The purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to examine and describe how a wiki can be used in the information seeking education. We believe that the preconditions for education and learning are changing; technology and Internet has introduced new tools for the learning situation. To examine this we will describe how the wiki technology can be used in the information seeking education, describe how the goals of the information seeking education are reached when using a wiki and lastly investigate the school librarian’s pedagogical role in wiki-based education. In our research we have used qualitative interviews, observations and study of the artifact. We have interviewed the school librarian and her seventh grade students, observed the learning situation in the class room and studied their use of their wiki. We learned that the wiki was used as a platform in the education and that the school librarian found it easy to implement and use. The students found it easy and fun to use most of the time. We found that the school librarian’s role were twofold; tutor and intermediary. When using the wiki the learning situation is changed, there are new roles and the teaching moves away from the teacher’s desk. We also came to the conclusion that the wiki was not used to its full potential in terms of collaboration.

The outbreak of the corona pandemic has led to various restrictions within society and thus also within higher education. In March of 2020, all teaching at colleges and universities in Sweden became remote. This included library instruction. The aim of this study was to describe the teaching academic librarian’s role due to the corona pandemic and the transition to distance education it has entailed. The study applied Huvila’s terms work role and work task together with Kuhlthau’s levels of instruction as well as a model of emerging roles for academic librarians identified by Vassilakaki and Moniarou-Papaconstantinou as its theoretical framework. A mainly qualitative study was carried out. A questionnaire was sent to teaching academic librarians nationally. This resulted in 61 responses. Data gathered were analysed using conventional content analysis. The study’s results indicate that the role has changed due to changes in how tasks are carried out, for example how the library instruction is carried out, cooperation with faculty, requirements regarding technological competence, the use of digital learning resources and how the students’ needs are highlighted. The study’s results also indicate that this transformation will remain to some extent, and that blended learning will become more common.