Jag har utvärderat Umeåregionens bibliotekssamarbete. Samarbetet innebär att biblioteken i kommunerna Bjurholm, Nordmaling, Robertsfors, Umeå, Vindeln och Vännäs har en gemensam bibliotekskatalog och att låntagare har ett lånekort som gäller för hela regionen. Låntagare kan låna och lämna tillbaka media på samtliga bibliotek i regionen.                                                                                          Syftet med utvärderingen är att kartlägga låneflödena mellan biblioteken i regionen för att få kunskap för att utveckla medieförsörjningsstrategier och ?metoder på biblioteken. Utvärderingen innehåller en översiktlig kartläggning av låneströmmarna i hela regionen samt en mer detaljerad kartläggning av låneströmmarna mellan Umeå stadsbibliotek och Ålidhemsbiblioteket (Umeå kommun).

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to describe the development of the most important libraries in Skövde, starting from 1830. We conclude our examination about 1940, when the municipal library has been active for almost ten years, and the libraries started by the temperance and working-class movements have been deposited at the municipal library. In order to explain this process we describe the development of the Swedish public library and its predecessors, such as reading societies and the popular national movements? libraries, as a background and comparison to the early libraries in Skövde.

This study is an analysis of the Internet transaction logs of Malmö Public, Sweden [...].

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to study resource allocation among district libraries within Stockholm?s City Library (SSB) on three different occasions ? 1996, 2001 and 2005 ? and to examine whether there exist any inconsistency between the state of the allocation of resources and what might be considered reasonable. During the course of the study, it became apparent that some measurements are more relevant than others when determining whether the allocation of resources is reasonably fair. The most relevant ratio is the share of net cost per capita in relation to population and the population?s composition of children, youngsters and persons with foreign background as a result of relevant political governing documents giving priority to these three groups.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the discourses aboutthe future of Malmö City Library expressed by the chief librariansSven Nilsson and Elsebeth Tank. Furthermore, our intention is tostudy the relation between the two. The questions posed in thestudy are: how does chief librarian Sven Nilsson express the futureof Malmö public library between 1989-1997? How does chieflibrarian Elsebeth Tank express the future of Malmö City Librarybetween 2008-2010? How does Sven Nilsson?s and ElsebethTank?s thoughts and visions of the future correlate?Our theoretical and methodical building ground is in the discourseanalytical field, with Ernesto Laclau?s and Chantal Mouffe?stheories about discourse and society, as startingpoint.

The purpose of this study is to examine the phenomenon ?Living library?, where people are lent out instead of books. First it is looked into what the Living library means to the person who is borrowing a living book and what it means to the living book itself. Than the Living library is put in a public library context. This is done through a case study of the city library of Helsingborg and the city library of Malmö.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the quality notions used by the library personnel responsible for the video game department at Malmo City Library. Furthermore, the thesis aims to assess how these notions of quality relate to properties of the actual collection of video games. The empirical results are based on interviews with the responsible library personnel. The result is then analyzed by an interpretation of Carl Gustav Johannsen?s library adapted, theory-based, model of quality definitions.

The aim of this master?s thesis is to examine the discourses about Malmö public library that can be identified in several documents published by the library, articles, and various WebPages. Furthermore, our intention is to study the relation between the library?s identity, image and profile. The questions posed in the study are: Which identity discourses are Malmö public library giving expression for? What kind of conflicts between these discourses can we find? How is the identity, image and profile of the library in relation to one another? How does Malmö public library profile and market itself as a non-profit organization? Our theoretical and methodological building ground is in the discourse analytical field, with Enesto Laclau?s and Chantal Mouffe?s theories about discourse and society, as a starting-point.

KONTEXT. I takt med att Internets framväxt och fler och fler människor ansluter sig till sociala medieplattformar som Facebook, uppkommer nya sätt att interagera och kommunicera mellan varandra. Samtidigt ökar antalet organisationer och företag, som i sin tur måste hitta nya vägar för att deras marknadsföring ska sticka ut och bli uppfattad. För att nå ut till målgruppen med budskap, måste organisationen vara där målgruppen är. Därför har Facebook blivit en ny del av företags marknadsföringsredskap.

