?Att få fler att upptäcka det fantastiska med läsning? - Möjligheter och hinder för samarbete mellan bibliotekarier och bokbloggare
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out the possibilities for librarians and book bloggers to collaborate. We find this relevant because of blogs being a new medium that could be useful for librarians to embrace. Book blogs are often networks of blogs connected to each other through their common interest in literature and we have examined how this could be of use for librarians.The method we have used is semi-structured interviews, which gave us the possibility to adjust our questions based on the informants? answers, when necessary. Our informants have been both librarians and book bloggers; we have met some of them and interviewed the others by e-mail. The questions we used were meant to show us how librarians use private book blogs, what bloggers? relation to libraries look like and their respective attitudes about a possible collaboration.Our study showed that librarians have a positive attitude towards collaboration, but are slightly anxious about its operability. Book bloggers on the other hand focused on the possibilities rather than the difficulties. Collaboration options, recommended by the informants, were that book bloggers could write on the library blog or connect to the library blog via links. Book clubs between librarians and book bloggers was yet another option.