This Master?s thesis is the first to quantitatively study the prevalence of library anxiety at a Swedish university. Library anxiety is a concept describing the negative feelings students can experience when using the library. The study was conducted using web questionnaires sent out to 512 students at Växjö university. 38 % responded and the results were analysed with the help of, amongst other methods, correlation studies.

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the possibilities of, and interest in, a digital download service at the music departments of the libraries. I chose to conduct my study at the city library of Gothenburg. I studied the legal download services that exist today and I did a statistical survey among the users of the music department, followed up by interviews to see how they took to the idea. From the inquiry I learned that a majority of the users was negative to having a digital service replacing the physical department, although a majority was positive to try a digital service. I also used the inquiry to compare the reasons for downloading music to the reasons for borrowing records from the library, but there was no significant difference.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the usability of the Umeå University library catalogue Album. The aim is to evaluate the catalogue in order to establish if there are any problems that could be solved by modifying the catalogue. The following questions are answered: How should a good catalogue be designed? Which problems are common when using a library catalogue? Is Album user friendly? Are there any problems that occur when using Album and how can the catalogue be changed to avoid the problems? To answer these questions I have performed a usability test in which five persons, all students, got to carry out twenty tasks in the catalogue and talk about what they were doing and thinking while doing the test. This method is a usability method called Think Aloud.

Bakgrund: Sexualitet innefattar än i dag en viss tabu i nästan alla samhällen, vilket kan ha bidragit till att ämnet är relativt outforskat, trots att det finns vetskap vad det gäller sexualitetens betydelse för hälsa och livsglädje. Det är konstaterat att sjukdomar och medicinska tillstånd kan ha en negativ inverkan på sexualiteten. I litteratur finns beskrivet hur patienter upplever brist på samtal och information kring sexualitet i samband med sjukdom och medicinska tillstånd. Trots den kända betydelsen av sexualitet för livskvalitet undviker eller utelämnar sjuksköterskor ofta en sexuell anamnes.Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka vilka faktorer som kan främja respektive hämma kommunikation med patienter kring sexualitet utifrån sjuksköterskans perspektiv.Metod: En litteraturöversikt som baserats på tio vetenskapliga studier, både kvalitativa och kvantitativa, sökta via databaserna CINAHL, MEDLINE och PubMed. Dataanalysen har gjorts i enighet med Friberg samt inspirerats av Graneheim och Lundman.Resultat: Det framkom att en bra vårdrelation och god kommunikationsförmåga främjar samtal om sexualitet.

The writing style of a particular author can be divided into many subfeatures, for example use of words, language and syntax. Focusing on the latter, this study aims to show how well syntactic information alone can attribute the correct author to a document. Syntactic information is defined as overlapping syntactic subtrees of height one (1) for all sentences of all included documents. The performance is compared to that of the previously very successful method of comparing stop word frequencies. These are words normally excluded from search engine queries, because they are present in all sorts of texts regardless of topic.

Bakgrund: Sexualitet innefattar än i dag en viss tabu i nästan alla samhällen, vilket kan ha bidragit till att ämnet är relativt outforskat, trots att det finns vetskap vad det gäller sexualitetens betydelse för hälsa och livsglädje. Det är konstaterat att sjukdomar och medicinska tillstånd kan ha en negativ inverkan på sexualiteten. I litteratur finns beskrivet hur patienter upplever brist på samtal och information kring sexualitet i samband med sjukdom och medicinska tillstånd. Trots den kända betydelsen av sexualitet för livskvalitet undviker eller utelämnar sjuksköterskor ofta en sexuell anamnes.Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka vilka faktorer som kan främja respektive hämma kommunikation med patienter kring sexualitet utifrån sjuksköterskans perspektiv.Metod: En litteraturöversikt som baserats på tio vetenskapliga studier, både kvalitativa och kvantitativa, sökta via databaserna CINAHL, MEDLINE och PubMed. Dataanalysen har gjorts i enighet med Friberg samt inspirerats av Graneheim och Lundman.Resultat: Det framkom att en bra vårdrelation och god kommunikationsförmåga främjar samtal om sexualitet.

