This study has four main purposes: 1. To determine whether there is a preference for certain types of stories. 2. To find whether boys prefer one type story and girls another. 3. To determine whether the physical make-up or format of the book has any influence on the selection of books. 4. To find how these interests are related to classroom work.

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Results in international tests that measure primary school students' reading comprehension have indicated reduced results. It has raised discussions about how Swedish school libraries can increase students' reading comprehension, reading interest and literacy. Increased understanding of this could contribute to improve Swedish students' school results. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate whether the compulsory school library can contribute to stimulate students' interest in reading and developing their literacy. The method for conducting the study was based on data collection based on documents from government investigations into the work of the Swedish school library to develop school students' interest in reading, literacy and reading comprehension. Data analysis was carried out through thematization based on a theoretical model of reading in relation to democracy, narrative imagination, and creative reading. The result showed that the school library of the primary school can stimulate students' interest in reading and reading literacy through new and varied offerings of analogue and digital books, increased staffing of trained librarians, joint activities for reading aloud, campaigns and book voting, premises and equipment that benefits varied reading, generous opening hours with increased lending, closer collaboration between school libraries and schools and a more even distribution of resources between different school libraries. One conclusion was that all school libraries need to provide more adapted service for all students, regardless of differences in linguistic background, reading interest, reading literacy and geographical location in Sweden. It is a service that libraries need to provide in an increasingly digitalised society.

This study aims to investigate how school librarians work with media- and information literacy, MIL, with middle- and highschool pupils with intellectual disability, ID, in Sweden.  The Swedish government has decided that all Swedish citizens shall be digitally included, but there are people that are not. For example people with different disabilities. In Sweden it is common that school librarians work with MIL in schools – but it is also common to not have either a school library or an educated librarian in the school library.  In this study I have interviewed three school librarians that are educated and work full time in their schools´ library, with all the pupils in the school, also the pupils with ID. The theory in the study is the TLC-model, Teacher and Librarian Cooperation, by Professor Patricia Montiel-Overall. The model is explaining how teachers and librarians can work together in school, to fulfill the curriculum for every student. The model has four stages, where the first stage is not working together so much at all, and up to the fourth stage, where teachers and librarians work closely, and also plan the lessons and education, together. Monitel-Overall´s model is based mainly on sociocultural theory, which means that we learn things best in a social context, as the Russian philosopher and psychologist Vygotsky said. His thoughts on sociocultural theory has often been used and referred to in pedagogical research and also in school context. This study shows that the school librarians that are interviewed all have support from their headmasters and the teachers. The librarians are creative and often make their own material. But it also shows that librarians often are quite lonely in their profession in school, even when they have teachers as colleagues. / Denna studie undersöker hur skolbibliotekarier arbetar med medie- och informationskunnighet, MIK, med elever i mellan- och högstadiet med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning, IF, i Sverige.  Den svenska regeringen har bestämt att alla medborgare ska vara digitalt delaktiga. Men det finns de som inte är det, exempelvis personer med olika funktionsnedsättningar.  Det är vanligt att skolbibliotekarier arbetar med MIK i skolor, men det är också vanligt att inte ha antingen ett skolbibliotek eller en utbildad bibliotekarie i skolbiblioteket.  I denna studie har jag intervjuat tre bibliotekarier som är utbildade och arbetar heltid i sina skolbibliotek med alla elever i skolan, även de som har IF. Studien har använt sig av professor Patricia Montiel-Overalls samarbetsmodell, som grundar sig i en sociokulturell teori, som den ryske filosofen och psykologen Vygotskij lade grunden till. Han menade att vi lär oss bäst i en social kontext och hans teori har ofta använts i pedagogisk forskning och i skolans praktik. Studien visar att bibliotekarierna är kreativa och använder olika sorts material när de undervisar elever med IF, men att de också måste ta fram mycket material själva. Den visar också att de har rektorns och lärarnas stöd.  Men den visar också att skolbibliotekarier ofta är ensamma i sitt yrke på skolan, även om de har lärare som kollegor.