This publication presents the results from five projects in a research circle conducted 2008-2009 at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University. The participants in this circle are all active school librarians or librarians at county libraries, working with school library issues in central Sweden. The work in the circle has focused on a general theme chosen by the participants and the leader of the circle: "Does the school library matter?" In their five projects, the participants have carried out small surveys in order to get an extended knowledge of their local school library situation.
The first research circles were created in Sweden during the 1970s, but the method used is based on the study methodology which originally developed within the free educational work of the Swedish popular movements in the beginning of the 20th Century. Research Circles have during the last decades been tried in various fields with the purpose to strengthen the ties between practice and research, but not yet in the library field. This school library circle has been an attempt to see how the research circle works as a method for evidence based library and information practice, EBLIP.