Joacim Hansson

Professor

Department of Cultural Sciences Faculty of Arts and Humanities

joacim.hansson@lnu.se

+46 470-70 89 71

Joacim Hansson is professor of Library and Information Science.

Teaching

Joacim Hansson teaches primarily at docctoral courses in Library and Information Science and the Digital Humanities Master Programme.

Research

Main research interests are:

- Knowledge Organisation, primarily classification research.

- Document Studies, primarily on digital respresentation of cultural heritage documents and artefacts.

- Library Research, primarily on institutional identity of various types of libraries.

- History and philosophy of Library and Information Science.

Commissions

Joacim Hansson is:

- member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

- member of the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of journal Information and Learning Sciences.

- Senior Associate Fellow of the International Institute of Hermeneutics.

Commissions at Linnaeus University

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My research groups

My ongoing research projects

Publications

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Carlsson, H., Hanell, F., Hansson, J., Ehrenberg, M. (2024). Folkbiblioteket - demokratins kanariefågel?. En ifrågasatt demokrati : Forskare och praktiker i dialog. Göteborg och Stockholm, Makadam Förlag. 187-216.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Hansson, J. (2020). How to catch an antelope : on authenticity in digitised cultural heritage documents. Doing digital humanities : concepts, approaches, cases. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 99-120.
Hansson, J., Svensson, J. (2020). Introduction [to Doing DigitalHumanities: Concepts, Approaches, Cases]. Doing digital humanties : concepts approaches cases. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 1-3.
Hansson, J. (2016). On the pre-history of library ethics : documents and legitimacy. Information cultures in the digital age : a Festschrift in honour of Raphael Capurro. Wiesbaden, Springer. 307-319.
Johannesson, K., Hansson, J. (2012). Akademiska bibliotekariers förhållningssätt till forskares publiceringsstrategier, med särskilt avseende på frågan om open access. Viden i spil : forskningsbibliotekers funktioner i forandring. Köpenhamn, Samfundslitteratur. 280-302.
Hansson, J. (2010). Chantal Mouffe's Theory of Agonistic Pluralism and Its Relevance for Library and Information Science Research.. Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. : Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO. 249-257.
Hansson, J., Hjörland, B., Broughton, V., Lòpez-Huertas, M.J. (2005). Knowledge Organization. European Curriculum Refliections on Library and Information Science Education. 133-148.
Hansson, J. (2004). The social legitimacy of Library and Information Studies : Reconsidering the institutional paradigm.. Aware and Responsible : papers of the Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies. Lanham, MD, Scarecrow Press. 49-69.
Hansson, J. (2002). Professionalism och folkbildande identitet i dagens folkbibliotek.. Årsbok om folkbildning. 2002 : Forskning & utveckling. Stockholm, Föreningen för folkbildningsforskning. 89-96.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Hansson, J. (2022). Folkbiblioteket : demokratins rum och mötesplats.. Folkbiblioteket. Malmö, Bokförlaget Arena. 241-245.
Hansson, J. (2018). Att göra rätt och vilja väl : om lagstadgade värdegrunder och bibliotekariers professionsetik. Bibliotekarier i teori och praktik : utbildningsperspektiv på en unik profession. Lund, BTJ Förlag. 291-309.
Hansson, J., Wisselgren, P. (2018). Inledning. Bibliotekarier i teori och praktik : utbildningsperspektiv på en unik profession. Lund, BTJ Förlag. 9-14.
Hansson, J. (2010). Att vara där folket är : Om folkbibliotekens relation till folkbildningen och en problematisk samtid.. Där människor och tankar möts: : bibliotek som folkbildning. Lund, BTJ Förlag. 11-28.
Hansson, J. (2009). Ökad grad av politiskt utmanande kulturutövning. Skuggutredningen : Hur ska Sverige bli ett världsledande kulturland.. Stockholm, Vulcan. 139-141.

Conference paper (Refereed)

Hansson, J., Andersen, J., Beer, D., Søilen, K.L.G., Feinberg, M., et al. (2025). Algorthms, Archives and Authority : The Power of Classification in the Age of AI. CoLIS 2025, 12th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science : Panels, Alt-events and Posters. 32-35.
Hanell, F., Hansson, J., Carlsson, H. (2022). Public libraries in a changing political landscape : Results from a survey on political influence and pressure on public libraries in Southern Sweden. Conceptions of Library and Information Science - CoLIS11 : 11th International Conference, 29 May–1 June, Oslo, Norway.
Hansson, J. (2021). Bringing political upheaval and cultural trauma into order : a document-theoretical approach to the analysis of the social significance of bibliographic classification systems. Annual Meeting of the Document Academy 2021 : Emergence: Documents in Crisis. Book of Abstracts. 29-30.
Hansson, J. (2020). Scary monsters, super creeps, and the Hydra of Hamburg : on documentary practices, authenticity and cultural heritage institutions. Documentary monstrosities : program and abstracts. 15-15.
Hansson, J. (2019). Recognising the other through promotion of reading, collection development and communal collaboration : rural public libraries in the far-north of Sweden and their relation to the indigenous Sámi population. CoLIS 10, Conceptions of Library and Information Science, 10th international conference : Book of Abstracts. 69-69.
Golub, K., Ahlström, I., Hansson, J., Tyrkkö, J. (2019). Subject metadata for humanities journal articles : Indexing consistency between a local repository and an external bibliographic database. Presented at DCMI 2019 : Metadata Innovation. Seoul, South Korea - September 23rd-26th, 2019.
Dahlström, M., Hansson, J. (2019). Documentary Provenance and Digitized Collections. The Document Academy (DOCAM) Annual meeting 2019 of Documents and Data : Ingémédia Department, University of Toulon, France, June 12–14, 2019.
Olsson, M., Hansson, J. (2019). Embodiment, Information Practices and Documentation : a study of Mid-Life Martial Artists. CoLIS 10, Conceptions of Library and Information Science, 10th international conference : Book of Abstracts. 52-52.
Hansson, J. (2017). Catching the Ch'i : Tai Chi Chuan as embodied documentation. Annual Meeting of the Document Academy (DOCAM) : 29-30 september 2017, Indiana University, Bloomington, IA, USA.
Hansson, J. (2016). The documentality of ethical self-regulation in the formation of modern librarianship. Presented at DOCAM16 : Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, University of North Texas, Denton TX, USA, 30 september - 1 october 2016.
Åström, F., Hammarfelt, B., Hansson, J. (2016). Scientific publications as boundary objects : theorising the intersection of classification and research evaluation. .
Golub, K., Hansson, J., Soergel, D., Tudhope, D. (2015). Managing classification in libraries : a methodological outline for evaluating automatic subject indexing and classification in Swedish library catalogues. Classification & authority control : expanding resource discovery - proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2015, 29-30 october, Lisbon, Portugal. 163-174.
Hansson, J. (2013). Documentality as inscribed acts : ontology, technology and practice of professional codes of ethics in librarianship. Presented at the 10th Annual meeting of the Document Academy, Tromsø, Norway, June 19th-22nd, 2013 : DOCAM'13.
Åström, F., Hansson, J. (2013). Librarianship and scientometrics: support or surveillance in the research publication process?. Book of Abstracts of the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative International Conference (Rome, Italy: 4-7 June, 2013). CLXX.
Hansson, J. (2011). Library and Information Science - tradition and modernity : a critical reflection. Proceedings from Communication and Information Sciences in Network Society, Vilnius, Lithuania, 16-17 june 2011. 9.
Kjellman, U., Hansson, J., Dahlström, M. (2009). Documents reconstructed : digitization and institutional practice as mediation. Presented at DOCAM'09 : Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, University of Wisconsin, Madison,28-29 march 2009.
Hansson, J., Dahlström, M. (2008). On the relation between qualitative and quantitative digitization and library institutional identity. Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization : proceedings of the tenth international ISKO conference, Montreal, Canada, august 5-8 2008.. 112-118.
Hansson, J. (2007). New document environments and institutional identity : Joint use libraries at the crossroads between the physical and the digital library.. Joint Use Libraries : An international conference. 79-83.
Hansson, J., Torstensson, M. (2003). Libraries as suppliers of information for development of society : A historical view. The 11th Bobcatsss symposium Proceedings : Information policy and the European Union..
Hansson, J. (1996). In my mind's eye : In search of the mimetic relationship between the evolvement of a library classification and its social discourses. Information Science - Interaction in perspective : Proceedings. 99-115.
Hansson, J. (1995). Den svenska hållningen till Dewey-systemet vid tiden för utarbetandet av "Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek".. Biblioteken, kulturen och den sociala intelligensen : Aktuell forskning inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap.. 340-355.
Hansson, J., Zetterlund, A. (1995). Problems and possibilities in the relation between theory and practice in the new LIS programme in Sweden : Examples from classification and library evaluation. Proceedings. 61-65.
Hansson, J., Engdahl, M. (1994). Changes of perspectives within the field of Information Management.. Impact of Information Technology on Information Management : Proceedings. 51:1-51:13.

