Librarians with a teaching role in higher education need to collaborate with the faculty. The aim of this thesis is to identify the importance of a well communicative collaboration and what difference it makes to the students. Information literacy is a central concept for librarian’s teaching, but it may not be well known by students. The collection of empirical material took place in Southern Sweden. Five librarians with a teaching role were interviewed at their workplace and it was four different universities. The semi-structured interviews were recorded and transcribed. The transcribed material was analyzed with Yrjö Engeströms cultural-historical activity theory to explore the terms of the teaching librarian’s success. The literature view was divided in three themes in order to understand the development and context of the teaching librarian. The meaning of the concept information literacy has not always been the same and is one of the themes in the literature review. Information literacy is the foundation of the supporting role of the librarian. Findings of the interviews shows that the collaboration is significant for student’s development of information literacy. Students need help from librarians with different kinds of matter. Librarians helpfulness is useful for senior student’s thesis writing. The teaching librarian´s objective is to support the students and researchers on the university. Knowledge and resources is a part of the tools librarians need to succeed. The collaboration between librarians and teacher is the key element to invite the students to the library and librarian’s knowledge.

This study investigated upper secondary school students’ views on their school libraries and whether their libraries helped with their studies. The study’s main focus was information literacy and reading, but the function of the library’s physical environment was also investigated. Participating school libraries were known to be well-developed and to be well integrated in the planning, executing and evaluating of lessons and school projects. Two online questionnaires were distributed at six different schools: one for students and one for the school librarians. 222 students chose to participate. With primarily a sociocultural perspective, the study found that students to a great extent valued both the calm study environment that the library provides and the school librarians’ knowledge and helpfulness. The students’ responses indicated that they felt helped on aspects related to information literacy to a greater extent than aspects related to reading. The students also felt that their libraries provided more help with finding texts that they enjoy reading than with reading strategies. The study found no clear correlation between library usage and reading confidence, which indicates that not only “readers” use the school libraries. Vocational students responded less frequently and more negatively than non-vocational students, and school librarians described it as more challenging both to reach out to vocational students and to find opportunities to work with vocational teachers. Equivalence between classes seemed to concern several school librarians in this study.

In this study, we have used a survey to investigate students in higher education and their self-efficacy abilities in Media and information literacy (MIL). We have investigated whether the students felt that the MIL-related education, offered by the libraries, helped them develop their abilities when they took part in it. The survey also asked if the students would like more such education. The results in this study revealed that the students at Chalmers had a high self-efficacy for critical thinking and information seeking both in their studies and in their social media habits. The result also revealed that despite their high self-efficacy the students still wished for more education in media and information literacy.

This thesis strives to explore the PhD students’ information behavior (information needs, information search strat-egies and information management) to see how information literacy (use of information services and resources as well asinformation accessibility and intermediation) can evolve through increased access to information, resources and ideas. The theoretical foundation of the study is Carol C. Kuhlthau’s model of the information search process (ISP-model). Two different surveys were used, first a participant observation and then interviews, with a user group consisting of six postgraduates. The postgraduates were all from different disciplines within the same collage, in the middle of their dissertation and highly motivated by regular information seeking sessions. The study shows that postgraduate students’ knowledge of information behavior and information literacy is inadequate, something that graduate students are largely aware of and wish to change. In conclusion, PhD students need support to maintain, adapt and expand their knowledge. The study indicates that there are many areas where postgraduates’ information literacy can be developed and that there is much to be gained by enhancing the knowledge transfer between information specialists (librarians) and users. This thesis is a two years’ Master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.

