ternal communication in an organization by using CSM Communication Situations Model [18[upps-01.gif The topic of this master thesis is internal organizational communication and factors influencing the way people in an organization communicate with each other. The purpose of the study is to, by using a specific model called Communication Systems/Situations Model CSM, identify the social context of a given organization and examine how it relates to the dimensions of communicational behaviour which are presented in CSM. We would also like to see how the different parts of CSM affects the choice of communication channels. The thesis is based on interviews with eight employees in the specific organization, whom we have asked a number of questions regarding how they communicate with each other and through which channels. The results show that the social context is very informal within the organization and the relationships between the employees are very open and personal. The dimensions of communicational behaviour relate to the context in many ways and are clearly a result of what kind of social context that exists in the organization. The conclusions we have drawn from the results are that a hierarchical pattern can bee seen between social context, dimensions of communicational behaviour and choice of communication channels in the studied organization. The hierarchical pattern is that the social context in a way surrounds the dimensions and in turn the dimensions affect the choice of communication channels. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The thesis of this work has been to investigate the information behaviour of archaeologists. Interviews were made, between March-September 2002, with ten archaeologists, employed in one Swedish organisation, conducting rescue archaeology. The archaeologists were all experienced in working positions as project leaders. Our thesis could be expressed in following questions: - Which sources of information did the archaeologists use in their work? - Which external and internal factors had influence on the information behaviour? The results of this study have been analysed within a theoretical framework of T.D Wilson, Lars Seldén, Lars Höglund and Olle Persson, among others. The results of two user studies of physicians and psychologists have also been of great value. Our results show that the archaeologists were using a great number of sources in their everyday work. Characteristical for the examined group was the continuous use of non-word oriented information sources such as pre-historical artefacts and finds. Laborative analysis, drawings, pictures and maps were also used along with the use of oral and written sources. Socially oriented information seeking was of great importance and was supported by the season and specialist character of the work. We found that the academical background had impact on their information behaviour as archaeologists. All together our interview material implied a difference in organisational as well as informational culture between the university archaeology and rescue archaeology. Eight of ten archaeologists were involved in academic research. The academic legacy had great impact on their everyday work as archaeologists and their information behaviour. / Uppsatsnivå: D

Many new electronic publication systems have arisen in the past few years, one of them is the weblog. In 1999 there were 23 weblogs, today there are millions thus a need for organisation has appeared, both special metadata and subject indexes have been invented and created. Due to the large amount of the latter we have in this thesis decided to concentrate on those close by the Scandinavian weblogindexes. A more international perspective would however have been possible, as very little is written on the topic. We have looked at these selected weblogindexes, trying to determinate whether they agree with F. W. Lancaster's suggestion of the index's role in an IR-system or not. We have studied how weblogs may be organized in a weblogindex, and if catalogisation is necessary or at all needed for doing this. F. W. Lancaster's indexing model can be described as: selection, description and retrieval. These three points are then applied to a weblogindex, and discussed. We found during our studies of different weblogindexes that Lancaster's model is indeed applicable to such, however with a slight twist. And that metadata in the bigger picture is redundant and seems irrelevant to most weblogauthors and weblogindexes. We also discovered that RSS RDF Site Summary is an ever growing method of keeping up to date with weblogs, and for that matter, other webservices too. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this thesis is to investigate indexing consistency in LIBRIS, a Swedish national union catalogue, where searches can be carried out among almost five million titles. To calculate consistency, indexing terms of translations and indexing terms of documents in their original language have been compared. I have used a total of 100 such pairs in the study. There is a lot of different methods that can be used when consistency is calculated, in this study Hoopers and Rollings methods have been used since they are two of the most commonly methods used and also have the advantage of being fairly simple to use and understand. In the thesis, differences in consistency between indexing terms consisting of names and general indexing terms and differences in consistency between controlled indexing terms and uncontrolled indexing terms are also compared. The overall consistency was found to be 48,97% when Hoopers method was used and 57,20% when Rollings method was used. A significant difference in consistency was found between indexing terms consisting of names and general indexing terms but not between controlled indexing terms and uncontrolled indexing terms. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of literature within Swedish governmental cultural policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards democracy, literature and library by comparing the attitudes in the governmental policy documents from the 1970s with the governmental policy documents from the 1990s. The theoretical starting point is Danish cultural policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of the development of cultural policy in the Nordic countries. My method of analysis is a textual one, analysis of ideas and ideology, focusing on the aspect of signification of a text. The study has an effort of analysing the governmental policy in terms of idea and ideology. This quality study is based upon four governmental cultural policy documents, two from the 1970s and two from the 1990s. The analysis shows that there has been a change in attitude towards democracy, literature and library comparing the documents from the 1970s with the documents from the 1990s. The cultural policy of the 1990s is influenced by a market-led attitude whereas the cultural policy of the 1970s generally is influenced by a humanistic and a sociologic attitude. There are, however, rather small changes and the conclusion of this study shows that the attitude towards democracy, literature and library appears to be quite similar. The cultural policy documents from the 1990s rather show a tendency to a market-led attitude. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this Masters thesis is to examine the view of market-led culture, focusing on literature, within Swedish governmental cultural policy. The main issue is to discover changes in attitude towards cooperation between culture and business by comparing the attitudes and ideas expressed in the governmental policy documents from the 1970s with the governmental policy documents from the 1990s. To illuminate, and with an effort to explain, these attitudes and ideas expressed in the documents their political and social context has been studied as well. The theoretical starting point is two political ideologies, and Danish cultural policy researcher Dorte Skot-Hansens theories of cultural policy in the Nordic countries. The methodological starting point is two variants of analyses that are textual ones. An ideological approach is made of the governmental cultural policy documents whereas the analysis of the material of the political and social context is based on an analysis of wholeness. The ideological analysis of the four governmental cultural policy documents, two from the 1970s and two from the 1990s, shows that there has been no significant change in attitude towards cooperation between culture and business when comparing them. The analysis of the political and social background shows, however, that there has been some political and social changes by comparing the 1970s with the 1990s. Though political and social change during these years no significant change seems to have happened concerning the cultural policy and the governmental attitude towards market-led culture. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate and describe the literary life of Madame de Staël, during the period of the French Revolution and the time shortly after. My intention is to do research on her impact and influence. I also want to examine her effect on Swedish literary society, with special references to Swedish authors. The method used is a qualitative one, where I have studied nonfiction and fiction connected with the field, for example Mme de Staëls own writings, which I make use of to illustrate the phenomena. During this period the society was dominated by patriarchical values and patterns of life. This was challenged by Mme de Staël and other female writers which occur in this study, who struggled for emancipation and better circumstances for women. Thus I considered it fruitful to apply a perspective strongly influenced by feminist and gender theory. The results of the study show that Mme de Staël, despite womens subordinated situation, had an influential role in European society; through her literature, but also through her well-known salon and concern for political affairs. The study also shows, that Swedish literary society was affected by her activity, as were female authors in their future production and work for womens liberation. / Uppsatsnivå: D

There is a need for examining the accessibility of public web sites and for several reasons. First, public organizations possess considerable amounts information of interest to its citizens and which ought to be easily accessible. Secondly, international and national guidelines for web publishing support the different types of requirements experienced by web users and, in particular, with regard to accessibility for people with disabilities. The thesis examines the design of public web sites from two different aspects. Web sites can be built up and structured from the management view of the public organization, or, they can be constructed with a view to user needs and requirements. The thesis therefore examines the ways in which web masters use available recommendations and guidelines. Another question concerns the web masters' interest in supporting users and citizens with reading disabilities or inexperience in using computers. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with ten web masters from ten municipalities. They were selected by studying a larger number of web sites, chiefly the first pages, with a focus on accessibility to different groups of web users studied in research questions about accessibility. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on theories of cognition, human-computer interaction, HCI, and service management in the public sector. The results reveal that the structure of public web sites are mostly constructed from the perspective of the management of the municipality, i.e. the terminology used, headlines and the use of language often restrict accessibility for several groups of users, for example, people with dyslexia or inexperienced computer users. In different degrees the web masters are aware of these obstacles to accessibility, and several web masters therefore try to use simple language in those parts of web-sites which they themselves handle. However, most of the web masters experience that for certain groups of citizens; elderly, foreigners and people with intellectual handicaps, it is more effective to use traditional ways of sharing information, for example through phone calls, ordinary letters or personal appointments. The results also show that web masters, only to a very limited degree, make use of international guidelines. The national guidelines are used more, although in varying degrees, by the web masters. The "24-hour web" led by the Swedish Agency for public Management, and guidelines from disability organizations are the most popular. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The main purpose of this study is to investigate how student nurses seek and use information and libraries. Furthermore, I want to know how they think information can be used in their future occupation. Seven student nurses were included in the study. A qualitative method with personal interviews was used. The analysis of the empirical material was made according to a socio-cultural perspective. The conclusion of the study is that despite the fact that the education is academical and the base of knowledge theoretical, the students still regard their future occupation as practical. The students consider their practical training to be more important than their theoretical education when they determine what is important to learn. During their training in hospital environments they observe the information behaviour of the nurses and copy them. This means that the student nurses do not use information and information sources to a greater extent during their practical training. They rely on the same information sources as practising nurses, such as PM, FASS and colleagues. The theoretical education does not offer a user education that is incorporated in the education and little emphasis is given to information seeking skills. This implies that the student nurses mainly use course literature and only seek additional information if the teachers demand it. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how childrens librarians at public libraries motivate their selection and their purchases of fiction for children and youth. The aim is also to find out what is felt like a problem at the selection process and what is not. Six childrens librarians have been interviewed in this qualitative study. On a basis of a theory of literature pedagogic perspectives the librarians were asked how they look upon purchase of fairy-tales, classics, pulpliterature and literature that contributes to the debate about man and society. They were also asked about their opinions of Bibliotekstjänst, of criticism of childrens books and how they reason about their purchases in general. These views are discussed in relation to earlier research. The interviewed librarians look very positively at the purchase of literature that contributes to the debate about man and society. They are also positive to buying fairy-tales and classics but the purchases are diminished by little demand for these books. Purchase of pulpliterature is the least important among these four different types of books. Some librarians buy them and some dont. Arguments both for and against buying them are expressed. The greatest problems about Bibliotekstjänst are the long delivery time and that the purchases are ruled by their reviews too much. Reviews of childrens books in newspapers and journals are of less importance since they are too few and are published too late. Examples of how the librarians reason about their purchases in general are that they have no problems buying books which get mediocre criticism, they want to keep the breadth of the collection of books and they dont mind buying books described as thick and complicated. / Uppsatsnivå: D