Digital reference services Cracow May 2003

Tord Hoivik
curriculum vitae

Tord Hoivik (born 1942) received an MA in statistics from the University of Oslo in 1969 and held a post-graduate research scholarship in international development studies from the Norwegian Research Council from 1969 till 1972.

From 1973 till 1977 he was associate professor of sociology at the University of Oslo, and from 1977 till 1991 senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. In the period 1984-1986 he directed the institute.

Since 1992 he has been associate professor in library and information science at the Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College. He has also been director of research at the Faculty (1999-2000) and head of the College Advisory Council (2000/2001).  

Tord Hoivik has been a visiting lecturer in social science methodology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (spring 1970), a senior lecturer in statistics at the Chuo cha Ushirika (Cooperative College) in Moshi, Tanzania (1974-1975) and a visiting researcher at Yale University, USA (spring 1978).

For ten years (1979-1989) he directed the graduate course in peace research at the University of Oslo International Summer School. He has taught and directed conflict resolution training programs in Russia, Colombia, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and (democratic) Burma, as well as in Norway.

Tord Hoivik has written text books in social science methodology (Measures and methods <in Norwegian>, Oslo, Scandinavian University Books, 1974) and in social science information retrieval (Information retrieval for social scientists <in Norwegian>, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1982) as well as numerous articles on methodology, peace research and information science. 

In the regular program of studies Tord Hoivik teaches library management. He has a particular interest in strategic management, organizational change and quality indicators.  He also teaches extra-mural courses in advanced reference work, in web design and in teaching methods for librarians.

In 1996 he gave a course in web based retrieval at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, with a grant from the Norwegian National Library. He was also invited by IFLA to give one of the plenary lectures at the 1996 Beijing conference (Digital lib: a Norwegian agenda for library research). 

In recent years he has been an external examiner and visiting lecturer at the Department of Documentation Science at the University of Tromso. He has also taught at the Institute of Librarianship and Information Science, Jagiellonian University, Cracow.

Current research interests include (1) the management of reference services and (2) the physical and cultural survival of Greek and Roman literature.