ATT SKAPA EN BIBLIOTEKSANVÄNDARE: En studie av hur barn i tidig skolålder utvecklas till biblioteksanvändare i biblioteksmiljö
(2007)Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- The public library is an institution that throughout history has been associated with a
number of social codes, that seem to be deeply rooted in the minds of the public. These
codes regulates how users act and interact in the library environment and as a library user
you have to obtain knowledge about these social codes.
This master's thesis aims at studying how these codes are transferred to children in the early
school-age, how children react to the social codes and what effects they have on the
children's development into library users.
The empirical material used in this study consists of observations and interviews. The
observations are conducted during two school classes visits to a public library and focuses
... (More) - The public library is an institution that throughout history has been associated with a
number of social codes, that seem to be deeply rooted in the minds of the public. These
codes regulates how users act and interact in the library environment and as a library user
you have to obtain knowledge about these social codes.
This master's thesis aims at studying how these codes are transferred to children in the early
school-age, how children react to the social codes and what effects they have on the
children's development into library users.
The empirical material used in this study consists of observations and interviews. The
observations are conducted during two school classes visits to a public library and focuses
on the interaction between librarians, the children and their teachers, and the interviews
were conducted with the two librarians responsible for the library visits.
The theories used in this master's thesis consists of symbolic interactionism, in the form of
theories by George Herbert Mead and Erving Goffman, Peter L. Berger and Thomas
Luckmanns theories regarding the concept of institutions. Another theory that's used in this
master's thesis is the one concerning the social aspects of information literacy focusing on
the concept of epistemic communities as presented by Kimmo Tuominen, Reijo Savolainen
and Sanna Talja.
The result of this study is that the social codes are communicated to the children primarily
by the teachers rather than the librarians. Furthermore this study shows that the librarians
represents a different perspective on the social codes of the library than that of the public
mind, in this study represented by the teachers. Since the teachers in this study are
responsible for the main part in transferring the values unto the children, the differences in
perspectives have a negative impact on the information literacy of the children (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1322339
- author
- Andersson, Per and Andersson, Martin
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Documentation, biblioteksanvändare, barn, sociala koder, informationskompetens, symbolisk interaktionism, information, library science, archivistics, Arkiv- och bibliotekskunskap, dokumentation
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1322339
- date added to LUP
- 2007-10-04 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-04-11 14:16:46
@misc{1322339,
abstract = {{The public library is an institution that throughout history has been associated with a
number of social codes, that seem to be deeply rooted in the minds of the public. These
codes regulates how users act and interact in the library environment and as a library user
you have to obtain knowledge about these social codes.
This master's thesis aims at studying how these codes are transferred to children in the early
school-age, how children react to the social codes and what effects they have on the
children's development into library users.
The empirical material used in this study consists of observations and interviews. The
observations are conducted during two school classes visits to a public library and focuses
on the interaction between librarians, the children and their teachers, and the interviews
were conducted with the two librarians responsible for the library visits.
The theories used in this master's thesis consists of symbolic interactionism, in the form of
theories by George Herbert Mead and Erving Goffman, Peter L. Berger and Thomas
Luckmanns theories regarding the concept of institutions. Another theory that's used in this
master's thesis is the one concerning the social aspects of information literacy focusing on
the concept of epistemic communities as presented by Kimmo Tuominen, Reijo Savolainen
and Sanna Talja.
The result of this study is that the social codes are communicated to the children primarily
by the teachers rather than the librarians. Furthermore this study shows that the librarians
represents a different perspective on the social codes of the library than that of the public
mind, in this study represented by the teachers. Since the teachers in this study are
responsible for the main part in transferring the values unto the children, the differences in
perspectives have a negative impact on the information literacy of the children}},
author = {{Andersson, Per and Andersson, Martin}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{ATT SKAPA EN BIBLIOTEKSANVÄNDARE: En studie av hur barn i tidig skolålder utvecklas till biblioteksanvändare i biblioteksmiljö}},
year = {{2007}},
}