Joacim Hansson
Professor
Department of Cultural Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Joacim Hansson is professor of Library and Information Science.
Teaching
Joacim Hansson teaches at the Bachelor Programme 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 International Advisoy Boards of scholarly journals Information and Learning Sciences, and Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
- member of the Editorial Board of Nordic Journal for Library and Information Studies.
- Senior Associate Fellow of the International Institute of Hermeneutics.
My research groups
My ongoing research projects
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Project: Cultivating Information, Organizing Culture The project aims at establishing a cross-disciplinary, international research network focused on issues concerning classification, culture and new…
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Project: Public libraries in a changed political landscape – a democratic mission for a new era? The aim of the project is to investigate political influence on local public libraries in six…
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Project: The graduate school ReSource: Transforming Reading and Source Criticism in Digital Cultures A national research school in Library and Information Science.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Hansson, J. (2023). Public libraries in language assimilation policies : The Swedish Tornedalian example. IFLA Journal.
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Hansson, J. (2023). The informative potential of bibliographic classification systems : reflections on a discussion in the French Documentation Movement. Journal of Documentation.
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Hansson, J. (2022). Classification Systems for Jewish Libraries and Bibliographies : Philosophy, Warrants and Relation to non-Jewish Bibliographic Practice. Journal of Religious & Theological Information. 21 (3-4). 99-121.
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Carlsson, H., Hanell, F., Hansson, J. (2022). ”Det känns som att jag bara sitter och väntar på att det ska explodera” : politisk påverkan på de kommunala folkbibliotekens verksamhet i sex sydsvenska regioner. Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies. 3 (1). 26-43.
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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. Information research. 27.
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Hansson, J. (2021). Bringing Political Upheaval and Cultural Trauma into Order : A Document-Theoretical Approach to the Social Signifificance of Bibliographic Classifification Systems. Proceedings from the Document Academy. 8 (2). 1-22.
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Hansson, J., Golub, K., Tyrkkö, J., Ahlström, I. (2021). Publication Practices in the Humanities : An in-depth Study of a Swedish Arts and Humanities Faculty 2010-2018. Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies. 2 (2). 41-64.
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Golub, K., Tyrkkö, J., Hansson, J., Ahlström, I. (2020). Subject indexing in humanities : A comparison between a local university repository and an international bibliographic service. Journal of Documentation. 76 (6). 1193-1214.
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Olsson, M., Hansson, J. (2019). Embodiment, information practices and documentation : a study of mid-life martial artists. Information research. 24 (4).
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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. Information research. 24 (4).
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Dahlström, M., Hansson, J. (2019). Documentary Provenance and Digitized Collections : Concepts and Problems. Proceedings from the Document Academy. 6 (1).
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Golub, K., Hansson, J., Seldén, L. (2017). Cult of the "I" : Organizational symbolism and curricula in three Scandinavian iSchools with comparisons to three American. Journal of Documentation. 73 (1). 48-74.
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Hansson, J. (2017). Professional value and ethical self-regulation in the development of modern librarianship : The documentality of library ethics. Journal of Documentation. 73 (6). 1261-1280.
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Golub, K., Hansson, J. (2017). (Big) Data in Library and Information Science : A Brief Overview of Some Important Problem Areas. Journal of universal computer science (Online). 23 (11). 1098-1108.
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Åström, F., Hammarfelt, B., Hansson, J. (2017). Scientific publications as boundary objects : theorising the intersection of classification and research evaluation. Information research. 22 (1).
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Hansson, J. (2017). Representativity and Complementarity in Tai Chi as Embodied Documentation. Proceedings from the Document Academy. 4 (2). 1-24.
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Hansson, J. (2016). The documentality of ethics : Codes of library ethics as support of professional practice. Proceedings from the Document Academy. 3 (1). 1-14.
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Hansson, J. (2015). Documentality and legitimacy in future libraries : an analytical framework for initiated speculation. New Library World. 116 (1/2). 4-14.
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Hansson, J., Johannesson, K. (2013). Librarians’ views of academic library support for scholarly publishing : an every-day perspective. The journal of academic librarianship. 39 (3). 232-240.
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Åström, F., Hansson, J. (2013). How implementation of bibliometric practice affects the role of academic libraries. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 45 (4). 316-322.
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Hansson, J. (2013). The materiality of knowledge organization : epistemology, metaphors and society. Knowledge organization. 40 (6). 384-391.
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Dahlström, M., Hansson, J., Kjellman, U. (2012). 'As we may digitize' : institutions and documents reconfigured. Liber quarterly : the journal of European research libraries. 21 (3-4). 455-474.
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Hansson, J. (2011). Public libraries and the national minorities of Sweden – results of a national survey. New Library World. 112 (9/10). 406-415.
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Hansson, J., Kawalya, J. (2007). Institutional change in the Ugandan library sector : the establishment of the National Library of Uganda. Information Development. 23 (4). 278-289.
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Hansson, J. (2006). Knowledge organisation from an institutional point of view : implications for theoretical and practical development. Progressive Librarian. (27). 31-43.
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Hansson, J. (2006). Modul cum reflecta clasificarea bibliografica societatea : cazul sistemului suedez SAB. Studii de Biblioteconomie si Stiinta Informarii. (10). 144-152.
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Hansson, J. (2006). Just collaboration or really something else? : on joint use libraries and normative institutional change with two examples from Sweden. Library Trends. 54 (4). 549-568.
