The aim of this thesis is to study the phenomenon of read/write OPAC by looking at how students at Pennsylvania University use PennTags in order to influence document descriptions in the library catalogue. The main questions to be answered are to what extent PennTags is being used in different subject areas and what users contribute to document descriptions through tagging in different subject areas. Studying the posts created by a sample of PennTags users from a quantitative approach I try to find out if there is reason to believe that the activity of users and users? possibility to make meaningful contributions are dependent of the subject matter being dealt with in documents described, as anticipated by the theory of pace Layering. I find that user interest in influencing the library catalogue through PennTags appears to be low in general, with exception for in the subject areas of the main classes Language and literature and Social sciences in Library of Congress Classification.

Studiens syfte har varit att, utifrån ett lärarperspektiv, bidra till ökad kunskap om hur IKT används i textilslöjden och hur förutsättningarna för detta ser ut. Avsikten var främst att ta reda på hur lärare använder sig av de resurser som finns på skolorna och i sina klassrum men även vad de skulle önskat att de hade tillgång till. Studien gjordes på några mellan- och högstadieskolor runt om i Sverige och datamaterialet insamlades genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra stycken verksamma textillärare. Fokus i intervjuerna var att finna positiva och/eller negativa aspekter med digitala verktyg i textilslöjden, hur lärares undervisning förändras, samt om slöjdens arbetsprocess förändras vid arbete med digitala verktyg. Resultatet visade att de intervjuade lärarna använde sig av IKT olika mycket men har många liknande tankar kring att det är tidssparande, inspirerande och utvecklande för eleverna att arbeta med i olika sammanhang.

This paper researches how the palimpsest concept is used in relation to landscape, and how it can function as a tool within landscape architecture. Palimpsest originally refers to old parchment handwritings, where new text has been applied on top of effaced, but still discernable, earlier writing. Superimposition of information is the core of the palimpsest concept, used within a range of scientific as well as cultural fields. The purpose of this paper is to find how a landscape palimpsest can be distinguished among the many different layers of landscape, such as historical or cultural, and to examine the potential use of the concept in theory and practice of the landscape architecture field. The study is conducted as a literature survey, examining the use of the palimpsest concept within academic works related to landscape.

Landscape urbanism has for the last decade been a topic for debate among practitioners and theorists involved in forming the contemporary city. The advocates for landscape urbanism mean that traditional dichotomies like city and country are invalid to illustrate the contemporary urban realm. Rather, a new urban morphology has evolved, which calls for new methods and models when approaching the city. Landscape urbanism suggests a revaluation of landscape in order to develop these approaches. This paper sets out to map how this is addressed within landscape urbanism.