Old and Beau*ful! Library Educa*on and Research at the School of Informa*on Sciences, University of Tampere. Tampere, city of lakes and rapids

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1 Old and Beau*ful! Library Educa*on and Research at the School of Informa*on Sciences, University of Tampere Ilkka Mäkinen Lecturer in Informa*on Studies and Interac*ve Media Docent in Library History School of Informa*on Sciences University of Tampere Tampere, city of lakes and rapids Tampere = "Manse", the Manchester of Finland, city of factories and workers Finland's industrializa*on began here in the 1830s Finlayson 1

2 First electric light 1882 City of working man writers Lauri Viita ( ) Kalle Päätalo ( ) Väinö Linna ( ) All eager readers and users of the public library City of libraries an early precursor of public libraries: Tampere Library Society

3 Building for City library 1925 New building in 1986 First Library Diploma Course at the College of Social Sciences

4 City of library educa*on College for Social Sciences, started in Helsinki 1925, got first regular library courses 1945 the whole College was moved to Tampere in the beginning of 1960's, became the University of Tampere Chair and Department of Library and Informa*on Science in 1971, today part of the School of Informa-on Sciences, University of Tampere Library educa*on also at the University of Oulu and the Åbo Akademi University in Turku hfp:// Informa-on Studies and Interac-ve Media in the School of Informa*on Sciences hfp:// Degree Program in Informa*on Studies and Interac*ve Media hfps://www10.uta.fi/opas/koulutus.htm? opsid=102&uilang=en&lang=en&lvv=2012&koulid=20 Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programmes are available only in Finnish. Doctoral educa*on available also in English hfp:// 4

5 We educate for work in libraries, archives, net services, game companies, research centers Basic informa*on Member of the ischool Network since 2012 Input: Students: 32 new major bachelor students each year, twice that amount those who study informa*on studies as minor subject Output: 20 Bachelor, 40 Master s Degrees per year Ca. 3 doctoral disserta-ons annually Research hfp:// Research in the School of Informa*on Sciences is concentrated in three research centers: CIS Research Center for Informa*on and Systems TAUCHI Tampere Unit for Computer Human Interac*on TRIM Tampere Research Center for Informa-on and Media hfp:// 5

6 TRIM Tampere Research Center for Informa*on and Media 50 staff (+ administra*on) Core areas: Informa*on Retrieval Game Research Informa*on and Media Prac*ces FIRE, Game Research Lab, RIME Research Groups 6

7 FIRE Finnish Informa*on Retrieval Experts Group hfp:// Research on text and mul*media databases, database design and reorganiza*on, and document management. test collec*ons (both text and picture documents) in the Informa-on Retrieval Lab Chair: Prof Kalervo Järvelin Game Research Lab hfp://gamelab.uta.fi/ culturally and qualita*vely oriented games research Chair: Prof. Frans Mäyrä hfp://fransmayra.fi/ RIME Research Group on Informa*on and Media Prac*ces (RIME) hfp:// rime.html produc*on, seeking, use, sharing, management and organiza*on of informa*on Chair: Prof. Reijo Savolainen 7

8 But the latest doctoral disserta*on was in library and informa-on history / history of science Johanna Lilja: Challenging the Ma,hew effect: interna2onal exchange of publica2ons in four Finnish learned socie2es un2l the Second World War (public defense in June 2012) Library research in general and even library history are alive and kicking Sami Serola & Pert Vakkari: The role of public libraries in ci*zens' ac*vi*es. A survey on the benefits of public libraries in everyday life (2011) a na*onwide study based on an extensive sample, financed by the Ministry of Educa*on and Culture In Finnish, English summary: hfp:// Yleinen_kirjasto_kuntalaisten_toimissa.html?lang=fi&extra_locale=en 8

9 (Informal) Research Group on Library History Convenes irregularly, consists of doctoral students and professional librarians interested in library history Latest publica*on from among the group: Hanna Aaltonen: Finnish Library Space from stacks to living room. A history of the development of library spaces in Finland (Avain 2012) And Finnish Public Libraries in the 20 th Century (Tampere University Press 2001) Suomen yleisten kirjastojen historia [History of the Finnish Public Libraries] (BTJ Finland 2009) Antero Kyös*ö: [50 years of Mobile Libraries in Finland.] (Avain 2011) 9

10 Interna*onal connec*on HIBOLIRE Nordic Bal*c Research Network in the History of the Book, Libraries and Reading Seminars, projects, communica*on Book in 2010: Library Spirit in the Nordic and Bal*c Countries. Historical perspec*ves 10

11 Come to Tampere If you have a good research idea in informa*on retrieval, games research, informa*on seeking, library research If you want good supervision If you have financing in order But remember, it s a tough compe**on! Thank you for your afen*on! 11