Research projects

The Swedish School of Library and Information Science runs or participates in various research projects.

The Swedish School of Library and Information Science runs or participates in various research projects. We cooperate with other universities and research institutes in Sweden and in EU projects, as well as in projects among the researchers at the department. A great deal of the research at the department is conducted by the doctoral students, either within large projects or in individual thesis projects. In accordance with the University’s image, researchers also co-operate with development projects in libraries and other information intense organisations. Some of the current projects are Shaman (an EU project), EXAKT and FilIP.

Current projects

• • AMICUS (Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage in Scientific Communication Text)
  • Bibliotek, IKT och lärande (BIKT)
  • Evaluating Remote Collaborative Knowledge Work in Industry and Academia
  • Evaluating the Use of Remote Collaboration Technology in Organizations
  • EXpertise, Authority and Control on the InterneT (EXACT): a study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning
  • Fiktionsläsningen i internetsamhället: Litteraturens betydelse för unga vuxnas personlighetsutveckling och omvärldsorientering
  • FilIP
  • Folkbiblioteken - förr, nu och i framtiden: politik, profession och praxis
  • Joint Nordic Use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki
  • Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS)
  • SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg)

Current thesis projects

• • Data Curation and the Construction of Knowledge. Veronica Johansson.
  • Det läsande barnet: läspraktiker 1900-1940. Mats Dolatkhah.
  • Folkbibliotek som offentlig kulturinstitution, Katarina Michnik.
  • Historien om bibliotekarien: yrkets innehåll och utveckling 1475-1780. Bertil Jansson.
  • Information sharing for co-design in Solution Sharing Networks. Ann Lind.
  • Informationssökning - en del av yrkesidentiteten: en studie av bibliotekariers övergång mellan utbildnings- och yrkespraktik. Jenny Lindberg.
  • Library Management System Decision Process - an Alternative View. Nasrine Olson.
  • Semantic Analysis of Swedish Texts using Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Maps. Johan Eklund.
  • Sharing research resources across distances in library and information science: a socio-technical design of a collaboratory. Monica Lassi.
  • The potential of visual technologies for collaboration in emergency situations. Hanna Maurin Söderholm.
  • Young school children and information literacy. Anna Lundh.

Finished thesis projects

So far, 25 doctors and six licentiates have graduated within the research education. The theses have been published by VALFRID, the department’s publishing association. The dissertations can also be found in BADA (Borås Academic Digital Archive) and/or can be purchased from the department.