The Adult Education Initiative and the Main Public Library in Linköping How do the students at the Adult Education Initiative experience the library and how has the librarians working situation been influenced?

The aim of this study is to examine how the adult students in the Adult Education Initiative called Kunskapslyftet, experience their use of the Main Public Library in Linköping and how the librarians experience the change in their working situation after Adult Education Initiative has started in July 1997. Methods used in the survey are interviews with librarians and students in the Adult Education Initiative. I have also distributed questionnaires to some of the adult students and studied literature that describe students use of libraries. The result shows that the students generally are satisfied with the service they get from the librarians at the Main Public Library. It also shows that what the students mostly asked for, are help to search information about a subject and to find literature in the library. The librarians in the study had to be more of tutors to show the students how to find their way in databases, catalogues and in the library. The librarians experienced an increased pressure at the reference desk after July 1997.Uppsatsnivå: