Eli Greve byder i sidste nummer af DF Revy den nye uddannelse i Bibliotekskundskab og Videnskommu... more Eli Greve byder i sidste nummer af DF Revy den nye uddannelse i Bibliotekskundskab og Videnskommunikation ved Syddansk Universitet velkommen. Det gør Danmarks Biblioteksskole (DB) også. Men vi byder den nok ikke velkommen på samme praemisser som Eli Greve.
Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public managemen... more Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public management (NPM)-mode of thinking in library development. Design/methodology/approach -The authors examine the Danish Library Act from 2000 and a library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus in Denmark in order to show how they respectively display new public management thinking and handle pathologies of recognition. Findings -The Danish Library Act from 2000 reflects an economic discourse which makes it hard for libraries to develop any normatively grounded agenda. The library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus reveals that it intends to deal with handling recognition but actually does the opposite.
In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been ... more In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been widely cited and additional models have been added to the literature. There is a need to bring this model to the focus of information science (IS) research as well as to update and revise it. There are both empirical and theoretical reasons for this need. On the empirical side much has happened in the developments of electronic communication that needs to be considered. From a theoretical point of view the domain-analytic view has proposed that differences between different disciplines and domains should be emphasised. The original model only considered scientific and technical communication as a whole. There is a need both to compare with the humanities and social sciences and to regard internal differences in the sciences. There are also other reasons to reconsider and modify this model today. Offers not only a descriptive model, but also a theoretical perspective from which informatio...
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008
A couple of years ago I taught a master's course in knowledge organization. In the Danish context... more A couple of years ago I taught a master's course in knowledge organization. In the Danish context, students in a master's program work full-time and study on a half-time basis. Most of the students had educational backgrounds as librarians, and all of them held jobs that had to do with knowledge organization work. On a particular day the topic was genre theory. At the outset I asked the students what they were working with in their jobs. The orchestrated reply was," We work with information!" I asked them, "Information -just like that?" "No," they said. "We work with various forms of information." "Do you mean various forms of texts, I asked?" "Yes," they replied. "Now you got it! We work with annual reports, schedules, records, project plans, strategy reports, memos, agendas and other sorts of texts performing certain actions in our work places." I replied that these forms of texts are what I would call genres, and that I had no idea why they call them information. The point is that the particular workplaces where they work will probably not refer to all these forms of texts as "information," but rather by their names (annual report, projects plans). This exercise is a first step in making people think in genre terms, to call texts and other forms of communication (genres) by the name they are given by the users of these texts. The next step is to begin to see what sorts of actions these genres accomplish on behalf of their users in a given setting -that is, to see genres as means to an end. Thus, genres are forms of communication used by people in particular contexts and situations to accomplish something particular in the activities with which these people are involved.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015
ABSTRACT In this article we argue for how a genre-theoretical approach to information history can... more ABSTRACT In this article we argue for how a genre-theoretical approach to information history can contribute to our understanding of what has historically been conceived of as information, what sort of networks and activities triggered the production and use of information, and what forms information was presented and communicated in. Through 2 case studies we show how information and the genres used for communicating that information was perceived and used by the relevant agents involved with the genres. Based on the case studies, we conclude by discussing how the fields of information history and rhetorical genre theory can inform each other.
The purpose of this panel is to explore further our understanding of the "work" entity and its ro... more The purpose of this panel is to explore further our understanding of the "work" entity and its role in information retrieval. In the past, works have been discussed in the context of bibliographic control, but research into the nature of works has begun to yield both empirical and theoretical understanding of the nature of the "work" entity. The importance of the work to IFLA's FRBR entity-relationship model represents a major milestone in the history of bibliographic retrieval. Other metadata models, such as the CIDOC CRM, seek to represent the work notion in the context of systems for organization of cultural heritage artifacts and their representations. In fact, the concept of the work has been critical to many disciplines over time. These notions of the nature of a work are complementary and help provide important contextual information for the design of workcentered information retrieval. A work, at a basic level, is a deliberately created knowledge-record (i.e. a text, and oeuvre, etc.) representing a coordinated set of ideas (i.e., ideational content) that is conveyed with the purpose of being communicated to a consumer. A document may contain one or more works, and a work may exist on one or more documents. Quite frequently, as it turns out, a given work exists in many instantiations, which means it appears on many different documents, which presents an interesting problem for information retrieval.
