The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine how Librarians talk about users in social media. Using a method of discourse analysis based on Ernesto Laclau?s and Chantal Mouffe?s theoretical concepts it seeks to answer the following questions: How do Librarians describe and comment on users in social media? In which contexts do Librarians talk about users in social media? Which ideas of the relationship between the Librarians and the users do the user discourses present?The study focuses on a Facebook page called ?Arga Bibliotekstanten? (The Angry Library Lady) and all its posts and comments during the period of January to June 2013. This is an ?open? page available for anyone to follow; at the time of the study it had approximately 1800 ?followers? and 4000 ?friends?, both Librarians and users.The results show that Librarians talk about the users in a variety of ways, but mainly concerning money, behavior and task.

The role-playing game attracts a growing number of practisers. The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine role-playing literature as phenomenon in libraries through Librarians´ attitudes. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with eight Librarians: one personal interview with two Librarians and six e-mail interviews with six Librarians at different libraries. The paper starts with a definition of the term ?role-playing game?, its different categories and genres and a description of its background.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to understand how Librarians develop their reference service. The purpose was to find patterns in how Librarians work with reference questions. As a theoretical framework we have used research in the reference field. Where do the skills of the search process come from: education or experience? Answers were sought to the following questions: - How different are the search process in practice compared to theory? - Which similarities and differences are there among the informants? - How important was the education in comparison to the knowledge about the libraries collections? - How did the changes in the school system in 1993 influence reference education and what could the consequences be to the reference knowledge among Librarians? We sent out a question form and a search question which was answered by 12 Librarians in university and university college libraries.

The aim of this study is to examine how the adult students in the Adult Education Initiative called Kunskapslyftet, experience their use of the Main Public Library in Linköping and how the Librarians experience the change in their working situation after Adult Education Initiative has started in July 1997. Methods used in the survey are interviews with Librarians and students in the Adult Education Initiative. I have also distributed questionnaires to some of the adult students and studied literature that describe students use of libraries. The result shows that the students generally are satisfied with the service they get from the Librarians at the Main Public Library. It also shows that what the students mostly asked for, are help to search information about a subject and to find literature in the library.

The web is a constantly growing medium that presumably plays an increasing role in public library reference services. In order to provide high quality reference service the Librarians need to be able to master this medium. Therefore it is interesting to get an understanding of how Librarians actually use the web. The aim of this Master s thesis is to investigate what web search tools are used by public Librarians in reference service. Furthermore, the aim is to get an understanding of how the Librarians think about those tools and what background factors influence their selection of tools.

The purpose of the following thesis has been to study Librarians' attitudes towards comics for grown up people. I have compared the attitudes among the staff in two public libraries in Sweden, Malmö public library and Lund public library. I have conducted five interviews with Librarians and observed how the comics are handled in each library. I have also carried out a literary study of the history and theories of comics. Initially a definition of comics is presented, and then an overview of the development of comics and of some theories regarding them is offered.

The aim of this essay was to investigate what images are conveyed through Swedish daily press and to discuss the possible consequences of these images for Librarians and users of the library. What discourses can be identified in the material; how are Librarians and their profession described in the press; what attitude can be detected towards Librarians and in what contexts are Librarians discussed, are questions that were asked. Discourse analysis was used as theory and method. A discourse can be understood as a certain way of talking about and understanding the world. 55 articles from the period of January 1^st 2002 to March 7^th 2003 were analysed with the help of a model.

The purpose of this master thesis is both to interpret the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child from a public library point of view and to investigate how childrens Librarians in the county of Norrbotten view their working situation in their relation to the users. This purpose leads to the main question: How do the childrens Librarians and the childrens library consultant describe the present and the future of the childrens library activities in the sparsely populated regions in the county of Norrbotten? The subquestions are: What articles from the Childrens Rights Convention are the most relevant for the public library? In what way can you notice the Childrens Rights in the way the childrens Librarians work towards the users? What part of the childrens library activity is the most important according to the childrens Librarians and the childrens library consultant? The thesis is based on qualitative interviews with childrens Librarians and the childrens library consultant of Norrbotten and field observations. The result of the study shows that the articles we found most relevant for the public library are 2, 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 23, 28/29, 30, 31 and 42. The Childrens Rights can be noticed in several ways in the childrens library activities.

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 study is to explore the possibilities for children?s Librarians to extend their competence in the area of reading promotion. The study is carried out within an ongoing reading promotion project directed towards small children from 0-7 years. The study aims to answer the following questions: How do children?s Librarians develop new skills in a reading promotion project? How do children?s Librarians view a broadening of the concept of reading and how does their approach affect which skills that are acknowledged?The study is mainly based on qualitative interviews with five children´s Librarians who all participate in the project.

The aim of this thesis is to explore how Librarians approach to and knowledge of young people can be seen in their work methods and in activities arranged for young people. I also want to investigate other factors that Librarians think can affect how they work. Five interviews were carried out with five Librarians who worked with young people at public libraries. The literature review covers; young peoples needs and leisure activities, young peoples attitudes to libraries, activities arranged for them and towards departments for young people at public libraries. Literature dealing with Librarians` attitudes and knowledge of young people was also included.

The aim with this thesis, based on five childrens Librarians statements, is to highlight their view of their work, and what they deem to be of importance when working with small children within the library sphere. My main question is as follows: What motive compels childrens Librarians in their work with small children, and will Vygotskys theories be recognised in their statements. I have two questions as a base for this main question: How do childrens Librarians work with small children, and do they utilise any special methods in their work? How do childrens Librarians view their work tasks, and what do they deem to be of importance regarding small children and libraries? The thesis is based on qualitative interviews. As a theory I have decided to concentrate on Vygotskys thoughts on imagination and creativity, the Zone of Proximal Development, and childrens language development.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine librarian images and stereotypes in Swedish and American fiction, and to discover if there are any differences between these. The images and stereotypes are also compared to those revealed in previous research. The study is based on ten novels. Five of these are written by Swedish authors and portrays Swedish Librarians.

The aim of this essay is to investigate how patrons, Librarians and indexers use subject headings to describe and index fiction literature. We wanted to know if the groups concentrated on different levels in the text from a semiotic viewpoint, where words either can describe the manifest/connotative meaning or the latent/denotative. To investigate this we had four fiction indexers, four Librarians working with fiction for adults and eight library users read and index four short stories. After that we did interviews asking them about how they were thinking when describing the texts, how they use subject headings, about their opinions on indexing and, in the interviews with the Librarians and indexers, about their usual work assignments. The subject headings they listed were analysed according to the level they described.

The aim of this Bachelor?s thesis is to investigate the public librarian?s professional identity and its relation to the public library as an experience centre. The development of the library as an experience centre raises questions about how public Librarians understand their professional identity, and about their motives for working with activities like workshops and qigong, activities that have no significant connection with the librarian?s traditional tasks. The data was collected via semi-structured interviews exploring the perspectives and points of view of four public Librarians.