Research

Library and Information Science Research at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science and the University of Gothenburg

The Swedish School of Library and Information Science in Borås is the biggest department in the field in Sweden. Among the staff are eight professors, 17 senior lecturers, some 30 junior lecturers and 20 doctoral students. 

Research is organized in three main groups, striving for excellence within a row of exciting sub-areas. The doctoral education, which is also the biggest in Sweden in this research field, has close connections with both the undergraduate education and the research groups of the department. 

International cooperation is important in research. The postgraduate education is pursued in close collaboration with the nordic-baltic research institute Norslis and we also participate in Swedish research schools in related areas. Both research and doctoral education is characterized by frequent participation in international conferences and close contacts with external partners for cooperation in the professional field.

Focusing information issues

”The discipline of Library and Information Science takes as a starting point problems related to the dissemination of information or culture which is stored in some kind of document. Within Library and Information Science, the (whole) information process, libraries and other institutions with similar functions are studied. The discipline has connections with several other disciplines within the social sciences, humanistic studies and technology.” (Description of the research field by Forskningsrådsnämnden, 1989)

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Cooperation with the professional field and external organisations are important in order to develop research and to promote knowledge development. Therefore, research projects are carried out in close collaboration with experts in various fields where information services need to be developed and information issues need to be solved or analysed. Cooperation with libraries and other kinds of organisations and companies is crucial.