In 1911 Valfrid Palmgren founded the Children's Library of Stockholm, the very first in Sweden.She was a well-educated woman, who believed in social and educational equality for all.During a journey to the USA in 1907, she was deeply impressed by the public libraries, andshe put many of the public library ideas to use in the Children's Library of Stockholm. Palmgrenstrongly opposed to the Swedish libraries not allowing admission to children, since shefirmly believed that educating the people had to start with the children.Other reasons for opening a children's library were to give children an alternative to roamingthe streets, to give children a quiet place to read, to give an alternative to the cheap trashliterature that flooded the market and to teach the young ones how to extract information frombooks. Of great importance was that the library should be equal to all classes in society.In 1927 the children's library was taken over by the new public library of Stockholm.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how young people participating in writing courses describe their experiences, how leaders of writing courses discuss their intentions with hosting the activity, and their experiences from working with young people in creative writing programs. The study discusses the view of participators, librarians, authors and professional writing coaches. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews in which two participants and three leaders were interviewed. The four-space model was used as a theoretic framework, trying to make better understanding of how creative writing activities can work as an instrument for meetings, inspiration, performance and learning in the public library context. The results of the study are discussed through thematic analysis, presenting what could be considered as important findings about the participation and implementations of creative writing in the public library. Findings show that the most important part of participating in writing activities, according to both the participants and the leaders, were “having fun” and community.

We live in a digital age . This means that information technology affects our lives in all its forms. Information technology has become an important cultural, intellectual and physical tool in our society and now form the interaction between people. The use of information technology is an everyday activity in children and young people's lives today. Children in the Digital Age play , read, write , learn and communicate with others using information technology . Childhood has , thanks to information technology and new media habits, become different in both form and meaning. This applies for children’s libraries aswell. The children's library has in its mission to promote language development, encourage reading and provide literature based on children’s and young people's needs and circumstances. This paper examines how children's development is influenced by information technology. How information technology can help children in their development and learning. If information technology has the potential to influence children's development positively and how children's libraries can use information technology to inaugurate children and adolescents in the literature and culture with greater account of children's new media habits . What can children's libraries provide children and young people through information technology ? Can children's libraries reach children and young people through the children's own media habits in order to fulfill its mission?