Denna magisteruppsats diskuterar kvalitetsfrågor med utgångspunkt i elva svenska portaltjänster. En portaltjänst är en webbtjänst vilken samlar och länkar till fritt tillgängliga webbresurser inom en viss ämneskategori. Tjänsten erbjuder även någon form av kvalitetskontroll av de webbresurser som ingår. Författarna tittar även på definitioner av termen portaltjänst. Syftet med uppsatsen är att dis

The main purpose of this Master´s thesis, is to describe and discuss what constitutes the library collaboration between The Swedish Royal Library and the National Library of Guatemala, but also to analyse which effects the support has for public library work in Guatemala. The data consists of interviews and direct-observations during 2 months of fieldwork in Guatemala, Central America. The analysi

The main purpose of this study is to investigate in what ways librarians and schoolteachers can co-operate and combine their professional skills in order to help and motivate children with reading and writing disabilities, and how audio books can be useful in this work. The main source of information is interviews with teachers from ten schools in the province of Scania, southern Sweden. Those tea

The aim of this study was to find out if hypertext structure has any relevance for the efficiency of information retrieval. An experiment, in which three variants of hypertext structure were compared, was carried out in the autumn of 1998. Three websites with different structures were constructed for this purpose: a sequential version, a hierarchical version and a webcluster version. 44 subjects,

The focus of this thesis is the library at the Swedish school in Berlin, Germany. Being a school in a foreign country, and playing a role also as a public library, the conditions for the library are somewhat unusual. Considering those conditions, how should the library be organised and developed to meet the users' needs in the best way possible? To put the library in Berlin into a greater pers

This research paper is a thesaurus construction for the interdisciplinary subject of landscape planning. The personnel doing the indexing of documents at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences had earlier expressed a need for such a work within the fields of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Engineering. However our objective was not to create a complete thesaurus, but instead a basic

This essay is about reading among patients in hospital. The aim of the essay is to find out what part reading and the library play for patients in hospital. An additional aim is to find out in what ways the collaboration between hospital librarians and hospital staff could be developed. The starting-point of the problem is one main question: What part does reading play for the patient during the s

The purpose of this essay is to study the process of developing electronic subject guides for the Internet. Our focus is the content, structure and layout of the subject guide. The study has resulted in a number of guidelines that may be of help in the development of future subject guides. To achieve this purpose we have studied the existing subject guide at one of the faculties of the University

In a complex and turbulent world, several companies begin to realize the value of information as a strategic resource and try to find strategies to manage this. This master thesis aims to describe the information management at Axis Communications AB. Axis is a fast growing company and due to this they have not been able to manage the flow of information whitin the company. To find out how the info

This study investigates and evaluates a project called "Hisnande historier: från Bellman till Batman". "Hisnande historier" is composed to stimulate childrens literacy and it is directed towards pupils in the fourth class. The project is a co-operation between public librarians and compulsory school representatives in the municipality of Ystad. It contains visits by an author a

This study investigates the individual usage of the Dublin Core metadata format in three Swedish Subject Based Information Gateways, SAFARI, Svenska miljönätet and Svesök. The authors also present the reader with an overview of the metadata concept and explains in particular the Dublin Core Element Set. The approach to the study is investigation of Dublin Core application from the viewpoint of thr

Syftet med denna uppsats är att studera betydelsen av genus/kön i samhällsplanering med hänseende på arbete med miljökonsekvensanalyser. I studien speglas framställningar av varianter i begreppen natur, kultur och miljö samt hur de behandlas i relation till genus/kön. Varianter på begreppen ställer jag i förhållande till att arbeta med miljökonsekvens analysbeskrivningar (MKB). Vidare tar jag upp

Uppsatsen behandlar jämställdhetsfrågor i skolan, för det första frågan om hur det teoretiskt sett ska gå till att i undervisningen förverkliga de jämställdhetsmål som anges i läroplaner och skollag, och för det andra hur det praktiskt upplevs av ett antal intervjuade lärare på en grundskola. Den empiriska delen går i stort sett på samma linje som tidigare forskning vad gäller problemen med jämstä

Fokuseringen på sexuella kränkningar som riktar sig mot tjejer i skolan, både i massmedia och i samhälls diskussioner, har gjort könshierarkin mellan elever i skolan synlig. Ett av de mest använda förolämpningarna i omlopp är ordet hora. Då jag tror att användandet av ord som hora är mer komplex än bilden som ges i media, väljer jag att undersöka användandet av ordet utifrån Bourdieus teori om sym

I denna uppsats utforskar jag hur heterosexuella feministiska kvinnors sexuella praktik förhåller sig å ena sidan till den heterosexuella institutionen och å andra sidan till feminismen. I detta syfte har jag intervjuat fyra heterosexuella feministiska kvinnor om deras erfarenheter av sex. Med den teoretiska utgångspunkten att det på ett övergripande plan råder en konflikt mellan feminismen som id

This Master Thesis states that organisations based on ethnicity should be included in the concept of civil society. The argumentation originates in that the existing definitions of civil society exclude organisations based on ethnicity. This proves to have troublesome consequences in an African context, since a large part of the associational life can be derived to ethnicity. Based on the assumpti

The aim of this paper is to expand the debate on globalization and its consequences from a theoretical perspective emphasizing social processes of exclusion and inclusion. I explore these social processes in dialogue with the Spanish social movement for the rights of irregular immigrants. The paper also aims to explore new forms of resistance in the context of globalization. "The declinist t

Europe's violent history led to the European cooperation in order to maintain peace in the diverse Europe, after World War 2. The 4th of October 2003 the European Convention presented a Draft Treaty establishing the European constitution, in Rome, aiming at establishing a constitutional framework for the Union. Consociational theory explains how stability in diverse societies is accomplished a

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how the European Union through the Directorate- General (DG) of Education and Culture, are calling forth a constructed sense of European identity amongst the citizens of the Union. It is a discourse analysis, which can be described in twofold. Firstly, it is a mapping of the European discourse; i.e. how the European Union defines the identity it seeks

In 2003 the parties in Sweden were invited to debate reforms of the Constitution. The purpose of this essay is to study the debate concerning reforms of the Constitution and identify values expressed by the parties. Moreover the goal of the essay is to connect the identified values to the three democratic ideals, which are; electoral democracy, participation democracy and deliberation democracy. T