The aim of this study is about how school librarians useweblogs as a working tool. I wanted to examine how someschool librarians use weblogs as a working tool and why theyare using them. I also wanted to know the advantages anddisadvantages they see with this tool. I believe that children andteenagers are interested in social media- tools and also are bigusers and consumers of these tools. Therefore I thought it mightbe interesting to examine how school librarians who havechildren and young people as their main target group, work withweblogs which is one of many social media tools.The methodology used for this study is interviews. I didthree face-to-face interviews and two interviews by sending theinterview guide with questions to the participants. The interviewguide was sent by e-mail as a wordfile-document. The answerswere written by the participants directly in the word-documentand then sent back to me in the same way. Farkas (2007) dividethe use of weblogs into different kinds of blogs. I used thisdivision to present and analyze my result.The conclusions of this study are that school librarians useweblogs as News Blogs, Readers’ advisory blogs, Book Clubblogs, Marketing blogs, Blogs to build community, Blogs tosupplement workshops and as reference blogs. They useweblogs as a working tool to inform, to market the library, toreach out to their users, to tip about books etc. Some of theadvantages of weblogs according to my respondents are itssimplicity, its rapid way to disseminate information on and itsability to allow users to participate and communicate. Some ofthe disadvantages of weblogs as a working tool are that it takestime to blog, it’s hard to get readers and that there are fewpeople who give comments on the blog. / Program: Bibliotekarie

Samarbete mellan vårdare är ett måste för att göra det möjligt att leverera högkvalitativ vård till vårdmottagare, men om samarbetet brister riskerar vårdmottagare att bli lidande. Ett sätt att främja samarbete är genom social mjukvara, som på grund av sina kommunikativa och relationella egenskaper har visat positiva resultat gällande förmåga att främja samarbete inom diverse organisationer och yrkesområden. Tidigare forskning gällande social mjukvara inom vård har dock fokuserat på vårdkrav och vårdmottagare, och delvis negligerat samarbetet mellan vårdare i verkliga arbetsprocesser. Vårdrelaterade yrken innefattar även flera etiska och lagliga anpassningar vilket har lett till komplexa tjänster som ska användas i miljöer fulla med avbrott. Denna studie genomfördes med en designstudie som metodansats, där designelement från aspekter av samarbete i form av tillit, kommunikation, och medvetenhet implementerades i en prototyp för att undersöka hur samarbete kan främjas i en vårdkontext. Vårdkontexten som studien genomfördes i var en anläggning för daglig verksamhet stationerad i Sverige. Studien resulterade i sju designförslag för hur social mjukvara inom vård kan designas för att främja samarbete. / Collaboration between caregivers is a must to make it possible to deliver high-quality care to care recipients, but if the collaboration fails, the care recipients risk suffering. One way to promote collaboration is through social software, which, due to its communicative and relational properties, has shown positive results regarding the ability to promote collaboration within various organizations and professional areas. Previous research on social software in healthcare has focused on healthcare requirements and care recipients, and partly neglected the collaboration between caregivers in real work processes. Care-related professions also include several ethical and legal adjustments, which have led to complex services that will be used in environments full of disruptions. This study was conducted with a design study methods approach, in which design elements from aspects of collaboration in the form of trust, communication and awareness were implemented in a prototype to investigate how collaboration can be promoted in a healthcare context. The healthcare context in which the study was conducted was a facility for activities of daily living stationed in Sweden. The study resulted in seven design proposals for how social software in healthcare can be designed to promote collaboration.