| Summary: | The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the methods used for reading promotion work at public libraries in Sweden for children and adolescents up to the age of 18 years. Part of the background is the results from international studies where the results show decreasing literacy skills among children. A low literacy might limit individuals opportunities to be a part of the society, and therefore the reading promotion work and ways of understanding how to imbibe and use knowledge and information are important. Semi-structured interviews were used as a method for collecting the data needed for answering the question of what kind of reading promotion work is done today for this lending- group. The number of interviews for this study are 10 and the number of informants are 12. All the informants are working with focus on children and adolescents reading. The study has a sociocultural perspective using three sociocultural concepts as a tool for analysing the results from the interviews; appropriation, instrument and social context. The conclusions possible to make from this study is that there is an aim from the librarians to do this reading promotion work both as projects and as regular activities. They want to tempt both young children with their parents and adolescents to visit the library and find ways into the literature. It turned out that there are more focus on the youngest children because when the children get older and become adolescents, the informants feel that it is difficult to reach them, since there are many other activities that compete with their time. The reading-promotion methods that the librarians used are all well-known and the librarians get positive feedback from participants in the activities, even if there still are challenges left to work with.
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