Biosketch: Professor Olof Sundin

Olof is professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås (SSLIS), as well as a senior lecturer at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University. His research has focused on information practices in occupational and educational contexts. In his current research he mainly focuses on information literacy, the credibility of digital information, and knowledge building in (new) participatory media. During autumn of 2009, Olof was a visiting scholar at Vienna University. He is a member of The International Information Literacies Research Network and of the permanent committee for Information Seeking in Context (ISIC). Olof is also a member of the editorial advisory board of Journal of Documentation.

Olof is the principal investigator of the project "Expertise, Authority and Control on the Internet (EXACT): A study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning" funded by the Swedish Research Council. EXACT is a study of how the credibility of sources is negotiated in Swedish high school environments, with a particular focus on collaborative web technologies and genres. In the project, Olof collaborates with Dr Helena Francke and Professor Louise Limberg. More information about EXACT is available at the project blog: http://projektexakt.wordpress.com

Recent publications (2009-)

Sundin, O., Francke, H. & Limberg, L. (2011, accepted). "Practicing information literacy in the classroom: policies, instructions, and grading." Dansk Biblioteksforskning: Tidsskrift for informations- og kulturformidling (2/3).

Sundin, O. (2011, in press). "Janitors of universal knowledge: constructing knowledge in the everyday life of Wikipedia editors." Journal of Documentation, 67(5).

Francke, Helena, Olof Sundin & Louise Limberg (2011). "Debating credibility: the shaping of information literacies in upper secondary school". Journal of Documentation, 67(4), 675-694. See <http://bada.hb.se/handle/2320/8351>

Francke, Helena & Olof Sundin (2010). "An inside view: credibility in Wikipedia from the perspective of editors". Information Research 15.3, Special supplement: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, London 21-24 June, 2010. <http://informationr.net/ir/15-3/colis7/colis702.html>

Haider, J. & Sundin, O. (2010). "Beyond the legacy of the Enlightenment? Online encyclopaedias as digital heterotopias." First Monday, 15, (1) - 4 January 2010. Available at, http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2744/2428

Sundin, Olof & Helena Francke (2009). "In search of credibility: pupils' information practices in learning environments." Information Research 14.4, paper 418. <http://informationr.net/ir/14-4/paper418.html>

Francke, Helena & Olof Sundin (2009). "Format agnostics or format believers? How students in high school use genre to assess credibility." Short paper in ASIS&T 09, Proceedings of the 72th Annual Meeting, volume 46. <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/open-proceedings/posters/58.xml>

Limberg, L., Sundin, O. & Talja, S. (2009). "Teoretiska synsätt på informationskompetens: variation, kontext och generiska drag." Informationskompetenser: om lärande i informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker. Eds. Jenny Hedman & Anna Lundh. Stockholm: Carlssons. 36-65.