The paper analyses the different view points that were present in the debate and concludes that t... more The paper analyses the different view points that were present in the debate and concludes that there are fundamental dichotomies regarding the expected role of the public library in the contemporary Danish society. The debate was initiated by a December 2007 interview with the newly appointed director, Pernille Schaltz, of the main public library in Copenhagen. She stated that books need competition from the new media. The lending department of the library should not be seen as the library's stock but as a show case for the library's services (Politiken, December 28 th , 2007). Soon after, the first critics entered the scene and voiced the fear that these statements meant the death of quality fiction in the public libraries. The critics relied in their arguments on the assumed truth that a library is equal to a collection of books -and that a library without books is not a library. The more librarians who argued for an inclusion of new media in the library's collection, the more writers and publishers feared for the future of books in the libraryin particular for the less popular part of fiction literature. This means that the debate has revitalised a long buried debate on quality as a principle for selecting materials in the public libraries. But any discussion on what materials the public library should contain is, in fact, a discussion on what kind of library we (the society) want. Thus, the article demonstrates that the recent debate made explicit a discussion of the role, vision and legitimacy of the 21 st century Danish public library.
Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public managemen... more Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public management (NPM)-mode of thinking in library development. Design/methodology/approach -The authors examine the Danish Library Act from 2000 and a library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus in Denmark in order to show how they respectively display new public management thinking and handle pathologies of recognition. Findings -The Danish Library Act from 2000 reflects an economic discourse which makes it hard for libraries to develop any normatively grounded agenda. The library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus reveals that it intends to deal with handling recognition but actually does the opposite.
Humans and human societies have always organized and transmitted knowledge, meaning, and human ex... more Humans and human societies have always organized and transmitted knowledge, meaning, and human experience by means of particular modes of communication. Oral cultures and societies preserve their knowledge using songs, stories, genealogies, poetry, hymns, and so on. Literate cultures preserve their knowledge using, among other things, lists, e-mail, recipes, newspapers, novels, maps, journals, books, diaries, textbooks, letters, and Weblogs. Such forms of communication are an inherent part of the organization of any culture because they structure and sustain society's institutionalized means and modes of communication. The concept that covers this variety of forms of communication and human activity can be termed {:enre. Most people would probably instinctively associate genre with literary forms, such as the novel, the poem, or the drama, and there is nothing wrong with this. However, we also recognize that there are a number of communication forms pertaining to nonfictional prose and used in a variety of human activities. Genres of nonfictional prose cover the relationship between forms of communication, human activity and social organization, and how activities are typified by means of genre. Genre is thus broader than literary works. It follows that in order to understand genre we will have to look at more than mere text types. This chapter deals with genres of nonfictional prose. Although research in library and information studies (LIS) is not limited to nonfictional prose and its use in various professional or everyday life contexts, many classical LIS studies of, for instance, information use, are indeed studies of the use of nonfictional prose, in particular, scholarly literature. However, these studies seldom address textual form.
Eli Greve byder i sidste nummer af DF Revy den nye uddannelse i Bibliotekskundskab og Videnskommu... more Eli Greve byder i sidste nummer af DF Revy den nye uddannelse i Bibliotekskundskab og Videnskommunikation ved Syddansk Universitet velkommen. Det gør Danmarks Biblioteksskole (DB) også. Men vi byder den nok ikke velkommen på samme praemisser som Eli Greve.
Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public managemen... more Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public management (NPM)-mode of thinking in library development. Design/methodology/approach -The authors examine the Danish Library Act from 2000 and a library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus in Denmark in order to show how they respectively display new public management thinking and handle pathologies of recognition. Findings -The Danish Library Act from 2000 reflects an economic discourse which makes it hard for libraries to develop any normatively grounded agenda. The library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus reveals that it intends to deal with handling recognition but actually does the opposite.
In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been ... more In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been widely cited and additional models have been added to the literature. There is a need to bring this model to the focus of information science (IS) research as well as to update and revise it. There are both empirical and theoretical reasons for this need. On the empirical side much has happened in the developments of electronic communication that needs to be considered. From a theoretical point of view the domain-analytic view has proposed that differences between different disciplines and domains should be emphasised. The original model only considered scientific and technical communication as a whole. There is a need both to compare with the humanities and social sciences and to regard internal differences in the sciences. There are also other reasons to reconsider and modify this model today. Offers not only a descriptive model, but also a theoretical perspective from which informatio...
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008
A couple of years ago I taught a master's course in knowledge organization. In the Danish context... more A couple of years ago I taught a master's course in knowledge organization. In the Danish context, students in a master's program work full-time and study on a half-time basis. Most of the students had educational backgrounds as librarians, and all of them held jobs that had to do with knowledge organization work. On a particular day the topic was genre theory. At the outset I asked the students what they were working with in their jobs. The orchestrated reply was," We work with information!" I asked them, "Information -just like that?" "No," they said. "We work with various forms of information." "Do you mean various forms of texts, I asked?" "Yes," they replied. "Now you got it! We work with annual reports, schedules, records, project plans, strategy reports, memos, agendas and other sorts of texts performing certain actions in our work places." I replied that these forms of texts are what I would call genres, and that I had no idea why they call them information. The point is that the particular workplaces where they work will probably not refer to all these forms of texts as "information," but rather by their names (annual report, projects plans). This exercise is a first step in making people think in genre terms, to call texts and other forms of communication (genres) by the name they are given by the users of these texts. The next step is to begin to see what sorts of actions these genres accomplish on behalf of their users in a given setting -that is, to see genres as means to an end. Thus, genres are forms of communication used by people in particular contexts and situations to accomplish something particular in the activities with which these people are involved.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015
ABSTRACT In this article we argue for how a genre-theoretical approach to information history can... more ABSTRACT In this article we argue for how a genre-theoretical approach to information history can contribute to our understanding of what has historically been conceived of as information, what sort of networks and activities triggered the production and use of information, and what forms information was presented and communicated in. Through 2 case studies we show how information and the genres used for communicating that information was perceived and used by the relevant agents involved with the genres. Based on the case studies, we conclude by discussing how the fields of information history and rhetorical genre theory can inform each other.
