This master?s thesis is about freedom of information ideas in the European Union data retention directive, 2006/24/EC. The directive means that data about electronic communications services will be retentioned. The aim of the thesis is to examine what ideas related to freedom of information that appear in the directive and how these ideas belong to the ideology of freedom of information that is common within the library community and to the juridical restrictions. In the light of surveillance tendencies that have occurred over the last years, the most well-known is probably the USA Patriot Act, it is interesting to study how freedom of information ideas appears when surveillance is legislated.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att kommunikativt sänka kraven på musikkulturell förkunskap vid interaktion med det digitala musikarkivet Every Noise At Once. Studien tog stöd i teorier inom kognitiv semantik och teknisk kommunikation.De metoder som användes var omvärldsanalys, expertintervjuer och receptionsanalys. Längs arbetets gång formades en hypotes som sedan prövades genom empirisk datainsamling och analys av denna.Resultatet antydde att vi förstår musik, och gör oss språkligt förstådda om musik, via taktila och visuella metaforer. Detta resultat guidade sedan gestaltningen av en prototyp där utvalda akustiska attribut översattes till liknelser med taktil och visuell koppling. .

I mitt examensarbete testar jag olika kreativa metoder, dels tagna från etablerade konceptillustratörer i spelindustrin, men också egna, för att svara på min huvudfråga: Vilka olika kreativa metoder kan användas inom konceptillustration? Jag kommer fram till att det finns oändligt många, men att vad som har fungerat bäst för mig, har varit att först försöka skapa ett sammanhang, följt av en fas där jag utforskar olika idéer med hjälp av karaktärssiluetter, med fokus på intressanta och individuella former. Min slutsats blir att det är viktigt att vara öppen för influenser från alla håll, och att testa nya metoder kan vara oerhört givande för såväl kreativiteten som sin konstnärliga utveckling..

The purpose of this Bachelor?s thesis is to examine university librarians? perceptions of information literacy, of students? information literacy and of education in information literacy. The focus is on how they perceive the students? information literacy development during their university studies. Also of interest in this study is how librarians think that their teaching in information literacy should be included in the students? other courses. Three librarians at a Swedish university library were interviewed using qualitative interviews.

Heart failure is the most common reason to hospitalization among persons over 65 years old. Self-care is an important part in the treatment of heart failure, but poor information and knowledge limits the ability of self-care and increases the risk of admission to hospital.The aim of the study was to investigate what information patients with heart failure describes that they receive from health care personal, how information is perceived, who provides the information, and on what occasions it is given. The aim was also to investigate whether patients' perception of knowledge about heart failure increased after hospitalization.The study is cross-sectional study with a descriptive design. A consecutive selection was used. A questionnaire was filled in by 28 participants.The study has shown that patients with heart failure largely experience information about heart failure inadequate.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to describe the information behaviour of six adults with dyslexia with focus on how they handle information problems. The data consists of literature and interviews with six persons with dyslexia. The theoretical framework used in this study is Anders Hektors theory about human information behaviour as well as concepts and theories from the library and information science field. Ten information activities are used to describe the informants information behaviour. Answers are sought to the following questions: · How do the informants describe their backgrounds and their reading- and writing disabilities? · What problems do the informants meet in the context of information in their everyday lives with reference to ten particular information activities? · How do the informants solve these problems? The study showed that the main problems for the informants appeared to be difficulties with reading and spelling, problems with the appearance of the information, lack of time and stress while reading and writing as well as problems with lack of awareness about dyslexia.

The purpose of this essay is to examine how four Swedish retail companies describe their information management in connection to ethical trade. My purpose is also to examine how this information management relates to organizational learning. My questions at issue are ? ?Which activities related to information management in connection to ethical trade is described by the companies?? and ?How can these activities and statements be related to organizational learning?? My method of investigation is to perform qualitative interviews with representatives from the retail companies and relate the results to theories on information management and organizational learning, mainly theories of double-loop- and single-loop learning. The information management literature address issues such as information needs, information sources and information seeking.

Detta examensarbete är en undersökning om hur det kan se ut då vi tar oss olika sökvägar på internet.     Hur kan man synliggöra det vi gör då vi söker på nätet?  För att undersöka detta har jag låtit gymnasieelever, studiekamrater och vänner utföra olika typer av internetbaserade sökningar och med hjälp av semiotiska analysverktyg har undersökningsmaterialet analyserats och reflekterats.Syftet med undersökningen är att få en fördjupad förståelse för hur man på olika sätt kan använda sig av visuellt material som elever och pedagoger redan använder.Som blivande bildpedagog vill jag tillsammans med mina elever utforska de tankeprocesser som sker då vi söker och delar information på internet. Genom att synliggöra mina egna tankeprocesser kan jag förstå andras. En förståelse som också gör det möjligt att förhålla sig till vår tids visuella kulturer.Tolkning och resultat har prövats med hjälp av internatbaserade undersöknings metoder. Även pedagogiska filosofier och teorier som jag stött på under min egen lärarutbildning samt situationer som jag själv upplevt på den gymnasieskola där jag arbetar har legat till grund för undersökningen.Resultat som framkommit ur bearbetningen av informanternas och mina egna internetsökningar har fått skapa det visuella abstraktet.

