The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to seek knowledge about how children and their parents use the children’s section in a newly built library, and what function it has for its users. We also want to seek knowledge about how the children’s section is seen as a meeting place by the parents.Our research questions are: How is the children’s section at the public library of Lidköping being used as a meeting space, performative space, inspiration space and learning space? What are the functions of the children's section at the public library of Lidköping for families with children? Do the parents see the children’s section as a meeting place, then in which way?The theoretical approach is based on The Four Space Model by Henrik Jochumsen, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen and Dorte Skot-Hansen. We used qualitative interviews and non-participant observations to answer our questions. The results show that the library is mostly being used for reading, playing and to consort within the family. The children’s section functions as an entrance to books and reading, and it also has a function as a place where you spend time with your family. We discovered that half of the parents in our study did see the children’s section as a meeting place because they thought it is a good place to meet and consort.

Den här uppsatsen behandlar frågor om hur individer söker skönlitteratur. Hur väljer människor att läsa det de läser? Vilka strategier använder de sig av för att söka skönlitteratur? Hur söker man skönlitteratur på biblioteket? Är de verktyg som finns att tillgå en tillräcklig resurs för låntagare när de söker litteratur på biblioteken? I den kvalitativa intervjustudien framkommer att indexering och katalogisering är verktyg av underordnad roll vid sökning av skönlitteratur. I slutdiskussionen presenteras idéer om hur biblioteken kan använda sig av andra vägar för att presentera läsare med böcker som passar deras behov.

The aim of this thesis has been to examine and delineate the use of electronic information sources among the newsroom staff members at the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet(SvD). The aim has also been to make comparisons between this examination and a similar one performed at the British newspaper the Guardian in 1991 / 1992. The examination at Svenska Dagbladet was carried out in the autumn of 1996. A questionnaire was distributed to 273 of the staff members at SvD and 229 forms were returned. A minor member of interviews were also carried out. The survey's major findings are that SvD's staff members are generally high-volume users of the electronic newspaper archive. Less than a half of the staff use external databases at least once a month. The most favoured group of external databases are the one's of the Swedish vendor Affarsdata. Almost all users have received training on SvD's electronic text archive, but only a minority on external databases.The survey shows that the SvD journalists are interested in database use but they are at the same time limited in the mastery of the search process. The journalists principally conduct subject searches and they use databases in order to find out what has previously been written on a subject and to look for background information. The results of this survey and the one carried out at the Guardian generally correspond. Furthermore, a majority of the staff members use Internet to receive information.

I den här jämförande studien undersöks skillnaden mellan direkt och indirekt vägledning till spelmekanik i plattformsspel för PC. Detta för att ta reda på hur de olika introduktionerna påverkar spelarnas prestation i ett tidigt skede av spelet. Undersökningens syfte är att utröna vilken form av vägledning, mellan direkt och indirekt, som ger nya spelare bäst förutsättningar att lära sig ny spelmekanik snabbt och att tidigt etablera kompetens om användning av spelmekaniken. För att undersöka vilken typ av vägledning som är mest effektiv vid introduktion av spelmekanik i plattformsspel har fyra plattformsspel analyserats. Dessa spel har legat till grund för skapandet av två prototyper där den ena prototypen ger en direkt vägledning till spelmekanik och den andra ger en indirekt vägledning till spelmekanik. De två prototyperna används för att samla in data som i sin tur analyserats. Insamling av data har skett via ett webbaserat användartest där 26 personer deltagit varav 13 personer spelat prototypen som ger en direkt vägledning och 13 personer har spelat prototypen som ger en indirekt vägledning. För att bedöma spelarnas prestation mellan de olika prototyperna har två analyser utförts, prestationen bedöms i kompetens som spelarna etablerar i form av användning av spelmekaniken samt hur lång tid det tar för spelaren att använda spelmekaniken första gången. I den ena analysen undersöks tiden som spelarna från de båda prototyperna tagit på sig för att utföra olika mekaniker i spelet. I den andra analysen har spelarnas interaktion med spelet legat till grund för en bedömning av hur effektiva spelarna har varit under spelsessionen i form av etablerad kompetens om spelmekanikerna. De båda analyserna har sammanställts för att tillsammans bilda en uppskattning av spelarnas prestation i förhållande till varandra. Utifrån de analyser som utförts på insamlade data har spelare som fått en indirekt vägledning till spelmekanik presterat bättre i högre grad än spelare som fått en direkt vägledning till spelmekanik. Resultatet visar på att de spelmekaniker som används i testerna varit mindre komplexa och att spelare som fått en direkt vägledning presterat sämre tidsmässigt.

