Sko?nlitteraturens psykologi a?r ett fa?lt som behandlar effekterna av att la?sa sko?nlitteratur pa? det ma?nskliga psyket. Inom detta fa?lt har en, fra?mst nordamerikansk, forskning fokuserat pa? korrelationen mellan ett la?sande av sko?nlitteratur och en o?kad empati. I fo?religgande text har vi fo?rso?kt sammansta?lla denna forskning och med hja?lp av en grupp yrkesverksamma pedagoger pa? en ho?gstadieskola i Malmo? diskuterat, dels hur undervisningen med sko?nlitteratur och empati ser ut idag och dels vilket sto?d det finns fo?r ett empatiarbete med hja?lp av fiktion, ba?de fra?n skolans ledning och i styr- och ma?ldokumenten.

The aim of this master thesis was to measure the terminological consistency when indexing fiction. The study included ten participants, five librarians and five patrons who indexed two novels in three steps. Besides calculating the terminological consistency a typified index based on the term frequency was created.Subject heading list Att indexera skönlitteratur was used as a controlled vocabulary and to calculate the consistency the asymmetrical formula was used.The result showed that the study produced relatively high consistency values compared to other studies. The subject heading list increased the consistency value for all of the participants, for the patrons the increase was substantial. The librarians produced higher consistency values compared to the patrons in almost every step and they had in percentage lower amount of terms used only once..

This master thesis aims to examine the process of indexing fiction when it comes to area of sexuality and gender identity. The empiric work that forms the basis of the thesis are three investigations:(a) examining the current status of indexing fiction within the catalogues of six Swedish medium-sized libraries;(b) interviewing librarians who allocate the subject headings; and(c) an analysis of the Swedish subject heading system Att indexera skönlitteratur.This will be concluded with an analysis of the gathered material through queer theoretic standpoint with the help of critical classification and its inclusion through separation, and marginalization where subjects that differs from the norm is included but only by being separated from the norm, or ignored totally. This will show that there are similarities with how different groups get treated within the classification systems and how they are treated in subject heading indexing. An example of this in Att indexera skönlitteratur is that heterosexuality never is mentioned in the subject heading but is always present as the silent norm, while gender identity is marginalized through exclusion of the subject heading, and related words are instead being included under sexual identity..

The aim of this master thesis is to find out how indexing of fiction works. I look at the consistency when users? choices of index words are compared with each other and I also compare users? choices to the current indexing made by libraries. I examine the subject heading list, Att indexera skönlitteratur, to find out how well it works in this particular context. The investigation included seven users who, in three steps, are creating a subject heading index of the Swedish novel Klippdockan by Cecilia Dahlheim.

This paper addresses the need to review the modern presentation of textile archaeology in museums. It is time to look at textiles in archaeology with new eyes. The reality behind archaeological textilestudy is holistic, embracing many different aspects of society. The presentation of textiles has in my opinion become old-fashioned. I will show in my paper that Jonathan Adams? `seven constraints´ model, developed for research on ancient ships, can also be applied to textile research.

Computerized methods for searching pictures are becoming more common. With these it ispossible to make powerful search requests using a combination of terms and search oncomprehensive descriptions of the pictures. The descriptions can encompass various aspectsof the content and allow different interpretations and levels of detail.This essay is about how you can examine and describe the content of a picture from manypoints of view. We have tried to identify differences in searching behaviour, and studiedsome methods for indexing of pictures. Our concepts are taken from the philosophy of artand from theories about the meaning of languages.In the future perhaps libraries can make pictures and illustrations in books available to thepublic, in a sophisticated system, for the purpose of providing visual documentation forstudy, research or other kinds of exploitation..

Marknaden för sökmotorer växer och förutspås under 2006 att öka med 41 % till en mångmiljardindustri. Informationsmängden är i nuläget så pass stor att en enskild sökmotor inte kan indexera allt. Detta medför att behovet av specialiserade sökmotorer ökar. Vi föreslår i denna uppsats en specialiserad sökmotor för att hitta information med anknytning till en viss geografisk position. Vi kontaktade företag inom två branscher för att undersöka vilka framgångsfaktorer som skulle öka företagens acceptans av detta verktyg.

Detta examensarbete handlar om hur gymnasiela?rare i svenska?mnet ta?nker och reflekterar i sina val av sko?nlitteratur i litteraturundervisningen. La?rarnas utsagor har sedan analyserats ur ett normkritiskt perspektiv da? syftet har varit att underso?ka huruvida la?rarna anva?nder litteratur fo?r att problematisera normer. Informanterna som intervjuats fo?r studien har varit sju gymnasiela?rare som undervisar i a?mnet svenska i en medelstor stad i Mellansverige.

Detta a?r en studie om vilken litteratur gymnasiela?rare i svenska anva?nder i sin undervisning, och de bakomliggande motiveringarna och faktorerna till detta urval. Syftet a?r att besvara fo?ljande fra?gesta?llningar: Finns det en outtalad kanon inom gymnasiets undervisning i svenska, och vilken litteratur be- sta?r den i sa? fall av? Mot vilken bakgrund och fo?rkunskap va?ljer la?rare i svenska pa? gymnasiet den litteratur de be- gagnar i sin undervisning?Fo?r att besvara fra?gesta?llningarna har en kvalitativ enka?tstudie genomfo?rts med 14 gymnasiela?- rare i svenska. Resultatet visar pa? tendenser i la?rarnas litteratururval som ligger na?ra en kanon.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate librarians? experiences and opinions about a system for fiction retrieval based on the subject headings list Att indexera skönlitteratur. I want to know if librarians experience that subject headings searches for fiction literature are a good working tool, if there according to librarians are other resources and means that makes fiction available and searchable, and how they estimate the possibility of non-professionals to use subject headings for fiction retrieval. Six librarians at public libraries in Göteborg where interviewed. The interviews dealt with their work with fiction literature, their experiences of subject headings as a fiction retrieval tool, and with their contacts with patrons.

How do you summarize the content of a fictional work, let?s sayLord of the Rings, into a few "telling" words that may represent it? This master?s thesis is a comparative study of how library users? freely chosen tags/keywords deviate from controlled vocabulary made by professional indexers when representing fiction. The thesis answers four main questions:? Do the tags that the library users give fictional works correspond to the categories used in professional indexing in Sweden?? Do the tags follow the standards for vocabulary, semantics and syntax used when indexing professionally?? Do the tags add something to document representations?? Are there differences between the tags used for adult fiction and the tags used for children?s literature?With a starting point in indexing theories of Frederick W. Lancaster, Annelise Pejtersen, and the semiotic theory of the indexing process of Jens-Erik Mai, 383 tags from totally 70 fictional works are analyzed.

This Bachelor's thesis in Environmental Science studies the quality of an index of performance measurement of Swedish municipalities' sustainability governance offered by the environmental magazine Miljöaktuellt. Executed for six consecutive years, this evaluation is arguably the most comprehensive and widely spread local sustainability assessment in Sweden. Contextualizing this quantitative measurement tool in the paradigm of New Public Management, the research questions posed are: 'to what extent does the index employed by Miljöaktuellt correspond to the requirements of a set of quality criteria for sustainability assessment?' and 'is the index appropriate as a measure of, or a goal for, Swedish municipalities' internal sustainability efforts?' Through the perspective of evaluation theory, Miljöaktuellt's index is seen as a performance evaluation, thus categorizing this study as a meta-evaluation. Through a qualitative thematic approach, the index is analyzed using the 8 BellagioSTAMP-principles that were developed as tools for assessing quality of sustainability assessments as themes for the analysis.

HBTQ-personer är en utsatt minoritetsgrupp i samhället på grund av heteronormen. De mänskliga rättigheterna och Barnkonventionen påpekar alla människors lika värde och barnens specifika rättigheter, medan Bibliotekslagen och folkbiblioteksmanifestet i sin tur säger att folkbiblioteken ska vara till för alla och att barn och ungdomar speciellt ska prioriteras i bibliotekens verksamhet. Dessa skrifter ligger som bakgrund för mitt val att utvärdera om och hur HBTQ-teman i barn- och ungdomsböcker lyfts fram på folkbibliotek genom ämnesordsindexering. Utvärderingen är en så kallad mål-resultatutvärdering som har tittat på ämnesordsindexering som ett resultat av de övergripande mål för biblioteksverksamheten som kan utläsas explicit eller implicit i de offentliga skrifter som nämnts ovan. Målen för ämnesordsindexering är att användarna skall kunna hitta den litteratur de söker i bibliotekens kataloger och i fallet för den här utvärderingen var det specifikt HBTQ-teman i böcker som eftersöktes.

Det har länge funnits ett behov av kunskapsorganisatoriska redskap för att underlätta informationsåtervinning av den barn- och ungdomsskönlitteratur vars innehåll på olika sätt bryter mot traditionella könsroller och genusnormer. Inte minst kommer efterfrågan från skola och förskola. I ämnesordslistan för barn- och ungdomslitteratur finns tre ämnesord som har formulerats för att möta detta behov: ?Starka flickor?, ?Självständiga barn? och ?Känsliga barn?. Denna uppsats utvärderar dessa ämnesord samt kommer med konkreta förslag på förbättringar.