Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science

Past activities

Completed activities and other events will be listed here with the corresponding links to the web pages for the activity (announcement, decicated activity pages, reports etc).

2004
Course 1: Research Design I: Theory and Development
March 28-April 2, Borås
Course 2: Research Design II: Methods for studying information behaviour
October 23-28, Oslo
Workshop
Research in the field of Public Libraries
September 16-18, Riga
Road show seminar
Bibliometric methods
March 22-23 Umea, March 24-26 Copenhagen, October 6-7 Turku
Visiting professor
Dr. Jane Klobas
March 28 - April 2 Borås, May 3-7 Riga , May 11-14 Vilnius
Mobilty support
for Ph.D students, post-docs, senior researchers and Ph.D. supervisors

NORSLIS Board Meeting 2004
Stockholm, 13 February 2004

NORSLIS related events
NorFA Network seminar at Lysebu conference center, Norway, 15-16 January 2004
Article in BiblioteksskoleNYT, December 2003
Article about NORSLIS at 7th Congress of Baltic Librarians

NORSLIS (NordisNET) students having completed their Ph.D in 2004:
Birger Larsen, Copenhagen: "References and citations in automatic indexing and retrieval systems : experiments with the boomerang effect."
Lennart Björneborn, Copenhagen: "Small-World Link Structures across an Academic Web Space - a Library and Information Science Approach."
Per Ahlgren, Borås: "The effects of indexing strategy-query term combination on retrieval effectiveness in a Swedish full text database."
Angela Zetterlund, Borås: "Att utvärdera i praktiken – en retrospektiv fallstudie av tre program för lokal folkbiblioteksutveckling."
Jesper Schneider , Aalborg:"Verification of bibliometric methods' applicability for thesaurus construction."

2005
Course 1: Research issues in knowledge organization
April 11-15, Hundested kro, Denmark
Course 2: Libraries in Transition
November 14-18, Vilnius
Roadshow seminar
Information Seeking & Retrieval in Contexts
Tampere April 14-15, Copenhagen Oct 3-4
Workshop
Structures of Power: Information, Knowledge, and Property
September 15-17, Uppsala, Sweden
Mobilty support
for Ph.D students, post-docs, senior researchers and Ph.D. supervisors
Visiting professor
Dr. Ian Ruthven, Univ of Strathclyde, UK
Tampere April 4-14, Copenhagen Oct 2-8, Aalborg Oct 9-16
NORSLIS Ph.D. Conference 2005
Uppsala 21-22 October

NORSLIS Board Meeting 2005
Reykjavik 2 April

NORSLIS related events
ISSI 2005 Doctoral Forum
Stockholm July 24
Colis 5 Doctoral forum
Glasgow June 4

About NORSLIS
Lepik, A. (2005). The Nordic-Baltic cooperation in doctoral education: The case of NORSLIS. In: Libraries - a voyage of discovery. Proceedings of the 71th IFLA General Conference and Council. August 14-18, 2005, Oslo, Norway. CD-ROM version). Online - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/052e-Lepik.pdf

NORSLIS (NordisNET) students having completed their Ph.D in 2005:
Jeppe Nicholaisen, Copenhagen: "Social behavior and scientific practice - missing pieces of the citation puzzle."
Maria Forsman, Turku: "Development of Research Networks. The Case of Social Capital."
Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Turku: "Health and Lifestyle. Icelanders´ Everyday Life Information Behaviour."
Rajesh Singh, Turku: "Marketing culture of Finnish Research Libraries: An analysis of marketing attitude, knowledge and behaviour."
Stefan Ek, Turku: "Om information, media och hälsa i en samhällelig kontext. En empirisk och analytisk studie."
Gudrún Thórsteinsdóttir, Borås: "The information seeking behaviour of distance students: a study of twenty Swedish library and information science students"
Marjo Rita Valtonen, Tampere:"A case study of documentation in pre-trial investigation: A records management view."
Aile Möldre, Tallin: "Publishing and Book Distribution in Estonia in 1949-2000"
Rasa Januseviciene, Vilnius: "Library & Information Services to sight-impaired users"

