The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate the meaning the reading group of the public library has to a number of users. To fulfill the aim the following three questions have been formulated: 1) What do a number of users expect from the reading group of the public library? 2) Which approach/attitude or approaches/attitudes do a number of users have to reading and to talking about reading? 3) How do a number of users experience the ongoing reading group?The research is founded on qualitative interviews with five users that take part in three different reading groups in public libraries. The theories that are used is the theory of three so called strategies - the pragmatic, the traditionalistic, the emancipatory ? and the theory of flow.

Syfte: Projektet har som syfte att ta reda pÄ hur fenomenet Rotationcuration har förÀndrat arbetet med Sverige som varumÀrke.FrÄgestÀllningar: Den övergripande frÄgestÀllningen som uppsatsen utgÄr ifrÄn Àr: Hur har rotationcuration förÀndrat arbetet med varumÀrket Sverige för VisitSweden?För att besvara huvudfrÄgestÀllningen pÄ ett enklare sÀtt anvÀnds ett flertal underfrÄgor vilket följer:Vilka strategier anvÀnder VisitSweden (VisitSweden.) sig av för att marknadsföra Sverige pÄ Twitter?Vilken syn har VisitSweden. pÄ Sociala medier?Hur ser varumÀrkesbyggandet ut pÄ twitterkanalen @sweden nÀr det kommer till varumÀrket Sverige?Hur anvÀndandet av kuratorer demokratiserat arbetet med projektet Curators of Sweden?Teori: De teorier som uppsatsen huvudsakligen utgÄr ifrÄn Àr Nations branding, Public diplomacy och Medialisering med tyngden pÄ Public diplomacy. Förutom dessa har Àven teorier om Public relations och Publika sfÀren anvÀnts i viss mÄn.Metod: Uppsatsen Àr en fallstudie av Curators of Sweden.

The main purpose of this master thesis is to give the reader a picture of the experience of art and of its room in the public libraries, but above all to examine the phenomenon temporary art exhibitions in public libraries in the county of Östergötland. The study is limited to a specific activity of art, namely temporary exhibitions in libraries. Geographically, the investigation is limited to the public libraries and their branch libraries in Östergötland. Time concentrates on the present situation in 2000 and 2001. Methodologies are partly observations in some libraries, partly qualitative questionnaires to all primary libraries and their affiliates in Östergötland.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to examine how some university students, who are using the libraries extensively, use and experience the public and the university library and what they expect from the two different library types. I also compare their expectations with the different tasks and aims of the two library types. To answer this I have interviewed seven students at the department of history of literature at Göteborg University. I have also studied some literature and research related to this subject, for example user studies about students and libraries and the information behaviour of distance students.

AbstractTitle Blogging.se ? a study on the swedish blogosphere from a Habermasian public sphere-perspective (Bloggning.se ? en studie av den svenska bloggsfĂ€ren utifrĂ„n Habermas offentlighetsteori)Author Anders LarssonAim To see whether or not weblogs (blogs) could be said to rejuvenate the public sphere, as it was first described and later re-evaluated by JĂŒrgen Habermas.Method A quantitative analysis of 733 randomly selected swedish weblogs has been done. This analysis set out to see what different categories of bloggers (difference in f.e. gender and age) wrote about, and whether or not these subject categories could be said to play a part in constituting and/or rejuvenating a public sphere.Main results The main results of the quantitative study was that even though most blogs write about ?private? subjects, the most popular blogs, i.e.

I och med vÄrdvalets införande, dvs. att patienterna sjÀlva fick bestÀmma var de skullefÄ sina basala vÄrdbehov tillfredsstÀllda, har primÀrvÄrden i VÀstra Götalandsregionen öppnats upp för privata aktörer. FrÄn att ha agerat pÄ en starkt reglerad marknad har de offentliga aktörerna nu blivit konkurrensutsatta. Studien behandlar vÄrdvalets pÄverkan pÄ styrningen inom den offentliga NÀrhÀlsan utifrÄn ett New Public Management-perspektiv. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med totalt fyra vÄrdcentralschefer och tvÄ primÀrvÄrdschefer visar denna studie att styrning av den offentliga NÀrhÀlsan i den uppkomna konkurrenssituationen har lett till ett marknadstÀnkande i linje med New Public Management-teorin.

Med termen New Public Management, NPM, vill samhÀllsvetenskapliga forskare beskriva den vÄg av organisationsförÀndringar inom offentlig förvaltning som svept över vÀstvÀrlden de senaste cirka 30 Ären. Den hÀr uppsatsen undersöker hur frivÄrdsinspektörer inom den svenska kriminalvÄrden upplever sin arbetssituation utifrÄn förekomsten av NPM-principer. Fem frivÄrdsinspektörer intervjuades utifrÄn tre temata som Àr kopplade till NPM - mÄl, kontroll och utvÀrdering. Undersökningen visar att verksamheten tycks ha förÀndrats pÄtagligt under den tid intervjupersonerna arbetet inom kriminalvÄrden och att dessa förÀndringar kan kopplas till uppkomsten av NPM. Delar av arbetets organisering beskrevs som positiv för sÄvÀl kriminalvÄrdens anstÀllda som för dess klienter.

