Utifrån en pågående neutralitetsdebatt inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap är studiens syfte att undersöka bibliotekariers uppfattning av neutralitet som professionsvärde, detta utifrån huruvida bibliotekarier uppfattar eventuella spänningar mellan deras professionella yrkesidentitet och ett aktivt politiskt engagemang. Kvalitativa semistruk...
The purpose of this study is to examine what happened to library storytime sessions during the COVID-19-pandemic. Qualitative interviews were conducted with children's librarians from Sweden and Germany. In total eleven librarians working with children were interviewed. Five librarians from five libraries in Sweden and six librarians from five libr...
Abstract Introduction. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of a relatively new genre in popular literature in Sweden called "feelgood". Feelgood, as literary genre, has quickly risen to become a beloved and frequently borrowed genre among readers. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding how the feelgood genre is perceived and ...
The aim of the thesis is to examine images and portrayals of librarians in Swedish daily newspapers as well as what tasks librarians are described performing. A lack of studies focusing on the portrayal of librarians in news media has been observed. An understanding of the image of librarians shown to the public could contribute to the possibility ...
Syftet med studien är att med intresse för könssegregering undersöka diskurser om bibliotek, bibliotekarier ochkvinnors roll inom arbetslivet. Empirin för studien är dokument publicerade inom tidsperioden 1850-talet till 1910-talet och som berör uppsatsens teman. Dessa analyseras utifrån en diskurspsykologisk samt en kompletterandeidéanalytisk ansa...
Introduction: Researcher support is often written in the perspective of researchers, and few examine it from the perspective of archivists and librarians, the aim of this study is to change that. In this study we examine how archivists and librarians within Data Access Units (DAU) use their knowledge and how said knowledge is used to achieve the re...
Det övergripande syftet med denna studie var att utforska det hälsofrämjande arbetet vid bibliotek som genomförs genom biblioterapeutiska metoder. Vi har utgått från följande treforskningsfrågor: 1. Vilka former av biblioterapeutiskt arbete har respondenterna erfarenheter av? 2. Vilka kunskapsbehov har bibliotekarier som arbetar med biblioterapi oc...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish public libraries work with LGBTQ-subjects and issues, map out thoughts and attitudes of librarians in these libraries regarding specific LGBTQ shelves, also known as rainbow shelves, as well as examine how many libraries use these rainbow shelves. The study was conducted through an online survey ...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how different approaches to children’s and young people’s reading appear in the journals Biblioteksbladet and Svenskläraren during the years 2016-2020. Biblioteksbladet addresses librarians whilst teachers are the target group of Svenskläraren. The two professions are chosen since they both work with reading...
Introduction: The aim of this thesis is to explore library staff’s experiences of participation in a time of change, in this case, a move to new facilities. Using interviews and grounded theory, this qualitative study focuses on how such a change is planned, presented to the staff, and implemented. Method: In this study, twelve library employees fr...
