Department of Library and Information Studies / Enheten för biblioteks- och informationsvetenskaphttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/105072024-03-29T14:54:20Z2024-03-29T14:54:20ZMaskininlärningsbaserad indexering av digitaliserade museiartefakter [Dnr:353-3849-2009] - ProjektrapportHöglund, LarsEklund, JohanWilhelmsson, Kennethhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/306482013-04-23T14:00:11Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZMaskininlärningsbaserad indexering av digitaliserade museiartefakter [Dnr:353-3849-2009] - Projektrapport
Höglund, Lars; Eklund, Johan; Wilhelmsson, Kenneth
2012-01-01T00:00:00ZTaken for Granted – The Construction of Order in the Process of Library Management System Decision MakingOlson, Nasrinehttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/232542013-04-23T14:00:11Z2010-09-14T00:00:00ZTaken for Granted – The Construction of Order in the Process of Library Management System Decision Making
Olson, Nasrine
This thesis is an empirically based, theoretical discussion of the process of decision making in relation to Library Management Systems (LMS). Although the conceptualization of the LMS decision process in rational terms, common in many LMS selection models, may be useful in different respects, here the process is viewed from a social constructivist stance. It is argued that due to the complexities involved, the potential choice of an LMS does not necessarily reflect the superiority of the chosen LMS based on objective inherent qualities. Nevertheless, libraries continually choose new systems and in many of these selection processes, the chosen system is perceived as the optimal choice. In this study, therefore focus is placed on examining the way in which this shared perception is constructed.
Three theoretical views are adopted as the research framework, including Brunsson’s views on the process of decision making and its consequences, Collins’s views on methodological symmetry and construction of conceptual order, and finally Giddens’s views on duality of structure and the social order. Observations, interviews, and document studies are the methods employed in four different case studies that each lasted from 10 months to two years. In this study an array of different factors were found to be influential during the long process of the LMS decision making. It was also found that although the norms of rationality were striven for, and shared perceptions of rationality were constructed, the complexities involved did not allow a true rational choice by determination of all the options, projection of future needs, evaluation of the identified options, and selection of the optimal outcome. Instead, the different activities and happenings during the process helped construct a shared perception of the possible courses of action and optimality of the decision outcomes. Based on this study and with the help of the theoretical framework, it was suggested that an LMS choice is only one potential consequence of the LMS decision process; other consequences include legitimization, action, responsibility, and constructions of conceptual and social order.
Through this study, the importance of the day-to-day actions and interactions (at micro level) and their wider implications for the construction of shared perceptions and shaping and reshaping of social structures are highlighted. This thesis contributes towards an alternative conceptualization of the process of LMS decision making. It may also have implications for the library practice, LMS related research, and educational programs within LIS.
2010-09-14T00:00:00ZBibliotekarien: om yrkets tidiga innehåll och utvecklingJansson, Bertilhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/223782013-04-23T14:00:08Z2010-05-20T11:14:51ZBibliotekarien: om yrkets tidiga innehåll och utveckling
Jansson, Bertil
Title: The librarian : about the early content and development of the profession
Bibliotekarien : om yrkets tidiga innehåll och utveckling
This thesis is about librarians and librarianship. Questions asked in the thesis are how the librarianship developed between 1475 and 1780 and what the core and the main tasks of the profession were. There is also the question whether the profession is built on a common basis to rely on and if it is characterized by unique knowledge.
The history of the librarian is divided in three parallel ongoing parts, the practical, the visionary and finally the personal, the librarians own attitudes.
The practical area is characterized by the practical work, as cataloguing, classification, care of books, shelving and protecting the documents in different ways from several possible threats. The work is dictated by the employer. The visionary part complements and develops the methods of library work being established in the practical area, the librarians themselves formulate their thoughts of libraries and librarianship, defines the roles of libraries in society, in education and research. The librarians think about the content of the work and the future of libraries. These two areas done, another dimension is born. That is the ethics of the librarianship, how to behave and how to act towards library users and this dimension puts the librarian in the centre. There have been signs of this before but the completion is done in 1780 by Cotton des Houssayes. His speech opens the future for the librarians to come.
The time period covers 305 years from 1475 until 1780. Starting point for this research about the librarian is 1475 because in that year pope Sixtus IV appointed Bartolomeus Platina as librarian of the Vatican library. The bull of 1475 is an official document that describes the librarian as a librarian and that he is told what to do, where to do it, how to do it and why. Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, appointed in 1780, sets an end to this period with his speech to the General Assembly of the Sorbonne university in Paris. His speech completes the creation of the librarian. It is also the starting point of something new in librarianship.
The common tasks of the librarians investigated, reveal what can be regarded as the essence of librarianship. From the practical area, the employers gave the librarians their tasks, executed at different places in different kinds of libraries.
From the area of visions, the librarians built their visions as a continuum of the experiences from the practical work. New areas like the role of the librarian, the goals for the library itself and the librarians as the executors and pathfinders for the future. More of theory became a natural part of the librarianship.
The last area of the development of the librarian is to adopt ethical aspects of their profession. This dimension is a self-reflecting attitude important to the librarians themselves.
Keywords: library history, librarians, librarianship, renaissance librarianship, library professions, library work.
2010-05-20T11:14:51ZActors in Collaboration: Sociotechnical Influence on Practice-Research CollaborationPonti, Marisahttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/221352013-04-23T14:00:03Z2010-04-06T11:00:54ZActors in Collaboration: Sociotechnical Influence on Practice-Research Collaboration
Ponti, Marisa
There has long been a concern about the research-practice gap within Library and
Information Science (LIS). Several authors have highlighted the disconnection
between the world of professional practice, interested in service and information
system development, and the world of the academy, focused on the development of
theory and the progress of the discipline. A virtual organization, such as a
collaboratory, might support collaboration between LIS professionals and
academics in research, potentially transforming the way research between these
two groups is undertaken.
The purpose of this study was to examine how sociotechnical aspects of work
organization influence the initiation, development, and conclusion of collaboration
between LIS academics and professionals in distributed research projects. The
study examined the development of three collaborative projects from the start to
completion in two countries, Italy and another European country. The data analysis
aimed at deriving implications for the further development of theory on remote
scientific collaboration, and for the design of a sustainable collaboratory to support
small-scale, distributed research projects between LIS academics and professionals.
The research design, data collection, and data analysis were informed by Actor-
Network-Theory (ANT), in particular by Callon’s model of translation of interests.
Qualitative interviews and analysis of literary inscriptions formed the key sources of
data for the three case studies.
The analysis of how and why collaborations between LIS academics and
professionals initiated and developed revealed that the initial motivation to pursue
collaboration has to do with the lack of economic and organizational resources on
either or both sides, and with a genuine interest in a topic by both academics and
professionals. The case studies in this study were decentralized and bottom-up
projects in which LIS academics and professionals pursued collaboration because
they had a genuine interest in a given topic and not because they were mandated
by their employers, or they hoped to be acknowledged and promoted by them on the
basis of their participation in the project. Market conditions and/or institutional
pressures did not exert much influence on the start and development of these
collaborations, although one project was influenced by political considerations and
funding conditions in healthcare.
The patterns emerged from the findings of the three cases underpin the
development of a sociotechnical framework aimed at providing a better
understanding of remote collaboration between academics and professionals not
only in LIS but also in other fields affected by the research-practice gap.
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