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- Dahlström, Mats
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Under utgivning : den vetenskapliga utgivningens bibliografiska funktion
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis investigates in what way the scholarly edition performs bibliographic functions as it manages and positions other documents. This is where the study differs from previous research on scholarly editing and bibliography. It aims to trace the boundary between scholarly editing and bibliography by comparing crucial objectives, problems and conflicts in each field. This is accomplished by identifying the argumentation, assumptions and conceptual frameworks that form the rationale for the fields, and subjecting them to qualitative critical and historical analysis. The main empirical material is editorial theory literature, with scholarly editions serving as illustrating examples. Key questions concern the way scholarly editors and bibliographers identify, define and reproduce their respective source material; the reasons for conflicts between editors’ varying expectations of the reproductive force in printed and digital editions; and the connections and demarcations between scholarly editing and bibliography and between scholarly editions and reference works such as bibliographies. Bibliographic and media theory form the basis for the theoretical framework, with additional input from book history, literary theory, genre studies and scholarly communication studies. The thesis suggests a distinction between the two activities of clustering and transposition, and the distortion the latter brings about. These concepts are employed to detect, group and explain activities and problems in scholarly editing and bibliography, who both manage sets of documents by clustering them to one another and transposing their contents by producing new documents. There is a noticeable division of labour between the two tasks, and they also correspond to different types of editions. The study also ties the dominant editorial strategies and edition types to respective bibliographic foci, and argues that central conflict areas are primarily accentuated and only secondarily introduced with digital editing. An idealistic strand treats editing as unbiased delivery of disambiguable and reproducible content, while to a hermeneutical strand the edition is an argumentative and content constraining filter, its editor being a kind of biased author. In a third strand, editions are content circulating ecosystems with a division of labour between collaborating media types. In particular the view of editions as constitutive arguments is related to analogue observations in LIS and genre and scholarly communication studies. On the one hand, editing is supposed to be a dynamic research area, ready to respond to new findings and scholarly ideals. On the other, several arenas demand the edition to serve as a conservative force, static and confirmatory. The potential of digital media points to a distinction between edition and archive, where the former but not the latter explicitly takes an interpretative stand. Digital editing also boosts the idealistic strand by the seeming promise to separate facts from interpretation and to enhance maximum exhaustiveness and reproductivity. Although the thesis identifies many commonalities between editions and reference works and the way these are structured, there is a crucial difference. The edition is simultaneously a work’s reference and referent. Bibliographies and reference works cannot make that claim.
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- Dahlström, Mats, 1964
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Under utgivning: den vetenskapliga utgivningens bibliografiska funktion : The editors text: bibliographic functions in scholarly editing
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis investigates in what way the scholarly edition performs bibliographic functions as it manages and positions other documents. This is where the study differs from previous research on scholarly editing and bibliography. It aims to trace the boundary between scholarly editing and bibliography by comparing crucial objectives, problems and conflicts in each field. This is accomplished by identifying the argumentation, assumptions and conceptual frameworks that form the rationale for the fields, and subjecting them to qualitative critical and historical analysis. The main empirical material is editorial theory literature, with scholarly editions serving as illustrating examples. Key questions concern the way scholarly editors and bibliographers identify, define and reproduce their respective source material; the reasons for conflicts between editors’ varying expectations of the reproductive force in printed and digital editions; and the connections and demarcations between scholarly editing and bibliography and between scholarly editions and reference works such as bibliographies. Bibliographic and media theory form the basis for the theoretical framework, with additional input from book history, literary theory, genre studies and scholarly communication studies. The thesis suggests a distinction between the two activities of clustering and transposition, and the distortion the latter brings about. These concepts are employed to detect, group and explain activities and problems in scholarly editing and bibliography, who both manage sets of documents by clustering them to one another and transposing their contents by producing new documents. There is a noticeable division of labour between the two tasks, and they also correspond to different types of editions. The study also ties the dominant editorial strategies and edition types to respective bibliographic foci, and argues that central conflict areas are primarily accentuated and only secondarily introduced with digital editing. An idealistic strand treats editing as unbiased delivery of disambiguable and reproducible content, while to a hermeneutical strand the edition is an argumentative and content constraining filter, its editor being a kind of biased author. In a third strand, editions are content circulating ecosystems with a division of labour between collaborating media types. In particular the view of editions as constitutive arguments is related to analogue observations in LIS and genre and scholarly communication studies. On the one hand, editing is supposed to be a dynamic research area, ready to respond to new findings and scholarly ideals. On the other, several arenas demand the edition to serve as a conservative force, static and confirmatory. The potential of digital media points to a distinction between edition and archive, where the former but not the latter explicitly takes an interpretative stand. Digital editing also boosts the idealistic strand by the seeming promise to separate facts from interpretation and to enhance maximum exhaustiveness and reproductivity. Although the thesis identifies many commonalities between editions and reference works and the way these are structured, there is a crucial difference. The edition is simultaneously a work’s reference and referent. Bibliographies and reference works cannot make that claim.
