This thesis is about the Public library of Ulricehamn and the cultural activities at the library during the period from 1960 to 1998. We have focused on the study of the cultural activities. It begins with the foundation of the library of Ulricehamn and a historical background to it. It follows with the definitions of the Public library and a historical background to the Public library in Sweden. Then we present the goal of the Public library in general and the goal of Ulricehamn's city library.

This thesis is about the Public library of Ulricehamn and the cultural activities at the library during the period from 1960 to 1998. We have focused on the study of the cultural activities. It begins with the foundation of the library of Ulricehamn and a historical background to it. It follows with the definitions of the Public library and a historical background to the Public library in Sweden. Then we present the goal of the Public library in general and the goal of Ulricehamn's city library.

This thesis is about the Public library of Ulricehamn and the cultural activities at the library during the period from 1960 to 1998. We have focused on the study of the cultural activities. It begins with the foundation of the library of Ulricehamn and a historical background to it. It follows with the definitions of the Public library and a historical background to the Public library in Sweden. Then we present the goal of the Public library in general and the goal of Ulricehamn's city library.

The purpous of this master?s thesis is to explore how the swedish Public library evolved between 1890-1911, before the state implemented the library reform in 1912. The material used to cunduct the study concists mainly of texts published during the time frame of the thesis in the form of books, booklets and articles from Folkbiblioteksbladet, a journal dedicated to the subject of the swedish Public library.Drawing upon Habermas theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere and Bourdieus theories about taste as social distinction and symbolic capital, the thesis seeks to show how the public participated in the evolvement of the Public library and which aspects of society that contributed to the Public library?s establishment as an institution. The findings are also discussed in relation to previous research of the history of the Swedish Public library.

The aim of this two-year masters thesis is to look for the Swedish Public library´s core business, using theories about competence. The approach is qualitative. It is done by studying the Unesco Public library Manifesto, the Swedish library legislation, the education in library and information science, two important Swedish library related journals and by asking public librarians about their work and point of view regarding competence.The research shows mainly two sides of the core competence of public librarians: information technology competence and literature knowledge. The conclusion is that the two meet in the idea of mass education, which could therefore be called the Swedish Public library´s core business..

In this Masters thesis the image of the Public library in the local press and in the eyes of the public is examined. The questions posed to examine this are: - What activities of the Public library are described in the local press? - What activities does the public associate with the Public library? - What functions and roles of the Public library can be found in the articles and interviews and how are they expressed? - What opinions of the Public library and hereto related activities can be found in the articles and interviews? This study is based on an analysis of 127 articles, published in Borås Tidning during a period of six months, and of interviews with 35 people from Sjuhäradsbygden. To analyse the articles and the interviews Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen´s model of roles for the library has been used. The model includes four roles for the library: the library as a cultural centre, a knowledge centre, an information centre and a social centre.

The aim of this study is to examine how teenage boysperceive the Public library. How do they utilize the resourcesprovided by a Public library? What are their thoughtsregarding what a Public library offers in terms of services toits visitors? Four qualitative interviews with teenage boyswere done for the purpose of this study. The study showsthat these individuals perceive the library as a resource foryoungsters, women, elders or people with disabilities orspecial needs, but not themselves..

The aim of this paper is to examine how dyslectic adults define the service quality at the Public library of Gothenburg. The purpose is also to investigate what level of service quality the library provides and which responsibilities the library has towards the dyslectics. Answers are sought to the following questions: - How do dyslectics perceive the service quality at the Public library of Gothenburg and is that service quality satisfactory? - What responsibilities does the Public library of Gothenburg have towards the dyslectics according to cultural policy documents? In this paper six persons have been interviewed. Of these, four are adult dyslectics, one works with people with special demands and the last one is the chief librarian.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate if the mobile library has a similar role as the Public library. To study this further we intend to examine the value and function of the mobile library. Answers are sought to the following questions: Can the mobile library be seen as a Public library in a smaller scale? How do the users experience the value and function of the mobile library? What does the library staff think of the value and function of the mobile library for the users? What would the consequences be if the service of the mobile libraries would not exist? The method used was qualitative interviews. The groups of respondents are mobile library users and library staff.

The aim of this bachelor?s thesis is to investigate how the activities of the Public library are portrayed by the Swedish press. It poses the following questions: What kinds of Public library activities are portrayed in the Swedish press? What image does this depiction purvey to the general public about the societal role of public libraries?A model of four library spaces developed by Skot-Hansen, Hvenegaard Rasmussen, and Jochumsen is used as the theoretical framework for this study. Qualitative content analysis is applied to 173 Swedish newspaper articles that describe Public library activities.The analysis reveals that articles about many kinds of Public library activities get published in the Swedish press, but that some activities occur more frequently than others.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to investigate and increase the understanding of Swedish Public library Websites and to determinate which activity they mediate. To analyse the Public library Websites Andersson and Skot-Hansen?s model of roles for the Public library has been used. This model in¬cludes four roles for the library: the library as a cultural centre, a knowledge centre, as an information centre and as a social centre.

This is a two years master?s thesis that studies five libraries. The purpose with the paper was to look at a specific material and study how it expresses itself around the architecture of the buildings, an if the descriptions were different depending on the library, Public library or university library. The conclusion is that the ways of describing the library buildings have varied; depending on one part time and one part evolution. The way library buildings look and have been used has changed over time also, and as well how people perceive and talk, or in this case write about them..

The purpous of this master?s thesis is to explore how the swedish Public library evolved between 1890-1911, before the state implemented the library reform in 1912. The material used to cunduct the study concists mainly of texts published during the time frame of the thesis in the form of books, booklets and articles from Folkbiblioteksbladet, a journal dedicated to the subject of the swedish Public library.Drawing upon Habermas theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere and Bourdieus theories about taste as social distinction and symbolic capital, the thesis seeks to show how the public participated in the evolvement of the Public library and which aspects of society that contributed to the Public library?s establishment as an institution. The findings are also discussed in relation to previous research of the history of the Swedish Public library.

The purpose of this study is to examine the phenomenon ?Living library?, where people are lent out instead of books. First it is looked into what the Living library means to the person who is borrowing a living book and what it means to the living book itself. Than the Living library is put in a Public library context. This is done through a case study of the city library of Helsingborg and the city library of Malmö.

This Master's thesis concerns the Public library as a public meeting place. Our aim has been to find out why and how the library as a social meeting place has been discussed within the Swedish library community and if there has been a constant core in the discussions from the mid 70's and up to the present day. In order to do this we apply a place and space-perspective. The result of the study is that the core of the said discussions concerning the library as a meeting place is to create belongingness. This is the reason why the library community has an interest in the Public library's function as a meeting place with the idea that people, by using the Public library in that aspect, may experience a feeling of belonging to the society.