Information overload is a popular term intimately associated with the information society in which we are now thought to live. This two-year master’s thesis explores perceptions and experiences of this phenomenon through a quantitative study of two groups of academics; on the one hand, academically active information specialists, and on the other, active academics in general. The theoretical framework for this study is based on Orrin E. Klapp’s notion of ‘meaning lag’ and Luciano Floridi’s concept of ‘infosphere’, to provide a context for discussing how and why information overload might develop. The relationship between information overload and ‘information literacy’ is another important point explored as part of this discussion. An international, web-based survey directed at information specialists as well as general academics reveals that information overload is a very common experience for people active in academic settings. A number of statistics are presented regarding how, when and where information overload is usually experienced, as well as the more general information habits and perceptions of the information environment that these groups display. After comparing the two examined groups, the thesis concludes that there are, in fact, no major differences in how these groups perceive and experience information overload and their surrounding information environment. Having an academic interest and specialty in information science is thus not indicative of being able to avoid or even think very differently about information overload. Finally, some relevant research directions are proposed. / Information overload, eller informationsöverflöd, är ett populärt sätt att beskriva en av följderna av det informationssamhälle i vilket vi nu anses leva. Denna uppsats utforskar vilka uppfattningar och erfarenheter som finns av detta fenomen utifrån en kvantitativ studie av två olika grupper av akademiker; å ena sidan akademiskt aktiva informationsspecialister, och å andra sidan, aktiva akademiker i allmänhet. Det teoretiska ramverket för denna studie baserar sig på Orrin E. Klapps begrepp ‘meaning lag’ samt Luciano Floridis tanke om en ‘infosfär’. Dessa skapar tillsammans en kontext för att kunna diskutera hur och varför informationsöverflöd drabbar oss. Relationen mellan informationsöverflöd och informationskompetens är en annan viktig beståndsdel som utforskas i denna diskussion. En internationell, nätbaserad enkätundersökning som författaren utfört bland de relevanta grupperna visar att upplevelsen av informationsöverflöd som ett problem är mycket vanlig i den akademiska världen. Statistik presenteras som åskådliggör hur, när och var de nämnda grupperna upplever ett informationsöverflöd, samt deras informationsvanor och uppfattningar om sin informationsomgivning överlag. Dessa två grupper jämförs löpande i uppsatsen, men resultaten visar på att det trots allt inte existerar några särskilt anmärkningsvärda skillnader dem emellan. De har båda ungefär samma syn på informationsöverflöd och sin informationsomgivning. Slutsatsen blir att en akademisk kunskap om och intresse för informationsvetenskap inte nödvändigtvis innebär att den som besitter detta lyckas undvika eller ens ser annorlunda på fenomenet informationsöverflöd. Uppsatsen avslutas med en diskussion om ett antal relevanta aspekter av informationsöverflöd som framtida forskning med fördel skulle kunna utforska.

False or misleading information can damage societal cohesion, school libraries are involved in teaching media and information literacy and can be an important start for students' knowledge in the field. The thesis aims to investigate how library plans and school library plans present the school library's mission with teaching media and information literacy, and how a didactic school library model could look like and what it can contribute to the school library's activities. To achieve the purpose, the questions are used: What can a theoretical model of school library di-dactics contain? How do library and school library plans present the school library's learning area MIL from a didactic perspective? And why does the school library need a didactic model and what could it contribute? The method is a qualitative content analysis of 18 current library and school library plans. The result is analyzed with a school library didactic model developed based on the didactic basic questions what, how and why. Hansen's model of library didactics is also used and the school library's central areas such as the room, intermediation and as a pedagogical resource. The study concludes that there are differences in how the plans presents the school library's role with MIL and that a clearer school library plan designed by the principal, school librarian and other relevant staff at the school in collaboration can clarify the school library's activities. A school library didactic model can be relevant for demonstrating the school library's special role and promoting the status of an integration in the school's activities. This is a two-year master's thesis in library and information science.

Att kombinera svenskämnet med samhällskunskap kan bli en framgångsrik undervisningsmetod, visar den samlade språkstrategiska forskningen. Ämnesövergripande undervisning har flera fördelar för läraren. Elevens förmåga, behov av stöttning och kunskapsmål, kan bedömas utifrån fler perspektiv. I undersökningen redovisar vi verkningsfulla språkstrategier för ämnet samhällskunskap från både inhemsk och internationell skolforskning. Användningen av språkstrategier har setts som en allt mer väsentlig del av undervisningen inom skolan då samtliga ämnen ska ses som språkämnen. Språkstrategier har en särskild roll i det texttunga och komplexa ämnet samhällskunskap. Språkstrategier inom samhällskunskap är ett tämligen outforskat område som är värt att undersöka närmare. Den hittillsvarande forskningen inom samhällskunskapen har lagt fokus på skolans fostrande inslag med tyngdpunkt på elevens kommande utmaning som en framtida demokratisk medborgare. Den demokratiska medborgaren har både rättigheter och skyldigheter, där kravet på tillräckliga språkkunskaper anses särskilt värdefulla. Språkkunskaperna inom den demokratiska diskursen återfinns i elevens förmåga till, media och informationskompetens MIK. MIK begreppet diskuteras främst utifrån sitt grundläggande krav mot läs och skriftlig förmåga. Modellen för vår undersökning består av semistrukturerade intervjuer med yrkesverksamma samhällslärare. Intervjuerna använder fenomenografisk ansats i samtalen för att finna verkningsfulla undervisningsmetoder. Samtalen har kompletterats med internationella och inhemska undersökningar och fältstudier som beskriver verkningsfulla metoder till språkstrategier inom samhällskunskap. Vår undersökning använder den sociokulturella teorin för beskrivning av de olika möjligheter till kunskapsöverföring från lärare till elev. Den sociokulturella teorin har kompletterats med begreppet empowerment och transspråk inom den elevcentrerade undervisningen. Empowerment och transspråk har till syfte att stärka elevens självbild och att se samtliga språk som resurser för individen. Det är när elevens självbild stärks som individen blir mottaglig för verkningsfulla metoder av språkstrategier inom samhällskunskap.