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- Hultgren, Frances
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Approaching the future : a study of Swedish school leavers' information related activities
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focus of the thesis is on how school leavers deal with the flood of information, advice and expectations that are directed towards them at a structurally induced turning point in their lives. With a departure point in Giddens’ claim that people select and interpret information on their own terms as a means of preserving coherent narratives of self-identity, stories of information seeking were examined as a means of gaining insight into how young people living in late modernity face its tensions and dilemmas in the ways in which they seek and use information. The theoretical framework of the study draws on Schutz’ ideas concerning the lifeworld and the social distribution of knowledge, on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus as well as on Giddens’ conceptualisation of the forming of self-identity in late modernity. The study is based on qualitative research interviews with twenty one school leavers during their last year at school and on a minor discourse oriented study of a selection of the information produced by major actors in the careers guidance system. Empirically, accounts of young people’s experiences of their information related activities in relation to study and occupational choice were examined using phenomenological narrative analysis. These accounts were set in relation to discourses in Swedish society concerning work and education. Four approaches to information seeking emerged from participants’ accounts: 1) They use information seeking as a tool in making connections between educational interests and the future labour market 2) They use information seeking both as a tool in finding pathways to occupations and as a means of orienting within an occupational domain 3) Study and career information seeking is put ‘on hold’, and information seeking is associated with planning extended transitions, and 4) Study and career information seeking is avoided as potentially threatening or as meaningless. By considering how approaches are related to the ‘new career’ discourse that comes to expression in study and career related information the study gives insights into the meaning of information for, and of its accessibility to, young people. A greater focus on the development of an information literacy is suggested as a means of better supporting young people in the process of making study and career decisions.
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- Jarneving, Bo, 1956
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The combined application of bibliographic coupling and the complete link cluster method in bibliometric science mapping
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis connects to previous research in bibliometric science mapping and citation indexing. A method was suggested for science mapping purposes and evaluated. The suggestion of this method was motivated by the fact that the prevailing method of citation based science mapping of documents, the cocitation cluster analytical method, can not map the most current published research, a feature that is a characteristic of the proposed method. On theoretical grounds, it was assumed that neither of these methods could substitute for the other and that they would have complementary functions in relation to one another. The prime objective was to evaluate the proposed methods capability to generate subject coherent clusters, i.e. to identify coherent research themes, and the assumed context of application was scientific information provision. The proposed method has two primary components: (1) a measure of document similarity, bibliographic coupling and (2) a cluster analytical method for the partition of document populations, the complete link cluster method. The research design comprised four different research settings of which three correspond to specific fields of research and one to a large multidisciplinary environment. Methods of evaluation comprised quantitative approaches as well as more qualitative ones. For the establishment of cluster coherence, measures of density and average coupling strength in clusters were applied. The relevance of generated clusters was assumed to be reflected by these measures and was substantiated by field experts evaluations of clustering results. In order to assess the agreement between field experts apprehensions of their fields cognitive structures, intellectual-manual partitions of document populations were performed by field experts and compared with partitions generated by the proposed method. Findings showed that the proposed method has the capability to identify and map current and coherent research themes on the level of a single research field as well as in a multidisciplinary environment. However, based on theoretical considerations as well as on empirical findings, it was concluded that it would not suffice as a standard science mapping method where exhaustive depictions of specialties cognitive structures are aimed at. The reasons for this were: i.As for now, the method of bibliographic coupling can not identify the most central concepts of a research specialty. ii.The dependency of consensual referencing implies that only minor shares of original document populations will be available for analysis. iii.The lack of a method for the decision of appropriate thresholds of coupling strength implies arbitrary threshold settings. iv.The partition of document populations brought about a fragmentation of research fields. v.Partitions generated by field experts deviated considerably from partitions generated by the complete link cluster method. It was therefore concluded that the proposed method may be complementary to the cocitation cluster analytical method and to traditional citation indexing. Based on the empirical findings, a tentative outline for such an application was given.
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- Johannesson, Krister, 1970-
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I främsta rummet : planerandet av en högskolebiblioteksbyggnad med studenters arbete i fokus
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of the thesis is to investigate planning processes for academic library buildings and the outcomes of such processes. This is accomplished through a case study utilising discourse analysis. The main question is: How is a vision of an academic library implemented in and through a building? The case study is retrospective and focused on the building of a new library at Kalmar University, Sweden, at the end of the 1990s. During this period, technological and educational developments and general societal change transformed the context of library planning and made way for renegotiations of the librarian profession. A critical realist approach characterises the study of visions, processes and the analysis of the various functions of the building. Results reveal the proactive nature of the activities of the library director in Kalmar. Early in the process he formulated a vision in which he presents the library as an information resource, a meeting place between different user groups and a workplace intended to promote learning and knowledge. From a professional point of view, the vision implied a dehierarchisation of relations both within the library staff and between library staff and visitors. The vision was based on an interpretation of Swedish national educational policy, and architecturally manifested by an ambition to reduce the physical and psychological boundaries between library staff and visitors. The early formulation of the vision together with the clients’ use of architectural expertise facilitated the choice of architects. However during the process a need arose to anchor the decision in the library field. Efforts were made to address library expertise and to collect user comments from a broader academic field. Discourses concerning the university library as a workplace and a meeting place were especially evident in the strategies of the leading agents. The discourses uncovered in the study correspond to more general discourses which became prominent in society and higher education during the period in question. The library itself has met growing appreciation by users both from within and outside the university. The proactive leadership demonstrated by the library director in Kalmar was based on hegemony rather than coercion. This corresponds to contemporary tendencies. Hegemonic consent may persist even after changes in leadership. In Kalmar however, architectural solutions with insufficient support from the library staff have been reconstructed after changes in leadership. Future research on architectural planning processes may pay further attention to different discursive resources, social fields and the positions within them.
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- Johannisson, Jenny
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Det lokala möter världen : Kulturpolitiskt förändringsarbete i 1990-talets Göteborg
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims at producing knowledge about a cultural policy (re)construction process in the City of Göteborg, Sweden. Cultural policy is understood as public interventions in the cultural field, with the term public referring mainly to the democratic political-administrative organisation. The reconstruction process is studied in the context of the general challenges that cultural policy has come to face as an integral part of welfare state policies in late-modern Western societies; in particular, the thesis looks into the ways in which Göteborg as a local cultural policy agent responds to these challenges. In this context, two major components of policymaking are brought into focus: the organization and the visions of Göteborg s cultural policy. The thesis explores how the two issues are brought under scrutiny, debated, and acted on by political and administrative agents at different levels of government but primarily within the municipal organization of the city itself. The empirical part of the study analyses arguments put forth by the different agents involved in this process, interpreting cultural policy statements collected from 117 public documents but also through 6 interviews with politicians and administrators in charge of cultural affairs in the city. In addition to providing a detailed account of the diverse arguments advanced, the thesis also considers relevant statements found in theoretical, research-based texts, variously addressing themselves to what is identified as central elements of cultural policy. A neo-pragmatist and discourse-oriented research approach is utilized in the examination of the cultural policy statements and in the analysis of their internal relations. Three different discourses are identified as distinct tools used by political and administrative agents implicated in the (re)construction of cultural policy: the quality discourse, the welfare discourse, and the alliance discourse. The agents involved make simultaneous use of these discourses, which, respectively, focus on (1) professional artistic excellence, (2) broadening of the participation in cultural activities, and (3) sustainable development. The study concludes that the policy process in the City of Göteborg emerges primarily as a reproduction of existing discourses that characterize the cultural policy field more broadly. At the same time, however, this reproduction takes place as a creative assimilation adapting these discourses to local conditions.
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- Johannisson, Jenny, 1971
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Det lokala möter världen. Kulturpolitiskt förändringsarbete i 1990-talets Göteborg : The Local Meets the World: Cultural Policy (Re)construction in the City of Göteborg during the 1990s
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims at producing knowledge about a cultural policy (re)construction process in the City of Göteborg, Sweden. Cultural policy is understood as public interventions in the cultural field, with the term public referring mainly to the democratic political-administrative organisation. The reconstruction process is studied in the context of the general challenges that cultural policy has come to face as an integral part of welfare state policies in late-modern Western societies; in particular, the thesis looks into the ways in which Göteborg as a local cultural policy agent responds to these challenges. In this context, two major components of policymaking are brought into focus: the organization and the visions of Göteborgs cultural policy. The thesis explores how the two issues are brought under scrutiny, debated, and acted on by political and administrative agents at different levels of government but primarily within the municipal organization of the city itself. The empirical part of the study analyses arguments put forth by the different agents involved in this process, interpreting cultural policy statements collected from 117 public documents but also through 6 interviews with politicians and administrators in charge of cultural affairs in the city. In addition to providing a detailed account of the diverse arguments advanced, the thesis also considers relevant statements found in theoretical, research-based texts, variously addressing themselves to what is identified as central elements of cultural policy. A neo-pragmatist and discourse-oriented research approach is utilized in the examination of the cultural policy statements and in the analysis of their internal relations. Three different discourses are identified as distinct tools used by political and administrative agents implicated in the (re)construction of cultural policy: the quality discourse, the welfare discourse, and the alliance discourse. The agents involved make simultaneous use of these discourses, which, respectively, focus on (1) professional artistic excellence, (2) broadening of the participation in cultural activities, and (3) sustainable development. The study concludes that the policy process in the City of Göteborg emerges primarily as a reproduction of existing discourses that characterize the cultural policy field more broadly. At the same time, however, this reproduction takes place as a creative assimilation adapting these discourses to local conditions.
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- Kawalya, Jane
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The National Library of Uganda: its inception, challenges and prospects, 1997-2007
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There are several reasons why national libraries have emerged. In some countries, they were established as symbols of national prestige and status, while others feel that a modern country should have a national library. Given the economic, social, cultural and political conditions in the developing countries that affect the establishment and maintenance of national libraries, the numerous functions of national libraries need to be assessed from these countries’ point of view. There has been a debate on whether the developing countries should have national libraries and alternatives such as university libraries were suggested. This thesis therefore aims at gaining an understanding of the establishment and development of the National Library of Uganda (NLU) as an institution. The study tries to examine the factors that influenced the establishment of the NLU; the motivations, actions and roles of the politicians and the professional library community that led to establishment of the NLU. It also investigates the present conditions shaping the NLU after its establishment and how it in turn shapes the library environment in the country. I have chosen new institutional theory by DiMaggio and Powell, to analyse the reasons and process of the institutionalization of the NLU. The conceptual framework is drawn from Scott’s institutional change perspective who argues that institutions do not emerge from a vacuum, but borrow from previous institutions and to a certain extent displace them. Oliver’s pressures of deinstitutionalization provided the lens through which to analyse the political, social and functional pressures that triggered off the process of the institutionalization of the NLU. Additionally, I chose the coercive, mimetic and normative mechanisms through which institutional isomorphic change occurs as identified by DiMaggio and Powell. These helped me to analyse the institutional process and change in the library and information sector during and after the institutionalization of the NLU. The theoretical contribution is derived from adapting this theoretical approach which has for the first time been applied in a different context in the field of Library and Information Science. It has been used on the development of a national library in a developing country, Uganda. The study is based on qualitative research consisting of in-depth face to face interviews of twenty (20) library professionals, purposefully selected as they held a leading position in the institutions involved in the establishment of the NLU or were directly affected by its establishment. I analysed documents such as the Hansard to study the political process of the enactment of the National Library Act, 2003 and other legal and primary sources. I made some observation of four (4) public libraries to find out their state after the decentralization process. The findings revealed that the factors that led to the establishment of the NLU were the decentralization of the public libraries to the districts which weakened the Public Libraries Board (PLB) and the staff were to be retrenched; Makerere University Library (MULIB) and the Deposit Library and Documentation Centre (DLDC) have weak, outdated legal deposit laws and inadequate resources to perform the national library functions efficiently and effectively. The politicians approved and enacted the National Library Act, 2003 mainly to support the decentralized public libraries. During the process of the institutionalization of the NLU, the library professionals tried to imitate other national libraries which they perceived to be successful in terms of legal deposit laws. Other ideas such MULIB and DLDC to update their legal deposit laws and collaborate with NLU; MULIB to become the second national library; the NLU to house the copyright office, ULIA to be represented on the NLU Board were rejected. The NLU apart from the collecting and publishing the National Bibliography of Uganda, is still performing most functions of the PLB such as supporting the public libraries, improving the reading culture, and participating in adult literacy campaign with the support of the development partners.
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