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate in what manner librarians and pedagogues can cooperate in order to help students with reading and writing problems and consequently enhance their information literacy. I aimed to investigate why cooperation between these professions is necessary. Also, I wanted to find out how the general support is on the schools regarding students with reading and writing difficulties, and if the school librarian knows what the special educator can contribute with and vice versa. Lastly, I focused on what knowledge the performers of these professions have about reading and writing difficulties and to what degree their knowledge is based on scientifically proven methods. The two theoretical points of departure are 1) theory of cooperation built upon Louise Limberg’s and Lena Folkesson’s three categories of cooperation 2) and Aidan Chambers’s reading promoting model named the circle of reading. I have used a qualitative method based on semi-structured interviews with both school librarians and pedagogues, who are active at five upper secondary schools. The major findings are that it would be possible to develop the cooperation between these two professions. For example: Research shows that working in teams promotes student learning. Another result is that the informants have a limited knowledge of whether the technical compensatory devices are based on approved research. In conclusion, it was also found that particularly school librarians feel an anxiety about to target aid efforts, directly to students with reading and writing difficulties/dyslexia, because they believe that the students would feel singled out. Such thinking puts in my opinion too much responsibility on the students themselves, to ask for help. The study also revealed that, easy to read literature has a quite small part in supporting these students. The research was undertaken for a two-year master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

Det här arbetet är inriktat mot elevers läsvanor och läsattityder. Eleverna som deltar går i grundskolans årskurs två och tre. Förmågan att kunna läsa är värdefull. För att kunna utveckla läsförmågan är både tid spenderad på denna aktivitet samt motivation till att läsa viktig. Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka elevers läsvanor och läsattityder samt att undersöks om dessa påverkas av vilken plats eleverna befinner sig på, skolan eller hemmet. För att läsning ska utvecklas är det viktigt att vara motiverad. Därför undersöks vad eleverna själva väljer att läsa när det valet erbjuds. Arbetet utgår från två frågeställningar: Hur ser elevernas läsvanor och läsattityder ut och skiljer de sig mellan skolan och hemmet? Vad läser eleverna helst när de själva får välja? Denna studie använder sig av en kombination av kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod, så kallad triangulering och hela arbetet vilar på ett socio-kulturellt perspektiv. Det material som studien utgår från har samlats in via enkäter och enskilda intervjuer med elever. I resultatet framkommer det att elever som gillar att läsa läser oftare än övriga elever och gärna längre stunder. Elever upplever en skillnad mellan att läsa hemma och att läsa i skolan men skillnaden är mer kopplad till deras läsvanor och läsintresset än till platsen där läsningen sker. Om eleverna får välja läser de helst en spännande bok. Skolbiblioteket visade sig vara viktigt för var eleverna får tag på böcker att läsa. Eleverna i den här studien har en återkommande tid varje vecka då de går till skolbiblioteket. Det kan konstateras att läsattityden påverkar elevens läsvanor. En elev som inte gillar att läsa kommer att göra det mer sällan, troligtvis endast om hen känner att hen måste. Hur ofta eleven läser kommer därför att påverka i vilken takt läsförmågan utvecklas. / This study is focused on pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading, the pupils partaking in this study are attending grade two and three in primary school. The ability to read is a most valuable skill. To develop this ability both the time spent on this activity and the motivation for why you are doing it is important. The aim of this study is to examine pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading and see if they are affected by the place where the pupil is doing his/her reading, in school or at home. To improve your skills in reading it is important to be motivated, therefore I want to investigate what pupils choose to read when they have the opportunity to decide that for themselves. This study is based around two questions: What does the pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading look like and is there any difference between school and home? What do the pupils prefer to read when they have the option to choose for themselves? This study will use a combined method of quantitative and qualitative methods, called triangulation. The material in this study is collected from questionnaires and one-on-one interviews. The result shows that pupils who like to read, read more often than other pupils, they also read for longer periods of time. The pupils experience a difference between reading at home and reading in school but the difference is connected more to their reading habits and their interest in reading than the actual place where they read. If pupils are allowed to choose their own reading most will premiere suspense. The school library proved to be important to where the books are found. In conclusion, reading attitudes affect the reading habits; a pupil who doesn’t like to read will read more seldom. How often the pupil will read therefore affects the speed in which the reading skill develops.

Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-03T21:41:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cecilia Rizzi Lima.pdf: 2109155 bytes, checksum: 72f61e732a63e7684a311fc18c8e63e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-03T21:41:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Cecilia Rizzi Lima.pdf: 2109155 bytes, checksum: 72f61e732a63e7684a311fc18c8e63e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-05 / The purpose of this paper is to present the paths and the results of a research regarding the presence of the School Library in State Schools of elementary education in the State of São Paulo, having as starting point for such investigation the Federal Law No. 12244/10, which makes it mandatory the existence of a School Library in all public and private schools in Brazil. Such imposition established by law resulted in a search for legal dispositions, starting from Law No. 9394/96, Educational Bases and Guidelines Law until 2015, which placed the School Library in the space and among the equipment of the São Paulo schools. Such search for the legal provisions, ordinary rules and regulations published in the State Official Gazette and in the Education Office of the State of São Paulo was helpful to comprehend the paths of the School Library and identify in which provision is the Reading Room included for the São Paulo schools, as well as to aid the hypothesis that the law that makes school libraries mandatory, although mandatory, would not be enough to actually implement such space in the State Schools of Elementary Education in São Paulo. Researches on School Libraries, their purposes, functions and activities to support and complement the education and learning processes were the ground for the searches in academic works developed in the Education and Library Science fields, with the aim at understanding the necessary actions to establish School Libraries beyond legal provisions. The Manifesto by UNESCO (2005), which names the Guidelines for School Libraries, was used as basis to acknowledge the actions that should be taken by the agents, school communities and public policies to succeed as provided for in Law No. 12244/10. Roger Chartier and the representation theory aided in the analysis of the procedures of this research, which, in the final considerations, indicate a few reasons for School Libraries of State Schools of elementary education in São Paulo to remain silent. Among such reasons are: the lack of professionals trained and prepared especially for the performance of educational and cultural activities in such libraries; public policies focused on distributing materials instead of focusing on their dissemination and use; the hiring and reiteration of a teacher prepared to deal with the Reading Room, which, as from SEE Resolution No. 15 of October 10, 2009, was confirmed by SEE Resolution No. 14 of January 29, 2016 / Este trabalho apresenta os caminhos e os resultados da pesquisa realizada sobre a presença da Biblioteca Escolar nas Escolas Estaduais de ensino fundamental do Estado de São Paulo, tendo como ponto de partida para a investigação, a Lei Federal nº 12.244/10, que universaliza a Biblioteca Escolar em todas as escolas públicas e privadas no país. A obrigatoriedade estabelecida pela lei, incitou o rastreamento dos dispositivos legais, a partir da Lei nº 9.394/96, Lei Diretrizes e Bases da Educação até 2015, que instauraram a Biblioteca Escolar no espaço e entre os equipamentos da escola paulista. Localizar os dispositivos legais, normas ordinárias e regulamentares, publicados no Diário Oficial do Estado e na Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo serviram para refazer a trajetória da Biblioteca Escolar e identificar em que dispositivo a Sala de Leitura foi introduzida na escola paulista além de subsidiar a hipótese que, a lei de universalização da biblioteca escolar, ainda que obrigatória, não seria suficiente para a efetivar implantação do espaço nas Escolas Estaduais de Ensino fundamental paulista. Pesquisas sobre as Bibliotecas Escolares, finalidade, funções e atividades de apoio e agregadoras ao processo ensino e aprendizagem, embasaram as buscas em trabalhos acadêmicos desenvolvidos nas áreas de Educação e Biblioteconomia com objetivo de entender as ações necessárias para o estabelecimento da Biblioteca Escolar além, dos dispositivos legais. O Manifesto da UNESCO (2005), que indica Diretrizes para as Bibliotecas Escolares, serviu de base para reconhecer as ações, que devem ser empreendidas pelos agentes, comunidade escolar e políticas públicas para alcançar o êxito que a publicação da Lei nº 12.244/10, pretende. Roger Chartier e a teoria de representação, serviram de subsídios para a análise dos procedimentos desta pesquisa, que nas considerações finais, apontam algumas causas que perpetuam o silêncio da Biblioteca Escolar nas Escolas Estaduais de ensino fundamental paulista, entre elas, a ausência de profissionais especialmente treinados e preparados para exercício das atividades educativas e culturais no espaço, políticas públicas com foco na distribuição de materiais sem se ocupar com a disseminação e uso, a admissão e reiteração do professor readaptado como encarregado da Sala de Leitura, a partir da Resolução SEE nº15 de 10 de outubro de 2009, cujo teor foi reafirmado pela Resolução SEE nº 14 de 29 de janeiro de 2016

