This Master?s thesis investigates user education at high school libraries. The aim of this study is to examine user education and the educational approach that librarian?s experience in their teaching. The method used for the study is qualitative interviews with seven high school librarians.

The main purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine how Swedish upper secondary school librarians and related staff relate to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The research is placed in the all-embracing context of information literacy and source criticism on the Internet. The study was carried out in the form of qualitative interviews and based on two theoretical bases: firstly, the concept of cognitive authority stipulated by Patrick Wilson, and secondly the idea that Wikipedia has a draw towards late modern epistemological assumptions. The latter theory was also associated with the perceptions of knowledge among the library staff interviewed.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine the reading support activities performed by the school libraries of five Swedish upper secondary schools. It focuses upon fiction reading. Two main research questions are asked: the first one in order to find out what kind of ideas of fiction, fiction reading and young people that are held by the librarians of the five libraries, the second one in order to find out what the motives behind the reading support activities are. One additional research question is asked to examine how the librarians estimate the results of the reading support activities, and furthermore how the students seem to respond to them.

In these days we can witness a growing number of combined school and public libraries in Sweden. It can be explained as an economy measure or as an attempt to develop the library work. The aim of this thesis is to picture how working in combined libraries affects high school librarians? own apprehensions of their professional identity. The results are based on in-depth interviews made with four high school librarians, working not only towards the students but also the public.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate upper secondary school librarians conceptions of fiction mediation. By using a phenomenographic method, the different conceptions of the specific phenomena, how the librarians conceptualise their work with mediation of fiction, are made clear. The aim of the method is not to study what fiction mediation is constituted of, but rather how upper secondary school librarians understand it. Qualitative interviews were held with eight upper secondary school librarians about their conceptions of their working tasks, the meaning of fiction for youths, reading promotion, inspiration to purchase of fiction, free voluntary reading and if the importance of fiction has changed over time. The results showed that the upper secondary school librarians conceptualise their working tasks as both changeable and repeatable.

The purpose of this paper was to learn more about the strategies used by senior high school librarians and teachers in educating their students' information skills, such as criticism of the information sources. The paper was based upon qualitative interviews with one senior high school librarian and three senior high school teachers. The respondents were asked to spontaneously tell me about their counseling strategies when the students do research assignments in medicine-oriented subjects. The respondents? narratives were analyzed with Carol Collier Kuhlthau?s theories about the information search process and its levels of mediation, as well as with literature about counseling strategies in mind.

Denna utvärdering handlar om Referensbiblioteket.se, en ämnesportal som skapades 2005 av Informations-och lånecentraler i samverkan, ILS. Webbplatsen riktar sig till personal på folk- och gymnasiebibliotek,och tipsar dem (och andra intresserade) om kvalitetsgranskade internetkällor inom olika ämnesområden.Studien har ett brukarperspektiv. I syfte att undersöka om Referensbiblioteket är en ändamålsenliginformationstjänst har jag studerat webbstatistik, gjort en webbenkätundersökning och samtalat medsju bibliotekarier, fördelat på tre intervjuer. Jag ville ta reda på vilka som i praktiken besöker ämnesportalen,vad de tycker om den och hur de använder den. Bibliotekariernas åsikter har legat till grund förbedömningen av portalen.Utvärderingen visar att Referensbibliotekets styrkor verkar finnas inom SAB-avdelningarna Språkvetenskap(F), Konst, musik, teater och film (I), Historia (K) samt Teknik, industri, kommunikationer(P).

Denna utvärdering handlar om Referensbiblioteket.se, en ämnesportal som skapades 2005 av Informations-och lånecentraler i samverkan, ILS. Webbplatsen riktar sig till personal på folk- och gymnasiebibliotek,och tipsar dem (och andra intresserade) om kvalitetsgranskade internetkällor inom olika ämnesområden.Studien har ett brukarperspektiv. I syfte att undersöka om Referensbiblioteket är en ändamålsenliginformationstjänst har jag studerat webbstatistik, gjort en webbenkätundersökning och samtalat medsju bibliotekarier, fördelat på tre intervjuer. Jag ville ta reda på vilka som i praktiken besöker ämnesportalen,vad de tycker om den och hur de använder den. Bibliotekariernas åsikter har legat till grund förbedömningen av portalen.Utvärderingen visar att Referensbibliotekets styrkor verkar finnas inom SAB-avdelningarna Språkvetenskap(F), Konst, musik, teater och film (I), Historia (K) samt Teknik, industri, kommunikationer(P).

Denna utvärdering handlar om Referensbiblioteket.se, en ämnesportal som skapades 2005 av Informations-och lånecentraler i samverkan, ILS. Webbplatsen riktar sig till personal på folk- och gymnasiebibliotek,och tipsar dem (och andra intresserade) om kvalitetsgranskade internetkällor inom olika ämnesområden.Studien har ett brukarperspektiv. I syfte att undersöka om Referensbiblioteket är en ändamålsenliginformationstjänst har jag studerat webbstatistik, gjort en webbenkätundersökning och samtalat medsju bibliotekarier, fördelat på tre intervjuer. Jag ville ta reda på vilka som i praktiken besöker ämnesportalen,vad de tycker om den och hur de använder den. Bibliotekariernas åsikter har legat till grund förbedömningen av portalen.Utvärderingen visar att Referensbibliotekets styrkor verkar finnas inom SAB-avdelningarna Språkvetenskap(F), Konst, musik, teater och film (I), Historia (K) samt Teknik, industri, kommunikationer(P).