The aim of this Bachelor's thesis is to contribute with new knowledge about the use of school library plans. The focus is to learn about 18 Swedish municipalities’ view with regards to their school library plans. The purpose is to understand how the school library plans describes their main task, how the libraries are to be used and what type of staffing that is required. Under Swedish legislation the municipalities must have a library plan that describes the municipal libraries. According to the National library of Sweden, three quarters of the municipal library plans lack information about their school libraries. A few of the municipalities that lack information have solved this issue by creating a separate school library plan. To carry out this study a qualitative content analysis has been conducted on 18 municipal school library plans. Loertcher’s taxonomy was used to analyse the results. The coding scheme was created from the 11 levels that can be found in Loertscher’s taxonomy, additional themes that could not be found in the taxonomy were created. This was done because the themes appeared in several of the school library plans, and was thus considered important. The results show that the school library plans vary in quantity and discuss different themes. The municipal school library plans that have been used gives very different information, among other things regarding staff, education and cooperation between librarians and teachers.

This thesis examines how school libraries describe their collaboration with the youth leisure center in library plans. A qualitative content analysis combined with Aidan Chambers (2011) theory about the circle of reading were conducted. Ten school library plans were analyzed. The documents showed that school libraries and youth leisure centers collaborate when it comes to literature and reading. The results also showed that they do not collaborate as much when it comes to teaching students digital competence. The conclusion of this thesis is that the school library and the youth leisure centres do a lot to help students to reach their goals. Even though the two operations are two parallell units, they work well toghether.