Syftet med denna studie ?r att unders?ka kommunikationen mellan l?rare och v?rdnadshavare p? en m?ngkulturell skola och hur l?rarna uppfattar att detta p?verkar eleverna. Detta kommer att unders?kas utifr?n ?tta h?gstadiel?rares perspektiv som, i kontrast till v?rdnadshavare, kommunicerar och har kontakt med flera v?rdnadshavare samt har en bredare ?verblick ?ver eleverna. Syftet konkretiseras genom f?ljande fr?gest?llningar: 1. Vilka m?jligheter och hinder finns i kommunikationen mellan l?rare och v?rdnadshavare p? en m?ngkulturell skola? 2. Hur uppfattar l?rarna att detta p?verkar eleverna? F?r att besvara fr?gest?llningen genomf?rdes en kvalitativ unders?kning d?r ?tta h?gstadiel?rare som arbetar p? en m?ngkulturell skola blev intervjuade individuellt. Dessa intervjuer spelades in, transkriberades och d?refter kategoriserades med hj?lp av en tematisk analysmetod som var i linje med studiens ?vergripande syfte.

The study concerns the history and development of hospitallibraries in Sweden in the beginning of the 1900 century.Focus is on the 1930 decade, the time of major expansionof the area. The study is based on study of literature, mainlyfrom articles but also from a few booklets from the time.The purpose of the study is to find out how the librarieswere described in the literature of the time and which goalsand tasks they had. It is also to make it possible to increaseunderstanding of the history of hospital libraries, using it asan inspirational source for development of todayÂŽs businessin a time of major change. The result of the study showsthat those goals and ideas are still valid and serve well as aninspirational basis for development of todayÂŽs hospitallibraries..

Sweden is today often defined as a multicultural society. The implications on organizing and providing information in public libraries are many, since the systems presently used in the western hemisphere are not adapted to multi-cultural information. This thesis aims to outline ethical and practical problems that arise when organising and providing information concerning cultures other than western, and not least, when dealing with material in other scripts. With this theoretical framework the thesis examines the website of the International Library in Stockholm, a website built to serve users of different languages and scripts than Swedish. The research questions in this thesis are: 1, what specific problems can be distinguished within library work in a multicultural and multilingual environment? 2, what problems and needs were considered in the creation and design of the International Library?s website? And 3, can examples of problems and possible solutions of these be seen in the information and it?s organisation on the International Library?s website? The empiric material consists of the International Library?s website, and interviews with three informants involved in developing it.

Biblioteken runt om i vÀrlden har under de senaste Ären arbetat hÄrt för att hÀnga med i den mobila kommunikativa utvecklingen. Ett sÀtt har varit att implementera QR-koder i sin verksamhet men resultaten har varit av varierande slag. Denna studies syfte var att titta pÄ fem olika QR-kodsprojekt inom biblioteksvÀrlden och undersöka vad som utgör grunden för ett framgÄngsrikt QR-kodsprojekt.UtifrÄn detta syfte formulerades fyra frÄgestÀllningar:Under vilka förutsÀttningar kan QR-koden vara anvÀndbar för biblioteksverksamhet? Vilka sÀrskilda fördelar/möjligheter kan QR-koden skapa som verktyg för biblioteken? Vilka risker/nackdelar kan QR-koden föra med sig som verktyg för biblioteken? Varför vÀljer biblioteken att anvÀnda sig av QR-koder i sin verksamhet?Metoden för denna studien var av kvalitativ karaktÀr dÀr QR-koden var fokus för en fallstudie. Datainsamlingen skedde genom fem semistrukturerade intervjuer.Genom att besvara de fyra frÄgestÀllningarna har studien visat att för att lyckas med en QR-kodssatsning inom biblioteksverksamhet bör man:? Göra en grundlig förstudie, dÀr fokus bör ligga pÄ anvÀndaren och deras behov.? Man bör ocksÄ anvÀnda QR-koderna pÄ ett tilltalande vis, som fÄngar anvÀndarens intresse, bÄde nÀr det gÀller projektets fysiska utformning samt innehÄll.? TÀnka pÄ QR-kodens placering.

Vi lever idag i ett ma?ngkulturellt samha?lle som a?r i sta?ndig ro?rlighet, na?got som gjort att ocksa? den svenska skolan ser annorlunda ut a?n fo?r bara na?gra a?r sedan. Mitt i denna ro?rlighet sa? har ocksa? la?rarnas uppgift vidgats och satt de i en kontext som kra?ver mer, men kanske ocksa? a?ven ger mer? Denna uppsats a?r en studie om la?rarnas upplevelser om att vara en del utav en ma?ngkulturell skolkontext. Hur upplever de sin arbetsplats, hur ter sig bemo?tandet mellan la?rare och elev, och vilka konsekvenser talar de om vad ga?ller ungdomarnas integreringsprocess? .

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka muslimska kvinnors upplevelse av klimakteriet. Tre kvinnor intervjuades pÄ djupet och intervjuerna har transkriberats ordagrant och analyserats med den fenomenologiska metod som beskrivs av Amadeo Giorgi. Analysen resulterade i följande kategorier: kulturella aspekter, religion, kÀnslan att förlora sin ungdom, existentiella tankar relaterade till döden, kÀnslan av att Äldrar och sexualitet. Resultaten visade att de muslimska kvinnorna i övergÄngsÄldern hade en negativ uppfattning om klimakteriet. Detta fenomen beskrevs som kulturellt tabu och pÄverkade starkt av religion. Det vÀxande antalet och mÄngfalden bland muslimska befolkningen i Malmö utgör utmaningar för vÄrdpersonal att bÀttre förstÄ klimakteriet ur ett muslimskt kulturellt perspektiv..

