The purpose of this study is to investigate in which manner a video clip can influence the usability on a website. The website that is used is a prototype of a food website from the business Hypefoodsweden (HFS). The problem is to investigate if video clips are an important improvement for the user experience on the website. By using a qualitative method, which in this case was an observation with interview questions, findings show that how the users perceives the usability and multimodality on the website. With data gathered by the method, I could summarize a result and an analyse to be used to drive discussions and obtain conclusions.

Google Translate helps people around the world to translate from one language to another, and translates about 100 billion words every day. The translation is used for all types of information, for essays, on websites, social media or for every day communication. Companies and organizations can reach people all over the world by offering machine translation on their websites. This means that companies and organizations can spread their messages and their products to a much larger group of people. However, in order for the information to be correct, there must be an availability regardless of language. It is therefore interesting to find out if the usefulness of Google Translate as machine translation can affect the availability of websites. The purpose of the study is to find out if Google Translate as machine translation can affect a website's usefulness in translating the information provided by the website. The purpose of the study is limited by merely examining in what ways the usability and availability of the information "About Us" on government and municipal websites is affected by Google Translate as machine translation. The method used in the study is usability tests where a think aloud observation was conducted with study participants who tested the websites using task scenarios. The result of our study showed that Google Translate is useful as machine translation on websites. In conclusion, however, we discussed whether the results could have been affected due to the delimitations we made, such as language selection, websites and method.

The institutional identity of libraries have been the subject of discussion for quite some time in the library community. With the renovation of several city libraries comes the opportunity to investigate the impact of this discussion on the practices of real public libraries. This Bachelor thesis investigates the program guide of Göteborg city library since its reopening in 2014 with the goal of extracting some sort of library identity. The thesis uses a discourse analytical approach to investigate the various types of discourse present in the material to extract an identity. The most prominent discourses present in the material are the educational discourse and the discourse of cultivation where the discourse of cultivation is the most dominant one. The discourse of cultivation motivates its activities through recreational aspects while the discourse of education motivates its activities by highlighting the use-value of attending its activities. The study finds that Göteborg city library presents itself as a cultural institution that ―sells‖ the service of cultivation, this is, however, not without problems and occasionally clashes with either the missions given to the library or the perceptions of the public.

The purpose of this thesis has been to evaluate if a new instance based explanation method, called Automatic Instance Text Classification Explanator (AITCE), could provide researchers with insights about the predictions of automatic text classification and decision support about documents requiring human classification. Making it possible for researchers, that normally use manual classification, to cut time and money in their research, with the maintained quality. In the study, AITCE was implemented and applied to the predictions of a black box classifier. The evaluation was performed at two levels: at instance level, where a group of 3 senior researchers, that use human classification in their research, evaluated the results from AITCE from an expert view; and at model level, where a group of 24 non experts evaluated the characteristics of the classes. The evaluations indicate that AITCE produces insights about which words that most strongly affect the prediction. The research also suggests that the quality of an automatic text classification may increase through an interaction between the user and the classifier in situations with unsure predictions.

Med intervjuer som metod syftar denna uppsats till att undersöka hur en hbtqsatsning på ett folkbibliotek kan se ut och vilka tankar och idéer som ligger bakom den. Syftet uppfylls dels genom en kartläggning av hbtq-satsningar på de fyra studerade folkbiblioteken och dels genom en analys av de intervjuade bibliotekariernas berättelser om hur de motiverar sitt arbete med hbtq-frågor. I analysen används begreppet uppdragslogik som ett sätt att förstå bibliotekariernas resonemang kring sitt hbtq-arbete. Kartläggningen av hbtq-satsningarna visar att vanliga arbetsmetoder är att sätta upp särskilda regnbågshyllor, att ha programpunkter med hbtq-innehåll och att synliggöra hbtq-resurser på webben. Att ha dubbla exemplar av hbtq-medier är ett vanligt tillvägagångssätt för att försöka tillgodose låntagarnas eventuella behov av anonymitet och samtidigt undvika osynliggörande av dessa resurser. Frågan om bemötande är något som flera av respondenterna har stort engagemang för. Analysen av bibliotekariernas berättelser om sitt hbtq-arbete kommer fram till att de intervjuade bibliotekarierna kan sägas agera utifrån en gemensam uppdragslogik där hbtq-frågor ses som viktigt för att uppfylla bibliotekets uppgift att vara en plats som är öppen för alla. Ett normkritiskt perspektiv lyser igenom där respondenterna ger uttryck för en uppfattning om att hbtq-frågor hör ihop med andra kategoriseringar som eventuellt kan leda till diskriminering, såsom kön, etnisk tillhörighet och funktionsförmåga. Denna uppdragslogik kolliderar ibland med kollegornas uppfattning om vad biblioteket bör prioritera för att uppnå sina mål och vad som utgör dessa mål.

