Birgitta Wallin
Senior Lecturer Assistant Head of Department
Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT (including The Swedish School of Library and Information Science)
Swedish School of Library and Information Science
I am a lecturer and researcher in the research area of Library and information science and my dissertation; Selling and lending e-books: changes in the Swedish literary field (2019), deals with e-books in Sweden, with a focus on public libraries and booksellers.
I started my employment as a lecturer at the University of Borås in 2010. My areas are strategic communication, information products and digital libraries.
I have a journalist degree from Göteborg University, a MA in English from Växjö and a MSc in Library and information science from the Swedish school of library and information science.
Between 2013-2017 I have been working in a research project on e-books, which was funded by the Swedish Research Council. Books on Screens. Players in the Swedish e-book market, is published by Nordicom, Gothenburg University, in October 2017.
2020 ongoing research projet; Digital books - Public libraries position and role in a digital media landscape.
Researcher's publications in DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)
Doctoral thesis title
Selling and lending e-books: Changes in the Swedish literary field (2019)
