Search for dissertations about: "Academic Library"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words Academic Library.

2. 1. Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems

   Author : Niki Chatzipanagiotou; Anita Mirijamdotter; Jaime Campos; Christina Mörtberg; Ulrika Lund Snis; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work Practice; Cooperative Work; Cooperative Work Practices; Computational Artefacts; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; Articulation Work; Awareness; Appropriation; Ethnography; Focused-Ethnography; Fieldwork; Vignettes; Complexity; Managers; Management; Libraries; Academic Library; Academic Library Managers; Informatik; Information 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

4. 2. Academic librarianship in flux : The dynamics of negotiating professional jurisdiction

   Author : Pieta Eklund; Elena Maceviciute; Nasrine Olson; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; academic librarianship; librarians; profession; occupation jurisdiction; Abbott; negotiations; Universitetsbibliotekarier; bibliotekarier; professioner; yrke; jurisdiktioner; Abbott; förhandlingar; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study aims to better understand the dynamics of negotiating professional jurisdiction within research from the perspective of academic librarians who develop library services for researchers. This qualitative case study consists of 24 semi-structured interviews, 32 recorded non-participant observations, and seven official university library documents collected at one Swedish university library with three division libraries during 2016. READ MORE

5. 3. Merger and management : University of Rwanda libraries in a transitional context

   Author : Berthilde Uwamwezi; Högskolan i Borås; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; University merger; resource sharing; library management; academic libraries; academic library merger; University of Rwanda; Rwanda; University of Rwanda libra;

   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

6. 4. The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation

   Author : Nora Schmidt; Kultur och Samhälle Informationspraktiker: Kommunikation; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Scholarly communication; Critlib; Collection management; Academic libraries; Decolonialism; Scientometrics;

   Abstract : A large part of the literature published in the ‘Global South’ is barely covered by bibliographic databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in ‘international’ journals, draining local infrastructures. The standard-setting power of ‘Global South’ scholars is minimised further. READ MORE

7. 5. The social and intellectual development of library and information science

   Author : Fredrik Åström; Olle Persson; Pertti Vakkari; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; library and information science; sociology of science; scholarly communication; ; Library and information science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The background of the project is partly found in a long tradition within library and information science (LIS) of meta-analyses on the field, partly in a science studies discussion on research fields and their contextual relation to wider academia, fields of professionalpractices and professionalization processes. The general purpose of the project is to analyze the social and intellectual development and organization of LIS; and to investigate the impact of the close relation to the practice field, as well as the relation to the academic world in general. READ MORE