... theoretically discusses the concepts of social infrastructuring, care and tinkering. Then, it turns to ethnographic research conducted in the public library networks of three European cities: Vienna (Austria), Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Malmö (Sweden). The paper comprises empirical materials from all three...

... and their learning, some of the studies within this area also provide a good picture of contemporary educational settings in which the studied information activities take place. Of particular importance for the present study are a number of studies conducted in Sweden during the past decades. These studies take...

... of this paper is to explore and analyze the digitized newspaper collection at the National Library of Sweden, focusing on cultural heritage as digital noise. In what specific ways are newspapers transformed in the digitization process? If the digitized document is not the same as the source document...

... the considerations of three Scandinavian LIS schools before applying for the iSchool status, and statistical analysis of 427 syllabi from master level courses at three Scandinavian and three American iSchools. The purpose of the paper is to analyse three Scandinavian iSchools in Denmark, Norway and Sweden...

... on public libraries. User studies Library users Public libraries Sweden Critical discourse analysis Self-service libraries The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of self-service at public libraries from the perspective of their users. The implementation of self...

... to apply to a university programme in Sweden . Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the phenomenological sociology of Schutz together with narrative theory. In this study stories of information seeking gathered in interviews are related to a discourse of nationality and analysed using...

... and “rural” profile. The approach of using references in grant applications provides a novel and promising venue for bibliometric research. Citation analysis Bibliometrics Grant applications Humanities Literary studies Scholarly communication Sweden Communication Data analysis Periodicals...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 Information Information seeking Information literacy Multimodality Primary schools Visual media Information management Sweden Information activities are multimodal. When seeking, using, sharing, organising, reviewing and producing information people...