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Hansson, J. (2005). Hermeneutics as a bridge between the modern and the postmodern i Library and Informatioon science. Journal of Documentation. 61 (1). 102-113.
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Hansson, J. (1997). Folkbibliotekens ideologiska förändring speglad i två statliga utredningar : en komparativ stuidie av 1911 års folkbiblioteksutredning och 1995 års kulturutredning. Svensk biblioteksforskning. (1-2). 71-84.
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Hansson, J. (1997). Why public libraries in sweden did nor choose Dewey.. Knowledge organization. 24 (3). 145-153.
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Hansson, J. (1995). Framväxten av "Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek" mot bakgrund av folkbibliotekens tidiga utveckling och äldre svenska klassifikationspraxis.. Svensk biblioteksforskning. (2). 14-36.
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Hansson, J., Engdahl, M. (1994). Perspektivförskjutningar inom Information Management.. Svensk biblioteksforskning. (2). 54-63.
Status: Published
Article in journal (Other academic)
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Hansson, J. (2011). Bibliotekets idé. : Föreläsning i anslutning till installation som professor i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap vid Linnéuniversitetet, den 27 maj 2010.. Humanetten. (26). 3-11.
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Hansson, J. (2006). Förord till den svenska översättningen av Gabriel Naudé:s 'Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque' - Råd för upprättandet av ett bibliotek. . Svensk biblioteksforskning. 15 (3). 1-4.
Status: Published
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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Hansson, J. (2011). A point of view (considering e-books). Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly. 44 (4). 14-15.
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Hansson, J. (2011). A point of view (reading and literature). Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly. 44 (3). 14-15.
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Hansson, J. (2011). A point of view (the users - who are they?). Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly. 44 (2). 14-15.
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Hansson, J. (2009). Kära folkbibliotek, vart tog du vägen?. Ordfronts litterära magasin. (December). 10-11.
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Hansson, J. (2008). Tidens dialektik och det av-bildande biblioteket. Biblioteksbladet. (7). 3-5.
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Hansson, J. (2008). Integrerade bibliotek - mer än bara samarbete?. DF-revy. 31 (3). 14-15.
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Hansson, J. (2003). Professionalism, folkbildning och de socialt underpriviligierade.. Biblioteksbladet. 88 (2). 12-14.
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Hansson, J., Bondeson, C. (2002). Biblioteksskvaller från Drottning Kristinas Stockholm - Gabriel Naudés brev till bibliotekarien Jacques Dupuy från Stockholm den 26 september 1652.. Biblioteksbladet. 87 (5). 16-17.
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Hansson, J. (2001). Biblioteken som problemområde i biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap.. Tidskrift för dokumentation. 56 (3). 81-88.
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Hansson, J. (1996). SAB-systemet 75 år - några ord om dess tillkomsthistoria.. Biblioteksbladet. (10). 279-280.
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Hansson, J. (1996). Bibliotek och gamla böcker : Om folkbibliotekens förhållande till sitt äldre bokmaterial. Kulturpolitisk tidskrift. (3-4). 24-33.
Status: Published
Article, review/survey (Refereed)
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Zetterlund, A., Hansson, J. (1997). Folkbibliotekens förändring : tidigare forskning om folkbiblioteken och teorier om förändringens natur. Svensk biblioteksforskning. (1-2). 27-68.
Status: Published
Article, book review (Refereed)
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Hansson, J. (2021). Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age. Audunson Ragnar, Andresen Herbjørn, Fagerlid Cicilie, Henningsen Erik, Hobohm Hans-Christoph, Jochumsen Henrik, Larsen Håkon, Vold Tonje (Eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020. 370 pp. €99.95 (hardcover). (ISBN 978-3-11-062954-5). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. John Wiley & Sons. 72 (12). 1605-1608.
Status: Published
Book (Other academic)
- Hansson, J. (2019). Educating librarians in the contemporary university : an essay on iSchools and emancipatory resilience in library and information science. Sacramento, CA, Library Juice Press.
- Hansson, J. (2010). Libraries and identity : The role of institutional self-image and identity in the emergence of new types of libraries. Oxford, Chandos Publishing.
Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Hansson, J. (2022). De ordnade böckernas folk : Om klassifikation i judiska bibliografier och bibliotek. Stockholm, Hillelförlaget.
- Hansson, J., Wisselgren, P. (2018). Bibliotekarier i teori och praktik : utbildningsperspektiv på en unik profession. Lund, BTJ Förlag.
- Hansson, J. (2014). Att bilda en bibliotekarie : essäer. Lund, BTJ Förlag.
- Hansson, J. (2012). Folkets bibliotek? : texter i urval 1994-2012.. Lund, BTJ Förlag.
- Hansson, J. (2005). Det lokala folkbiblioteket : Förändringar under hundra år. Linköping, Mimer/Skapande vetande.
- Hansson, J. (1996). Tillblivelsen av "Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek". Borås, Valfrid.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Hansson, J. (1999). Klassifikation, bibliotek och samhälle : En kritisk hermeneutisk studie av "Klassifikationssystem för svenska bibliotek".. Doctoral Thesis. Göteborg, Valfrid/Göteborgs Univ.. 329.
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., Wisselgren, P. (2018). Inledning. Bibliotekarier i teori och praktik : utbildningsperspektiv på en unik profession. Lund, BTJ Förlag. 9-14.
- 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. (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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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.
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.