Biosketch: Professor Olof Sundin

Olof Sundin is professor in Library and Information Science at University of Borås and a member of The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society. Sundin's research focuses mainly on information practices and literacies in occupational and educational contexts. He is particularly interested in the interplay between artifacts and information practices. Sundin is an associate member of the permanent committee of the international research conference Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) and a member of the International Network on Information Literacy Research. Sundin is also an associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University.

Current research activities

Sundin currently researches the shaping and upholding of trust and authority of information in digital environments. Groups of actors he investigates include pupils, teachers, librarians, wikipedians and bloggers. He is project leader for:

EXpertise, Authority and Control on the InterneT (EXACT): A study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning, financed by the Swedish Research Council.

Recent and forthcoming publications

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

Francke, H. & Sundin, O. (2009). "Format Agnostics or Format Believers? How Students in High School Use Genre to Assess Credibility." Conference paper in A. Grove (ed.). ASIS&T 09, Proceedings of the 72th Annual Meeting, volume 46. Available at, http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/open-proceedings/

Limberg, L., Sundin, O. & Talja, S. (2009). Teoretiska synsätt på informationskompetens: variation, kontext och generiska drag [Theoretical approaches to information literacy: variations, context and generic patterns]. I J. Hedman & A. Lundh (red.), Om lärande i informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker. Stockholm: Carlssons. 36-65.

Sundin, O. & Francke, H. (2009). In search of credibility: Pupils' information practices in learning environments. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 14(4) paper 418. Available at, http://InformationR.net/ir/14-4/paper418.html

Sundin, O., Francke, H. & Andersen, J. (2009). Materialitet och remediering: konsekvenser för informationskompetens [Materiality and Remediation: Consequences for Information Literacy]. I J. Hedman & A. Lundh (red.), Om lärande i informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker. Stockholm: Carlssons. 181-206.

Sundin, O., Limberg, L. & Lundh, A. (2008). Constructing librarians' information literacy expertise in the domain of nursing. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 40(1), 21-30.

Sundin, O. (2008). Negotiations on information seeking expertise: a study of web-based tutorials for information literacy. Journal of Documentation, 64(1), 24-44.

Johannisson, J. & Sundin, O. (2007). Putting discourse to work: information practices and the professional project of nurses. Library Quarterly, 77(2), 199-218.

Sundin, O. & Haider, J. (2007). Debating information control in web 2.0: the case of Wikipedia vs. Citizendium. Conference paper in A. Grove (ed.). ASIS&T 07, Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting, volume 44. Digital resourse.