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Rabello, Rodrigo. "A face oculta do documento: tradição e inovação no limiar da ciência da informação." Thesis, Marília : [s.n.], 2009. http://eprints.rclis.org/16781/1/rabello_r_do_mar.pdf.
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Among the countless research possibilities in the field of Information Science (IS), the historical-conceptual approach is relevant when we observe intents of systematization and theoretical deepening of this analytical sphere with markedly epistemological concerns. Taking into consideration this research universe, it was observed that the concept document has a privileged position in the “protective belt” of the “scientific research program” of Imre Lakatos adapted to IS by Miguel Rendón Rojas. However, it was seen repeatedly that the document was approached inaccurately in the field of IS, mainly when conceptual aspects related one moment by tradition, and the next by innovation were not counterbalanced. Bearing in mind the objective of the study and the identified problematics, we resorted to the disciplines of History, Diplomatics and Documentation as they were relevant to a historical and conceptual approach, precisely for having studied the document prior to IS. The research of these disciplines was justified by the hypotheses that they have influenced and/or contributed to the meaning of document while a category in the theoretical universe of IS. Based on this conjecture, the following objectives arose: a) to carry out a historical and conceptual study to learn to what extent the analyzed disciplines have contributed for the meaning of document in IS; and b) to understand the nature and the range of the concept in IS when seen under a social perspective that contemplated the dynamic relationship between tradition and innovation in its theoretical framework. Therefore, tradition and innovation are considered as antithetical categories of analysis inspired on those that make up Historik by Reinhart Koselleck and that represent respectively “reality rates” and “perspectives of the future” of the concept document, if seen, above all, from the point of view of the method of history of concepts created by the above mentioned author. In this sense, we tried to relate the history of concepts while an analysis method to the historical-conceptual studies of IS. The use of such categories, under the mentioned method, was relevant for making noticeable the historical change of the scientific concepts analyzed based on the premise that the diachrony is included in their use and concurrent formulation and that it reflects on the inherent valorative process of the disciplinary context of IS. Thus, we tried initially to analyze theoretical-contextual aspects in the historiographical field where the concept document appeared under tension between two streams – the “Positivist History” and the Annales movement. Secondly, we tried to relate such aspects to the meaning of document in the disciplines Diplomatics and Documentation which equally expressed conceptually the dynamics between tradition and innovation. Finally, the “hidden face” of the concept in the condition of a category in the “research program” of IS was disclosed. It was argued that the historical-conceptual resource was vital for such enunciation to be justified. With such approach, essential aspects that helped to retrace tradition and innovation in the disciplinary context of IS were reached. Among them the following stood out: a) theoretical approach between information and document (objective, subjective and social perspectives); b) focus on the subject/object relationship (objectivist or subjectivist); c) nature of the object/register (natural, artificial, textual, etc.); d) categories to identify the phase object/document (uniqueness, virtuality and meaning); and e) nature of the producer of the document.
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Aliaga, Samaniego Jesús Isacc. "Trascendencia de la ética en bibliotecología y ciencias de la información a través de los estudios contemporáneos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/16571.
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Desarrolla un estado del arte sobre el análisis de las
investigaciones y reflexiones teóricas que se han desarrollado en la ética de la información
(EI) y sus influencias en la evolución teórica de la ética en Bibliotecología y Ciencias de
la Información (BCI). Para ello, se revisaron las principales fuentes bibliográficas sobre
estas dos categorías (EI y ética en BCI), bajo el método cualitativo, el análisis descriptivo
y documental de los estudios contemporáneos. Asimismo, se analizó las principales
teorías/paradigmas desarrolladas por los más destacados autores del tema, como es el caso
de Luciano Floridi. A modo de conclusión, se determinó que la EI tiene una estrecha
relación en el desarrollo de la ética en BCI debido a que la primera otorga los fundamentos
filosóficos, los conceptos como infosfera y agentes morales/informacionales forman parte
de la construcción de los valores éticos y, además, es el espacio donde se presentan los
dilemas éticos que determinan al profesional bibliotecológico. Se recomienda incentivar
la investigación sobre este tema, ya que existe una preocupante escasez literaria.
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Fretel, Gutiérrez Liliana. "La Ética de la información de Luciano Floridi aplicada a los problemas informacionales de la novela 1984 de George Orwell." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/16970.
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Pretende discutir teorías y analizar conceptos, pues asume que es
también importante realizar este tipo de metodologías de investigación interpretativas dentro de
la Bibliotecología y las Ciencias de la Información. De manera particular, la investigación
emplea el modelo de la Ética de la información de Luciano Floridi como marco teórico
especializado en los problemas relacionados a la información desde una dimensión moral, que
permite evaluar y revisar el propio concepto de información, junto a otros aspectos de la
problemática informacional, pero siempre desde una perspectiva integradora. De ese modo, esta
investigación consiste en una interpretación de la novela 1984 de George Orwell desde los
conceptos de la Ética de la información de Floridi, entendida como una macroética, en la cual
replantea las tres dimensiones de la información, como recurso-producto-objetivo, y propone su
unificación e interacción en la Infosfera, pero además, reconoce que cualquier acción que afecte
negativamente a la Infosfera en su conjunto puede incrementar el nivel de entropía. La tesis
sostiene, a modo de resultado general, la importancia de la libertad individual como una
condición indispensable para la creación y transmisión de información confiable y veraz que
contribuya al conocimiento de la realidad, y considera la idea de que la presencia de individuos
libres y bien informados fortalece un sistema democrático y enriquece la Infosfera. La idea
básica es que el ciudadano debería defender la democracia, porque este tipo de gobierno
pretende salvaguardar sus derechos fundamentales, como son el derecho a la vida, a la libertad,
a la seguridad, a la privacidad, a la libertad de opinión y de expresión, al libre acceso a la
información, etc., y este tipo de reconocimiento y defensa de derechos, difícilmente, ocurriría
en gobiernos autoritarios.
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Salampasis, Michail. "An agent-based hypermedia digital library." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387944.
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Watson, Dana L. Schamber Linda. "Assessment of a library learning theory by measuring library skills of students completing an online library instruction tutorial." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3599.
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Andersson, Kent-Inge. "Developing a theory of open access : a grounded theory based literature review." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10864.
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The thesis presents a conceptual literature review of the subject of open access as it is reflected in literature relevant to digital library research. An approach to the grounded theory method specifically created for the purpose of performing a literature review is applied to 70 articles and conference proceedings found in the databases LISA and LISTA. Through the coding of the literature five categories that conceptually order the subject of open access emerged; Open Access, Authors, Scholarly Communication, Libraries and Librarians, and Developing and Transitional Countries. The conceptual relations of the categories are discussed in the presentation of the categories. The emerged theory is then validated through a review of earlier literature, which focused on literature reviews on open access. A model of the emerged theory with explanatory narratives are then presented in the concluding chapter.
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Doucette, Wendy C., and Joanna Anderson. "Balancing Theory and Practice: Using the ACRL Framework to Teach “How Academic Research Works”." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5370.
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The ACLR Information Literacy Framework condenses the research process into simple threshold concepts. This poster offers straightforward, classroom-tested advice on introducing these concepts to an academic audience. These strategies are approrpriate for high-level undergraduates, participants in honors programs, and those interested in graduate school.
In Fall 2015, East Tennessee State University began a comprehensive workshop series providing graduate-level research support. Directly based on the Framework, the first offering, "How Academic Research Works" , is a high-level overview of the scholarly research process. While student reaction was positive, the Framework concepts are not what the new graduate student needs most.
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Mulatiningsih, Bekti. "#networkedLISprofessionals: Library and information science professionals' experience of social media." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112768/1/Bekti_Mulatiningsih_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis reports on a qualitative study that explores Library and Information Science professionals' experience of social media in and out of their profession as an LIS professional. The research method used for this study is Constructivist Grounded Theory. The outcome of this study is a substantive theory labelled as the Theory of Networked Library and Information Science Professionals. This theory entails 13 categories grounded in participants' experience of social media that is affected by many factors such as technological, psychological, belief, emotional, and political aspects.
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Watson, Dana L. "Assessment of a Library Learning Theory by Measuring Library Skills of Students Completing an Online Library Instruction Tutorial." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3599/.
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This study is designed to reveal whether students acquire the domains and levels of library skills discussed in a learning library skills theory after participating in an online library instruction tutorial. The acquisition of the library skills is demonstrated through a review of the scores on online tutorial quizzes, responses to a library skills questionnaire, and bibliographies of course research papers. Additional areas to be studied are the characteristics of the participants enrolled in traditional and online courses at a community college and the possible influence of these characteristics on the demonstrated learning of library skills. Multiple measurement methods, identified through assessment of library instruction literature, are used to verify the effectiveness of the library skills theory and to strengthen the validity and reliability of the study results.
