Library and information science research can be said to revolve around three elements: the Library, Document and Information. The role of libraries in society is complex and moves between democracy support functions and support for individual learning processes. They are among society’s most widely used public institutions to questions about their development and role affecting many. New media forms are constantly arising and issues of digitization and ways to organize documents in new online environments is currently highly topical issues, as more and more of our everyday lives as well as professional activities are in digital form.

The ability to find, manage and evaluate information is essential to our ability to both individual and societal levels of functioning in increasingly complex lives. These are examples of starting points for library and information science research. The issues covered in the topic are often such that they described as interdisciplinary, with an established fixture at the intersection of humanities and social sciences.

Current projects:
- Go all the way? A project for the study of attitudes to the researchers’ publishing strategies among academic libraries.
Contact: Krister Johannesson

Completed projects:
The libraries and the national minorities (2010)
Contact: Joacim Hansson

Library Science
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