The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create knowledge about how school librarians construct the image of their work in the school library on social media relating to the conception “Good School Library Practice” that is expressed on the Swedish Instagram account @skolbibliotekarierna (meaning the school librarians). The study uses both discourse and visual analysis to analyze the discourses connected to the main discourse “Good School Library Practice”. To do so the Instagram posts are divided into seven categories. Out of these categories six subdiscourses were found. By analyzing the posts in the different discourses the study answers the question what “Good School Library Practice” are during the period January to May in 2019 on the account @skolbibliotekarierna. The two major subdiscourses found are the Library Room and Teaching. The majority of the posts in the Library Room subdiscourse show pictures of book shelves and cozy furniture. The majority of the posts in the Teaching subdiscourse show projector images and tablets as well as students shown from behind. These two subdiscourses determine what is seen as Good School Library Practice. The result of the study show that there is a difference between how the discourse Good School Library Practice is manifested by the school librarians on Instagram and how it is presented in research, policy documents and curricula.

By examining the websites of fourteen public libraries using qualitative content analysis this study aim towards knowledge about how the libraries market that they have implemented a LGBTQ-certification on their library websites. This study is based on the following research questions: How and in which ways has the library which has implemented an LGBTQ-certification market this on its website? How has the library, which has implemented a LGBTQ-certification marketed services and materials aimed at the targetgroup on its website? With the answers to these questions as a basis the study strives to investigate how the libraries marketed and made the certification visible on their websites. The results of the study show that the libraries showed their implemented LGBTQ-certification differently and with varying degrees of visibility and marketing. Some of the libraries in the study do not show anything at the library´s website neither that they have implemented a LGBTQ-certification nor that the library have materials or other services for the targetgroup. Other libraries have a wide scope of marketing and visibility of LGBTQ- materials and services towards the targetgroup.

Mental health issues and depression is an everprevalent issue in our society today. Library science has taken a step towards creating a safe medium and addressing the issue by bibliotherapy, or therapy through reading. Though it is an establish method in other countries, bibliotherapy is not a common practise in Sweden and it is through recent years that reports about bibliotherapeutic projects has started appearing. The question that rises then is: how is bibliotherapy being written about by journalists and in the end, how is bibliotherapy, libraries and reading presented to the general public? This research aims to investigate in what way bibliotherapy is portrayed in newspaper articles, relationship between bibliotherapy and the library itself as well as what role reading has in the discourse about bibliotherapy in newspaper articles. To do this, a discourse method based on Laclau´s and Mouffes’s (Bergström & Boréus, 2012, Svensson 2019) linguistic approach to discourse analysis, will be utilized through the analysis of 18 newspaper articles. The result of this study shows a mostly positive view on bibliotherapy as a method and that reading is a key element in its utilization. Yet libraries’ roles in the bibliotherapeutic work is not as apparent and might affect readers’ views on the libraries’ involvement in societies work to prevent mental health issues.

This study traverses the accessibility design of the British government’s website, GOV.UK and the current accessibility guidelines. It investigates the user needs of Deaf people with British Sign Language as their first language. The needs of the Deaf community are repeatedly forgotten or overlooked in society, including on the web. As many Deaf people are having difficulties understanding the English language as it is their second or sometimes third or fourth language, they face discrimination in many ways. This study examines the accessibility of information encircling Covid19 and Brexit on the government’s website by giving the participants a task to complete and evaluate. It fragments the necessary improvements to increase the accessibility and inclusiveness of the website. The study conducts interviews assisted by a qualified British Sign Language interpreter to make certain the participants can communicate their experiences and opinions. The collected data is analysed with respect to the four design principles the WCAG guidelines are based upon.

The traditional library is in a state of crisis since its legitimacy was threatened by the declining status of the welfare state and the printed book medium. The study aims to regain a sense of the lost identity by comparing the institution's perceptions of reading with those of the sobriety movement of the early 20th century and the bibliotherapy representatives of today. Qualitative content analysis is used as a method to categorize and understand the reading perceptions of the reader communities mentioned above. The categories used are of a deductive character and distinguish whether the perception of reading is based on a conception of it as something characterized by the experience of the act or its instrumentality, as well as in reflective relation with the reader's self or not. The studied material is the membership newspaper of IOGT and a contemporary bibliotherapy blog. The results reached by the study point to other types of instrumentality used to legitimize reading by the reader communities, in contrast to the economic instrumentality which has gained influence in the library sphere. The social instrumentality of the bibliotherapy movement, characterized by social relations and integration, is uncovered in the materials. The role of the librarian supporting the reader's own knowledge acquirement is a feature that connects the contemporary librarian identity to bibliotherapy. The former now gains a language to express itself, something that has been missing since the identity crisis.

This essay examines the professions of teachers and school librarians from the perspective of the teacher. Through a case study, teachers have been interviewed regarding their views on their collaboration with the school librarian and what they think the school librarian with his or her professional competence complements their students' teaching with. Theoretical framework is Lena Folkesson's dimensions for the interplay of profession, power and legitimacy. Teachers are chosen to participate because their school librarian has been awarded the prize "World-class school library". The respondents´ answers are compared to research studies on collaboration between professions and what the professional profession of librarian can contribute to students' education based on their professional competence.

The outcome of the Brexit referendum sparked a discussion in the media about ill-informed voters. There are few studies that investigate the information behaviour of voters, and even fewer of referendum voters. This thesis explores a small population of students at Scottish universities to gain insight in how they sought, received, and communicated information before the Brexit referendum. The aim is to investigate the students' information behaviour before they voted. Twenty-two students were interviewed, using a survey interviewing technique that also included open questions. The findings show that students were active, and interested, information seekers, but that they experienced a lack of quality information. Instead of trusting media sources, they turned to friends and family for information, although few changed their mind from their original conviction. The conclusions show that political awareness affected the information behaviour of the students, which is supported by Zaller’s Receive-Accept-Sample model, and that there was a high level of political awareness among the participants, in part because of the previous Scottish independence referendum. Wilson’s model of information behaviour was applied, and the analysis shows that intervening variables such as environment, role relations, and source characteristics affected information seeking, as well as other intervening variables like the lack of information and distrust of information sources.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine how the concept of credibility express itself in the two blogs Rymdbloggen and Väderleken. Rymdbloggen and Väderleken are written by two Swedish government agencies; Rymdstyrelsen and SMHI. The theoretical framework are theories about credibility. The method in the thesis is qualitative content analysis and the empirical material are blogposts from the two blogs Rymdbloggen and Väderleken and searches on the blogs. The two research questions are: • How does the concept of credibility express itself in the two blogs Rymdbloggen and Väderleken? • What are the differences or similarities between the blogs in terms of credibility? The results shows that credibility can be expressed in several different ways. The credibility can increase when the blog is structured and when the sender is presented. Both Rymdbloggen and Väderleken present their sending government agencies in a clear way. However, the result also showed that credibility is negatively affected if the blogposts are not categorized in a user-friendly and functional way.

Corporate social responsibility is a concept that grows stronger in our society day by day. At the same time CSR has become a central part non-profit organizations. Svenska fotbollsförbundet wants to strengthen the picture of the association's social commitment by lifting their sustainability work. Based on a quantitative approach, this study aims to illustrate how non-profit soccer associations in Skåne works with corporate social responsibility and how they work from an economic, social and environmental sustainability perspective. Furthermore, the paper aims to create an understanding for the non-profit soccer associations view on sharing knowledge. The study is based on a web based questionnaires sent out to randomly selected soccer associations in Skåne to create an understanding of what the paper aims to illustrate. The result shows that soccer associations work with CSR and from an economic, social and environmental sustainability perspective without really knowing about it and that there is a lack of communication and knowledge sharing between the non-profit soccer associations and Riksidrottsförbundet and Svenska Fotbollsförbundet. Furthermore, the study shows that there is a desire to work more with issues from a sustainability perspective, but the soccer associations wants material and help to be able to distribute their time to maximise their work.

The fact that the public libraries have a democratic mission is considered to be of course. How is it expressed in municipal library plans that are political documents at municipal level? With this essay, the ambition is to find out how ideas about the public libraries democracy mission are expressed and how they relate to theories of democracy.