Orientador: Oswaldo Francisco de Almeida Júnior / Banca: Helen de Castro Silva Cesarin / Banca: José Fernando Modesto da Silva / Resumo: Paralelamente ao avanço da tecnologia e uso da expressão "Sociedade do Conhecimento", percebe-se pessoas que não sabem efetuar a contento pesquisas e leituras. Alguns professores e bibliotecários escolares preocupam-se apenas com a orientação na aquisição de habilidades para o uso dos recursos tecnológicos na localização de informação. Esquecem que a ambiência da biblioteca, maior que seu espaço físico, deve alcançar os lares dos alunos, salas de aula e outros aportes de apoio pedagógico. Sendo assim, procurou-se responder questões como: O bibliotecário sabe que é um mediador? Como tem sido esta mediação? O bibliotecário acompanha as mudanças tecnológicas, inserindo-as em seu fazer cotidiano? A virtualização da informação facilita o uso das fontes/recursos de pesquisa e a capacidade de selecionar informação e ampliar conhecimento? O estudo teve como objetivos: avaliar a percepção do bibliotecário quanto a sua responsabilidade cotidiana em mediar a pesquisa escolar, independentemente da ambiência em que se encontra; analisar a postura e as habilidades técnicas/cognitivas do bibliotecário na mediação da pesquisa em um momento de crescente virtualização da informação; verificar o processo de utilização de recursos tecnológicos na busca de informação; identificar a existência de parceria entre bibliotecário e professor na prática da pesquisa escolar; obter subsídios para propostas de projetos/ações que visem busca de soluções para que a pesquisa escolar atinja seus objetivos.Buscou-se embasamento teórico por meio da literatura pertinente e para coleta de dados aplicou-se uma entrevista focalizada com o profissional bibliotecário em seis escolas de ensino fundamental da cidade de Londrina. / Abstract: In parallel with the advancement of technology and use of the term "the knowledge society", realizes it is people who do not know sign to the satisfaction surveys and readings. Some teachers and school librarians concern itself only with the guidance in the acquisition of skills for the use of technological resources in tracking information. Forget that the environment of the library, more than its physical space, must reach the homes of students, classrooms and other contributions of teaching materials. Therefore, it is answering questions such as: The librarian knows who is a mediator? As has been the mediation? The librarian accompanies technological change, inserting them into their daily lives do? The virtualization of the information facilitates the use of sources / resources research and the ability to select information and expand knowledge? The study aimed to: assess the perception of the librarian as its responsibility in daily mediate the search school, regardless of the environment in which it is; examine the attitude and technical skills / knowledge of the librarian in mediation of the search in a time of growing virtualization of documents; verify the process of the use of technological resources in the search for information; identify the existence of partnership between librarian and professor in the practice of research school; obtain subsidies for proposals for projects / activities aimed at finding solutions to the search school reaches its objectives. Intent is a theoretical through the relevant literature and to collect data applied to be a focused interview with the professional librarian in six schools of basic education of the city of Londrina. / Mestre

The purpose of the study was to examine how and why high school students use the library and its resources. It examined how teachers influence students' use of library resources. The participants were 11th-grade students attending public high schools in 3 east Tennessee counties. Participants completed a survey based on library use. Although 350 students were invited to participate in the study, only 130 returned the permission slip, resulting in a 37% response rate. Eleven respondents were asked to participate in a short interview to supplement and add qualitative clarification to the findings. The findings were descriptive in nature, although basic analyses were calculated to identify any relationships between the different variables. A literature review examined the historical development of the library, the purpose of the library, challenges to the role of the library, research in the library science field, influences on library use, library use and academic achievement, studies of library users and nonusers, and lifestyle variables relating to library use. The study's identification of library use patterns and high school students' attitudes about their use of the library could assist librarians in making long range plans for their libraries. These plans could include the identification of materials to purchase, areas in which students need assistance in completing projects, or recreational materials to read. Ultimately, the findings could assist librarians in the development of cooperative programs between school and public libraries to reduce the overlapping of information while increasing student use of the library. The study found most students visited the library at an early age with their mothers, although not on a regular basis. They were more likely to visit the school library than the public library; the primary reason being to locate information to complete school assignments. Parents and English teachers were the most influential in encouraging library use, although teachers had more influence on female students than male students. Female students also visited the library on a more frequent basis.