Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
”Kan du tala om vad som händer?”: Hur sex bibliotekarier upplever sitt arbete gentemot vuxna med intellektuell funktionsnedsättning
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
2018 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
“Can you tell me what is going on?”: How six librarians experience their work with adults with intellectual disabilities (English)
Abstract [en]

This thesis focuses on how librarians describe their work towards users with intellectual disabilities which is a priority group in the control documents for the public libraries. These aims for the user group are to be found in The Swedish library Act, Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM) and Swedish Arts Council and they make up the foundation for this study. The aim of this thesis is to gather knowledge about how to get users with intellectual disabilities to get included and feel welcomed in the library. Three main questions were asked: How does the six librarians in our thesis describe their work towards users with intellectual disabilities? Which challenges does the librarians experience? How do the librarians deal with the identified challenges? In this study qualitative interviews were accomplished with librarians from six different public libraries. M. K. Buckland´s Access to Information (in Information and information systems 1991) was partly used as a model to analyze our empiric material. Buckland, who has a long and solid library background in his profession, identifies six types of barriers and how to overcome the challenge of getting access to information. The results show that collection development is a priority for the libraries and also suitable in four of Buckland´s six barriers of access to information. One conclusion is that several librarians in the study felt content with their efforts since they had a good book collection for the user group. Three other factors that had high priority for the librarians were cooperating with external organizations, programs on the library especially suited for the user group and doing outreaching work to get the user group to come the library.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018.
Keywords [sv]
folkbibliotek, intellektuell funktionsnedsättning, utvecklingsstörning, användare, barriärer, uppsökande verksamhet, bemötande, inkludering
National Category
Information Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13860OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-13860DiVA, id: diva2:1192071
Subject / course
Library and Information Science
Available from: 2018-03-28 Created: 2018-03-21 Last updated: 2018-03-28Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(465 kB)378 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT02.pdfFile size 465 kBChecksum SHA-512
35a37bfb0797dc40d9ee2111e8a1034e93a3253a0cb3aa462e7b542516fdb7848ee348a33eba90ae1cb7d7d23c455ee89ec0a555a7d9e7ebb8cf000d60f396e2
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT
Information Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 378 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 1277 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • harvard-cite-them-right
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf