Att stimulera pojkars läslust. Bibliotekariers läsfrämjande arbete inom ramarna för den ordinarie verksamheten.
The aim of this thesis was to examine the ways in which librarianswork to stimulate the joy of reading in boys. Four children- andschool librarians were chosen for interviews in which they wereasked questions about boys' reading and the approaches they usedto help boys. The librarians were asked if they perceived boys'reading as problematic, what methods they used to stimulate thejoy of reading and if they thought it would be helpful to work withboys and girls in different ways. They were asked what theythought was the biggest challenges in changing the boys? attitudestowards reading and what they would do if they could choosefreely without any constraints in time or money.Aidan Chambers' "The circle of reading" was used to compare atheory about reading to the ways in wich the librarians worked andtheir thoughts about how to initiate reading. All the librariansshowed awareness about the situation with boys' decreasingreading abilities and they had all developed approaches to helpstimulate boys? reading in slightly different ways. Theirapproaches included carefully planned media acquisition and booktalks as well as displaying the books according to different themessuch as genres and organising special book shelves for popularbook series.