Mitt examensarbete handlar om hur en person kan komma att ändra sin uppfattning om någonting. Vi ändrar ofta vårt sätt att se på någonting i vår omvärld på ett annat sätt än tidigare. Jag minns själv när jag gick i grundskolan och ändrade min uppfattning om matematikens tallinje. Innan hade jag haft en tanke om att matematik var svårt att förstå och att jag aldrig skulle kunna räkna till 100. Min uppfattning ändrades när jag upptäckte hur tallinjen är uppbyggd och att den är enkel när du väl kan den.

Varför ökar antalet besök på folkbiblioteken medan antalet lån minskar? Syftet med den här undersökningen är att studera vad besökarna gör på Luleå folkbiblioteks huvudbibliotek och hur de betraktar sitt bibliotek. Frågeställningarna är: ? Vad gör besökarna på biblioteket förutom att låna böcker, tidningar och AV-medier? ? Hur betraktar besökarna på Luleå folkbibliotek sitt bibliotek? ? Vilka är det som besöker biblioteket? ? Hur är miljön på biblioteket och vilken inverkan har den på biblioteksbesökarna? ? Är biblioteket också en plats som lockar till sig andra besökare än de som söker det som förknippas med biblioteksverksamhet? För att kunna besvara frågeställningarna har en observationsundersökning och en enkätundersökning gjorts. I analysen har några begrepp från Bourdieu använts.

Föreliggande arbete syftar till att förteckna viktigare termer i informations-dokumentationsområdet. Tyngdpunkten ligger på bibliotek, samhällsinformation och datateknik. Detta kan förhoppningsvis vara andra studenter till nytta och glädje.Handledare: Göte Edström.

I denna uppsats har vi utvärderat Give me five, som är ett länsövergripande samarbetsprojekt mellan förskola och bibliotek. Projektet är en läsfrämjande insats, initierat av Länsbiblioteket i Västerbotten och finansierat av Kulturrådet, där den moderna bilderboken används som ett pedagogiskt redskap för att nå femåringar och vuxna i deras närhet.Vi har i uppsatsen fokuserat på projektarbetet som pågått i Umeåområdet under åren 2011-2012, utifrån förskollärarnas perspektiv. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer på sex förskolor har vi besvarat våra frågeställningar som handlar om hur förskollärarna har upplevt att arbeta med projektet, hur väl arbetet överensstämmer med projektmålen, vilken betydelse projektorganisationen haft för arbetet samt hur det fortsatta arbetet med projektet kan utvecklas. Bedömningskriterierna är förskollärarnas subjektiva uppfattningar av det faktiska projektarbetet gentemot de uppställda projektmålen.Utifrån intervjuerna och det teoretiska ramverk vi studerat har vi kommit fram till våra slutsatser. Förskollärarna tycker att det har varit positivt att arbeta med projektet eftersom att de tillsammans med barnen har varit fria att styra över det kreativa arbete som utförts och även fått ta del av olika kulturella aktiviteter.

With the advent of a range of social networks, librarians all over the world have startedto ask themselves how this new technology can be used as a way to market theirlibraries. Today's information websites and search engines are difficult competitors forlibraries and information centers, and are forcing traditional information institutions tomarket themselves in new ways.Marketing theories have traditionally concerned themselves with money transactionsand marketing of specific services and/or products. Relationship marketing theories, onthe other hand, focus more on the relationship between the customer and the companythat produces the product or service. These two parties are seen as co-producers, andrelationship marketing theories tend to focus more on a win-win situation, than on thecompany gaining power of the customer. The relationship is the important thing, and thetheories concentrate to a great extent on how to nourish these relationships.This paper is a discussion about whether Facebook as a social network is a usable toolfor library marketing.

The point of departure for this thesis was an article written by Christer Hermansson (2008). He thinks that librarians, following the development of Library 2.0 and the change of public libraries, have strayed away from what he believes should be the focus of the library: Literature. The aim of this thesis is to study how librarians in six Swedish libraries perceive their occupational roles. How does the increased user control, which is seen as part of Library 2.0, affect the tasks of libraries and librarians? The material used in this study was acquired using a qualitative interview technique in which six librarians working in public libraries with experience of IT, mediation and purchase of literature partook.