Syftet med den här kandidatuppsatsen är att undersöka barns kunskapsorganisation vid ett skolbibliotek på Umeås glesbygd, utifrån ett barnperspektiv. De metoder som används är: deltagande observation med fokusgrupper som består av barn mellan 9–12 år och informellt samtal med skolpersonal. Resultatet som samlades in från fokusgrupperna presenteras i analysen, som är uppdelad i tre delar. I den första delen av analysen redovisas, i form av olika termer, vilka böcker barnen sa att de ville ha i sitt skolbibliotek. Den andra delen av analysen visar på hur barnen tänkte kring kategorisering av de termer som de själva hade föreslagit, och som redovisas i första delen. I den tredje delen av analysen tolkas barnens tankesätt när de kategoriserade det egna skolbibliotekets böcker. Utöver detta framkommer barnens synpunkter på en förbättrad skolbiblioteksmiljö. Uppsatsen anknyter kontinuerligt till tidigare forskning inom kunskapsorganisation och hämtar inspiration från Linda Z. Coopers forskning om hur ett bibliotek kan byggas upp utifrån barnens perspektiv. Andra influenser till den här uppsatsen är Jihee Beaks forskning kring barns informationssökning och Lena Lundgrens studie om hur barn beskriver böcker. Studien indikerar att barnen uttrycker sig annorlunda från vuxna vad gäller beskrivning av böcker och att de använder visuella intryck för att bedöma en boks innehåll. Resultaten illustrerar barnens konkreta tankesätt, och att de är mindre benägna än vuxna att tänka på ett abstrakt plan. Förhoppningsvis kan studien bidra med en fördjupad inblick i hur barn tänker kring böcker och hylluppställning och därmed förenkla och inspirera arbetet för skol- och barnbibliotekarier. Studien kan bidra till en bättre förståelse för hur utbudet av barnlitteratur vid skolbibliotek kan anpassas till barnens perspektiv.

The aim of this discourse study has been to analyse how the concept of bibliotherapy in connection with hospital librarians’ work is presented in theses written in the field of library and information science. The theory is based on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The main picture presented is that bibliotherapy is difficult to define. Most of the hospital librarians have heard about bibliotherapy, and they strongly believe in the concept. At the same time, the respondents are hesitant to label their work ‘bibliotherapy’. Biblio-therapy is presented in the research mainly as a practice. Among hospital librarians, bibliotherapy is associated with the reading of fiction. There is no consensus among them on how to define the term. A number of descriptions of how bibliotherapy can help patients with mental issues, bring joy and even save lives are mentioned, but no hard evidence is presented for this. Two central subject positions are discussed in this study. Hospital librarians are described as a group who need to claim their rights in the large hospital organisation. At the same time they are seen as a highly competent and reliable resource. The patient is scarcely represented in the empirical material.

This study examines how photographic material has been classified and contextualized on the digitization platforms of the major Swedish memory institutions – the National Library of Sweden, the National Archives of Sweden, and the Nordic Museum. Combined with a series of interviews with digitization practitioners at these institutions, the paper examines the cultural-historical approach to defining the concept “photography” and classifying digitized photographs, as well as how photographic material is treated similarly to or differently from other kinds of material housed at these institutions. These results of this question are used to examine the likelihood that, driven by similarities in digitization practices, significant differences between Swedish libraries, archives, and museums are disappearing.

The purpose of this study was to examine school librarians’ external monitoring and cooperation and collaboration with teachers, in order to describe it and examine its significance for the relevance to the profession of librarians. The purpose was also to interpret the meaning of the external monitoring, cooperation and collaboration from a professional perspective. For this we used semi structured interviews and qualitative content analysis. The analysis was based on theory on professions (Nolin, 2008) about lifelong vocational training, cooperation and collaboration. The profession perspective explains problems, difficulties and opportunities that can be seen in school librarians external monitoring and when professions cooperate and collaborate. Our conclusion is that external monitoring is part of the lifelong vocational training and can be seen as a strategy together with cooperation and collaboration with teachers to strengthen, develop and change school librarians knowledge and jurisdiction. The study shows that external monitoring is dependent on cooperation and collaboration with teachers and the other way around. Depending on how developed these strategies are, this will affect both their influence on school library practice and the profession.

Authenticity and integrity of digital information have been discussed extensively within the record management and archival sectors for several decades. The on-going projects and research in the area have resulted in an understanding of the potential problems when it comes to keeping authenticity in digital information. In recent years the blockchain technologies have gained attention as a potential solution to many of the problems associated with management and storage of digital records. The area of information security is getting more and more focused on preventing manipulation of existing data. The conclusions here is that blockchain technologies have potential to solve several problems associated with the management and storage of digital records. The archival sector can benefit from the use of blockchains to prevent time consuming and expensive work efforts to re-establish authenticity in digital information ones lost.