The purpose of this master?s thesis is to examine the activity at the library and preschool at Kristineberg (a part of the town of Borås) and its underlying approach. How do the activities agree with the ideological attitudes of the 1970s? To answer these questions I have carried out a case study based on qualitative interviews. The theoretical background includes ideas of the library, the community center and the cultural activity at the library.

The purpose of this thesis is to study the attitude towardscomics among librarians as well as their personal image ofthe overall attitude towards comics among librarians and themanner in which the attitude of the librarians affects how thecomics are treated in the library.I have performed this study with a qualitative approach andhave interviewed a total of five librarians working in twodifferent libraries.I have founded the theoretical base for my research in anumber of historical attitudes towards comics and thencompared these attitudes towards the answers given in theinterviews as well as prior research found in three theseswritten by Magnus Johansson, Sarah Johansson and KarinEsaiasson.The results of the study is that traces of most of thehistorical attitudes can be found among all of the interviewedlibrarians but that none of them are harboring any negativeattitudes towards comics themselves. On the other hand thestudy does imply that the image of the librarian who onlythinks that comics are meant for children is still very muchalive in the collective subconscious of the librarians.The study also shows that while librarians of today tend tohave a neutral outlook in comics the historically subpartreatment of comic in the libraries and the subsequent lack ofacademic support on the subject have made it necessary forthe librarian in charge of the comic-section to have apersonal interest/liking for comics to be able to do a goodjob..

The aim of this Master's thesis is to examine and analyze what discourses about children that can be found in three Swedish culture publications, and also to identify the different social roles that are attributed to children in these publications. The theoretical and methodological background is discourse theory, as described by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Additional theory used is social constructionism and Norman Fairclough?s critical discourse theory. Three questions are asked: What discourse/s can be found in these publications? What do these discourses tell us about the view on children within the library domain? What social roles are attributed to the children in the texts and what consequences do these have for the power configuration between children and adults? Furthermore there is a discussion concerning what effects these discourses might have on the direct and indirect reception of children in the library.

Syftet med vår studie är att medvetandegöra och uppmärksamma betydelsen av olika faktorers påverkan när det gäller att ge skönlitteraturen en plats i skolan samt att synliggöra konsekvenserna av detta ur ett elevperspektiv. Vår frågeställning är; Vilka faktorer anser lärarna i vår undersökning påverkar arbetet med skönlitteratur i skolan? Metod: Vi valde att göra en kvantitativ undersökning genom att dela ut enkäter till verksamma lärare i grundskolan. Anledningen till det var att vi ville nå ut till ett större antal lärare och få ett bredare undersökningsmaterial. Eftersom vi inte var intresserade av människors upplevelse av ett fenomen valde vi bort intervjuer som metod.

The aim of this study is to compare how three local librarieshandle their collections, and to compare this with handlingcollections at national level. I have investigated librarian?sopinions of their collections and how they take care andpreserve them for the future. It has also been studied if thelibraries collections of old material contains more than justold book rarities.In this study I had compared my respondents answer withSvante Beckman and Magdalena Hillström`s theory ofmuseum`s four idealtypes. Their view of a museum is in theforms of a treasury, archive, school and a theatre.

Undervisning om multiplikationstabellen består främst av lärande genom repetition eller strategi. Syftet med litteraturstudien är att utifrån forskning undersöka och jämföra inlärning av multiplikationstabellen genom strategi- och repetitionsbaserad undervisning. Studien avgränsas till elever i årskurs 1 till 6. Materialet samlades in genom en iterativ sökning på åtta databaser för vetenskapliga publikationer. Det insamlade materialet bestod av sjutton vetenskapliga publikationer.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the situation for ebooksin Swedish public libraries. The background is anincreasing lending of e-books in public libraries, with anacquisition model formed when e-books were more of anexperiment in a few libraries. The debate has escalated in therecent years and in this thesis I aim to investigate thelibraries? experience with e-books and the current pricemodel. The empirical material comes from interviews witheight head of public libraries in the Västra Götaland region.As theoretical background, I have used Michael Buckland?sfour roles of collections and price models from Lee andBoyle.My results show ambivalence with the price model.

The purpose of this master?s thesis is to examine virtual reading groups, and which meaning the users perceive that the virtual reading groups offer. In addition, the study inquires which details can be improved to further amend the needs and wants among the users of virtual reading groups. Through these outlines, it is discussed how libraries and librarians can make use of virtual reading groups as a resource. The study is based upon qualitative interviews, consisting of asynchronous e-mail interviews with a total of sixteen members in two different virtual reading groups.

This Masters thesis concerns feature film services in Swedish public libraries. We have investigated the opinion of eight librarians concerning values and criteria for selection as regards film. The theory chosen comes from varied disciplines, for example sociology, adapted to our subject. The most important theories are Antonio Gramscis idea of hegemony, Herbert J. Gans concept of taste cultures and Carl Gustav Johannsens discussion about quality.