KONTEXT. I takt med att Internets framväxt och fler och fler människor ansluter sig till sociala medieplattformar som Facebook, uppkommer nya sätt att interagera och kommunicera mellan varandra. Samtidigt ökar antalet organisationer och företag, som i sin tur måste hitta nya vägar för att deras marknadsföring ska sticka ut och bli uppfattad. För att nå ut till målgruppen med budskap, måste organisationen vara där målgruppen är. Därför har Facebook blivit en ny del av företags marknadsföringsredskap.

The aim of this master´s thesis is to explore how Stockholms new library´s identity is constructed, and further to relate the case study to a general discussion of the identity of public libraries in Sweden. This is done through analysis of the visions and plans that the planned library is based on. We feel that it is a relevant study since questions concerning the public library's identity are for library and information science as well as the institution. Questions posed in the study are: How is the roles and identity of the planned library described in the texts that form the basis of the project? What characterises the relationship between the present and the planned library? What discourses concerning the public library's identity can we see in the material?The theoretical framework of the thesis is a discourse oriented analysis based on the critical discourse analysis of Norman Fairclough.

Syftet med min studie har varit att undersöka kärlekens spelregler och värderingar utifrån Judith Butlers tankar kring imiterandet av kön. Jag har valt att studera den kvinnliga och manliga diskursens verkan under kärleksspelets tidigaste fas. Materialet består utav fem skilda intervjuer utförda på två kvinnor och tre män, samtliga mellan 20 och 26 år gamla. I analysen har två tydligt uppdelade könsroller kunnat uttydas och en patriarkal makthierarki har uppenbarats. Jag började mitt arbete med större förhoppningar än vad resultatet kom att påvisa angående eventuella förändringar i genussystemet.

Studiens syfte är att belysa hur organisationen Malmö Stadsbibliotek arbeta med ungdomar via nya medier och därigenom lyfta fram strategiska förslag inom området. Malmö Stadsbibliotekets arbete med ungdomar och nya medier studeras genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fem anställda och en innehållsanalys med retoriskt perspektiv av webbplatsen Ungdomssidan. Strukturer rörande digital kommunikation med ungdomar synliggörs och problematiseras i förhållande till tidigare forskning, historiska och teoretiska ramverk. Det teoretiska ramverket tar ansats från kultursociologen Pierre Bourdieus teori om kulturella fält och tre centrala begrepp och teoretiska ramverk inom: kommunikation, makt och interaktivitet. Det framgår att Malmö Stadsbibliotek inte arbetar målgruppsanpassat via nya medier. Det finns inte någon digital verksamhet för ungdomar med en möjlighet till interaktion mellan ungdomar eller med personalen.

In this masters paper the change that Lidköping public library went through between 1952 and 1959 is described and analysed. The aim is to describe and analyse the reactions that arose at the time that the first professional librarian, Jörgen Elgström, acted to create a modern public library in the town. The issues that are handled are: How did the local politicians and the general public react to the process of change that was started by Jörgen Elgström? What were the consequences for the staff, the premises, lending, child and youth activities? The paper is concentrated around the period 1952-1959 because this is the time when Jörgen Elgström was working in Lidköping. Jörgen Elgström has a central role in the paper.

It is statutory that teachers shall document their student's development of knowledge in different subjects. The teachers employed by Sundbybergs municipality have been commissioned to do the documentation in the web-based electronic system Projekt- och Omdömesdatabasen, P.O.D.B. The purpose of this study was to investigate witch effect the IT-solution P.O.D.B has brought for the teachers in their task of student documentation. By conducting interviews and questionnaire studies I have been looking for answers to if the target achievements have increased by using the IT-solution, and if the teachers are aware of what they may or may not write about their students in the system. The conclusions I have been able to draw through my studies are that the teachers have accepted the commission to use P.O.D.B.