Denna uppsats syfte är att undersöka de långsiktiga konsekvenserna för bibliotekari-ernas dagliga arbete, utifrån ett kommunöverskridande projekt rörande digitala sam-arbeten. Detta kan ge en större kunskap om både möjligheter, nackdelar och, i för-längningen, vilken kompetens som dagens samhälle kräver av bibliotekarierna. Det projekt som undersökningen är baserad på går under namnet V8 och består av ett samarbete mellan åtta kommuners folkbibliotek i Västerbottens inland.För att kunna uppfylla detta syfte består uppsatsen av en kvalitativ intervjustudie med bibliotekariers upplevelser av ett avslutat kommunalt överskridande samarbetsprojekt (V8) i fokus, där jag försökt se vilken påverkan projektet haft på bibliotekariernas dagliga arbete. Undersökningen har framför allt koncentrats till att behandla följande områden: 1. Kundanvändandet av hemsidan, katalog och databaser, 2. Bibliotekens gemensamma regler och tjänster samt 3. Ut- och fortbildning för personalen. Huvud-områden i V8 projektet.Ett tydligt resultat visar på att tekniken i allt större grad står i fokus för bibliotekarier-nas dagliga arbetsuppgifter, bland annat i form av arbete med webbsidor, internetba-serad kundkontakt och både databas- och kataloghantering. Ett annat relevant resul-tat som framkommer i undersökningen är att ut- och fortbildning har ökat som effekt av samarbetsprojektet. Slutligen framkom det att projektet även resulterat i en större gemenskap mellan de inblandade biblioteken, vilket skapat en större känsla av sä-kerhet som även gett en större gemensam kunskaps- och inspirationsbas.De slutsatser som kan dras av undersökningen är, för det första, att det krävs en allt större teknisk kompetens hos bibliotekarierna, då allt mer arbete stammar från inter-netbaserade tjänster och att allt mer service sker digitalt. För det andra, har det i just detta fall, blivit en markant förbättring gällande ut- och fortbildningsmöjligheter, vilket också kan anses spegla den allt större efterfrågan på teknisk kunnig personal. För det tredje förefaller det som så att ett bibliotek som är del i ett större samarbete även får en större trygghet och en bredare kunskaps- och inspirationsbas. I förlängningen leder allt detta till en bättre och mer kompetent biblioteksverksamhet samt indikation-er på att samverkan mellan bibliotek på en nationell nivå kan vara av yttersta vikt för att biblioteken skall kunna inta en position bland de viktigaste och mest inflytelserika institutionerna i det nya århundradet.

The aim of this study was about how librarians in Sweden work with their web page to reach young people between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. Most of the youths in Sweden today use Internet every day for several reasons, and the library should have an obvious place there as well. It shouldbe obvious because almost all youths uses Internet every day and therefore the library needs to be seen there as well to reach out to them. Earlier research has shown that librarians and youths think differently in this question. Youths think that the library web page is more important for the librarythan the librarians do.How do the librarians work with marketing for youths on the web page? Do their policy documents help them in their work?To study this area we have interviewed librarians from six quite large public libraries from different parts of thecountry. We also collected their policy documents for the library activities and goals which we analyzed through content analysis. By using a marketing theory on how to make an effective web page, to get the users to revisit and use the page, we have analyzed our results from the interviews and the content analysis.The conclusions of this study are that all the libraries work with Internet to reach out to youths, even though they workin different ways and have different opportunities to work with Internet. Not all of them work with the web page to reach out to the youths. Instead they work a lot with blogs which is an easy and free tool to use. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The work for sustainable development is something that requires a joint commitment from all countries and corners of the world, where public libraries can also contribute. This study examines how librarians perceive the conditions of public libraries in the work for sustainable development, and how the conditions need to change in order for this work to develop. The study applies a quantitative approach in the form of a questionnaire survey aimed at librarians at public libraries in Sweden, where primarily a quantitative statistical analysis but also a qualitative content analysis was performed on the collected data. Furthermore, the framework The three spheres of transformation was used to create a deeper understanding of how these conditions could be understood based on the personal, political and practical spheres. The results show that the librarians participating in this study perceive the conditions to work for sustainable development as quite good based on the finding that eight out of eleven studied factors were rated highly. The results also show that the librarians believe that all factors need to change in order for this work to develop. Thus, it can be stated that the role and work of public libraries for sustainable development has the potential to expand even more.

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the emotional labor of Swedish public librarians, find examples of strategies for emotional labor that librarians use, how personal attributes like being an introvert or an extrovert might influence these strategies and find out how guidelines and management affect the emotional labor of librarians. This is done by interviewing six public librarians who are working in different parts of Sweden, in differently sized libraries and with different amount of work experience. Our findings show that different forms of deep acting is the most common strategy for librarians and that consequences of emotional labor can depend on personality, and which strategy is used depending on this. Another finding is that management and guidelines play an important part in emotional labor. The leader should be involved in the daily tasks of the workers and should have knowledge of the situations that the worker deals with. A final conclusion is that knowledge and awareness of emotional labor can help reduce the negative consequences of emotional labor.

This thesis examines how librarians, in their own point of view, can and do handle influences on their daily work routines. The main focus is on whether the librarians’ experiences suggest that these influences lead to self-censorship in how media and information is acquired, handled and distributed. The contrast between the librari-ans’ actual and ideal situations, regarding their perceived freedom to act, are also examined. Seven librarians from different fields and different parts of Sweden are questioned using semi-structured interviews. The results are analyzed using models of self-censorship from Bar-Tal and Beckman as well as an influential article on selection and censorship in libraries from Asheim. A closer reading of the librarians’ stories finds four recurring themes: Perceived autonomy and freedom, Motives and context, Examples of influence and self-censorship and Ideals and reailty. The themes are analyzed in depth, with key quotes from the librarians serving as illustrations, using the aforementioned theoretical models as tools. From these analyses, the following conclusions are drawn: Preceptions of autonomy and workload in-fluence how librarians view their freedom to propose new ideas and handle media and information in accordance with their ideals. There also seems to exist a discrepancy regarding the librarians’ expected flexibility with rules and routines, leading to confusion among the librarians. Furthermore, disinclinations towards discussion in the workplace are common when the topics are controversial, such as the removal of racist material, and attempts at discussion are often ignored. Lastly, proximity to the end users also influence the librarians, leading to an increased risk of bias in selection and weeding processes. Together these things influence how librarians cope with management of collections and activities, as well as how they treat colleagues and end users, in the context of self-censorship. The conclusions, as well as their effects on librarians, libraries and society as a whole, are then discussed. This is a two years master's thesis in Library and information science.