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En studie av några barnbibliotekariers litteratursyn och deras samarbete med förskolan
The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate four children?s librarians? literature view and their collaboration with pre-schools. My main question at issue is ?What literature view do children?s librarians in this thesis have and how does this reflect their collaboration with pre-schools??. Another purpose is to study the canon process in relation to children?s libraries and pre-schools. I have applied two theories on my analysis. The first is the view of Lennart Hellsing on a good children?s book and the second is three different views on literature, the pragmatic, the traditional and the emancipated views. My results show that people indirectly influence small children in their selection of literature. Adults are encouraged when they realise that the books they read themselves when they were children still exist and willingly read them for their own children. This is one reason why some children?s books have been popular for so many years in pre-schools. It is important to successively change the canon because more vintage books can give their children wrong conceptions as they do not deal with the present era of the children. My results also show that the children?s librarians readily want the children to take part of literature with different presentations of a problem. The books should deal with life and take place in present time, however the children?s pleasure of reading is most important. The collaboration between libraries and pre-schools is not especially good at the moment but is now increasing by means of the project LekaSpråkaLära.