Library and information science

This research area deals figuratively with the sense-making of information and in a concrete way how it may be organized, made searchable, accessible and mediated through different techniques and information services. The research emphasizes conditions and methods for individuals and organizations to get hold of desired/relevant information for different activities, education, training and experiences.

Library and information science focuses as well on library and information services as on how individuals or organizations search, use and get access to information. Conditions are studied as well on micro as macro level and include aspects of cultural policy and/or informational policy.

Three main areas for research are:

1. information use/information behaviour
2. digitalization and digital libraries
3. libraries, cultural policy and information policy

Research projects

AMICUS (Automated Motif Discovery in Cultural Heritage in Scientific Communication Text) The AMICUS network devotes itself to building a research commity on the topic of computational models of motifs in cultural heritage text and in scientific communication.
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 The EXACT project addresses how people come to grips with the transference of formal expertise and control of information from institutions, such as publishers, schools, and libraries, to the users in Web 2.0 resources, and how users justify and uphold trust in the resources’ authority.
FilIP
Folkbiblioteken - förr, nu och i framtiden: politik, profession och praxis
Folkbiblioteken - förr, nu och i framtiden: politik, profession och praxis
Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS) LinCS is a national centre of excellence funded by the Swedish Research Council (2006-cont.) and with additional funding from several agencies. LinCS is a collaboration between several research groups at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Borås.
Reading Fiction in the Internet Society. The Function of Literature in the Personal Development and Social Orientation of Young Adults "Fiction Reading in the Internet Society" is one out of seven projects within the the new programme by The Swedish Research Council: "Man's needs and uses of fiction". The project will go on for three years starting 2011.

Finished research projects

Better Search Engine
Better web
Bibliotek, IKT och lärande (BIKT)
Changes in the Geography of Cultural Policy
COST Action A32
Evaluation of the PLUS project in Borås
Förändringar i kulturpolitikens geografi 2
Infrastruktur för forskningsinformation
Joint Nordic Use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki
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SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg)