Search for dissertations about: "University Library"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 76 swedish dissertations containing the words University Library.
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1. Merger and management : University of Rwanda libraries in a transitional context
Abstract : With a focus on management of libraries, this study is set in the context of a merger of the University of Rwanda with multi-sites and campuses. The study explores how librarians, library directors and representatives for university management understand and conceive of the libraries in relation to the merger. READ MORE
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2. Subject retrieval in web-based library catalogs
Abstract : This thesis has been motivated by past research, problems and realizations that online library catalog users frequently perform subject searches – using keywords, subject headings and descriptors – and these searches have yielded unsatisfactory results. Web-based catalogs or WebPACs (Web-based Online Public Access Catalogs), belonging to the so-called third generation of online catalogs and providing a wide variety of search options, remain largely underutilized despite the continuous advancement of information retrieval systems. READ MORE
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3. Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems
Abstract : The dissertation presents understandings of the complex, contextual, cooperative everyday work practices of academic library managers supported by computational artefacts, as well as challenges disrupting their practices and thereby computational artefacts usage. The doctoral research approaches and conceptualises managers’ work as ‘everyday cooperative practice’, in this way adopting the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) approach. READ MORE
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4. Contribution of Library Managers to Information Society
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5. The shifting conditions of support groups in transition : an ethnography of respiratory disease in Northern England
Abstract : Breathlessness is a condition we all know something about, as it is normal to get out of breath when physically overexerted. However, breathlessness may also be an abnormal manifestation commonly understood, assessed, and defined as the first vital symptom of respiratory disease-such as in asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or pulmonary fibrosis. READ MORE