Library and information studies
Norway 2004 and 2005

IFLA 2005 presentations from Norway

What's the buzz?

Tell me what's happening! For the benefit of IFLA participants we have collected information about current Norwegian research in library and information science. The bibliographic entries have been extracted from the database Frida. Only materials in English are included.

Frida is meant to cover all research output from the institutions of higher education that participate. At the moment Frida is used by Oslo University College and by four of Norway' s five universities: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø. The fifth, Stavanger, only received university status this year.

Norway's biggest library school, with about thirty staff members, is part of the Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science at Oslo University College. The school offers a three year bachelor and a two year master programme. The University of Tromsø has a Department of Documentation Studies, with a staff of eight, which also provides training in librarianship. Data oriented information management can be studied at the University of Trondheim.

Frida is a new, and very interesting, system for quality controlled author based registration of research publications and other types of research outputs. The driving force behind Frida is the new result based financing system for universities and colleges. The institutions now have to document what they do in order to get their proper share of government funding.

Frida became operational in 2004 and the user interface has not yet been translated into English. But for those who want to try it out, are welcome to visit the advanced search page, where you can specify language. The entries below comprise all registered publications and external lectures (academic and popular) in English for the years 2004 and 2005:

  1. from the school of librarianship in Oslo
  2. from the Department of Documentation Studies in Tromsø
  3. from the three teachers of Information Management in Trondheim

With Frida, such a survey can be made in a few hours. Note that the list is incomplete. Many publications from 2005 have probably not been registered yet. But tracing additional publications to fill in the holes could easily take a full working week. Since eighty percent of a sausage is better than none, I publish the frankfurter as it stands.

Research output in English

Svanhild Aabø - Oslo

  1. The value of public libraries: A methodological discussion and empirical study applying the contingent valuation method.. Oslo: Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo 2005. - 270 p.
  2. Valuing the benefits of public libraries. Information Economics and Policy 2005;17:175-198
  3. - and Strand, Jon. Public library valuation, nonuse values, and altruistic motivations. Library & information science research 2004;26(3): 351-372
  4. Public library valuation. Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science (NORSLIS). Research in the field of Public Libraries; 16. - 18.09.2004

Trond Aalberg - Trondheim

  1. Evaluating Digital Library Information Models. DELOS Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries; 04. - 05.10.2004

Ragnar Audunson - Oslo

  1. The public library as a meeting place in a multicultural and digital context: the necessity of low-intensive meeting places.. Jounal of documentation 2005;61(3):429-441
  2. - and Nordlie, Ragnar. The Metropolitan Library as a Meeting Place in a Digital and Multicultural Context - the Case of Oslo: What Happens When the Library's Reference Service Moves from the Physical Space to the Internet? City Development and Library Services. In: City Development and Library Services: Proceedings of the 2nd. Shanghai International Library Forum; 2004
  3. Is That Really So? Some Guidelines when Evaluating Research. World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council; 22.- 27.08.2004
  4. The Public Library as a Meeting Place in a Digital and Multicultural Context: The Necessity of Low-Intensive Meeting-Places. BOBCATSSS 2004; 02.- 04.02.2004

Per Bäckström - Tromsø

  1. Media as Body/Body as Media. Åke Hodell’s Screenplay Lågsniff and the Swedish Neo-Avant-Garde. Media and the Body – Media-philosophy; 24. - 30.07.2004
  2. The Poetics of Søren Ulrich Thomsen and Pia Tafdrup: A Comparative Study. Comparing European Modernisms: The Future of Comparative Literature and the Nordic Perspective; 02. - 04.09.2004

Lis Byberg - Oslo

  1. Book catalogues and the book market in Norway 1750-1850. Reading, libraries and scientific communication in Northern Europe in the 18th, 19th and 20th century; 12.- 13.03.2004

Tor Arne Dahl - Oslo

  1. Professional approaches to the World Wide Web in Norwegian education. Professionalism, Trust and Competence. The First CSP Conference in the Study of Professions; 17.- 19.06.2004