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The aim of this paper is to investigate who the visitors are at a children's department at amain library in a larger municipality, and for what purpose they use it. We discuss: Is therea difference between various user groups, and if so, how do they differ'? Which library rolesdoes the children's department have? Does the children's department serve as a local libraryfor those who live in the immediate surroundings or as a main library for the whole municipality?The paper is based on a user survey performed in the spring of 1996 at the City Library ofGothenburg. 417 visitors and five staff members were interviewed.The children's department is used by various groups of people, from young children to seniorcitizens. The library roles are, among other things, an independent learning center and formaleducation support center. The children's department functions both as a local library anda main library.

The paper aims to find out how staff and users at two public libraries and one Internetcafeuse Internet. The purpose has been to find out what they find and how they use the informa­tion they retrieve. The studies are based on eight longer interviews with the staff and 33 shorter with the users, who also were observed for a week. The paper includes a background chap­ter about Internet, search tools and the studied places. The following chapters are about pre­vious research, our survey and a discussion with the results, literature and our opinion.We have found out that Internet is usually used for information retrieval. That staff educa­tion is of importance when an implementation is made. Most of the users wanted to use Internet for free, but many of them were willing to pay a small amount. The users in the survey were very different according to age and sex.

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to gain insights into students’ usage and attitudes towards electronic articles and electronic books and how students feel about a change from print collections to digital collections at Växjö University Library. The main questions are: How do different groups of students use the library collections of electronic articles and electronic books? What factors influence the usage of the library collections of electronic articles and electronic books among students? What are the students’ experiences of reading electronic books in comparison with reading print books? What would different groups of students think if the literature they need for their studies were purchased in electronic form instead of print? To answer the questions a user study was carried out at Växjö university library. A web survey was sent to students that had a library card and an email address registered at the library. The result shows that a majority of the students had used the electronic articles but only a third had used the electronic books. The most important factor for users of electronic articles and electronic books was the ability to access them at home and around the clock. Many respondents complained about the difficulty of reading text on a computer screen, and 64 percent preferred to read print books, but 62,7 percent could accept to use electronic books instead of print books and 50,9 percent liked the idea of electronic textbooks instead of print textbooks at the library.

The purpose of this study was to discover patterns and variations of service requirementsamong various groups of users at the Swedish Academy's Nobel Library. Twenty-nine personswere interviewed and divided into different groups with regard to their purpose of usingthe Nobel Library. The groups of users were members of the Swedish Academy and thepublic. The public were subdivided into the following three groups of users: persons whopursue formalised studies, persons who read as a hobby, persons who work with literature asa profession.The data reveals that the members of the Swedish Academy were very satisfied with theservice at their library and positive to a limited increase of users. Persons who pursue formalisedstudies and persons who work with literature as a profession emphasized that the NobelLibrary is outstanding within its subject field. These two groups also spent much time atother information centres since they often need material dealing with other fields of knowledge.Persons who read as a hobby found almost all the material they need at the Nobel Library.

Master thesis studying the use of multimedia on CD-ROM in a library setting by analysis ofqualitative interviews with nineteen persons.The thesis relates the study to some relevant issues in human-computer interface (HCI) researchand to the commercial market for multimedia CD-ROM products. Three main types ofuse were described by the persons interviewed: recreational, information seeking and usingmultimedia to learn more about using computers. Children and young people interviewed mademost use of the multimedia provided, whereas adults thought it to be less valuable as a sourceof knowledge for them personally.HCI research shows various results of using multimedia for educational purposes. Thecommercial market is dominated by American products which can have a negative effect onthe use of multimedia in Swedish public libraries.