This thesis investigates young people's (16-21) preferences in reading through a surveyincluding interviews and questionnaires. The groups attitudes towards reading and libraries,their reading and library habits, and to what extent eight libraries had bought the preferredliterature were also examined.Some reports from the 80's were used to find the changes. The result shows that youngstersread and visit libraries somewhat more frequently. Trivial literature is not as dominant, moreteenage-books were read. Popular themes are love, history, reality, fantasy/sf, and detectivestories. The books should be exciting or emotional. The way they were told was important -something earlier studies did not show.Reading was mainly connected with relaxation and the content was essential. The librarieswere important intermediaries and the majority was happy with the collection. 21% of themost popular titles were missing, and only an average of 1,5-5 books were available of mosttitles.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-16888 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Bergsten, Anna-Lena |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Magisteruppsats i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, 1654-0247 ; 1996:01 |
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