This master?s thesis deals with the issue of children?s theatre at the public library. I want to examine what purpose children?s theatre play for the children according to the children?s Librarians, what different factors that may influence the purchase of plays to the public library and what the children?s Librarians think of the children?s theatre at the public library at present and in the future. Interviews have been conducted with four children?s Librarians, at different libraries, who are somehow involved in the purchase of children?s plays to the library.

This Masters thesis concerns how library and preschool can cooperate in supporting childrens language development and especially that of bilingual children. We have investigated how Librarians and preschool teachers different competences can complement each other to gain the best result in work with childrens language development. This study is based on qualitative interviews with four Librarians and three preschool teachers. The answers from them have been analysed according to different categories. Our results show that both Librarians and preschool teachers think that bilingual children need extra support and that it takes longer to learn two languages.

The aim of this thesis is to study how Librarians in Swedish libraries perceive the task of mediating fiction. What are the Librarians private relationships to fiction and how do they perceive the position of fiction in contemporary society? What views have they developed of the borrowers approach to fiction and how do they perceive the borrowers increasing influence in the library? How do Librarians prioritise and which principles form the basis for their purchase of fiction? How do they categorise fiction in the library and how much do economic and political factors influence the decision making process for the purchase of fiction? Finally, how do they define their roles as mediators of fiction and which strategies do they adopt to communicate which literature the library has to offer? The material used in this study was acquired using a qualitative interview technique in which six Librarians with experience of literature mediation partook..

My aim is to examine the special form of interaction between users of the shut-in service and the responsible Librarians. My purpose is to examine how mediating of literature can be pictured in correlation with shut-in services. How do Librarians describe their experiences of the shut-in service? What roles of mediating can be perceived? How can interaction interpreted in the context of the shut-in service?The material was acquired by doing qualitative interviews of five Librarians who works with shut-in service. This study is based on the theory of Åse Kristine Tveit.

The aim of this study is to look at how Librarians express theirpart in reading groups organized by public libraries. Thestudy is based on interviews with seven public Librarians insouth regions of Sweden. The main theory used to analyse isfound in the article Bibliotekaren som litteraturformidler(1994) written by the Norwegian librarian Jofrid KarnerSmidt, where she talks about five different roles that alibrarian can have in this context and how they appear. Threeof these roles were used in this study: the pedagogue, theliterature expert and the marketer.The interviewed Librarians mostly had a similar view on howthey look at their role in the reading group. They saw theirpurpose as to provide all kinds of people with a possibility tojoin in discussions about mutual interests and share variousopinions about books.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to accomplish an understanding for how Librarians purchase fiction literature in public libraries. To answer these questions, we have performed four qualitative interviews with Librarians in three Swedish municipalities. We have also performed a smaller document study to give us an overview of the used guidelines at the selected libraries. The results of our survey have been analyzed on the basis of our revised version of Sanna Talja?s model The Interpretative Repertoires of the Music Library.

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.

Although school Librarians have an important role to play in high schools helping teachers and students during their education, Swedish school Librarians are often considered to end up left out by teachers and head principals due to school Librarians vague and unclear professional role in the school. The aim of this thesis is to attempt to study school Librarians own apprehensions of their particular professional role in a high school context, and how their professional role is believed to be apprehended by teachers and head principals. The results are based on interviews made with eight school Librarians working in different high school libraries in Gothenburg during April 2002. By using phenomenographic method various existing apprehensions of the specific phenomena that the professional role of the school librarian constitutes of are made clear. The aim of the method is not to study what the profession constitutes of, but rather how it is apprehended by the school Librarians themselves.

The aim of this thesis is to explore the job satisfaction of Librarians and try to nuance stereotypes, which the public has and which still exist in massmedia concerning Librarians and their work. The study is qualitative and based mainly on semistructured interviews with ten libraries born between 1937s and 1973s of which eight are women and two men. Furthermore, I have divided them into two groups according to age in order to see if there are differencies between the older and the younger concerning job satisfaction. In addition, I have used participant observation to some extent. My assumption is that job satisfaction is effected both by individual factors and environmental factors at work.

The theme of this thesis is the professional ethics of public Librarians. Qualitative interviews have been conducted with fourteen public Librarians, with the aim to investigate their thoughts·and opinions concerning professional ethics and their experiences of ethical dilemmas in professional situations.The result shows that the majority of the Librarians often discuss problems concerning what's right or wrong but that the discussions are conducted on the basis of practical situations and not in terms of professional ethics. The majority have vague ideas of how the term professional ethics should be applied on the work of public Librarians, though all the interviewees consider the professional ethical discussion to be important.We examine the Librarians opinions and experiences of ethical dilemmas conceming four subject areas: the principle of the librarian as a neutral and nonrestricting information intermediary, the principle of equal treatment of all the library visitors, difficulties. concerning media selection and the problems based upon the Librarians flexibility towards the intemal rules of the library. The Librarians experienced the behaviour towards the visitors as the greatest problem.

There is an increasing demand for information literacy, which is mirrored in curriculum throughout the whole educational system. This, in turn, has brought forward a growing need for Librarians who can teach. But do Librarians possess pedagogical competence, and if they do, how is this ability used in everyday library practice? The aim of this study is to investigate Librarians' conceptions of the pedagogical role, as it is expressed in their didactic interaction with the users. The research questions focus on Librarians' experiences of teaching information seeking and use and their activities in this respect.

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.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to accomplish an understanding for childrens Librarians purchases of juvenile books. Two main questions are to be answered: - Which considerations do childrens Librarians do when buying juvenile books and which goals and motives are behind their purchases? - What do childrens Librarians think that their knowledge and competence consists of and how is that knowledge useful when buying juvenile books? To answer the questions qualitative interviews with five childrens Librarians have been carried out. The material has been analyzed through a theoretical construction consisting of theories about collection development, book selection and quality judgments. The conception tacit knowledge silent knowledge from Michael Polanyi has also been used for interpretation.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine how public libraries use socialmedia for marketing purposes, and what Librarians think about this. My focus of this thesislies on what Librarians think about marketing of libraries through social media and if theythink that marketing through social media can create a better relationship between the libraryand its users. The questions I wanted to answer were:? Libraries using social media, for what purpose do they use them? ? Do the libraries choose to use social media to market their organization? Why? ? What attitudes exist among Librarians about marketing through social media?The theoretical framework for this thesis is Evert Gummessons model off Relationshipmarketing and the process of Internet marketing, which both are based on relationalperspective. The methodology used for this study was structured interviews.

This dissertation discusses head Librarians in Swedish public libraries and the stress factors which affect them. The aim is to map out potential stress factors which head Librarians come across in their day-to-day work. The purpose of the dissertation is to answer the following question: what stress factors affect library managers in Swedish public libraries? The dissertation was conducted through a literature study, informal interviews and a quantitative questionnaire. The results of the quantitative questionnaires show that the factor that produces the highest level of stress is having too many different tasks.