzed with the help of a model based on Anders Ørom?s librarian identities.

The main purpose of this masters thesis is to investigate how male public Librarians experience working in a female-dominated area by interviewing eight male public Librarians. We want to find if our informants have experienced, or are experiencing, that the library users react differently to the male Librarians, as opposed to the female Librarians, with focus on possible prejudices. Besides this we want to investigate if the male Librarians have had any reactions from their colleagues based on the fact that they are men working in a female profession. We are using three theories in this thesis. The first theory is based on an article by Christine L.