Conference paper (Other academic)

Engström, L., Skøtt, B., Carlsson, H., Hanell, F., Hansson, J. (2023). An Act of Balance : Exploring the Boundaries of Librarianship in Times of Political Turmoil in Sweden and Denmark. .
Hansson, J. (2016). Etiska koders betydelse för bibliotekariers professionella identitet ur ett dokumentteoretiskt perspektiv. Mötesplats Profession - Forskning, Borås, 27-28 oktober 2016. 1-19.
Golub, K., Hansson, J. (2016). Welcome and introduction : To workshop and participants. 16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2016 (DC-2016).
Golub, K., Hansson, J. (2015). Big data in Library and Information Science : from scientific communication and metadata to cultural sciences. Big data: från hype till handling, Linnaeus University, 4 December 2015.
Hansson, J., Djuni, P., Zetterlund, A., Nawang, P., Jarneving, B., et al. (2002). Public libraries and information services and democratic development : an outline for a comparative research programme between Sweden and Indonesia.
Hansson, J., Zetterlund, A., Jarneving, B. (2002). Swedish scool of library and information studies : opportunities for collaboration. . 9.

Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Hansson, J. (2013). Una mirada nórdica sobre el rol de la biblioteca pública. .
Hansson, J. (2011). Biblioteken och de nationella minoriteterna.. .

Licentiate thesis, monograph (Other academic) (Other academic)

Hansson, J. (1998). Om folkbibliotekens ideologiska identitet : en diskursstudie. Licentiate Thesis. Borås, Valfrid. 155.

Report (Other academic)

Hansson, J. (2019). Folkbibliotek i glesbygd : kunskapsläge och erfarenheter. Stockholm, Kulturrådet. 68.
Hansson, J., Hedemark, Å., Kjellman, U., Lindberg, J., Nolin, J., et al. (2018). Profession, utbildning, forskning : biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap för en stärkt bibliotekarieprofession. Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket / Nationell biblioteksstrategi. 76.
Hansson, J., Ahlryd, S., Vigur, L. (2010). Biblioteken och de nationella minoriteterna. : Hur svenska folkbibliotek arbetar för romer, judar, tornedalingar, samer och sverigefinnar.. Stockholm, Svensk biblioteksförening. 34.
Hansson, J., Höglund, L., Engdahl, M., Thorsteinsdottir, G., Zetterlund, A. (1996). Tusen studenter om biblioteket : vanor, attityder och krav. Delstudie 2 i "Studenternas bibliotek".. Stockholm, BIBSAM/Kungl. Biblioteket.

Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Hansson, J. (2025). Öppen vetenskap. Genomförande av projekt : Bilaga 4. Incitamentsstruktur i form av finansiering och meritering. Linnéuniversitetet. 9.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Hansson, J., Svensson, J. (2020). Doing Digital Humanities : Concepts, Approaches, Cases. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 259.
Golub, K., Hansson, J., Seldén, L. (2016). Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology : Special Issue : iSchools Around the World. John Wiley & Sons.

Other (Other academic)

Golub, K., Hansson, J., Löwe, W., Milrad, M. (2016). LNU as a Unique iSchool. Linnaeus University. 1.
Åström, F., Hansson, J., Olsson, M. (2011). Bibliometrics and the changing role of the university libraries.