Tord Høivik - Oslo

  1. Enter the dragon. From print to web in library education. In: Przestrzen informacji i komuniukacji spolecznej [The area of information and social communication]. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press 2004. p. 280-288
  2. A poem lovely as a tree? Virtual reference questions in Norwegian public libraries. In: New frontiers in library research. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press 2005. p. 43-59
  3. Czy wystarczy miejsca dla bibliotek? Funkcje biblioteki w sieciowym swiecie [Wide enough for libraries? The library function in a web-based world]. In Kocojowa, Maria (ed.). Professional information on the internet / Profesjonalna informacja w internecie. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, p. 13-25. Printed text in Polish. Web version in English.
  4. Library frontiers - old and new. The Norwegian Library Association 1913-2005. Bibliotekaren : tidsskrift for Bibliotekarforbundet 2005(6):24-25
  5. Who goes to IFLA? The social selection of IFLA participants. Bibliotekaren : tidsskrift for Bibliotekarforbundet 2005(6):50-51
  6. The CIMEC web site: analysis and recommendations. CIMEC staff meeting, Bucharest, May 2005
  7. The future of digital reference services. Digital reference seminar, Bucharest, May 2005

Unni Knutsen - Oslo

  1. Bibliographic control and the treatment of continuing resources. ISSN Directors' Meeting; 06. - 10.09.2004.
  2. The state of the national bibliography in Latin America (PDF). World Library and Information Congress : 70th IFLA General Conference and Council; 22.- 27.08.2004.
  3. - et al.. Survey on the state of national bibliographies in Latin America (PDF). World Library and Information Conference : 70th IFLA General Conference and Council; 22.- 27.08.2004.
  4. - et al.. Online national bibliography. Article in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016-0602, USA: Marcel Dekker 2005. 17 p.

Niels Windfeld Lund - Tromsø

  1. Documentation in a Complementary Perspective. In: Aware and Responsible : Papers of the Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies (Scarlid). Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2004. P. 93-102
  2. An experimental approach - the importance of Herbert A. Simon for document analysis ; DOCAM 04; 22. - 24.10.2004

Anne Mangen - tromsø

  1. Phenomenologically Grasping the Materiality of New Media - A Call for A Reorientation in Media and Documentation Studies. DOCAM 04; 22.- 24.10.2004

Nils Pharo - Oslo

  1. A new model of information behaviour based on the Search Situation Transition schema. Information Research 2004;10(1)
  2. Topic maps - knowledge organisation seen from the perspective of computer scientists. ELAG - European Library Automation Group 2004; 09.- 11.06.2004. Proceedings from ELAG 2004
  3. A new model of information behaviour based on the Search Situation Transition schema. Information Research 2004;10(1)
  4. Nordic networking: cooperation in Nordic LIS research. IFLA Journal 2005;31(2):194-198
  5. - et al. Conceptions of Task as a Methodological Issue: Scandinavians on Information Seeking and Retrieval Research. In: Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting 2004.
  6. - and Järvelin, Kalervo. The SST method: a tool for analysing Web information search processes. Information processing & management 2004;40(4): 633-654
  7. - and Järvelin, Kalervo. 'Irrational' searchers and IR-rational researchers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2005;56(14)
  8. - and Nordlie, Ragnar. Context Matters: An Analysis of Assessments of XML Documents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2005;3507:238-248
  9. pSST - Here Comes Another Model of Information Behavior. ISIC Information Seeking in Context 2004; 01. - 03.09.2004

Heri Ramampiaro - Trondheim

  1. - and Nygård, Mads. CAGISTrans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work - An Extended Treatment. Journal of Special Topics in Information Technology and Management 2004;05(1/2):23-64
  2. Transactional Support for Cooperative Work: Using Mobile Agents in CAGISTrans. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2004); 09. - 11.11.2004. In: Proceedings of PDCS2004
  3. Wang, Alf Inge; Sørensen, Carl-Fredrik; Ramampiaro, Heri; Hien, Nam le; Conradi, Reidar; Nygård, Mads. Using the MOWAHS Characterisation Framework for Development of Mobile Work Applications. In: Proc. 6th Intl' Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement; 2005
  4. Hien, Nam le; Nygård, Mads; Ramampiaro, Heri. A Locking Model for Mobile Databases in Mobile Environments. Databases and applications 2004