Since the 1980s, the management philosophy New Public Management has resulted in major changes in the public administration system in several countries, especially in the West. A market oriented approach and an increased focus on performance measurement are ideals that are salient in these changes. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the management philosophy?s influence on international relations through a critical analysis of some of its ideals in the management of international development cooperation, where effectiveness, quality, and results have been new dominant concepts. Through a qualitative content analysis of a Swedish Communication from 2014 ? the Aid Policy Framework ? and a debate in the Swedish parliament where this Communication was discussed, different themes that reflect the strategy of so called results based management in Sweden are identified.

The purpose of this masterÂŽs thesis was to investigate the role and function of the annual reports of public libraries: for what purpose are they put together and how are they evaluated and utilised. The study presents different views on the structure and content of library annual reports. Focusing on a specific public library and its municipal administration, the authors identify and describe problems and possibilities regarding the library annual reports. The study also provides a general view of their occurrence, their addressees and the importance attached to them.In a review of current literature on accounting and activity reports the authors place the annual reports of public libraries in a wider context. The study also presents two current models of performance measurement - the Intangible Assets Monitor and the Balanced Scorecard - which were developed in the private sector, and the authors discuss their relevance when applied to public libraries.Data were collected both in interviews and by means of a questionnaire.

As public libraries in Sweden receive the bulk of their budget from local government funding, which has stayed static or, at best, seen small increases, libraries have been faced with inadequate resources with which to satisfy increasing expectations from users. As few libraries are over-funded in the first place, ways may have to be found to combat this situation. The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine alternative sources of funding for Swedish public libraries, and my main focus of interest is that of sponsorship. The method used is a literature study combined with an empirical study, in which interviews were conducted with five persons each with long experience of working with public libraries. The literary study deals with the concept of sponsorship, and the motivations for companies to sponsor are also examined.

"The choreography of fear" is a discourse-analysis study which focus at how young men speaks about fear, threat and violence in the public everyday life. The study adopts socialcontructionism as theoretical approach and also uses theories about gender, hegemony masculinity, fear as a social constructed phenomenon and moral-panic. The study is based on qualitative interview whit young men in age 18-30 and the method is mainly discourse-psychology. The section of Analysis discuss subjects as what and whom the young men consider to be a threat and which areas in the public space they consider to be dangerous and how they choose to handle the menace. The Analysis also focuses on how the informants speak about fear, how they define fear and what they consider arouse fear..

The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the societysystem in Austria has influenced the library system. The aim is toanalyse in what way these influences have changed during thegrowth and development of the public library system and how it isdisplayed in each separate library branch. The focus of myinvestigation has been the municipality public libraries in Vienna,and mainly the three libraries in the third district of the city. Themethod I have used is literature studies, examining and analysingsource material from the internal archive of the public libraries inVienna. I have also used the qualitative interview method in orderto examine the situation in the selected libraries Rabengasse,Erdbergstraße and Fasangasse.As there is no common library law, there are significantdifferences in the library structure in different parts of Austria andeach municipality decides how they want to prioritize the libraries.Since the public libraries of Vienna are well organized together inBĂŒchereien Wien, the library structure in the separate librarybranches is coordinated.

In the early 1990?s more and more companies of the Swedish public sector were exposed to competition, and this started the debate on how such actions might affect the business and even society.The first chapter examines how the public sector and especially health care, is financed and managed. We also explore what it means to be exposed to competition and find that there are many different ways of exposing the public sector to competition. The study examines dental care as an example of a market with both publicly and privately owned companies. The purpose of this paper is to explore how publicly and privately owned health care companies view their relationship with their consumers.

This master thesis is about access to literature translated into Swedish sign language for deaf at the public libraries. It is by now a well-known fact that there is produced very little literature in sign language for deaf. This is so even though the policies for the library nationally and internationally, and the public law for libraries in Sweden says there should be literature available for all groups of disadvantaged people. People who have problem reading ordinary ink books have the right to get the book adapted into a medium accessible for them. The goal of the Swedish law for disadvantaged says that in 2010 Sweden should be accessible for all irrespective of weather you are deaf or not.

The goal with this essay is to investigate problems in processes of a government agency andthereby determine whether a Business Process Reengineering can create a more effectiveworkflow. The foundation of this essay lies in how customers perceive its business processesas reported from Internet forums. By adopting a qualitative approach, this is supplemented bythe statements and reports from the public business. The qualitative method that has been usedin this study is a content analysis of the threads from two major Internet forums that highlightthe problems associated with the examination of firearms licensing and the routine that exists.The method also gave us the opportunity to study the public business own view of theirprocesses. This was done by exploring their statements in media and their own reports aboutthis area.This essay is the result of a case-based study and during the course of the study we haveidentified five themes related to; time, management, communication, competence, andregulations.