Waldner, Maria
Public librarians need to be ready to meet many different people and the quality of work must be high. Reading promotion work has a special focus in the Swedish Library Act and is also something that the library's visitors value highly. International studies have shown that librarians have found a space through staff book clubs, where they have bee...
Aghed, Elin Granlund, Emma
This qualitative study examines the browsing behaviours of patrons at two Swedish public libraries. Our methods were semistructured observations and semistructured interviews. The purpose of this thesis is to generate knowledge on how browsing behaviours manifest in practice, especially in the lesser-studied public library context. The research que...
Littner, Irina
The National Library of Sweden Kungliga Biblioteket has been assigned by the Swedish government to establish resource libraries for the Swedish national minorities. The library of the Finnish Institute in Stockholm is the resource library for the national minority Swedish Finns (also known as Sweden Finns) and the national minority language Finnish...
Malmborg, Maria Persson, Tilda
A public library is a place in constant change. It follows the developments in society considering both social and digital aspects and it must adapt to these changes. The library profession is also affected by these changes, and librarians need to relate to it. The aim of this Bachelor´s thesis is to gain insight in how public librarians view their...
Buhr, Natalie
Studiens syfte var att undersöka barns egen kunskapsorganisation. Tidigare studier visar att när barns röster tas till vara i utformningen blir det möjligt att skapa kunskapsorganisationssystem som är bättre anpassade efter barns informationssökning. Studien sökte att besvara följande forskningsfrågor. Hur väljer barn själva att strukturera informa...
Hedquist, Anette
Research has shown that the lgbtq community not always feels included and represented in the library’s collections and services. In the last 10 years the public libraries in Sweden have started active work towards the lgbtq community in changing this exclusion byengaging the lgbtq community in library services. One way to do that is to make the li...
Bengtsson, Jenny
For a person who has been diagnosed with a disability at some point in their life, their ability to be an active democratic citizen in our information society changes. This thesis examines what kind of challenges the Swedish public libraries and librarians faces in their day-to-day work connected to the specific group of users with vision-related d...
Carlander Borgström, Anton
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways in which relevant personnel view dataveillance and user privacy, in the context of providing internet access via desktop computers at public libraries. Two research questions are put forth: 1. ”In what ways do relevant personnel engage with user privacy, in relation to dataveillance?” and 2. ”Wha...
Landgren, Rebecka Nykänen, Jennifer
This study aims to acquire knowledge about the concept of drag storytimes in public libraries. It addresses research questions regarding their relation to the libraries' mission, as well as associated experiences with and perceptions of these events. The study adopts a qualitative approach, utilizing interviews with different stakeholders, alongsid...
Lindsköld, Linnéa Hedemark, Åse
Denna artikel har tagits fram i samarbete mellan Kulturrådet och Digiteket, inom ramen för satsningen Läsfrämjandelyft för folkbibliotek.
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