The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out how librarians working in combined school- and public libraries view their professional identity. The theoretical framework includes the seven librarian identities of Anders Ørom and Trine Schreiber combined with Beth Junckers theories of the culture sector with autotelic cultures and the education sector with instrumental cultures. The theoretical framework has been used in analyzing and discussing the results. The data has been collected through six semi-structured interviews, transcribed and processed for the analysis. The librarians were found to identify mostly with the culture intermediary identity in the culture sector. The information intermediary identity and the subject intermediary identity both were present in the school-librarian context, and the socialworking identity and the experience intermediary identity in the public-librarian context. Recommendations for further research are made based on the results.

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the subject which is about children's librarians and how they look at their professional identity when it comes to the work they do with bi- and multilingual children. This comes mainly from what we have read in earlier publications that exists in the subject as a whole. The analytical framework for the thesis is based upon Anders Ørom and Treine Schreibers professional identities written in the 1990's. The method for the thesis is made up of six semistructured interviews with children's librarians. The main results we got out of this thesis are that all of the professional identities could be found in the respondents for this study. We also found that several of the identities coexisted in parallel within the respondents.

The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to gain deeper knowledge about how librarians in public libraries in Sweden view theirprofessional role with regard to the last decades of change in the library field. Especially concerning the technical evolution and towards a higher user orientation and market mindset, and in which ways this has influenced the librarians everyday working tasks. A particular focus has been placed towards the reference transaction, the use of computers and e-media, and the stock development. We believe that there currently is a changeover, from the libraries traditional line of function, towards them as more of service institutions.The method used in this study for answering the research questions and to gather empirical information is semi-structuredinterviews. The division is three more experienced librarians, with twenty years or more from the field, and three newlygraduated with less than five years as active librarians. We seek to compare if there are any differences in views between these two categories. The theory used for analyzing the results is Anders Ørom’sabout different librarian identities together with Trine Schreiber’s development of the model. Conclusions drawn from this study are that there is a similarview on the librarianship; the traditional role and the information intermediate roles has earlier been considered incompatible. Now they seem to come together in a “traditional tasks in new packaging”-thinking. / Program: Bibliotekarie

In these days we can witness a growing number of combined school and public libraries in Sweden. It can be explained as an economy measure or as an attempt to develop the library work. The aim of this thesis is to picture how working in combined libraries affects high school librarians’ own apprehensions of their professional identity. The results are based on in-depth interviews made with four high school librarians, working not only towards the students but also the public. By using a hermeneutic method, my attempt has been to construe the interviewee’s remarks and in that way analyse how the librarians themselves apprehend their professional roles and identities. The theories of the Danish library and information scientists Anders Ørom and Trine Schreiber have been used as analysis tools. A comprehensive summary of already existing studies in this field of interest is given, and is to be considered as a framework to which this thesis’ results are to be seen. The empiric data reveal several different opinions, and by using the theories of Ørom and Schreiber I have made the following conclusions. Two professional identities have been indicated; the teaching school librarian and the traditional cultural intermediary librarian. They both seem to include a strong feeling of service-mindedness. In addition, a third tendency to an indistinct and split identity can be perceived. Despite the lack of conformity that this third identity suggests, the interviewees give the expression that the two main identities cooperate and enrich one another.

För att studera könsfördelningen inom den svenska datorspelsbranschens användes datahämtad från LinkedIn över kön och arbetsroller, det indikerades tydligt att kvinnor varunderrepresenterade i Sveriges spelbransch, särskilt inom produktion, tech, och iledarskapsroller. En kvalitativ analys fann att isomorfa krafter sannolikt påverkarföretagen i branschen att likna varandra i könsfördelning och att kvinnor i branschentroligtvis upplever låg passform i yrkesidentiteter och lider negativa effekter avminoritetsstatus inom yrkeskategorier. Att öka andelen kvinnor framkom som en vägför jämställdhetsarbete men verkade vara associerat med en risk för ett stigma avinkompetens. Männen var i position att påverka vilka som passar som dagens ochmorgondagens spelutvecklare. För att uppnå en arbetsmiljö som är vänlig för allaanställda oavsett könstillhörighet kan yrkesidentiteter konstrueras om, därefter kanarbete med att öka andelen kvinnor startas med en sänkt risk för bakslag. / To study the gender distribution within Sweden’s video game industry, data on genderand occupation was collected from LinkedIn. It was clearly indicated that women wereunderrepresented, especially within production, tech, and leadership. A qualitativeanalysis found that isomorphic forces were likely to be influencing the genderdistribution across the industry and that women in the industry are likely to experiencea bad fit in occupational identities and suffer negative effects of being in the minorityin occupational categories. Increasing the proportion of women emerged as a path forgender equality work, but it was also associated with a stigma of incompetence. Menseemed to be in positions to influence who will fit as today's and tomorrow's gamedevelopers. To achieve a work environment that is good to all employees, regardless ofgender, occupational identities could be redesigned, after that the proportion of womenin the industry can be raised with a lowered risk for setbacks.