If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The paper aims to examine organizational authoring understood as a longitudinal, material and dialectical process of transformation efforts. The following questions are asked: To which extent can a Change Laboratory intervention help practitioners author their own learning? Are the authored outcomes of a Change Laboratory intervention futile if a workplace subsequently undergoes large-scale organizational transformations? Does the expansive learning authored in a Change Laboratory intervention survive large-scale organizational transformations, and if so, why does it survive and how? Design/methodology/approach -The paper develops a conceptual argument based on culturalhistorical activity theory. The conceptual argument is grounded in the examination of a case of eight years of change efforts in a university library, including a Change Laboratory (CL) intervention. Follow-up interview data are used to discuss and illuminate our argument in relation to the three research questions. Findings -The idea of knotworking constructed in the CL process became a "germ cell" that generates novel solutions in the library activity. A large-scale transformation from the local organization model developed in the CL process to the organization model of the entire university library was not experienced as a loss. The dialectical tension between the local and global models became a source of movement driven by the emerging expansive object. Practitioners are modeling their own collective future competences, expanding them both in socio-spatial scope and interactive depth. Originality/value -The article offers an expanded view of authorship, calling attention to material changes and practical change actions. The dialectical tensions identified serve as heuristic guidelines for future studies and interventions.
Librarians in academic libraries are facing major changes in their work due to, e.g., the internet, digitization, and increasing use of new channels for information retrieval by their most important clients, namely researchers. This creates challenges for librarians: both to deepen their own expertise and to develop innovative service models for their clients.In this paper we present a development project entitled 'Knotworking in the Library' from the Helsinki University Library. The project made use of the Change Laboratory method, which is an intensive developmental effort which facilitates improvements in the activities of organizations and changes in the organizational culture. The process started in Viikki Campus Library in 2009-2010 and continued in the City Centre Campus Library in 2010-2011. The aim was to create new kinds of partnership between libraries and research groups in the form of knotworking. By knotworking we mean a boundary-crossing, collective problem-solving way of organizing work.The knotworking model presented in this paper generated practical tools to assist selected research groups in dealing with data management related-issues.
Change, transformation, the reassessment of services and professional capabilities are key concepts in the language of academic libraries today. We suggest that two intertwined rationales -technical development and the marketisation of the public sector along with a customer approach -are driving the change that is challenging academic libraries to rethink their work and services. In this article, we first discuss embedded librarianship and knotworking in libraries as participatory approaches to the arrangement of academic library work and services. Second, we presented the findings of the Knotworking project and its follow-up interviews and suggest knotworking as a method with which librarians can collaboratively analyse their own work and develop services with researchers and thus respond to changing working environments. Third, we discuss changes in the work identity of librarians.
Kirjastojen tulisi edistää vastuullista bibliometriikkaa. Leidenin manifesti vuodelta 2015 antaa suosituksia bibliometriikan vastuulliseen käyttöön tutkimuksen arvioinnissa. Kuinka hyvin manifestin periaatteet istuvat yliopistokirjastojen käytäntöihin? Millaisia suosituksia liberin metriikkatyöryhmä antaa manifestin käytöstä?
Hyvä lukija, luet Signumin Suomi 100 -juhlanumeroa. Lehti perustuu tällä kertaa Suomen tieteellisen kirjastoseuran Suomi 100 -juhlaseminaarissaTieto, avoimuus ja kirjastot – jatkuuko menestystarina? pidettyihin puheenvuoroihin 23.11.2017 Tieteiden talolla. Lisäksi lukupaketistalöytyy journalistisen kirjoittamisen dosentin Maria Lassila-Merisalon ajankohtainen artikkeli, joka pohjautuu hänen pitämäänsäkeynote-puheenvuoroon Informaatiolukutaito-työryhmän seminaarissaTiedon monet kasvot – mikä on oikeaa tietoa, kuka valitsee faktat.
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