KLIPPANByggnadens form utgår från platsens morfologi och topologi.Konkav mot staden och konvex mot parken, utskjutande mot hornsbruksgatan och fasad mot Högalidsparken.I gränsen mellan natur och stad vill den ta fasta på båda världars egenskaper och styrkor och samtidigt utgöra länken dem emellan.En klippa som sträcker ut sig mot det urbana landskapet med Högalidskyrkan i ryggen.Den skapar möten och förenar inom ramen av sig själv och de cirkulationsflöden den ger.Klippan förlänger parken genom sitt offentliga terrasstak och utgör samtidigt en öppning från stad till park.Ett trappsystem placerat på den södra delen leder in besökaren till de offentliga delarna av byggnaden. Ett centralt system, direkt till parken.Härigenom skapas ett följsamt möte mellan stad och park samtidigt som gränsen mellan privat och offentligt luckras upp inom ramen för byggnadens mixade programmering.Ett bibliotek/ideastore placerat på markplan i riktning mot Hornstull, samsas med kontorsdelar mot tunnelbanan.I de två övre planerna ligger programdelar som direkt har ett utbyte av varandras närhet, uthyrbara kontorsplatser, arbetsförmedling, ateljéer och kafé.Boendedelen är fristående och placerad ovanpå T-banestationen, men ändå integrerad genom det externa cirkulationssystemet--------------------------------------------------------------Utgångspunkten är mötet mellan stad och natur, park. Idén är att skapa en byggnad som starkt relaterar till sin gränslandet och samtidigt har en självständig identitet Platsen har idag en rad olika och i viss mån separerade kvalitéer. Grönområde - urbanitet - närhet till olika noder - T-bana - urban knytpunkt - Hornstull. Byggnaden ska ta till vara på dessa kvalitéer genom att arbeta med mötet där emellan. Genom att knyta ihop dem kan en tredje sfär skapas inom ramen för byggnaden och dess omgärde.  - Hur koppla ihop delarna? - Hur få ut något intressant och bra? Macrostrategi Byggnadens externa relationÖppna upp cirkulationsflödet mellan gaturum och park. Öppna upp siktlinjer - skapa visuella kopplingar från gaturum till park - från byggnad till sin omgivning. Distribution av programdelar i relation till plats.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate what the users/visitors do at the Filipstads Bergslags Library when they are there. The questions we asked were "What do the visitors do when they are at the library?" and "How do the visitors give priority to the librarys services?" From these two questions we asked a third "How do the visitors view the library and its functions and what function do they see as the most important to them?" The method we used was a user study and we did this at the request of the management at the library. A questionnaire was constructed and handed out in a pilot study. We made some changes in the questionnaire before we started to hand it out at the library.

The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to investigate what role the public library in Sweden may have when it comes to gender equality issues. The questions at issue that were asked, in order to give an answer to the aim, was how the librarians defined and saw work with equality, how much the steering documents for the library impact and what they are doing in their practice to weaken the dichotomies between the sexes. The theoretical starting point used for this study is three concepts, the gender system, the stereotypes and the gender contract described by the Swedish historian Yvonne Hirdman. The purpose of the three concepts is that gender is a social construction which produces gender stereotypes and a gender order in society, which the library is a part of.

Undersökningen i den här uppsatsen behandlar stil i den vetenskapliga genren i gymnasieskolan. Materialet som undersöks är nio elevlösningar, tre vardera från betygen A, C och E, från det nationella provet i Svenska 3, delprov A. Syftet är att undersöka om det finns några skillnader i stil mellan texter som fått betygen A, C eller E och vilka skillnader som finns i sådana fall. Genom kvantitativa och kvalitativa stilanalyser av texterna studeras stildragen personlighet, formalitet och användning av referatmarkörer.Undersökningen visar att användningen av personliga pronomen är likvärdig oavsett betyg. De texter som fått A uppvisar dubbelt så många opersonliga stildrag som texterna med E och C i betyg.

The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to gain deeper knowledge about how librarians in public libraries in Sweden view theirprofessional role with regard to the last decades of change in the library field. Especially concerning the technical evolution and towards a higher user orientation and market mindset, and in which ways this has influenced the librarians everyday working tasks. A particular focus has been placed towards the reference transaction, the use of computers and e-media, and the stock development. We believe that there currently is a changeover, from the libraries traditional line of function, towards them as more of service institutions.The method used in this study for answering the research questions and to gather empirical information is semi-structuredinterviews.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine a new music downloading service called Musikwebben, which is now available in many Swedish libraries. It focuses on the differences and similarities between this service and illegal music sharing services. The question is raised, whether the appeal of Musikwebben is high enough for it to be able to ?recruit? users from similar, illegal services. To answer this question, a qualitative content analysis is used, to explore various views on what legal downloading services have to offer and how these differ to illegal alternatives.