Two subjects which have grown constantly larger due to globalization are diversity and LGBTQ. This can be seen since people with different sexualities, religions, ethnicities and much more have become more visible in Sweden. Therefore, one can ask oneself how diverse the literature is at public libraries, especially if a certain genre such as LGBTQ is placed at a special section called rainbow shelves. This issue will be examined in this study. To show how important it is to include and acknowledge everyone and not only some groups, social recognition by Axel Honneth has been chosen as the theory of this paper. In order to see how diverse the literature in rainbow shelves are, a qualitative content analysis, based on four different semi-structured interviews with four different individuals, has been made. Only librarians from libraries which have rainbow shelves has been interviewed, but they were spread all over Sweden, from north to south. The interviews took place during April 2018. The result shows that the libraries have diverse LGBTQ-literature to a certain degree. They can only purchase as much diverse LGBTQ-literature as exists and unfortunately, there is not much diverse LGBTQ-literature available. Due to this, the four public libraries cannot acknowledge individuals who are not included in the white normativity or western standards. The discussion revealed that the rainbow shelves of the participating libraries do not represent a greater diversity. However, there are rainbow shelves where diversity is more represented than in other rainbow shelves. It was also found that there is a limited amount of multilingual LGBTQ-literature and that it is complicated to find. Not enough multilingual LGBTQ-literature is published to enable public libraries to find and make this available to a wider extent. All participating libraries work in some way to support the diversity of the rainbow shelves and make them more representative. This work is mainly done by getting inspiration from other libraries’ rainbow shelves or by searching for diverse LGBTQ-literature.

The aim of this thesis is to identify and describe how the public library in Sweden is being argued for, according to the public debate. Why do we need the public library and in what way is it unique? What functions are being expressed as vital for the public library? What discourses are being expressed about the public library? These questions are answered by doing an discourse analysis of the book ”Folkbibliotekens framtid?” [The future of the public library?] (2010), edited by Roland Eliasson, where 19 persons closely connected to the library are interviewed. Foucaults discursive theory constitutes the methodical frame for this thesis, and by using terms from the discursive theory the analysis was made in four steps. Six major functions of the public libraries were identified from the interviews: improve literacy, book- and information intermediary, democratic role, educational role, culture centre and meeting place. With the help from keywords two major discourses were identified within the material: a book discourse and a community centre discourse. The conclusion of this thesis is that in many of the dis-courses, the library is described in a romantic old-fashioned way in contrast to the new approach where the library is described as a democratic meeting place. The writer of this thesis also find that the argumentation of the public library in these interviews are in some ways week. Further research could be to study what counterarguments exists in discourses against public libraries.

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.