Sökning: "Academic libraries"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Academic libraries.
1. Merger and management : University of Rwanda libraries in a transitional context
Sammanfattning : With a focus on management of libraries, this study is set in the context of a merger of the University of Rwanda with multi-sites and campuses. The study explores how librarians, library directors and representatives for university management understand and conceive of the libraries in relation to the merger. LÄS MER
2. Managers' Cooperative Work Practices in Computational Artefacts-Supported Library Systems
Sammanfattning : The dissertation presents understandings of the complex, contextual, cooperative everyday work practices of academic library managers supported by computational artefacts, as well as challenges disrupting their practices and thereby computational artefacts usage. The doctoral research approaches and conceptualises managers’ work as ‘everyday cooperative practice’, in this way adopting the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) approach. LÄS MER
3. Academic librarianship in flux : The dynamics of negotiating professional jurisdiction
Sammanfattning : This study aims to better understand the dynamics of negotiating professional jurisdiction within research from the perspective of academic librarians who develop library services for researchers. This qualitative case study consists of 24 semi-structured interviews, 32 recorded non-participant observations, and seven official university library documents collected at one Swedish university library with three division libraries during 2016. LÄS MER
4. Den efterfrågade vetenskapen : Universitetsbibliotek, akademiska tidskrifter och vetenskapliga förlag 1968–2018
Sammanfattning : What is the value of academic publications? How are they valued? What affects the processes of valuation? These are the central questions dealt with in this dissertation. By studying academic infrastructure, consisting of university libraries, academic journals and academic publishers, this thesis aims to explore and understand what creates value in an international market for academic journals and publications. LÄS MER
5. The Privilege to Select : Global Research System, European Academic Library Collections, and Decolonisation
Sammanfattning : A large part of the literature published in the ‘Global South’ is barely covered by bibliographic databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in ‘international’ journals, draining local infrastructures. The standard-setting power of ‘Global South’ scholars is minimised further. LÄS MER