Biosketch: Jenny Lindberg

I am a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at Högskolan i Borås. Since completion of my Master's degree in Library and Information Science (LIS) in 2002 I have been teaching courses on information literacy and the sociology of knowledge, among others. Since 2004 I am engaged in a dissertation project on academic librarians' information seeking practices (including the use of ICT tools), viewed as part of their shaping of occupational identities, in the transition between higher education and work life.

In the 1990's I worked as a curator and art pedagogue.

Current research activities/projects

I started my current research activities in the previous research project BIKT (Library, ICT and Learning) within LearnIT, and today I am associated to the research program LinCS. The preliminary title of my dissertation is Att bli bibliotekarie: informationssökning och identitet i utbildnings- och yrkespraktik (Learning librarianship: information seeking and identity in educational and occupational practice), and the project should be completed in 2011. Two empirical studies are being conducted: focus group interviews with library and information science students and in-depth interviews with practicing academic librarians. My supervisors are Professor Olof Sundin and Professor Louise Limberg.

Recent publications

Pilerot, O. & Lindberg, J. (2011). The concept of information literacy in policy-making texts: An imperialistic project?. [accepted for publication and to appear in] Library Trends. 60(2), pp.

Hedman, J., Lundh, A. & Sundin, O. (2009). Att lära informationssökning för yrkeslivet: Om bibliotekarier, lärare och sjuksköterskor (Learning information seeking for occupational life: On librarians, teachers and nurses). In J. Hedman & A. Lundh (Eds.), Informationskompetenser: Lärande I informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag.

Pilerot, O. & Hedman, J. (2009). Är informationskompetens överförbar från en praktik till en annan? (Is information literacy transferable from one practice to another?) I B. Hansson & A. Lyngfelt (Eds.), Pedagogiskt arbete i teori och praktik: Om bibliotekens roll för studenters och doktoranders lärande. Lund: BTJ förlag.

Hedman, J. & Moring, C. (2007). Learning librarianship: Scandinavian LIS students looking for professional identities. Paper presented at The ALISE 2007 Annual Conference, Habits of Mind and Practice: Preparing Reflective Professionals, Seattle, Wa, USA.

Sundin, O. & Hedman, J. (2005). Theory of professions and occupational identities. In Fisher, K., Erdelez, S. & McKechnie, L. (Eds.), Theories of information behavior: a researcher's guide. Medford, NJ. : Information Today

Hedman, J. (2005). On librarians' occupational identities: ICT and the shaping of information seeking expertise. Paper presented at The IFLA Conference in Oslo 2005. Accessible online: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/papers/053e-Hedman.pdf

Hedemark, Å., Hedman, J. & Sundin, O. (2005). Speaking of users: on user discourses in the field of public libraries. Information Research, 10(2). Accessible online: http://informationr.net/ir/10-2/paper218.html