The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine student secondaryteachers? perceptions of the role of the school Library libraries aswell as compare results with an earlier study. The followingquestions were posed:1. How do student teachers view the school Library?2.

This master?s thesis aims at examining and structuring different viewpoints concerning the assignments of the Swedish public Library system. The method used is ideology analysis.The main questions are: what are the overriding goals connected to each of the different assignments? How are these goals motivated? By which means are the goals to be reached? And how does our analysis relate to earlier research on the assignments of the Swedish public Library? The thesis can be said to consist of three main parts. Part one is a theoretical framework introducing the concept ?ideology analysis? and the concept ?schools of thought?.

The purpose of the thesis is to describe the developing of the branch libraries of the public Library of Kristianstad between the years of 1967 and 1977. The municipality of Kristianstad was grounded by a unification of the city of Kristianstad and ten small municipalities. The fusion takes place in three different stages during the years of 1967, 1971 and 1974. The first stage included the city of Kristianstad and the municipalities of Araslöv, Nosaby, Träne and Vä. The municipality of Araslöv got free small villages and village of Färlöv was the biggest one.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate whether exhibitions and silent pedagogy can be used to develop more inspiring environments in the public Library. Silent pedagogy is a term from the field of museum education describing the silent communication with visitors that takes place in exhibitions through introduction and orientation, layout and installation, as well as signage. In the 1980s, articles in a Swedish Library magazine discussed the pedagogical importance of Library exhibits and how they make the patrons aware of the Library?s resources. This led us to museum education and a desire to investigate whether its theories were transferrable to the Library context.

In the wake of the electronic revolution digital Library has become one of the central themes concerning libraries. The present study takes up the question whether digital Library can function in the same way as the conventional Library. The question can obviously be posed from different perspectives, e.g. technological-, the user-, or the organizational perspective. The study investigates if (and how) digital Library can have the same functions as the traditional Library.

The purpose of this master´s thesis is to examine how the cultural exchange function of Swedish libraries may be perceived on their websites. A further intention is to examine how the Library websites are used at the present. Two quantitative web-based surveys have been sent out to a great number of Swedish public libraries. The first survey was directed to the webmasters of the libraries, in order to review the different services offered by the Swedish Library websites of today. The second survey was conducted with Library directors, in order to visualise what services they consider ought to be present on their own Library website.

Projects to equip every student and teacher with a laptop, with the intention to improve academic results, have rapidly spread through the country. New technology, new contents and new ways of learning have changed the learning envi-ronment. The school Library, being a part of this environ-ment, faces the same changes and challenges.The purpose of this thesis is to study how the school Library is being affected when a One-to-One project is carried out in a learning environment. The research questions concern how the school Library is viewed within the organization and also how the change affects both the school Library and the school librarian.The empirical material of the thesis includes five qualitative interviews carried out on location, at a single selected school. The interviews are followed by a study of relevant documents, all produced within the organization.To understand the organization in which the school Library operates, as well as the school Library itself, I chose to divide the theoretical approach in two: Christensen?s et al.

The present study deals with the usage of the school Library for upper secondary school students. Is it a place for working or studying? The questions are:? What do the students say they use their school Library for?? Are there any differences between students in theoretical programs and students in practical programs with regard to their use of the school Library?? What are the features of the ideal Library from a students? point of view? My study represents a user?s perspective. The investigation is both quantitative and qualitative. Eighty-two inquiries from four different classes, representing two theoretical and two practical programs were carried out.

The Purpose of this paper is to illustrate how schoollibrarians work with integration. The study is based on thefollowing questions:1. How does the school Library personal look on integration?2. What does the school Library personal approach say abouttheir work with integration of persons with a differentbackground then Swedish?The method I chose to study this through is severalqualitative interviews with school Library personal as well asearlier related research.The theory I chose to use for this study is Hans Ingvar Rothsmodel of the integration process.The results show that the school Library personal does defineintegration even if they do not work with integration rightnow.My study also shows that there are some obstacles to thiswork, which is related to the lack of funds and other issues.And that the school Library personal has different view ofwhat integration is..

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine how the introducing of municipal Library plans has influenced some compulsory schools in Malmö. I wanted to know if the Library plan is a possible way to improve the quality of the school Library. Through qualitative interviews with four school librarians and four headmasters, I investigate their knowledge of the Library plan and their opinion of the possibilities to realize the directions of the plan. The theoretical framework is based on a model of organizational culture by Bakka, Fivelsdal and Lindkvist.

As the way of communicating and accessing information has changed radically over thepast decade so has the way the public libraries operate to reach the citizens. In thesetimes the demands of what a public Library should be and offer the visitors havechanged. One should have the option to access the digital public Library at any givenhour of the day, from anywhere in the world and at least have the same possibilities ofinformation as the visitors at the non-digital, "real" Library.In this Master's thesis we will analyze and discuss the condition of the Swedish digitalpublic Library of today, 2006, and the forward thinking work with the issues ofdevelopment in this matter. In order to do this we set out to examine the attitudetowards the public digital Library among the staff at a small number of Swedish publiclibraries and their supporting institution, the county Library. Moreover, the attitudesdefined have been compared to the actual status of the services and medias at the publicLibrary websites.In conclusion, we have detected a certain standardization of what the digital publicLibrary consists of today.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine how users at four public libraries experience the alternative shelf arrangement in their Library. The purpose of introducing an alternative shelf arrangement in a public Library is often to facilitate for its users. In each of our chosen libraries, the librarians have arranged the books in the non-fiction section in broad themes, with the Swedish Library Association Classification System as subsections. Using qualitative interviews, we examined a total of 26 users? experience of the shelf arrangement and its accessibility, their methods for seeking information and their opinion about the presentation of the books.

The aim of this master thesis is to examine the attitudes among Library staff regarding a music downloading service called Musikwebb, which is available in many Swedish public libraries. It focuses on the impact of Musikwebb on the process of music selection, the relationship between Musikwebb and the digital development in public libraries and what service Musikwebb offers its users. The gathering of material was executed through focus group interviews with Library staff in four libraries. This empirical material we divided in three categories: Music selection, The Library and its digital services, and Library services. We use the results of Sanna Talja?s discourse analysis regarding the relationship between Music, Culture and the Library to analyze our material.

In 1911 Valfrid Palmgren founded the Children's Library of Stockholm, the very first in Sweden.She was a well-educated woman, who believed in social and educational equality for all.During a journey to the USA in 1907, she was deeply impressed by the public libraries, andshe put many of the public Library ideas to use in the Children's Library of Stockholm. Palmgrenstrongly opposed to the Swedish libraries not allowing admission to children, since shefirmly believed that educating the people had to start with the children.Other reasons for opening a children's Library were to give children an alternative to roamingthe streets, to give children a quiet place to read, to give an alternative to the cheap trashliterature that flooded the market and to teach the young ones how to extract information frombooks. Of great importance was that the Library should be equal to all classes in society.In 1927 the children's Library was taken over by the new public Library of Stockholm..

The history of books and libraries in the Philippines starts after the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521. During the Spanish era, most of the libraries were established through the religious orders to support their own religious mission. The Americans came in the beginning of the 20th century and have had a decisive influence on the education system and the development of libraries in the Philippines. For the analysis, I have used the models of Michael H. Harris and Magnus Torstensson in their studies of Library development.