The main purpose of this study is to analyse how the main themes of alienation and the search for identity is portrayed by Swedish author Inger Edelfeldt. I have applied the theories of Rita Felski concerning feminist novels of self-discovery, in which the development of the female identity is the main question. As Edelfeldt?s writing consists of literature for the young as well as adults, I have included material from both of these genres. I have also taken use of Ulla Lundqvists theories about Swedish juvenile books when examining aspects of the main character?s feelings of alienation and identity searching.The results of my analysis show that the reading of my material as feminist novels of self-discovery has revealed pervading charachteristics of alienation, love, friendship and psychological development.

The aim of the present literature review was to describe and evaluate the effects and experiences within the complementary approaches such as aromatherapy, tactile massage and acupuncture amongst palliative care patients. Search through Medline (through Pub Med) database and additional manual search was conducted. In total 16 articles fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were reviewed. The result was presented under respectively category: aromatherapy, tactile massage and acupuncture. Physical and psychological effects as well as experiences from the treatments were also documented under the different complementary approaches.

Urininkontinens hos kvinnor i Sverige och i resten av världen är idag ett växande problem och ett dolt hälsoproblem. Syftet med studien var att beskriva kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med urininkontinens. Metod som användes var en kvalitativ litteraturstudie med vetenskapligt granskade artiklar. Sökningen resulterade i nio artiklar. Vetenskapliga artiklar söktes i CINAHL och LibHub databas.

Automatic query expansion has long been studied in information retrieval research as a technique that deals with the fundamental issue of word mismatch between query and document. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the retrieval effectiveness of different strategies for automatic query expansion. The strategies are based on local analysis of the corpus and use statistical information from the local document set to extract terms that suppose to adapt themselves to each individual search and therefore appear to be searchonyms to the index terms. The strategies compared are: association clusters, metric cluster and scalar cluster. Baseline queries of 24 topics are expanded using terms from the different clusters and searches are made.

Z39.50 is a standard protocol designed to create an interface between diverse computer databases for diverse information needs. Since it has to be adjustable it is also complex and demands a certain degree of expertise when being set. However, the aim of this paper is not to make a theoretical description but to examine certain conditions in practice. From the perspective of Swedish research libraries two principal hypotheses are examined: 1) the implementation of a given technology (Z39.50) is primarily influenced by social circumstances, and 2) the way in which the technology is implemented will bias the results of information retrieval. For this examination we need a framework of theories concerning the relationship between technological development and society, organisational theories and database theories.

Aim: The aim of this study was to highlighting the experiences of individuals of non-pharmacological treatment for chronic pain.Method: The study was designed as a literature review with aim to review andcompile the articles results. This study has been based on a systematic literature search of supplementing out of an unsystematic search were 11 articles were found.Results: The participants in the studies had experienced a good effect out of non-pharmacological treatments for their pain and a improved quality of life. Based on participants´ experiences of treatment two categories occurred: body awareness and relaxation. Body awareness arose through treatments like yoga, mindfulness meditation and CBT. Relaxation occurred through treatments, like music, heat, massage and meditation.Conclusion: This study highlights how non-pharmacological treatments is experienced by individuals with chronic pain and two key areas have been identified.

The purpose of this thesis is to make a comparative literary study of ten laboratory experiments with different kind of sources for query expansion terms. The experiments are grouped according to categories of term sources, which are: search results, collection dependent knowledge structures, collection independent knowledge structures and one that combines the two last mentioned sources into one. To enable a comparison all other variables were held as constant as possible. There is the improvement measured in mean average precision, which is used to measure the various sources potential. The result from the study shows a strong connection between the kind of source for the expansion term and improvement of the result.

The main problem that this essay notices is the differences you see in three of the south provinces in north of Sweden about how they seems to have get strucked by the middle age crises. The three provinces I compare are Jämtland, Hälsingland and Medelpad. This study deals about how the research has been done in these different areas so far, what summaries that have been presented so far and what they are based on. Also the inventory work is part of this examination. In Jämtland there are lots of identified deserted farms (sv.

The purpose of this study was to describe how women with fibromyalgia experienced their quality of life. The method used was a literature study with a descriptive design. The search for scientific articles was done by the databases Academic Search Elite, CINAHL, Medline via PubMed and Cohrane Library. The articles were quality-tested and the content studied, resulting in four categories as follows. Research involving the physical aspects of the quality of life showed that sleeplessness, tiredness and pain was commonly occurring symptoms in women?s daily life which affected their life-situation.