The purpose of this study is to examine and explain why three Swedish public libraries failedin their ambition to act as information services for small and medium-sized firms (SMF). To support this purpose two major assumptions are made:1) Public libraries who plan to run this kind of "business" must act with the same means as "professional" services.2) The service must be adjusted to the information needs of the customer.Based on these assumptions sixteen factors which are crucial to the "success" for this kind of service are presented.Applied to the information services of Lidkoping, Sölvesborg and Västervik, these factors reveal a number of shortcomings and mistakes made by the libraries.To understand this result these information services are seen as parts of a traditional Swedish public "library-thought". It is shown that, fundamental ideas in the way the public libraries are defined, like the responsibility to act in a neutral and democratic way, also characterised the three information services.These ideas together with the opinion of SMF as a "rational" information-consumer resulted in information services who did not meet the information-needs and information-behaviour of SMF..

In a time where information overload is a fact, well formulated messages is required and communication is a big contributing element for building strong brands. In the north of Sweden, Norrmejerier is one of the big actors with dominance on the dairy factor market. Through making milk products that lands in the consumers refridgerators, they are not only working for economical interest but also for improving the nature of the north of Sweden. Through visual communication, Norrmejerier shows the consumers a beneficial view of the north of Sweden which corresponds to the populations own impression of their part of the country. This contributes to a feeling of belonging that makes strong and loyal consuments. The feeling of belonging is also reflected in Norrmejeriers commercial movies, that uses the consumers conscience to make costumers. By two group interviews and a semiotic analysis of Norrmejeriers commercial movies, this study aims to examine how Norrmejerier uses qualities of the north of Sweden when building their brand.

Det ha?r a?r ett examensarbete i informationsdesign med inriktning mot rumslig gestaltning. Syftet med detta examensarbete har varit att underso?ka utvecklingsmo?jligheterna fo?r den rumsliga utformningen i X huvudentre?, med ma?let om att rumsligt sta?rka informationsla?nken mellan fo?retaget och beso?kare. Genom att skapa en fo?rsta?else fo?r hur rummets gestaltning samspelar med ma?nniskans upplevelse ges en sto?rre insikt i hur ett rum bo?r utformas fo?r ett besta?mt syfte, ba?de fo?r att kunna sto?dja en praktisk funktion och a?ven en visuell upplevelse.Syftet med de underso?kningar som utfo?rts i examensarbetet har varit att fa? en uppfattning kring beso?karnas upplevelse av den rumsliga utformningen i X huvudentre?.

In this thesis I have investigated four housing corporation?s information about garbage disposal for their tenants (primarily immigrants who just arrived to Sweden).   Interviews with renters, employees of the housing corporations and employees of Eskilstuna Energi och Miljö indicates that the garbage information need to be improved to be better adapted to the target group.    To solve this information problem I decided to create an information chart, consisting of illustrations and legible text which informs the renters of how and, above all why it is important to recycle.   The aim of the project is also to increase the renters? commitment and motivation in recycling and also; make the housing corporations, other organizations and authorities aware of how important it is to adapt information to different kind of groups. The aim in Information Design is always to work from the needs of the recipients..

Studies of the information needs of library patrons are necessary in order for the library to serve the community. Alas, studies of non-heterosexual persons are rare in the field of Library and Information Science in Sweden. This study aims at examining the information situation of women in same-sexed parenthood by means of analysing their situation as norm-breaking. The study is done through examining the specific information needs of this group, how they seek and receive information, what barriers they encounter and what function the library has in this information situation. A queer theoretical approach to heteronormativity in combination with McKenzie?s two-dimensional model of information seeking is used to perform a qualitative analysis of the material.

The aim of this study is to investigate variations of conceptions among prison librarians, concerning mediation of information from an ethical perspective. We have performed interviews with nine librarians and used the phenomenographic approach when analyzing the material. Sixteen categories of conceptions were found, distributed on four aspects of the phenomenon, the act of mediating information to inmates. The results show a variety of conceptions among the librarians. The four aspects cover conceptions about the inmates as users of the library services in prisons, conceptions about the information need of the inmates, conceptions concerning policies, guidelines and laws and conceptions about information access in the prisons.

Klädindustrin idag bara växer och växer, i snitt konsumerar varje svensk 15kg kläder per år och varje år slängs ca 8kg kläder per person. I Sverige köps det kläder för drygt 71 miljarder kronor per år. Handlandet och den ständiga efterfrågan utsätter både miljön och människorna på jorden för stora påfrestningar. Med varje klädesplagg kommer det även en galge som antingen har tillverkats i plast, metall eller trä.Projektidén var att ta fram ett förslag på en klädhängare i materialet DuraPulp. Vidare också att ta ställning till om det går att ersätta en sådan kommersiell produkt som plastgalgen med en galge i DuraPulp och vad det skulle innebära framför allt för miljön..