The purpose of this master?s thesis is to investigate children?s librarian?s perspectives on children?s literature and reading of fiction books. This is a comparative study of Swedish and Lithuanian librarians. The main questions to be answered are how children?s librararians at public libraries motivate their selection and purchase of fiction for children and what kind of considerations there are behind the purchases.

Detta examensarbete undersöker hur lärare i år 4 arbetar med skönlitteratur och boksamtal i sin undervisning. I studien har Chambers modell och forskning kring skönlitteraturens roll i undervisningen samt samarbetet mellan skola och folkbibliotek undersökts. Lärare och bibliotekarier har intervjuats och dessa intervjuer har legat till grund för studiens resultat.Studien visar att lärares egna engagemang, kunskap och intresse är avgörande för hur man på ett framgångsrikt sätt kan arbeta med skönlitteratur för att nå delar av målen i svenska. Det framkommer också att reflekterande läsning bidrar till att utveckla elevernas språk och ordförråd. I vår studie framkommer det av tidigare forskning och resultaten från intervjuerna att ett bättre samarbete mellan skola och folkbibliotek skulle vara önskvärt.

Examensarbetet ?Villa Sassi - ett gestaltningsförslag? redogör för tankar och processer under utformningen av det slutliga förslaget till trädgårdens utformning. Villa Sassi ligger i Lunds norra utpost, och förslaget tar hänsyn till platsen. Huset är ritat av arkitekt Heidi Sassi. De har själva byggt huset. Idag bor de i huset med sin familj. Arbetet inleddes med diskussioner med Heidi Sassi om hennes visioner för trädgården.

The purpose of this study was to discover patterns and variations of service requirementsamong various groups of users at the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library. Twenty-nine personswere interviewed and divided into different groups with regard to their purpose of usingthe Nobel Library. The groups of users were members of the Swedish Academy and thepublic. The public were subdivided into the following three groups of users: persons whopursue formalised studies, persons who read as a hobby, persons who work with literature asa profession.The data reveals that the members of the Swedish Academy were very satisfied with theservice at their library and positive to a limited increase of users. Persons who pursue formalisedstudies and persons who work with literature as a profession emphasized that the NobelLibrary is outstanding within its subject field.

The object of this master thesis was to examine the significance of fairy tales for children and the extent which children today are able to share fairy tales through the activity of the libraries. The main question was: how current were fairy tales at the investigated libraries activity for children and how current were fairy tales in todays book publication? The qualitative methods used were in the form of interviews, statistics and source studies. The theoretical literature in this thesis described the folkloristic context of the fairy tales. There was also a psychological and a pedagogical view of the possibility of the fairy tales.

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..

The aim of this thesis is to analyze children?s picture books regarding whether and in what form gender stereotypes can be seen in these. The purpose is also to evaluate whether the findings correlate to the different regulatory documents libraries have to abide to.       The study comprises five books, who are part of a selection of books especially chosen by Uppsala City Library to be used by primary school children aged 6-9. The method used is the study of text as well as illustrations, as the theory of this thesis is that the two cannot be separated, but has to be seen a unit. Other theories used in the analysis include Nikolajeva?s schedule of male/female properties and theories on gender.      The result of the study shows that gender stereotypes are in majority regarding the characters in the books, but that the opposite also exists.

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur lärare och skolans bibliotekarier uppfattar skolbiblioteket och dess roll i undervisningen på högstadiet. Studien baseras på intervjuer som gjorts med lärare och bibliotekarier på två skolor. Vi har inspirerats av fenomenografin men använder en deskriptiv metod och beskriver i vårt resultat fyra delar: användning av skolbiblioteket, undersökande arbetssätt, skolbibliotekets roll och dess miljö och skolans bibliotekariers roll. I resultatet kommer vi fram till att skolbiblioteket har en viktig roll och att det finns en positiv inställning till skolbiblioteket. Skolbiblioteket används till studier, arbete och skönlitterär läsning.

