Books, books, more books : A discourse analysis of Good School Library Practice

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create knowledge about how school librarians construct the image of their work in the school library on social media relating to the conception “Good School Library Practice” that is expressed on the Swedish Instagram account @skolbibliotekarierna (meaning the school librarians). The study uses both discourse and visual analysis to analyze the discourses connected to the main discourse “Good School Library Practice”. To do so the Instagram posts are divided into seven categories. Out of these categories six subdiscourses were found. By analyzing the posts in the different discourses the study answers the question what “Good School Library Practice” are during the period January to May in 2019 on the account @skolbibliotekarierna. The two major subdiscourses found are the Library Room and Teaching. The majority of the posts in the Library Room subdiscourse show pictures of book shelves and cozy furniture. The majority of the posts in the Teaching subdiscourse show projector images and tablets as well as students shown from behind. These two subdiscourses determine what is seen as Good School Library Practice. The result of the study show that there is a difference between how the discourse Good School Library Practice is manifested by the school librarians on Instagram and how it is presented in research, policy documents and curricula