Gunhild Salvesen - Oslo

  1. Is the library able to find the answer? Research in the field of public libraries; 16.- 18.09.2004

Niels Windfeld Lund - Tromsø

  1. Documentation in a Complementary Perspective. In: Aware and Responsible : Papers of the Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies (Scarlid). Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2004. P. 93-102
  2. An experimental approach - the importance of Herbert A. Simon for document analysis ; DOCAM 04; 22. - 24.10.2004

Anne Mangen - tromsø

  1. Phenomenologically Grasping the Materiality of New Media - A Call for A Reorientation in Media and Documentation Studies. DOCAM 04; 22.- 24.10.2004

Roswitha Skare - Tromsø

  1. The notion of text and the notion of document - What difference does it make?. DOCAM'04; 21.- 24.10.2004.

Ingeborg Sølvberg - trondheim

  1. DELOS NoE: previous work, experiences and recommendations from the Evaluation Forum. What is next? DELOS Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries; 04. - 05.10.2005. In: Notes of the DELOS WP7 Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries
  2. Ding, Hao; Sølvberg, Ingeborg. Metadata Harvesting Framework in P2P-based Digital Libraries. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI); 11. - 14.10.2004. In: Proceedings of the Int'l Conf. on DC and Metadata Apps.
  3. Ding, Hao; Sølvberg, Ingeborg. Towards the Schema Heterogeneity in Distributed Digital Libraries. ACMMIS, INSTICC; 14.- 17.04.2004. In: Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise IS
  4. Ding, Hao; Sølvberg, Ingeborg; Lin, Yun. A Vision on Semantic Retrieval in P2P Network. IEEE; 29. - 31.03.2004. Inn: Proc. of 18th AINA2004, IEEE CS.
  5. Ding, Hao; Sølvberg, Ingeborg Torvik. A Schema Integration Framework over Super-Peer based Network IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004); 15. - 18.09.2005. In: Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004); 2004
  6. Ding, Hao; Sølvberg, Ingeborg Torvik. Exploiting Extended Service-Oriented Architecture for Federated Digital Libraries. The 7th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL); 12. - 17.12.2004

Robert Wallace Vaagan - Oslo

  1. The Digital Divide and Multiculturalism. In: Hubregtse in herdruk. Hogeschool van Amsterdam: Institut Media en Informatie Management/Lamberix Press 2005
  2. The LIS infoethical survival kit. Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly 2005;38(1):20-23
  3. Climbing the knowledge pyramid: R&D programs at Oslo University College. Biblioteksarbejde 2004;14:221-238
  4. Trends in Norwegian scholarly publishing. In: From Author to Reader. Challenges for the Digital Content Chain. Proceedings of the 2005 ELPUB Conference. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 8-10 June 2005. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishing Leuven 2005. P. 83-89
  5. - et al.. Professional values in Norwegian librarianship. New Library World 2004;105 (1200/1201): 213-217
  6. Ethical issues raised by the electronic information environment. Libraries beyond the digital, 20-23.4.04 ; 20.04.2004 - 23.04.2004
  7. The Value of Professional Arts and Culture Performances in Norwegian Primary and Lower Secondary Schools: A Study of Den kulturelle skolesekk. Childhoods2005; 29.06.2005 - 03.07.2005. Published in: Childhoods2005. Program and Abstracts; 2005
  8. - et al.. Developing the multicultural school library: Vahl primary school, Oslo. New Library World 2004;105 (1204/1205): 337-344- and Fogt, Anne; Sandvik, Margareth. Multicultural children, youth and the media in Norway. Childhoods2005; 29.06.2005 - 03.07.2005. Published in: Childhoods2005. Program and abstracts; 2005
  9. - et al.. Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights. Ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryptation program. Electronic Information in the 21st Century (EEI21); 13.10.2004 - 16.10.2004
  10. - and Koehler, Wallace. Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights. Ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryption program . Information Research 2005;10(3)
  11. - and Torras, Maria-Carme. Web Portals and Internationalization: A Survey of Norwegian Academic, Research and Special Libraries (PDF). IFLA 2005; 14. - 18.08.2005.
Tord Høivik - 2005/08/11