AbstractBarns litterära intresse skapas i de tidiga åren. Förskolan har del i detta intresseskapande. Genom att lärarna på förskolan använder en pedagogisk teori eller planerat arbete med barnlitteratur kan de göra skillnaden för om barn tar till sig denna kulturform.Det svenska skolsystemets mål är att eleverna skall lära sig alla sätt språket kan användas på.Vi hade som syfte att försöka förstå hur förskollärare arbetar med att förankra barnlitteratur hos barn inom förskolan utifrån Läroplanens direktiv. För att kunna få information om detta arbete gjorde vi en undersökning bestående av fyra kvalitativa intervjuer med förskollärare. Resultatet vi fick fram ur intervjuerna var att arbete med barnlitteratur görs omedvetet från Läroplanen.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur tre rektorers samt tre lärares perspektiv ser ut på läsinlärning, faktorer som kan påverka läsningen samt den pedagogiska miljön i årskurs ett. Tre av intervjuerna var med lärare från årskurs ett och där observerade vi även en lektion, de resterande tre intervjuerna var med de rektorer som arbetade på samma skola som lärarna. Vi valde att jämföra en liten-, mellan- samt stor skola och med vår kvalitativa studie intervjuade vi både lärare och rektorer för att få en bredare syn på läsinlärning på skolan där de arbetade och på sätt se om de svarade olika. I resultatet kan vi se att svaren skiljer sig åt men att det även finns likheter mellan skolorna och att lärarnas arbetssätt skiljer sig åt. De faktorer som kan påverka elevernas läsning samt läsinlärning är klassrumsmiljön, bibliotek, läxor, hemmiljö, lärare (kön, ålder, erfarenhet, engagemang) samt schema (hur ofta förekommer läsning?)..

The aim of this Master's thesis is to analyze the relation between the discursive formation and the optical formation in the public library-apparatus. An ongoing individualization process in the library field and in society at large is used as a backdrop in the analysis. Discourse analysis is used as a method to explore the main Swedish library periodicals Biblioteksbladet, Bibliotek i Samhälle and DIK-forum. All issues from the years 1999 and 2009 have been used as material. The main analytical instruments applied in the analysis of this material are Michel Foucault's terms dispositive, apparatus and diagram.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine three library weblogs to evaluate how they are used and what type of information the libraries publish in these specific weblogs.The following three questions are the basis of this study:? What is the content of the weblogs?? How is the weblog used as a tool by the libraries?? How is the interaction between the library and the readers of the weblogs presented regarding the comment function?The method that has been used in this study is content analysis and the code units have been created during the process. It is mainly a qualitative analysis but it does also contain quantitative elements. With the content analysis, 21 different themes where cut from the three weblogs. These themes where then put into the model of the local library profiles worked out by Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine in what way library users are depicted on images at two academic libraries; the University College of Borås Library & Learning Resources (BLR) and the Gothenburg University Library (GUB). 62 images, from websites and information brochures, are analyzed and the main questions are: How are users represented on images? What activities are shown? What is the difference between BLR and GUB? How can the consequences of the representations be understood? Little is currently known in the LIS-field about how images work as constructors of the social reality. The theoretical and methodological point of departure of the study is discourse analysis, new institutional theory and picture analysis.

In this thesis the marketing strategies of two public libraries have been explored and studied.The public library of Kalmar participates in the project GÖK which partly is a marketing project. The public library of Kalmar thereby differs from the public library of Trollhättan which is not involved in the project.The main aim of this thesis was to focus on their marketing strategies and see if there were any differences. The thesis was also concerned with the customers and their experiences of the quality of the services offered by the public libraries of Kalmar and Trollhättan, including the customers' perceptions of the operative marketing, and finally if there was a connection between marketing and customer-centered quality. Qualitative methods as well as quantitative methods were used for the collection of information .The preliminary assumption that Kalmar had a more explicit marketing strategy has been confirmed in the study. However, the customers at the public library of Trollhättan were more satisfied with the total quality of the services offered.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka vilka konflikter som finns bland personer i förhållanden och se hur dessa problem kan lösas på ett smidigt sätt. Metoden för denna uppsats har, till största del varit, litteratursökning på Luleå tekniska universitets bibliotek. Denna uppsats berör, i huvudsak, konflikter inom parrelationer. Uppsatsen fördjupar sig i vad konflikter kan handla om och hur ett par kan lösa dessa. En stor del av ett förhållande är kommunikation.