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La, Barre Kathryn. "The use of faceted analytico-synthetic theory as revealed in the practice of website construction and design." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3219917.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, 2006."Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 26, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 1960. Adviser: Debora Shaw.
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Caregnato, Sonia Elisa. "Modelling the user education domain : a grounded theory approach." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3060/.
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This thesis reports a research work whose objective was to derive a grounded model of the user education domain, which was identified as pertaining to subject librarians' expertise, using a knowledge elicitation approach in the field of agricultural sciences. The knowledge elicitation framework adopted was that which sees knowledge acquisition as a process of modelling expertise, and the models derived as qualitative in nature. Accordingly, the main methodological approach involved was based on qualitative research and use of grounded theory methods. The research design was divided into three studies, all based on interview data. The research started by studying the role of subject librarians in academic libraries in the UK (Study One), which identified the area of user education for further study. Study Two proceeded to elicit information seeking practices and user education processes from academics and librarians. Finally, Study Three elicited information seeking practices of students who were engaged in library research. A model of the user education domain in the field of agricultural sciences in a Brazilian university was derived from the combination of the analysis of Study Two and Three. The model describes the library research process of individuals as happening in discipline specific contexts, influenced by the world at large. The process takes place through a series of information-seeking tasks and task-related strategies, which are employed to search external knowledge sources and satisfy an information need. During this interaction, internal knowledge sources are used and modified according to the tasks and strategies being carried out. If these internal knowledge sources are deficient for effective use of external knowledge sources, mediation strategies by an expert can help readjust the information-seeking process and alter the state of related internal knowledge sources The model proposed is used to derive recommendations for the design of user education programmes, subject librarians' work, and domain modelling using grounded theory.
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Poirier, Elizabeth Suzanne Rachel. "Slow information in theory and practice : a qualitative exploration into the implications of a Slow perspective of human information behaviour." Thesis, City, University of London, 2012. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19825/.
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This research project was motivated by the question of how a Slow perspective may relate to and impact upon theories of information behaviour and upon everyday information practices. Two related qualitative studies were undertaken to explore the relevance of Slow principles to the notion of the information society. The task-based, fixed end-points of existing theories of information behaviour and information literacy are shown to inadequately reflect the complexity of life in a social landscape characterised by the acceleration, and subsequent proliferation, of information channels. The project progressed through three distinct but related phases which are reported here. First, the conceptual foundations of a Slow perspective were hypothesised during reviews of the literature and existing conceptions of the information society. A Delphi study was then executed to facilitate discussion of the issues between experts in information behaviour. Thirdly, a focus group session was held to engage Slow experts in similar discussion of the issues from a practice perspective. Each phase was guided by a social constructivist methodology which encouraged participants and moderator to engage in conscious consideration of their perspective by connecting and discussing with others, echoing the Slow principles that the project sought to explore. A Slow perspective is shown to challenge received notions of information behaviour in three ways. The first two relate to fixed causal processes wherein the temporal progression of information behaviour and, relatedly, information literacy, is disrupted by a focus on tempo. The third challenge disrupts what ‘information’ is when society itself is perceived as information-based, shifting from an instrumental to an experiential view. Elements of a Slow approach were reported in practice as a means of attaining ‘informational balance’, which in turn can be seen to encourage everyday information literacy. Specifically Slow attitudes were reported in some withdrawal and avoidance behaviours, and were also rejected when the pressure of informational speed and scale proved too beneficial, or indeed, too addictive. The project concludes with an illustration of the implications of a Slow perspective of information behaviour, and recommendations for further research with this illustration in mind.
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Reyes, Brenda. "A Grounded Theory of Information Quality in Web Archives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248497/.
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Web archiving is the practice of preserving websites as a historical record. It is a technologically-challenging endeavor that has as its goal the creation of a high-quality archived website that looks and behaves exactly like the original website. Despite the importance of the notion of quality, comprehensive definitions of Information Quality (IQ) in a web archive have yet to be developed. Currently, the field has no single, comprehensive theory that describes what is a high-quality or low-quality archived website. Furthermore, most of the research that has been conducted on web archives has been system-centered and not user-centered, leading to a dearth of information on how humans perceive web archives. This dissertation seeks to remedy this problem by presenting a user-centered grounded theory of IQ for web archives. It answers two research questions: 1) What is the definition of information quality (IQ) for web archives? and 2) How can IQ in a web archive be measured? The theory presented is grounded on data obtained from users of the Internet Archive's Archive-It system, the largest web-archiving subscription service in the United States. Also presented are mathematical definitions for each dimension of IQ, which can then be applied to measure the quality of a web archive.
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Berglund, Jenny. "Intranät : En teoriprövande studie tillämpad hos Sydved AB." Thesis, Jönköping University, HLK. Media and communication science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-8562.
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During twelve weeks of practice experience at the company Sydved AB, I received the mission to develop a structure for the company’s internal communication. A part of this mission was to find out what the company’s employees thought of Sydveds internal communication and the most important; Sydveds intranet called “Outlook”. Due to Sydveds plans of developing the intranet I designed and accomplished an inquiry-study to find out about the employee’s opinions on the company´s internal communication and in particular their intranet.
The answers I want from this study are if I shaped the inquiry-study correctly the first time. Could I have done it in another, better way? What do scientists say about how to accomplish a qualitative inquiry-study?
For this purpose I have decided to apply a theory based study on my first inquiry-study, based on three different methods; literature study, analytic induction and theory probation.
The outcomes of the three different studies have developed my method. This new method describes how a qualitative inquiry-study through scientifically basis should be accomplished.
Under mina tolv veckors praktik på företaget Sydved AB fick jag i uppdrag att kartlägga en struktur för företagets interna informationsflöde. En del av uppdraget var att ta reda på vad Sydveds medarbetare ansåg om företagets interna kommunikation och framförallt dess intranät, ”Outlook”. Enligt Sydveds planer att utveckla och förbättra intranätet, utformade och genomförde jag en enkätundersökning för att få reda på medarbetarnas åsikter om företagets interna kommunikation och intranät.
Med hjälp av denna studie vill jag få svar på om jag utformade enkätundersökningen korrekt under min praktik på Sydved. Kunde jag gjort på ett annorlunda sätt? Vad säger forskningen om hur en kvalitativ enkätundersökning bör utformas?
För att få svar på dessa frågor har jag tillämpat en metodutveckling av min enkätundersökning utifrån tre olika studier; litteraturstudie, analytisk induktion samt teoriprövning.
Resultaten från dessa tre studier har lett till min metodutveckling. Denna nya metod beskriver hur en liknande enkätundersökning med vetenskaplig bas bör utformas.
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Perselli, Ann-Katrin. "Teknologistudenter och informationshantering en studie om informationskompetens vid Linköpings Tekniska högskola influerad av grounded theory." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20653.
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The main purpose of this study is to investigate and understand how technology students handle information especially when they are working with their Masters thesis. A further purpose is to examine how technology students use library resources of the Linköping University. The research method used is grounded theory, where description of the method is an integral part of the study. Twelve qualitative interviews were made with newly qualified graduates from the engineering programs of Linköping Institute of Technology. The respondents were divided into two groups, A and B, with six in each group. All of them had completed or almost completed their education and their final thesis. The six engineers in group A had not chosen any course in information seeking, whereas in group B all six engineers had chosen the optional course, TGTU 60, offered in information seeking. The results indicate that the technology students adopt their way of seeking information from their teachers and supervisors and from the study culture. The students adoption of information management is the social process that constitutes the core category of the research. The results also show that the engineering program is traditional and that the students seldom visit the library. A high rate of study, set course literature and traditional teaching are factors that scarcely stimulate the students to use the library. But after the course in information seeking, the respondents in group B had improved their information literacy and used the library more often.Uppsatsnivå: D
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Cameron, Tamara. "Representing information use in an educational setting." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3390.
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The purpose of this study is to describe how a high school student retrieves information in order to write a history research paper, and to investigate the role genre plays in this process of search and paper construction. This study interrogates the conditions under which students are sent to the library to complete research assignments. What is absent from the research of school library use is how the kinds of knowledge expected from the students, and how the kinds of uses and manipulations that information is to be put through are connected to the access and retrieval of information. Because use is the final stage in the information process, this problem is approached by examining the assumptions about language, knowledge, and genre that teachers and students bring to research assignments in the school library. Rhetorical genre theory may be used to construct a representation of information use within an educational setting. Rhetorical genre theory will also be used to determine the method of analysis. By examining a few instances of high school history research, we can begin to systematize the features found beyond the sample to a larger study. An interdisciplinary approach that integrates classification theory, information seeking behavior, and rhetorical practices may help to characterize effective models in information retrieval. This model may provide a structure for understanding how a core set of research tasks utilizes a certain set of genres.
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Lee, Julie. "The information experience of going mobile for health and wellness: A grounded theory study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132726/1/Julie_Lee_Thesis.pdf.
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This qualitative study investigated the nature of people's everyday information experience in using mobile devices for health and wellness. Participants discussed how they use their mobile devices (such as smartphones, tablet computers and wearable technologies) for everyday self-care rather than institutional healthcare. The constructivist grounded theory developed through this study titled Going mobile for health and wellness consists of five interrelated categories of experience: Knowing myself; Feeling connected; Facing uncertainty; Doing my own research; and Motivating myself. The findings present an unconventional yet faithful view of information as experienced by participants beyond the traditional notions of information seeking and retrieval.
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Harland, Fiona M. "How the university librarian ensures the relevance of the library to stakeholders: A constructivist grounded theory." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/106745/1/Fiona_Harland_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents a substantive grounded theory that provides an understanding of how the University Librarian or Library Director can ensure the library's relevance to stakeholders in the face of digital disruption caused by online open access information sources. The theory suggests that the University Librarian responds to these problems in a cyclical pattern where the following strategies interact with each other: aligning strategic vision with the university; reinventing the library; engaging with stakeholders; building an agile and engaged culture; and demonstrating value to the university. These mutually dependent strategies sustain a library culture that is continually striving for improvement.
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Turner, Paul. "Theory and practice in the analysis of information policy in the digital age : a case study on the formulation of the European Directive on the legal protection of databases." Thesis, City, University of London, 1999. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17609/.
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This thesis is concerned with the academic study of information policy and aims to improve theoretical and methodological approaches for the analysis of complex information policy environments. In conducting a casestudy on the formulation of the European directive on the legal protection of databases. up to its adoption in March 1996. the research aims to explore the ways in which copyright and information issues were framed. and solutions shaped by the process of formulating policy responses to them at the European level. At the substantive level the research examines the legal issues arising in the protection of databases in Europe and describes and explains the role of human. organisational and contextual factors in shaping the content of the directive as finally adopted. At the methodological level the research examines the utility of a re-interpreted process model of policy-making for providing a coherent framework within which to conduct analysis of this complex information policy issue. At the theoretical level the research aims to use the casestudy findings to generate insights for the academic study of complex (European) information policy environments. The literature review begins by examining the development of information policy and considers the main problems that have inhibited the development of a coherent approach to information policy studies from within the information science tradition. It examines the reinterpreted process model of policy-making and presents it as a heuristic device with which to conduct the casestudy. The literature review also examines in detail the development of copyright policy at the European level and identifies the expansion of protection that has taken place. In particular. the impact of digital information and communication technologies on copyright regimes is considered. The literature review also outlines the emergence of the European Union(EU). and considers how the EU has shaped the characteristics of. and interactions between policy actors operating in the European policy-making environment. The casestudy analysis is conducted in two parts consisting of a detailed analysis of documentary evidence and forty in-depth semi-structured interviews with policy actors directly involved in the formulation of the directive. In deploying the re-interpreted process model the analysis is divided into two overlapping phases linked by the publication of the Commission's formal directive proposal in 1992. To ensure that the casestudy findings can be used in a more generalisable manner the analysis addresses the links between the formulation of the database directive and the wider context of European copyright and information policy-making in the digital age. Following the documentary and interview analysis the research findings are discussed and interpreted. The thesis concludes that at a substantive level the formulation of European copyright policy is problematic and tends towards a strengthening of protection in favour of right shoulders. In the digital environment the implications of this for other areas of information policy are also shown to be of concern. At the methodological level the re-interpreted process model is highlighted as useful in sensitising analysis to sources of complexity in the formulation process and for providing a coherent framework within which to study them. At the theoretical level the thesis enhances understanding of (European) information policy processes and provides some useful insights for academic information policy studies.
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Fraser-Arnott, Melissa Ann. "Personalizing professionalism: The professional identity experiences of LIS graduates in non-library roles." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/97526/4/Melissa_Ann_Fraser_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis is a grounded theory study of the professional identity experiences of library and information science graduates in non-library roles. It produced a theory called the theory of personalizing professionalism that identified two identities which are held by individuals and which are both influenced by their interactions with others inside and outside of their professional groups:an internal appraisal of self (which includes their perceptions of their profession, motivations and interests, and socialization experiences) and an externally expressed identity (which guides how individuals present themselves to others through their use of labels and their career strategies).
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Zakaria, Shamshul Bahri. "In search of the radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation framework : lessons from the United Kingdom's public sector." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4398.
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This study presents a normative framework of the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector. It was motivated by the lack of socio-technical studies on the RFID implementation process in the UK public sector and the need for existing and potential RFID project managers to have an implementation model which could guide their effort in implementing any RFID initiatives in the sector. The study has been conducted through a combination of case study research and grounded theory research approach. Primary data have been collected from the in-depth interviews conducted with the RFID project managers from seven public sector organisations, i.e., five libraries and two hospitals. The analyses of the data were in two main stages. The first stage involved the analysis of the RFID implementation process in each of the organisations and the second stage involved a cross analysis of the RFID implementation process across the entire organisations. Potential contribution towards the existing body of knowledge on RFID implementation was in the form of a normative framework of RFID implementation process in the public sector. This framework describes the main and sub activities in the implementation process, and illustrates the dissimilarities and similarities between the implementation processes. Consequently, the implications of the study to the existing and potential RFID project managers in the public sector and also to the study of information system and RFID implementation are discussed.
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Lundberg, Sabina. "Change or Die : A study on the phenomenon of Library UX at two academic libraries in Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351120.
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A recent phenomenon within the library sector is that of User Experience (UX). Library and information practitioners are increasingly leaning towards letting their users help guide and organise library services by using UX methods to both evaluate existing services and to create new ones. Despite that an increased number of academic librarians are focusing on researching their Library UX, few studies have been done on this phenomenon, and none have focused on a Swedish context. In this thesis, the emerging phenomenon of Library UX is investigated by performing a qualitative case study at two academic libraries in Sweden. The posed research questions focus on four areas: what impacts the implementations of UX methods have on an academic library, how UX methods are learnt, if this new emphasis on Library UX will affect the user-librarian relationship and if something can be said about the future of Library UX. The main theory used is Actor-Network Theory (ANT), which together with the use of the Foucauldian perspective on knowledge/power has been employed to analyse the collected empirical data to further the understanding of the phenomenon. The findings are divided into two parts. Firstly, the case study depicting the results of the collected empirical data. Secondly, the ANT-analysis of the Library UX network is presented, which is based on the data collected in the case study. The main conclusions that can be drawn from this study are how UX methods are perceived by the informants as leading to improved library services. There is also a clear consensus among the informants on how the new perspective of the user presented within the Library UX framework will deepen the user centred focus even further at the libraries. Furthermore, the ANT-analysis shows how the phenomenon has primarily emerged through advocacy and how advocates have a central role in how knowledge about Library UX and UX methods are spread within the library world.Ett nytt fenomen inom bibliotekssektorn är User Experience (UX). Bibliotekarier låter i allt högre grad sina användare vägleda dem i hur bibliotekets tjänster ska se ut, genom att använda UX metoder för att både utvärdera och skapa nya tjänster tillhandahållna av biblioteken. Trots att det är en ökning i antalet universitetsbibliotek som nu fokuserar på att undersöka sin Biblioteks-UX har få studier gjorts på ämnet, och ingen ur ett svenskt perspektiv. I den här uppsatsen har fenomenet Biblioteks-UX undersökts genom en kvalitativ fallstudie på två universitetsbibliotek i Sverige. Forskningsfrågorna som ställts i uppsatsen fokuserar på fyra områden: Biblioteks-UX påverkan på universitetsbiblioteken i stort, hur UX metoderna lärs ut, om detta nya fokus kommer påverka användar-bibliotekarierelationen och om något kan utrönas om Biblioteks-UX:s framtid. Den primära teorin som används är Aktör-Nätverksteori (ANT), vilken tillsammans med Foucaults perspektiv på kunskap/makt har använts för att analysera det insamlande empiriska materialet för att få en djupare förståelse av fenomenet. Undersökningen är uppdelad i två avsnitt. I den första delen presenteras fallstudien och i den andra delen presenteras ANT-analysen gjord på Biblioteks-UX nätverket. Uppsatsens huvudsakliga slutsatser är för det första att informanterna uppfattar att UX-metoderna leder till förbättrade bibliotekstjänster. För det andra visar studien att det finns en konsensus bland informanterna om att det nya användarperspektivet som föreslås inom Biblioteks-UX kommer leda till ett djupare användarfokus på biblioteken. ANT-analysen visar vidare att fenomenet framförallt sprids genom förespråkare och hur dessa förespråkare har en central roll i hur kunskapen om Biblioteks-UX och UX-metoder sprids inom biblioteksvärlden.
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Palmqvist, Emma. "Metoder för trust : Hur praktiker arbetar för att bygga förtroende till knowledge management-system." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-152896.
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This thesis examines how knowledge management professionals use trust as a component in the creation of knowledge management systems, and what methods they use for building trust. Adopting a grounded theory approach, interviews with 8 knowledge management professionals active in different industries served as the base for an analysis that identified trust to be the single most important common factor in the data. The concept of trust used by the informants was identified as relating to the knowledge management system itself, rather than other users, employees or groups in an organisation. Building trust, the KM-professionals mainly focused on three methods: simple solutions, system superiority, and implementation security. Using these methods, the KM-professionals seek to ensure system trust by creating opportunities for users to obtain positive experiences of using the system, and thereby generate a foundation for a trust-based relationship between the user and the system.
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Trianti, Alexandra. "Implementing New Generation Catalog in an Academic Library : Users’ Views and Wishes." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46153.
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In an accelerating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) environment, academic libraries’ catalogs have always been part of students’ and faculty members journey of resources discovery. The master thesis intents to focus its interest in Information Systems (IS) ground related to the implementation of a new search engine at the University of Piraeus Library. The Library wants to change the search features of its traditional online services and to implement a new discover tool with Web 2.0 characteristics. The aim of this master thesis is to investigate users’ views and desires interest according to their scholarly needs and expectations about VuFind in order to facilitate the Library to customize the integration. Therefore, critical systems theory will be employed for “therapeutic” reasons to enlighten the Library’s users about their current situation. Qualitative analysis is expected to recognize discrimination against traditional Library’s search engines. Qualitative data of the user impression and reaction when operate with the VuFind interface will lead to recommendations for enhancement and improvements. Findings will assist implementers to modify the discovery layer by meeting users’ needs of the academia community. The research will collect data through qualitative method on how participants operate with the VuFind search engine merging librarians’ professional views and users’ expectations and propositions. Participatory Design (PD) will be built upon Future Workshop method.
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Kurttila-Matero, E. (Eeva). "School library: a tool for developing the school’s operating culture." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2011. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514297366.
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Abstract The aim of this study was to increase understanding of the dimensions of the school’s operating culture in general and pedagogical practices in particular in the context of the School Library of the Information Society project (SLI). The purpose was to describe development in the school’s operating culture as perceived by teachers and principals. The background for the study was the historical basis of Finnish school libraries and the starting point and aims of the SLI project. The analysis of the complex concept of the school’s operating culture was inspired by the Activity Theoretical Model put forth by Yrjö Engeström. The operating culture consists of 1) tools, which are the school library and teaching methods, 2) rules, consisting of different statutes and the curriculum, 3) the school community, including teachers, pupils, and parents, and 4) a division of labor, including resources for librarianship. Teachers and principals are the subjects who work together to improve pedagogical practices. The shared metatheories of Information Studies and Educational Sciences were scrutinized from the viewpoint of learning literacies. The impact of the SLI project was evaluated through all these factors. This was a qualitative case study. The follow-up time was seven years. The data are comprised of the yearly reports of eleven elementary schools collected during the SLI project in 2002–2004 and group interviews conducted in 2009. The use of methodological triangulation and the follow-up design add to the validity of the study. QSRNVivo software facilitated management and analysis of the data. Application of the activity theoretical model gives external validity to the study. All eleven elementary schools developed their library space and collection, which was given a more central role in relation to the curriculum and the pupils’ work. An information literacy curriculum was developed in some schools. Library teachers’ resources could not be increased. Collaboration increased between the teachers and the pupils, and with other schools, the public library, and the Education Department. Teaching information literacy and pedagogical use of information technology were developed. The limitation of this study is the fact that the researcher acted as the project coordinator in the SLI project and knew the interviewees, who probably for this reason wanted to give positive statements. However, the researcher’s familiarity with the research subject helped in recognizing significant aspects of the data. The model of the school’s operating culture can be used and further tested in different school and school library development projects. The activity theoretical Learning Commons Model developed in this study connects education authorities and the public library to the school’s collaborative network. This model should be examined, as it may serve as an analytical tool for developing learning environments and an instrument of developmental work researchTiivistelmä Tämän tutkimuksen päämääränä on lisätä ymmärrystä koulun toimintakulttuurin ulottuvuuksista yleensä ja erityisesti pedagogisista käytännöistä Oulussa toteutetun Tietoyhteiskunnan koulukirjasto -hankkeen (TKK) yhteydessä. Toimintakulttuurin kehitystä kuvataan opettajien ja rehtoreiden näkökulmasta. Tarkastelua taustoitetaan kuvaamalla suomalaisten koulukirjastojen historialliset lähtökohdat sekä tutkimuskohteena olevien oululaisten koulujen TKK-hankkeen lähtökohdat ja tavoitteet. Teoreettisessa tarkastelussa koulun toimintakulttuurin määrittelyn pohjana on Yrjö Engeströmin toiminnan teorian malli. Toimintakulttuuriin kuuluvat seuraavat ulottuvuudet: 1) välineet, joita ovat koulukirjasto ja opetusmenetelmät, 2) säännöt, joita ovat säädökset ja opetussuunnitelma, 3) yhteisö, joka koulussa käsittää henkilökunnan, oppilaat ja vanhemmat sekä 4) työnjako, joka sisältää kirjastonhoidon resurssit. Opettajat ja rehtorit kehittävät toimintakulttuuria päämääränään entistä paremmat opetuskäytännöt. Informaatiotutkimuksen ja kasvatustieteen yhteisiä metateorioita tarkastellaan lukutaitojen oppimisen näkökulmasta. Kehittämishankkeen vaikutuksia arvioidaan näiden tekijöiden kautta. Tutkimus on laadullinen tapaustutkimus. Aineisto käsittää yhdentoista alakoulun projektiraportit vuosilta 2002–2004 ja ryhmähaastattelut vuodelta 2009. Aineistotriangulaatiolla ja seitsemän vuoden seurannalla pyrittiin tutkimuksen luotettavuuden lisäämiseen. QSRNVivo-ohjelma helpotti aineiston hallintaa ja analysointia. Toiminnan teorian käyttö toimintakulttuurin mallintamiseen systematisoi analyysiä ja lisäsi ulkoista validiteettia. Koulukirjastot kehittyivät tiloiltaan ja aineistoiltaan ja niiden rooli vahvistui opetussuunnitelmassa ja oppilaiden työskentelyssä. Tiedonhankinnan opetussuunnitelma kehittyi osassa kouluja. Kirjasto-opettajien resursseja ei onnistuttu lisäämään. Toimintakulttuurin tärkein muutos oli yhteistoiminnan lisääntyminen opettajien ja oppilaiden kesken sekä muiden koulujen, yleisen kirjaston ja opetusviraston kanssa. Informaatiolukutaidon opetus ja tietotekniikan opetuskäyttö kehittyivät kouluissa. Tutkimuksen luotettavuutta rajoittaa se, että tutkija tunsi TKK-hankkeen projektipäällikkönä haastateltavat, joten opettajat ja rehtorit ehkä halusivat kertoa myönteisiä asioita. Toisaalta tutkijan perehtyneisyys tutkimuskohteeseen helpotti merkityksellisten näkökohtien tunnistamista. Koulun toimintakulttuurin mallia voidaan käyttää ja testata edelleen koulun ja koulukirjastojen kehittämishankkeissa. Tutkimuksen pohjalta syntyi toiminnanteoreettinen learning commons -malli, joka liittää koulun yhteistyöverkostoon opetustoimen ja yleisen kirjaston. Tätä mallia voidaan käyttää ja edelleen kehittää oppimisympäristöjen tutkimuksessa ja kehittävässä työntutkimuksessa
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Watanabe, Yukina. "Queer som doujinshi : En fallstudie av Yonezawa Yoshihiro Memorial Library." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323868.
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This thesis investigates how libraries can build a collection of doujinshi – Japanese fanzines – with a focus on the problematic connection between doujinshi, queer sexualities and pornography. Yonezawa Yoshihiro Memorial Library is one of the few libraries collecting and providing access to doujinshi, including those with extreme pornographic imagery. I conducted qualitative interviews with four library employees to study their views and attitudes towards collection, age regulations, shelving and classification of doujinshi. In addition, I apply queer theory to elucidate how sexual norms are reflected in the library's classification system. Findings show that informants consider the preservation of manga culture as the most important reason to collect doujinshi. Other functions of doujinshi, such as being a way for self-expression without social restrains, are also appreciated. Informants’ attitudes towards collecting and providing access to extreme pornographic doujinshi are not particularly negative, instead resisting censorship, but the fact that the library has extreme pornographic doujinshi is taken up as a reason for the library' s age limit. Moreover, I observe sexual norms surrounding women’s consumption of pornography and that women should link sex and love, and a lack of critical perspectives on such issues. Lastly, informants were open for changes of the library’s classification system for doujinshi, but showed reluctance toward user influence, such as social tagging. This is a two years master’s thesis in library and information science.
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Lee, Jamie Ann. "A Queer/ed Archival Methodology: Theorizing Practice through Radical Interrogations of the Archival Body." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556236.
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This project uses the body as a framework to understand and re-imagine the archives (here referring to the professionally managed repository). It argues that the archives as a body of knowledge, like the human body, does not and cannot fit into normative stable categories. Tracing the shift in archival paradigms from modern to postmodern, I employ the posthuman to argue for a concomitant shift in understanding of the archival body, which I conceive of as comprising both human and non-human corpora of knowledge and knowledge-making practices. These corpora are simultaneously becoming and unbecoming as multiply-situated identities, technologies, representations, and timescapes. Using temporality as a key element in analyzing archival productions, I consider how this body might sediment. This research, written from my insider perspective as an archivist, implements a transdisciplinary approach that draws from the disciplines of archival and queer studies as well as from somatechnics, embodiment and affect studies, and decolonizing methodologies to advocate for a proposed Queer/ed Archival Methodology, Q/M, that is designed to trouble the concepts of archival theory and production. It also employed on-site observation and interviews at the Transgender Archives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, observation and narrative analysis of recordings held by the Arizona Queer Archives and the Arizona LGBTQ Storytelling Project, and online interviews with the developer of the Skeivt Arkiv, Norway's first state-sanctioned queer archives. Three overarching questions guided the research: 1) How can archives simultaneously hold normative and non-normative stories, materials and practices together as both complementary and also contradictory without subordinating or otherwise invalidating either and so that each can still be considered worthy of archival attention? 2) How might a Q/M be a radical intervention into normative archival practices and structures and to what ends? 3) What might it mean and look like for a queer/ed archives to be a radically open space? For whom? As we encounter multiply-situated subjects in the postmodern approach and follow traces in order to interrogate the force and function of respectability politics within the archival body, the modern and anthropocentric Cartesian statement 'Je pense, donc je suis' (I think, therefore I am) can no longer support the human and records as the central theme of archival endeavors. The posthuman approach offers many possibilities. Through the understanding that human bodies are relational and contingent in complex ways to non-human bodies and each to bodies of knowledges, human and non-human bodies come together in complex relations and assemblages within the archives. Archival productions can thus represent new and emerging thoughts on lived experiences as these are situated in various structures and systems. The Q/M offers a way of thinking and acting with, about, through, among, and at times in spite of traditional as well as emerging archival practices and processes in order to facilitate new, imaginative, irrational, and unpredictable re-configurations of bodies and archives and the many histories and records therein. Its flexible foundation in the theories employed in the research support Q/M's seven key approaches: 1) Participatory Ethos, 2) Connectivity, 3) Storytelling, 4) Intervention, 5) Re-framing, 6) Re-imagining, and 7) Flexibility & Dynamism.
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Bone, Tonda Jenean. "Bridging the Theory-to-practice Gap: a Multivariate Correlational Study Exploring the Effects of a Graduate Online Learning Environment As a Community of Practice Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407763/.
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In this multivariate correlational study, the researcher examined the course culture of an online graduate course whose environment exhibited characteristics of a Community of practice (CoP). An online survey captured data used to explore the relationships among variables shown to describe a CoP in field environments and among student perceptions of their experience in the course culture. A canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and commonality analysis (CA) were conducted using five predictor variables and three criterion variables to evaluate the degree and direction of the relationships. The CCA revealed that the full model was significant, explaining approximately 74% of the variance among the two synthetic variates. Impact, faculty leadership, and connection were the largest contributors to the predictor variate. The criterion variate was primarily explained by value and perceived CoP, with exposure to the profession providing a smaller contribution. The CA confirmed these findings. Results from this study indicate that a CoP could be fostered in an online graduate course. The overall significance of the model indicates teachers can nurture an environment wherein graduate students will take the initiative to work with others to create and acquire knowledge that creates a sense of professional connection with each other and with the profession overall. The results of this study suggest further empirical research in implementing and assessing CoPs in online graduate courses is warranted.
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Nuseibeh, Hasan. "An Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Decision Framework for Building an Information Economy in Developing Countries: The Case of Palestine." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6338.
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Building a thriving information economy is a goal for many developing countries. This research helps identify the factors (inhibitors and motivators) that can be used to leverage the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in a developing country to build a sustainable information economy that benefits other sectors of the economy. This is done by studying the current literature on this topic and then synthesizing the theoretical models to create a unified decision framework to help developing countries set their path to building a sustainable information economy.
Drawing on past literature and extant theory, a novel ICT4D decision framework is built that provides a three-dimensional view based on 1) the ICT value chain, 2) key factors (e.g. infrastructure, policies, markets), and 3) stakeholders (e.g. industry, government, academia). This decision framework is then used to study the case of Palestine, where secondary and primary data are used to compare the critical success factors for Palestine with the general framework. This synthesized framework and critical success factors superset is expected to advance the field’s understanding of how both controllable and non-controllable country characteristics contribute to or inhibit the growth and development of an ICT sector in developing countries. In addition, the framework and identified success factors help in setting a future path for development.
Results from both secondary data sources demonstrate the usability of the framework to analyze the current setting of the ICT sector, in addition, to help investigate a range of possible opportunities for action to reach a higher level of ICT success. Then, via a targeted set of interviews with academic, industrial, and governmental sources who are experts in the Palestinian ICT arena, an exploratory study was performed that focused on key critical success factors for future development of the ICT economy. Controllable factors that have the potential for sustainable action were identified.
In the case of Palestine, it appears that despite having many challenges that are out of control, there seem to be many opportunities for change specifically in government and educational policies that can help the ICT sector in specific, and the Palestinian economy in general reach its real potential. Given the current political situation in Palestine, it was found that there is a great potential in creating new software products for export. The challenges in this particular area in the case of Palestine lies in the lack of adequate business skills to research the global market and to market products and services that can be offered by the Palestinian ICT sector.
The findings should also help stakeholders see if the challenges to developing an ICT sector in Palestine are the same as those for any developing country, and where they are truly unique. The outcomes of this research have the potential to frame and inform economic development decisions that could define the future of the Palestinian state.
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Naischtein, Katja. "Vem är Alma? : Ett aktör-nätverksperspektiv på bibliotekens IT-system." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352611.
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Today’s library acquisition, circulation, metadata management, cataloging and administration of all kind of resources are too laborious and cannot be performed manually. These tasks are run by or with the help of an IT-system. This master thesis aims to start an analytical discussion of the modern library's central tool, library IT-systems, a discussion much missing in Library and Infor-mation Science. The data on two library IT-systems Alma and Sierra was collected by partici-pant observations, interviews and document studies at Karolinska institute university library and Södertörns university college library.The data was analyzed through actor-network theory perspective. The study’s main questions are how the library IT-system actor-network is assembled and function, and what role does the technology play in library’s practices.The study shows that a complex actor-network emerges in order to automate and computerize library tasks. In this actor-network library IT-systems vendors, the library community, KIB’s and SHB’s practices and the technology are actors who actively impact and affect each other. They are associated with each other through negotiations, a process in ANT referred to as translation. The study also shows that as the actors are not completely in agreement with each other, the library IT-system actor-network has not yet transformed into a fully convergent actor-network which ANT compares to a black box. The study shows that nonhumans, the IT-systems, are not neutral tools. They mediate, organize and document library practices. But they are also a product of modern library knowledge.The study concludes that the fully functioning solution for libraries automated and computer-ized services is the joined production of human and nonhuman actor-network where IT technology play a mediating role.
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Ozlati, Shabnam. "Motivation, Trust, Leadership, and Technology: Predictors of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in the Workplace." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/56.
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Employees' knowledge is a critical resource for the organization, and if it is not shared, it is lost to other employees and the organization. However, knowledge sharing (KS) does not happen easily; KS is a personal choice that cannot be forced. This study employs Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a theoretical framework to study employees' KS behavior and motivations. Data were collected from full-time working professionals (N=208) using an online survey. The effects of autonomy, motivation, trust, authentic leadership style (ALS), knowledge self-efficacy, and technology were studied using moderated and mediated regression analyses.
The results reveal (a) knowledge is shared more when individuals have more autonomy; (b) benevolence-based and institution-based trust had a moderating effect on autonomy and KS behavior (when autonomy was low, if benevolence-based or institution-based trust was high more KS occurred); (c) competence-based trust did not have a similar moderating effect, but had a significant main effect predicting KS; and (d) a supervisor's ALS contributed in explaining the total variance of KS behavior and predicted KS after controlling for autonomy. All three types of trust mediated the relationship between ALS and KS. Moreover, knowledge self-efficacy is a strong predictor of KS, while users' perception of technology is a moderate predictor.
Additionally, a factor analysis was conducted on 15 different types of KS technologies used by participants. Technologies were clustered into three groups based on their degree of interactivity. Only high-interactive technologies positively correlated with trust predicted KS.
This study advances prior findings and contributes to KS research and practice. It was the first to examine relationships between ALS and KS, proved that SDT is a strong framework in predicting KS motivations, and showed only high-interactive technologies positively linked with trust predict KS. Organizations could use these findings to develop appropriate strategies and trainings to foster a KS environment.
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Milne, Patricia A., and n/a. "The effect of enhanced electronic access to information on academics' patterns of scholarly communication at the Australian National University." University of Canberra. Information Management & Tourism, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050819.124920.
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This study examined the effect of enhanced electronic access to information
on patterns of scholarly communication. Using a panel typology, the
academics at the Australian National University were surveyed in 1991 and
again in 1994, with the data collected by means of mailed questionnaires.
The research drew on the literature of scholarly communication and
information-seeking behaviour. Principles of systems theory were used to
explain the changes taking place within the academics' environments,
including both the system of scholarly communication and the culture of the
three disciplinary groupings: science, social science and the humanities. Three
research questions directed the study focussing on the effect of enhanced
electronic access to information on the academics' use of the library and on
their patterns of information seeking and dissemination.
Results found that between 1991 and 1994, while some aspects of
communication technologies - such as email - had been almost universally
adopted, overall, few changes had taken place in academics' information
related behaviour. Scientists were more likely to have adopted the new
technologies than social scientists or scholars from the humanities. However,
there was strong evidence that a small group of academics were adopting the
new technologies with enthusiasm suggesting that the overall pattern of use
would change in the future.
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Morton, Josh. "Legitimation through openness : managing organisational legitimacy through open strategy in a pluralistic context." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/28410.
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This research explores how an open strategy approach can be used to manage organisational legitimacy in a pluralistic context, characterised by the competing demands of key stakeholders. Open strategy demonstrates an interest in strategising processes becoming more inclusive and transparent (Hautz et al., 2016). Open strategy work to date has focused on its uses and implications, and how strategic inclusion and transparency are being displayed in different organisational contexts. Much open strategy literature also associates the central purpose of open strategising activity with organisations seeking to manage legitimacy (e.g. Chesbrough and Appleyard, 2007; Whittington et al., 2011; Tavakoli et al., 2017), particularly through ensuring that their actions are desirable in the opinion of key stakeholders (Suchman, 1995). Whilst a small number of studies have explicitly focused on open strategy and legitimacy, these do not go beyond illuminating legitimacy as a potential effect (Gegenhuber and Dobusch, 2017) or outcome (Luedicke et al., 2017). Absent has been research attempting to specifically understand open strategy as a process of legitimation (Uberbacher, 2014), and there remains a need to unpack and elevate the significant potential of open strategy approaches for managing legitimacy further. To address this gap, this research presents an in-depth single case analysis of an organisation undertaking the development of a new four-year strategic plan using an open strategy approach. A number of data collection methods were used, including completion of 30 semi-structured interviews, participant observations, and collection of significant social media and documentation data, to explicate the concepts of open strategy and organisational legitimacy, addressing the question; How does an open strategy approach represent a process of legitimation for managing the competing demands of organisational stakeholders? . A pluralistic context, a UK-based professional body, is the basis for the empirical work. It is acknowledged that interrogating the intricacies of strategising in pluralistic contexts, and the inherent competing demands of stakeholders, might offer new perspectives, and a useful means of expanding the contextual base of practice-based strategy work (Jarzabkowski and Fenton, 2006). However, studies of open strategy in pluralistic contexts remain near non-existent in the literature (Lusiani and Langley, 2013). In the organisational legitimacy literature, there is much discourse on how legitimacy is managed and gained through specific legitimation processes and strategies, and increasingly such a focus has been adopted to recognise how organisations might manage legitimacy demands in contexts defined by plurality, amidst diffuse power and divergent objectives (Denis et al., 2007). In this study, a practice-based activity theory framework is used (Jarzabkowski 2005; Jarzabkowski and Wolf, 2015) to explore legitimacy in relation to organisational direction and priorities, and as a means of redefining the organisation s core goals in an enactment of strategic openness. The work here conceptualises how the case organisation has adopted a plethora of open strategising practices for legitimacy effects (Suddaby et al., 2013), providing a detailed account of how different dynamics of open strategising activity connect to specific forms of legitimation over time. The findings indicate that different open strategy dynamics represent the case organisation switching between distinct approaches to legitimation, as a means of managing the competing legitimacy demands of organisational stakeholders in a flow of activity. Through this narrative, a greater perception of legitimation as a core purpose of open strategy is provided. Overall, this research offers an important contribution by accentuating the principal relevance of organisational legitimacy in open strategising, particularly through elevating legitimacy beyond being understood as an effect or outcome in open strategy work. Further, this more explicitly brings open strategy into close alignment with the organisational legitimacy literature and its theoretical conceptions (Lawrence et al., 2009; Suddaby et al., 2013), which is imperative for understanding the potential importance of open strategy as a means of legitimation.
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Bertini, Michael Marin. "The impact of technology acceptance and openess to innovaion on software implementation." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2714.
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Senior management decisions to foster innovation and adopt new technology solutions have serious implications for the success of their organization change initiatives. This project examined the issue of senior management decision or reasons of their decision to adopt new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as a solution to solve their business problems. This project investigated the degree that perceived ease of use and usefulness of the ERP system influenced decisions made by senior managers to innovate. Roger's diffusion of innovations theory and Davis technology acceptance model theory were used to predict when senior managers were open to innovation, and whether senior managers made decisions to adopt new technological innovations. Out of the 3,000 randomly selected senior managers of small to medium sized organizations in the United States who were invited via emails to participate, 154 completed the online survey. Binary logistic regression analysis on the collected data failed to produce statistically significant support for the claim that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and openness to innovation should impact the senior manager's decision to innovate. The conclusions of this study suggest further research may include a qualitative design to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying reasons, opinions and motivations on the emotive aspects of the decision-making process in the adoption of ERP software innovations. It also offers a positive social change to stakeholders who are potentially affected by technology innovation and adoption by providing empirically validated evidence for causes of senior management technology decisions.
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Jacinto, Irlanda Esteli. "Cultural Competence in the Archive: A Case Study of the University of Houston Hip Hop Collection." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311355.
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Hip hop is a counter cultural movement that emerged in the 1970s in the South Bronx; it has since grown to be a global movement. It is a counter culture that emerges in the post-segregated, post-industrial, and globalized world. Since 2002, archival collections that document hip hop have manifested within academic institutions. Placing hip hop in academic institutions that have historically served as manifestations of hegemony can lead to codification and commodification. This case study examines the University of Houston Hip Hop Collection and explains the establishment of the archive using the cultural competence framework. It concludes that staff at the University of Houston is culturally competent. The case study suggests that building culturally competent archivists can be tool to ensuring representation within an archive of all facets of society.
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Jansson, Lena. "Bibliotek tillgängliga för alla? : En undersökning av bibliotekens upplevda tillgänglighet för användare med autismspektrumtillstånd." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-400259.
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The aim of this master’s thesis is to study how a group of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder experience a visit to the library. By interviewing them I hoped to hear their thoughts on noise, lighting and the over all library environment. Did the informants get a fair treament by the library staff or did they feel stigmatized? The thesis is also aiming to expose how accessible the libraries’ websites are. Two librarians shared their insights about accessibility from the library in which they work. The interview showed there are still many aspects that need to improve until the library is autism friendly. The study shows that the informants prefer a silent library compared to a noisy one. They did not experience any stigmatization in the library. The informants use the digital services offered by the library in order to renew their books and to request new ones. However, the websites are not customized for people with Austism spectrum disorder. The informants main concern when visiting the library are loud noise and insufficient signs. This study is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Salem, Joseph A. Jr. "The Development and Validation of All Four TRAILS (Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills) Tests for K-12 Students." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1415382839.
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Hjortfors, Martin. "Kista bibliotek : En kvalitativ fallstudie, från idé till öppnad verksamhet." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-147676.
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This study explains the process of how Kista bibliotek, a library in Stockholm, evolves from being an idea to a running activity. The library is created in a time of change, both political and economical and is supposed to meet many different goals set from many different actors. The library is placed in one of Stockholm’s biggest shopping centres, Kista galleria and close to Kista science city which is an important midpoint for international businesses and science. Kista is also an area of segregation and socioeconomic problems and the library want to connect the different ‘worlds’ and together; the local people, businesses and the community create an environment which to be proud of. With new institutionalism as theoretical frameworks and with the use of qualitative interviews and unobtrusive observations, this paper shows how the original idea transforms throughout different levels of the organization. How the library evolves to be both traditional and progressive, how it meets the needs of the locals and work with the commercial environment to fulfil their mission to be a public place in the middle a commercial shopping centre. This study portrays a picture of a library which is moves between different organizational fields, between the private and public sector to achieve the goal of being a modern library in a modern world.
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Hands, Africa S. "LIS doctoral student motivation: An exploratory study of motivating factors for earning the PhD." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120828/2/Africa_Hands_Thesis.pdf.
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This mixed methods research examined motivating factors for earning a doctoral degree using a sample of library and information science (LIS) doctoral students from the United States and Canada. The study revealed five motivating factors: previous academic experience, appeal of the scholarly environment, preparation for the future, encouragement from others, and research-related reasons. Results of the Academic Motivation Scale indicate students represent intrinsic motivation types as well as identified and introjected regulation. This research extends current knowledge of LIS doctoral student motivation presenting viewpoints and recommendations valuable to program administrators, faculty, and prospective doctoral students.
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Jansson, Sigge, and Smedlund Andreas Bruss. "Förslaget, reaktionen, konflikten : En diskursanalytisk undersökning av Demokratins skattkammare och reaktionerna i två branschtidningar." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105449.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine discourses that surround the role of libraries as democratic institutions. This is done by studying the proposal for a National Strategy for Libraries, The Treasure Trove of Democracy. and the reactions to that document in two library journals. The questions asked are the following: how is the democratic role depicted in the proposal for a national library strategy? What were the reactions and what discourses characterized the relationship between the two library journals and the proposal for a national strategy? Are there any lines of conflict or tension within the identified discourses? Four discourses were identified: the library-democracy discourse, the children discourse, the political-administrative discourse and judiciary-argumentative discourse. Three out of the four discourses were present in both the library journals and the proposed strategy except the library- democratic discourse which was only explicitly found in the latter. The results indicate that the tension within the child discourse concerned means rather than objectives. The political-administrative discourse concerned demarcation questions regarding the municipal self-government. The judiciary- argumentative discourse permeated the entire empirical material and was rarely contested. The library-democratic discourse was the only discourse identified which was clearly present in the proposal for a National Strategy for Libraries and not in the two library journals. We suggest that this omission could be explained against the background of that the democratic role often is taken for granted.
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Iyanda, Olukunle Ariyo. "Innovation Difussion of Smartphone in Nigeria." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2449.
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Rapid diffusion and use of smartphones in Africa are challenging, given the state of its infrastructural facilities. The problem addressed was a lack of information on the adoption behavior and the sociodevelopmental effect of smartphone acceptance among rural and urban users in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to examine the adoption behavior and the sociodevelopmental effect of smartphone acceptance among rural and urban residents. Research questions examined the relationship of performance expectancy, social influence, price value, and habit on adopters' intentions to use smartphones, continued use of smartphones, and the sociodevelopmental effect on smartphone users lives and standard of living. The theoretical foundation of the study was based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, and expectation confirmation theory. A nonexperimental cross-sectional survey design was used to collect and analyze data obtained from the target population of approximately 14 million with a sample size of 385 based on 95% confidence level. Survey data were collected using a research instrument developed by Bhattacherjee, Venkatesh, and others and analyzed via multivariate regression. Findings indicated that the positive effect of performance expectancy on intent to use smartphones was stronger among urban than among rural dwellers. No other location-moderated relationships were found. There was a strong positive correlation (β = .761, p < .001) between intent to use smartphones and continued use of smartphones. The findings of this study may promote social change by providing valuable data to service providers and regulators for realignment of investment strategies and the reevaluation of national policies on communication technology development.
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Hjelm, Fredrik, and Jesper Persson. "Informationsasymmetri och målöverensstämmelse vid implementering av ekonomistyrning : En kvalitativ och kvantitativ studie på Boliden Mineral AB." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74081.
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Inom ekonomistyrning utgår ekonomer oftast från att målöverensstämmelse existerar och att de anställda arbetar utifrån de uppställda målen med perfekt information. Men informationsasymmetri finns överallt och kan leda till ökade kostnader, att fel uppstår och försenade leveranser. Detta är särskilt intressant inom gruvindustrin eftersom den karakteriseras av komplexitet vilket ökar svårigheter med att förmedla styrningen. Frågan blir; under vilka förutsättningar uppstår informationsasymmetri inom styrning och målöverensstämmelse samt hur kan asymmetrin reduceras inom gruvindustrin? Syftet med examensarbetet blir därmed att öka förståelse och analysera hur informationsasymmetri påverkar ekonomistyrning och målöverensstämmelse inom gruvindustrin samt hur asymmetrin kan reduceras. Arbetet utgår ifrån principal-agent teorin som grundas på antaganden om informationsasymmetri och egen nyttomaximering. Utifrån den målkonflikten grundas hypoteserna om de begrepp som ökar och reducerar målöverensstämmelse genom ökad och minskad informationsasymmetri. De olika teoretisk begreppen som undersöktes var missanpassad information, opportunism, återkoppling, internutbildning och tid. Examensarbetet utfördes genom att använda oss av Cavaye (1996) modell för flerstudieansats (eng. Multifaceted research approach) där vi har först gjort Studie 1 som grundas på kvalitativa intervjuer för att få mer information om företaget och industrin. Sedan i Studie 2 testas begreppen genom en kvantitativ enkät som skickades ut till personer inom företaget utifrån ett strategisk urval. Resultatet från undersökningen var att hypoteserna bekräftades och att agenterna anser att målen är viktiga och internutbildning var de starkaste faktorerna för att reducera informationsasymmetri och öka målöverensstämmelse.In management control systems economist usually assume perfect information and goal congruence from the top to the bottom of the organization. But information asymmetry is everywhere and often leads to increased costs, missed deadlines and other mistakes. This is particularly interesting in the mining industry as it’s characterized by complexity which increases the difficulty of communicating the control system throughout the organization. The research question then becomes; under which circumstances does information asymmetry occur in control systems and goal congruence and how can the asymmetry be reduced in the mining industry? The purpose of the study is therefore to increase the understanding and analyze how information asymmetry impact control systems and goal congruence in the mining industry and how the asymmetry can be reduced. The study is based on the principal-agent theory is based on the assumptions of information asymmetry and self-interest between the two parties. Based on that goal conflict our hypothesis of the variables that increase and reduce goal congruence through increased and decreased information asymmetry is formed. The investigated variables were miss adapted information, opportunism, feedback, workplace education and time. The study was conducted by using Cavaye (1996) model for multifaceted research approach by starting off with Study 1, which was based on qualitative interviews to get more information about the company and the mining industry. Study 2 later tested the variables impact by conducting a quantitative study though the use of a survey that was sent to people of interest within the company though a strategic selection. The result of the study was that the hypotheses were confirmed and that workplace education training and valuing the importance of the goals where the most important variables to reduce information asymmetry and increase goal congruence.
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Larsson, Helena. "Dubbla uppdrag : En kvalitativ studie av två profilerade och integrerade folk- och skolbibliotek." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-126334.
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The aim of this master’s thesis is to examine libraries which combine the functions of school- and public library and to evaluate the staff’s experience and attitude towards a library profile with the emphasis on children and youth. The purpose of the study is also to examine how the libraries work with several tasks and functions within different target groups with different needs.
With new institutionalism and Scandinavian institutional theory the thesis examine the library as an organization and what influences the construction. With a model that describes how the library constitutes four different rooms in the society I investigate the different functions.
The methodology is qualitative with interviews of five persons of the staff, four librarians and one library assistant. The study examines how the staff that works at two libraries under similar conditions experiences their tasks. Both libraries have a library profile and are school- and public libraries.
The results show that it can be a problem to combine two working cultures, teachers and librarians, from a normative perspective and cause problems with roll definitions. A library profile can be defined as an adaption to the market and the local needs should be considered in order to succeed. The context of local circumstances within the district such as social conditions and working methods should also be considered. It’s important to analyze what the library can do to justify their activity. The survey also showed that the two libraries were very different from each other and that the staff thinks differently about the profile and is differently accepted by the staff.
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Hedelin, Lars. "Medlen helgar målen : Förhållandet mellan beställare och utförare i Nacka kommuns upphandlade biblioteksverksamhet som det formaliseras i styrdokument." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-434267.
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Introduction. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the means of control that a municipality has over privatized library services. Specifically what methods of evaluation it uses, and how it formulates its demands in contracts and other documents. The case study was the municipality of Nacka, Sweden. Method. All documents investigated in the thesis with information concerning the public libraries of Nacka kommun were gathered from the municipality's website and archive. Interviews were conducted with representatives of the two contractors currently in charge of operating the six library branches of the Nacka library system. Analysis. Document analysis was used to identify sections of text with relevant information. Taking into account the status and relationship of the source documents theses were arranged thematically according to a model of organizations proposed by Charles Perrow. The motive of the analysis was to identify the ends the municipality has in mind for the libraries and what means they propose to use to reach those ends. Perrow’s concept of bounded rationality was used to look for inconsistencies in the relationship between means and ends in the organizational structure. Insights gained from the interviews were used to corroborate the findings. Results. Instances of bounded rationality was found in the way the municipality specifies and evaluates the work of the external contractors. Further studies should take into account the interests of the contractors and how that affects the privately run public libraries. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Ekström, Björn. "Performativa tendenser i svenska och brittiska open access-nätverk : En aktör-nätverk-teoretisk studie av forskningsfinansiärers policydokument för öppen tillgång till vetenskaplig information." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323876.
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Emanating in a Swedish and British context, this study seeks to map and discuss contemporary performative tendencies within the countries’ respective open access movements. This is done through a Posthumanist and Material-Semiotic analysis of nine research funders policy documents for open access to scientific results. Using an actor-network-theoretical apparatus of concepts, the study seeks to assess actors, actants, intermediaries, mediators, agencies, connections and networks in the policy documents of the respective research funders. The study therefore aspires to illuminate the complexities of these networks, similarities and differences between the two countries’ networks and what these networks can say about contemporary tendencies within the Swedish and British open access movements respectively. Actors with their associated agencies and performative connections are analysed and compiled in tables according to the respective research funders. The output is thereafter visualised in a schematic network model and the performative tendencies are assessed. While Swedish council Vetenskapsrådet is defined as a ”spider in the web” of the research funder network, the British network is more fragmentary. As for Bioscientific networks, the Swedish network is of a more peripheral sort while the British consists of sprawling nodes. Within Health Science, there is for both countries a clear direction towards the fortification of infrastructures for data deposition. This can also be said regarding the deposition of monographs in Social Science and the Humanities. These tendencies are discussed in light of international open access research. It is proposed that research funders, libraries and other professionals active within the open access movements considers these tendencies in the forming of service activities. It is also emphasized that similar studies ought to be done in order to further map open access-networks. Two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Jonsson, Sandström Karin. ""Det vi gör är på något sätt ändå att berätta en slags story om hur världen ser ut" : Kategoriskapande och marginalisering på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352642.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how categorisation of marginalised groups is done on Swedish Wikipedia. Taking its starting point in social constructionism and critical knowledge organisation research, classic knowledge organization is seen as inherently flawed. In its quest for universal knowledge organisation systems, the fact that knowledge is contingent (emerging and constructed), is obscured. This runs the risk of marginalising marginalised groups further. Instead it is claimed that knowledge organization systems ought to strive for transparency by inviting its users to witness and take part in the knowledge process. A discourse analysis was made on two source materials: an interview study with three editors of Swedish Wikipedia and openly available discussion threads from Swedish Wikipedia. The result of the discourse analysis shows that the wider to write at Wikipedia discourse contains two nodal points: neutrality and consensus. The neutrality nodal point is a floating signifier in the sense that two different discourses try to give it two different meanings. In one of the discourses neutrality is seen as possible to achieve when describing reality. Categorisation is uncomplicated, it is simply a case of reflecting the categories that already exist ”out there”. In another discourse neutrality is seen as something impossible to achieve when describing reality because it is ever-changing and many-faceted. Categorisation is hard and complicated. Between these two discourses there is a discursive struggle which is mitigated by the nodal point consensus. Through discussions leading to consensus a ”neutral enough” way of describing the world is achieved. Categorisation on Wikipedia can thus be seen to achieve the transparency that critical knowledge organization research requests: the categories are results of discussions that all reading users can access. But there is doubt as to how many of the reading users of Wikipedia actually find and read the discussion pages. If there are only a few who ever finds the discussions, the transparency remains low and the constructed nature of Wikipedias knowledge organization system remains obscured. This is a two years Master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.
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Westman, Anders. "DDC:s avdelning 150 : en analys av psykologins klassifikation under perioden 1932-2011." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182905.
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This master’s thesis focus on Dewey Decimal Classification during the period 1932 to 2011, where the classification of the psychological knowledge domain is analyzed and discussed. In the light of the recent swedish switch from the swedish classification system SAB to DDC, this research area deserves prominence. The aim of this study is to investigate how DDC represents the historical development of the psychology subject with its underlying epistemology, to identify and analyze values and prejudice, and to analyze problems with DDC’s classification of psychology in relation to three other classification systems. The theoretical framework consists of Birger Hjørland’s Domain Analysis and Critical Classification represented by Hope A. Olson among others. The results show that DDC is updating slowly in relation to subject developments, and that the multidisciplinary character of the psychological field causes problematic spreading of its disciplines in the system. These problems are to a certain degree due to the fact that DDC is a universal classification system, leading to the creation of compromise solutions, that are to a large degree avoided in specialized systems, like Birger Hjørland’s. Moreover, results show that the system’s choice of terms indicates certain values and prejudice occurring at certain times, thereby marking the system’s non objective character. The findings are also discussed in relation to postmodernism and poststructuralism, showing that the universal classification system DDC isn’t compatible with these viewpoints.
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Landreville, Nancy Marie. "Exploring Leader-Initiated Change Management for Adopting Cloud Services." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3042.
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Cloud technology requires a virtualized ubiquitous and scalable environment with shared resources. The general problem in cloud adoption is the absence of standardization across organizations. A standardized approach remained elusive since the inception of the Cloud First mandate. The purpose of this study was to explore leader-initiated change management (LICM) practices in cloud adoption within organizations. The theoretical framework included the classical theories of Kurt Lewin's organization change management, leader-member exchange, intentional change, and appreciative inquiry. A multiple case study design approach facilitated the exploration of LICM-value added practices to identify standardization in cloud adoption practices. Data collection included semistructured interviews from 8 high-level cloud adopters chosen from a resource pool of change management experts including a government chief information officer, academic college professor, military commander, and industry chief executive officer. Each interviewee represented an organization type providing perspectives on strategies for cloud adoption. Secondary data gathering included universal cloud standards and guidance from collaborative professional working groups. Emergent themes were identified after completing Yin's 5 stages of data analysis: LICM approaches for cloud decision-making, change management strategies, leader empowerment in action planning with progressive metrics, and successful learning outcomes in corporate universities. LICM strategies foster cooperative relationships and positive social change. Standardized cloud adoption practices also contribute to positive social change in reducing the environmental footprint through organizational efficiency.
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Miranda, Murillo Diana. "The Value of Service in Library and Information Science." Thesis, 2004. http://eprints.rclis.org/6363/1/dianamirandathesis.pdf.
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This exploratory study examined the value of service, which has been implicitly present in the field for decades and is recognized as one of the pillars of the profession. However it seems that there is not a universal approach to it and it looks like it is taught inconsistently in LIS curriculum in the United States. This research sought to determine how the concept of service was viewed and treated in the Library and Information Science field, and based on the results, to make recommendations to information schools to improve librarians’ education and training. The results reflected an unclear definition of the value of service at all levels (students, professionals and professors) and also suggested that Library and Information Science schools do not have a standard way to teach about this value.
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Tewell, Eamon. "Towards the Resistant Reading of Information: Resistant Spectatorship in the Information Age." Thesis, 2016. http://eprints.rclis.org/30212/1/towards-the-resistant-reading.pdf.
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The theory of resistant spectatorship posits that an individual interacting with media may have the agency to oppose, reject, or reassemble the message of the information they encounter, instead of to passively accept it. This study puts resistant spectatorship in conversation with libraries and critiques in examining one aspect of a dominant information discovery system, Google Search, from a "resistant" position. Additionally, this study argues that within academic libraries the practice of critical information literacy, a pedagogical approach aligned with the ideas of resistant spectatorship, is an ideal mode for encouraging students to become resistant readers of information in its increasingly corporate-mediated forms.