The structure of the Swedish public library field has been evolving during the last decades. The traditional mission of educating the citizens to become responsible, democratic and knowledgeable members of society has in a way led to the integration between public and school libraries. Lately new co-operational models have been under debate and a sense of resistance has arisen because of the economical and market influences. In parallel with closure of library branches new libraries have evolved in malls and wash houses and some with self-service with no use of librarians. This work shows how co-operation in rural areas finds the common goals for the people living there who are concerned about keeping the service needed including the public library and thus using existing means and crossing borders of commercial thinking.

The aim of this study is to examine the interaction between a group of multilingual, twelve-year-old children, and three libraries. The children live in a suburb of a larger city. The three libraries are their school-library, the library in their suburb and the main library in the city. We have examined if and how the children use the libraries, what the libraries mean to them in their daily life and what their possibilities are when it comes to participate in and influence activities and collections at the libraries. We have pursued qualitative interviews with sixteen children in grade six and three librarians, working with multilingual children at the three libraries.

Swedish university libraries traditionally collect recreational readingmaterial only to support the teaching and research interests of theirinstitutions. However many university libraries hold a substantial yetunspecified collection of popular fiction. This thesis investigates theextent of these collections and examines academic librarians' viewsabout students' recreational reading in the academic context and theirattitudes towards the role of fiction and of readers' advisory inacademic libraries. The theoretical framework includes literature andresearch about the benefits of reading for pleasure, collections' rolesand readers' advisory strategies. The empirical material was gatheredthrough quantitative surveys sent to academic librarians in Sweden.The results show that academic librarians are positive about thebenefits of recreational reading for university students.

This essay concerns sponsorship of libraries within Sweden. It takes its starting-point in the libraries economical situation where resources are decreasing. The main purpose of the essay is to investigate how sponsorship is used in public libraries. The main questions are:o Why are sponsorships appealing to libraries? o What does the processes of sponsoring look like? o What are the possible risks concerning sponsor-ships ? could it endanger libraries democratic role? o How does library staff reflect on the role of libraries in contemporary society? In our study we chose to investigate the sponsorship issue from the sponsored libraries perspective.

The aim of this thesis is to answer whether a group of databases dedicated to selling books or a group of databases dedicated to lending books is more efficient. The measurements used to determine the efficiency of the two kinds of databases are Cumulated Gain and precision in modified versions. The inquiry has been conducted thus that the same 18 queries have been put forth to six databases and these results have consequently been judged according to relevance on a 4-graded scale by five respondents. The rankinglevels have then been merged to one average value per respondent and ranking. These values have then been used to determine CG/iCG/nCG and P@n per query, rank 1-10, per database and per group (the groups being STORE (BUTIK) and LIBRARY (BIBLIOTEK).

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.

The purpose of this study is to examine how immigrant authorsare mediated in texts. The study is based on three magazines which are directed towards the library sector. These texts have been published from the year 2000 to the year 2012. The study focuses on two of these magazines, namely Bibliotek i Samhälle and Biblioteksbladet. The study focuses on authors who write in the swedish language, but who still seem to be perceived as immigrant authors.

Syftet med undersökning var att ta reda på vad läraren har för roll i lek och samling samt lärarens uppfattning av fenomenet barns inflytande i lek och samling.Undersökning har gjorts med hjälp av observationer i form av löpande protokoll och frågeställningar som jag har ställt till olika förskollärare. Resultatet jag fick visar på att lärarna har en god uppfattning om barns inflytande i lek och samling och att de är medvetna om hur deras roll som lärare ska vara i lek och samling.  Jag kan utifrån det jag läst i litteraturen se likheter med mitt resultat..

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how librarians andteachers work together and with the help of other researchtry to understand what influences this cooperation. The studyis based on the following questions:1. These two professional groups have differentprofessional identities and work in two differentprofessional cultures. How does this affect theircooperation?2.