This paper addresses the need to review the modern presentation of textile archaeology in museums. It is time to look at textiles in archaeology with new eyes. The reality behind archaeological textilestudy is holistic, embracing many different aspects of society. The presentation of textiles has in my opinion become old-fashioned. I will show in my paper that Jonathan Adams? `seven constraintsÂŽ model, developed for research on ancient ships, can also be applied to textile research.

This paper discusses how ten blogs written by librarians talk about using games in the library. What do they talk about and what are their arguments for using games as a learning tool, and what does this say about their views on the library?s role in society?It is examined by using argumentation analysis together with a model for identifying different roles within the library on the blog themselves. By identifying the most important arguments used and placing them within the model, the paper aims to see how the bloggers view the library as a whole and as a part of society.It showed that the reasoning among the librarians varies, but most emphasis was on seeing the library as a meeting space together as an inspirational space, and the use of games can greatly help with that. Especially when viewing the library as a meeting space with room for everyone regardless of their interests..

This bachelor's purpose is to examine different types of library work directed at theSwedish national Jewish and Romani minorities. The thesis will begin with accounting for thepolitics of Swedish national minorities and of today?s situation for Jews and Romanis in Sweden.We will, to accomplish this purpose, use a three-piece question formulation regarding therespective works of the libraries, as well as the possible benefits that cooperation betweendifferent libraries could bring. The questions are answered in the analysis of four qualitativeinterviews through a model based on Dorte Skot-Hansen's thoughts on the library's different rolesin different understandings of society. The analysis will lead us to a final discussion, in which wewill present our results: that distinct guidelines regarding the national minorities for the publiclibraries are a necessity for Sweden?s fulfilling of the responsibility towards these groups; thatthere is a need for a coordination of the propositions and conventions regarding the nationalminorities in the shape of a substantial legislation; and that this field in the future needs to bethoroughly observed and examined in order to evaluate how the Swedish public libraries meet the needs of the national minorities..

Denna studies syfte ?r att unders?ka f?rskoll?rares arbete med genus och k?nsnormer genom b?cker och boksamtal, och eventuella skillnader i det arbetet i ett m?ngkulturellt respektive ett monokulturellt omr?de. Detta var av intresse f?r att se hur v?rdegrunden efterf?ljs och om de olika utmaningar de tv? omr?dena har p?verkar det normkritiska genusarbetet. Fr?gest?llningarna som var studiens utg?ngspunkt syftade till att f?nga in hur genus och k?nsnormer uppm?rksammas i arbete genom barnb?cker och boksamtal, hur arbetet skiljer sig inom olika omr?den och vilka utmaningar samt m?jligheter som kan tr?da fram i arbetet med genus och k?nsnormer inom f?rskolan.

The purpose of this Master Thesis is to investigate the quality of the library service at the City Library of Uddevalla. In particular this thesis will examine the quality of the library service to people who are disabled. This applies particularly to the service to people with reduced ability to move or to see, which also includes people with infirmities due to old age. We also have investigated how well the library itself is adapted to the disabled. In order to get more information about the library service to people who are disabled, we have studied literature on this subject and the Master Thesis contains a summary of those documents.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate in which aspects the public library is affected by its local community. This is re-searched by means of an exemplified case study of a Swedish public library in which we analyze governing documents and the library website with respect to environmental scanning and mar-keting of library services.The research questions are: How are the local community?s demands on the public li-brary being described in the governing document? How is the public library?s response to the demands of the local community being described in the operational plan? How are the demands of the local community, as shown in the governing document and the operational plan, re-flected in the marketing of library services on the library website?Our conclusions are that:The demands of the local community are described in a general fashion in the governing document, but there is a lack of concrete political guidelines.The public library's response to the demands of the local commu-nity is described to some length in the operational plan, but not with respect to economical factors.The demands of the local community are reflected to some length in the marketing of library services on the library website. Many of the overall themes that we identify in the governing document and the operational plan can be found in the marketing directed towards important target groups..

This evaluational study has been initiated by the County Council of GĂ€vleborg (LandstingetGĂ€vleborg), politically responsible (and the main economical) authority of BibliotekGĂ€vleborg, the regional library institution in the county of GĂ€vleborg, Sweden.The aim of the study is threefolded:1. to evaluate the organization of Bibliotek GĂ€vleborg during the 1990's as we11 as theeffects of a reorganization carried out in 1990, and, through the use of interviews and a questionnaire, to ascertain the attitudes of Bibliotek GĂ€vleborg's branch users (mainlythe municipal libraries in the county) towards the organizational development.2. to evaluate and compare regional library activities in GĂ€vleborg prior to and duringthe 1990's, and to investigate the attitudes of the afore-mentioned branch users towardsBibliotek GĂ€vleborg's activities.3. to investigate and discuss possible future directions of regional library development in Sweden in general, and in GĂ€vleborg in particular.The closing, debating chapter in the study also'contains a few suggestions of measures to enhance regional library activity in GĂ€vleborg..

The question of the provision of electronic books in Swedish public libraries has lately evolved into a lively debate in Swedish media, where the public library?s identity and itsexpected role as a democratic institution is an underlying topic. The aim of this bachelorthesis is to examine the idea of the public library?s identity as expressed in newspaperand journal articles by writers connected to the library sector. The aim is achieved byexamining the language-use and identifying discourses in the debate.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate and increase the understanding of Swedish Public Library Websites and to determinate which activity they mediate. To analyse the Public Library Websites Andersson and Skot-Hansen?s model of roles for the Public Library has been used. This model inÂŹcludes four roles for the library: the library as a cultural centre, a knowledge centre, as an information centre and as a social centre.