Activities 2006
Course 1: Information access in context
May 8–12, Tampere
Course 2: Knowledge management/Information management
November 20-24, Turku
Pictures from the event!
Roadshow seminar
Studying the Web and its use
Tallin March 30-31, Oslo September 27-28
Workshop
Task-based research in educational and work settings
October 15-17, Borås-Gothenburg
Mobilty support
for Ph.D students, post-docs, senior researchers and Ph.D. supervisors
Visiting professor
Dr. Karen Fisher, Univ Washington, USA
May 1-26 Oslo


NORSLIS Board Meeting 2006
May 5-6, Vilnius

NORSLIS related events
• The 9th International conference on science and technology indicators, Leuven, Belgium 2006
• Information seeking in context conference, Sydney. Australia 2006
• 11th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, Oslo 2006
• 1st Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, Copenhagen 2006
also with a doctoral forum
• Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - JCDL, Chapel Hill, USA 2006
• Towards the European Digital Library - 10th ECDL, Alicante, Spain 2006
• HIBOLIRE summer school, Tallin, Estonia, 2006
• CWTS Graduate Course in Science and Technology "Measuring Science", October 16-20, 2006

NORSLIS (NordisNET) students having completed their Ph.D in 2006:
Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir: The Implementation and Use of ERMS (Electronic Records Management Systems). A Study oin Icelandic Organizations.
Fredrik Åström, The social and intellectual development of library and information science

Activities 2007
Course 1: Research Design I: Theory and Development
May 21-25, Borås, Contact: Diane Sonnenwald
Course 2: Research Design II: Basic and advanced methods
October 15-19, Aalborg, Contact: Jesper Schneider
Workshop I: Health Information Mastering
June 7-8, Turku. Contact: Kristina Eriksson-Backa
Workshop II: Discourse-Oriented Approaches in LIS
November 22-24, Lund, Contact: Olof Sundin
Mobilty support
for Ph.D students, post-docs, senior researchers and Ph.D. supervisors
Visiting professor
Anne Gilliland, UCLA, USA
Copenhagen Oct 29, Lund Oct 30-Nov 2, Tampere Nov 3-11 Contact: Pertti Vakkari, Sara Kjellberg

NORSLIS All 15 school meeting and NORSLIS board meeting
April 23-24, Rica Hotel Stockholm. Contact: Olle Persson

NORSLIS related events
• ALISE 2007 Annual Conference, January 15-18, Seattle, USA
• 11th ISSI Conference, June 25-27 2007, Madrid, Spain
• Colis 6, August 13-16, Borås, Sweden
• ELPUB 2007, June 13-15, Vienna, Austria
• ASIS&T, October 18-25, 2007, Wisconsin , USA
• Information: interactions and impact, June 25-28, Aberdeen, UK
• ESSIR2007, August 26-31, Glasgow, UK
• ECIR2007, April 2-5, Rome, Italy
• SIGIR'07, July 23-27, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• USE-2008 From Information Provision to Knowledge Production

Activities 2008
Course 1: Informetrics
June 15-19, Umeå. Contact: Fredrik Åström
Course 2: Changing roles of libraries
Sept 29-Oct 3, Uppsala. Contact: Kerstin Rydbeck
Ph D Conference: Themes of LIS research
Nov 24-25, Copenhagen. Contact: Niels Ole Pors
Workshop: New tendencies in information behaviour
Nov 26-28, Copenhagen. Contact: Niels Ole Pors
Mobilty support
for Ph.D students, post-docs, senior researchers and Ph.D. supervisors
Visiting professor
Michael Buckland, Berkeley, USA
Sept 22-28 Tromsø, Sept 29 - Oct 5, Uppsala.
Contact: Niels Windfeld Lund

NORSLIS Board Meeting 2008
May 19-20, Umeå

NORSLIS related events
• ISIC 2008, Sept 16, Vilnius, Lithuania
• USE-2008, June 23-25, Oulu, Finland
• IIiX2008, October 14-17, London, UK

Activities 2009
 

Theories, Methodologies and Research Methods  in Information Studies. Workshop. Tallinn. Estonia. November 23 - November 27

Information about the workshop

Program for the workshop - updated 11. November 2009

Practical information about travel and accomodation in Tallinn

Financial Information for the workshop in Tallinn

NORSLIS Board Meeting 2009
January 28, Uppsala (Minutes from Copenhagen Meeting - November 2008 and Minutes from the meeting January 28 2009)

NORSLIS related events
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, (ECDL 2009) September 27 - October 2 2009, Corfu, Greece