The purpose of this panel is to explore further our understanding of the "work" entity and its ro... more The purpose of this panel is to explore further our understanding of the "work" entity and its role in information retrieval. In the past, works have been discussed in the context of bibliographic control, but research into the nature of works has begun to yield both empirical and theoretical understanding of the nature of the "work" entity. The importance of the work to IFLA's FRBR entity-relationship model represents a major milestone in the history of bibliographic retrieval. Other metadata models, such as the CIDOC CRM, seek to represent the work notion in the context of systems for organization of cultural heritage artifacts and their representations. In fact, the concept of the work has been critical to many disciplines over time. These notions of the nature of a work are complementary and help provide important contextual information for the design of workcentered information retrieval. A work, at a basic level, is a deliberately created knowledge-record (i.e. a text, and oeuvre, etc.) representing a coordinated set of ideas (i.e., ideational content) that is conveyed with the purpose of being communicated to a consumer. A document may contain one or more works, and a work may exist on one or more documents. Quite frequently, as it turns out, a given work exists in many instantiations, which means it appears on many different documents, which presents an interesting problem for information retrieval.
The paper analyses the different view points that were present in the debate and concludes that t... more The paper analyses the different view points that were present in the debate and concludes that there are fundamental dichotomies regarding the expected role of the public library in the contemporary Danish society. The debate was initiated by a December 2007 interview with the newly appointed director, Pernille Schaltz, of the main public library in Copenhagen. She stated that books need competition from the new media. The lending department of the library should not be seen as the library's stock but as a show case for the library's services (Politiken, December 28 th , 2007). Soon after, the first critics entered the scene and voiced the fear that these statements meant the death of quality fiction in the public libraries. The critics relied in their arguments on the assumed truth that a library is equal to a collection of books -and that a library without books is not a library. The more librarians who argued for an inclusion of new media in the library's collection, the more writers and publishers feared for the future of books in the libraryin particular for the less popular part of fiction literature. This means that the debate has revitalised a long buried debate on quality as a principle for selecting materials in the public libraries. But any discussion on what materials the public library should contain is, in fact, a discussion on what kind of library we (the society) want. Thus, the article demonstrates that the recent debate made explicit a discussion of the role, vision and legitimacy of the 21 st century Danish public library.
Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public managemen... more Purpose -The purpose of this article is to examine and critique the dominant new public management (NPM)-mode of thinking in library development. Design/methodology/approach -The authors examine the Danish Library Act from 2000 and a library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus in Denmark in order to show how they respectively display new public management thinking and handle pathologies of recognition. Findings -The Danish Library Act from 2000 reflects an economic discourse which makes it hard for libraries to develop any normatively grounded agenda. The library policy from the municipal library of Aarhus reveals that it intends to deal with handling recognition but actually does the opposite.
Humans and human societies have always organized and transmitted knowledge, meaning, and human ex... more Humans and human societies have always organized and transmitted knowledge, meaning, and human experience by means of particular modes of communication. Oral cultures and societies preserve their knowledge using songs, stories, genealogies, poetry, hymns, and so on. Literate cultures preserve their knowledge using, among other things, lists, e-mail, recipes, newspapers, novels, maps, journals, books, diaries, textbooks, letters, and Weblogs. Such forms of communication are an inherent part of the organization of any culture because they structure and sustain society's institutionalized means and modes of communication. The concept that covers this variety of forms of communication and human activity can be termed {:enre. Most people would probably instinctively associate genre with literary forms, such as the novel, the poem, or the drama, and there is nothing wrong with this. However, we also recognize that there are a number of communication forms pertaining to nonfictional prose and used in a variety of human activities. Genres of nonfictional prose cover the relationship between forms of communication, human activity and social organization, and how activities are typified by means of genre. Genre is thus broader than literary works. It follows that in order to understand genre we will have to look at more than mere text types. This chapter deals with genres of nonfictional prose. Although research in library and information studies (LIS) is not limited to nonfictional prose and its use in various professional or everyday life contexts, many classical LIS studies of, for instance, information use, are indeed studies of the use of nonfictional prose, in particular, scholarly literature. However, these studies seldom address textual form.
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