Todays youth faces difficulties when navigating on the World Wide Web where they constantly face an infinite amount of information. Therefore it has never been as important to equip the adults of tomorrow with the information literacy skills they need to be able to navigate and successfully evaluate the information.This study makes the attempt to chart the evaluation strategies amongst upper secondary highschool students by sending out a web-based survey consisting of 21 questions regarding their tendencies of searching and evaluating relevance and credibility of information. The result indicates that students efficiently find the information they are looking for on the Internet, but that the methods of evaluation needs further development. Additionally, the students use the qualities of presented information as the caret of the relevance of information, and the majority evaluate the relevance prior to the credibility of the information they face.The majority of the students only aspect of evaluating the credibility is to confirm it with a second source, without taking into account any underlaying purposes if the information or whether there is any bias between the two sources. This concludes that students needs to work more consciously with evaluation strategies to raise their awareness of how they evaluate information. This can be made by, in school context, make them account for how they do so, to make the analytical method of evaluating credibility a part of their metacognitive information literacy skill.

In recent years, theories have emerged about whether the source critical approaches that are encouraged in school affect students’ trust in credible sources. The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the perspectives of upper secondary students; their experiences of lectures in source criticism, and how the teaching has affected their trust in the credibility of established news media, scientific research, and authorities. The purpose is also to illuminate how educators can encourage upper secondary students to be source critical and at the same time maintain their trust in reliable sources.  In the beginning of 2022, a digital survey was sent out to upper secondary schools in 15 Swedish cities. The empirical material which the study is based on consists of questionnaire responses from 68 Swedish upper secondary students. The analysis is based on pragmatism and John Dewey’s thoughts on teaching to interpret, understand and explain the statements that emerged in the questionnaire responses. The study identified nine aspects related to how educators can balance source criticism and source trust in their teaching. Furthermore, the results show that source trust may need to be given more space in the lectures, and that the students’ trust in credible sources seem to have been maintained and strengthened to some extent by lectures in source criticism, while the teaching also has contributed to critical attitudes towards the same sources in some respondents. Based on this, it is concluded that lectures in source criticism can have a negative impact on individual students trust in credible sources, and that educators need to reflect upon how they teach source criticism; what messages they send out and how these can be interpreted by their students. This is a two-year master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

Purpose–This study has examined the information behaviour and perception of information in a group ofinformation users who have a critical approach to the media and the information supply. Some of them call themselvesor are being called conspiracy theorists. The purpose was to examine how their information behaviour is influenced by the belief that the information is biased or inaccurate and what the information behaviour looks like when the user searches for discrepancies rather than a response to a question. Method–The study is based on transcribed interviews and email responses to interview questions. The model used to analyze the source material is Christine Bruceʼs seven categories of information literacy as presented in Seven Faces of Information Literacy. The outcome is compared with other user studies. Subsequently, the source material has been studied through Michel Foucaultʼs discourse theory. Focus is on power, anti-discourses and institutions. Findings–The analyses have shown that the informants have a sufficiently uniform information behaviour to be studied as a user group. Their information behaviour is focused on different strategies for evaluating information and understanding courses of events. This behaviour is based on a critical approach to what is considered as "truth" in the discourse. Originality/value–The user group has not been studied before in LIS research. Paper type–This is a two years master’s thesis in library and information science in Archive, Library and Museum studies.