Kimmo Tuominen

• University of Helsinki

Syyskuun puolivälissä Tampereelle kokoontui lähes 200 osallistujaa KINE 2022 -tapahtumaan. Päivät toivat yhteen niin kirjastosektorit kuin eri puolella Suomea toimivat kirjastotkin. Päivien teemaa Kestävä ja avoin kirjasto käsiteltiin rohkeasti huippuasiantuntijoiden esityksissä ja paneeleissa. Tässä kirjoituksessa syvennymme päivien avoimen tiedon...

Strategiaa voi tarkastella erilaisilla aikajänteillä ja erilaisista näkökulmista, strategiapaperia voi työstää ja toteuttaa monella tavalla. Tässä artikkelissa luodaan silmäys eri sektoreilla tehtävän strategiatyön viimeisimpiin viilauksiin – fokus on erityisesti 2020-luvun kehityksessä. Artikkelissa tieteellisen kirjastomaailman eri toimijat käsit...

Purpose Although resource sharing between scholars is evolving rapidly, This paper uses paper-based interlibrary lending (ILL) procedures in the service repertoire of academic libraries. However, the current business model of acquiring toll-access journals and e-books does not seem to fit very well with traditional ILL practices. In addition, the n...

Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) -konferenssi järjestettiin tänä vuonna Prahassa ja se oli järjestyksessään jo kuudestoista. Konferenssi pidetään joka toinen vuosi ja sen keskipisteessä on kirjastojen välinen aineistojen yhteiskäyttö ja siihen liittyvien käytäntöjen kehittäminen. Tänä vuonna teema oli Maksumuurien taakse: aineistojen yhteisk...

Even though resource sharing between scholars is evolving rapidly, we still have paper-based interlibrary lending (ILL) procedures in use. However, the current business model of acquiring toll-access journals and e-books does not seem to fit very well with traditional ILL practices. In addition, the new models of peer-to-peer resource sharing betwe...

Introduction. Even though the current publishing model is based on digital dissemination, it still utilizes some of the basic principles of printed culture. Recently a policy emphasis towards open access has been set for publicly funded research. This paper reports on a study of the practices, business models and values linked with scholarly publis...

The article presents a short history of Finnish libraries and librarianship. The written culture in Finland started in the 15th century AD. The Reformation meant the eventual outbreak of the Finnish culture, both from the point of view of the religious and academic cultures. The Academy of Turku was established in 1640. The public library network s...

Tiedonhankinta terveydellisissä pulmatilanteissa Tuominen, Kimmo, Tiedonhankinta terveydellisissä pulmatilanteissa [Information seeking in health problem situations]. Kirjastotiede ja informatiikka 11 (4): 111-119, 1992. Twenty workers employed by Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd were interviewed. The questions dealt with needs and seeking of health informa...

Osa 1: kontekstuaalinen metadata Kimmo Tuominen, Tarvitaanko verkkodokumenttien kuvailussa käsityötä? Osa 1: kontekstuaalinen metadata. [Do we need human-made descriptions of Web documents? Part 1: contextual metadata] Informaatiotutkimus 22(3), 87-94. The first part of the paper deals with the issues of document authenticity, cognitive authority a...

Tuominen, Kimmo, Yksilö tiedonhankkijana : Sense-making-teorian näkö-kulma tiedonhankintaprosessiin [Individual as an information seeker: point of view of sense-making theory to information seeking process]. Kirjastotiede ja informatiikka 13 (3): 64-75, 1994. One of the main candidates of theory-building in information studies, the sense-making the...

The article examines how social scientific information is discursively utilized as an argumentative and rhetorical resource at debates held during plenary sessions at the Finnish parliament. The authors analyze the speeches given by members of parliament by using the methodological perspective of constructionist discourse analysis. It is found out...

Information literacy has thus far been mostly a practical and strategic concept guiding the library field's efforts in teaching information seeking and using skills. Texts on information literacy rarely attempt to account for how individuals interact with other people and technical artifacts in their information environments. This article contribut...

Purpose Describes the basic premises of three metatheories that represent important or emerging perspectives on information seeking, retrieval and knowledge formation in information science: constructivism, collectivism, and constructionism. Design/methodology/approach Presents a literature‐based conceptual analysis. Pinpoints the differences betw...

The paper analyses accounts of information behaviour that are produced by 20 heart surgery patients and their spouses. It is shown that patients and their significant others have to act in a context in which health ideologies stressing self sufficiency and patient compliance play a strong role. Thus, the analysed accounts and narratives of informat...

The paper analyses accounts of information behaviour that are produced by 20 heart surgery patients and their spouses. It is shown that patients and their significant others have to act in a context in which health ideologies stressing self sufficiency and patient compliance play a strong role. Thus, the analysed accounts and narratives of informat...

The article reports on a project whose objectives were to analyse the social supply of health information to citizens and to study what they receive and are able to make use of. The results reveal the power, the responsibility and the rulers in and behind today’s media culture in health questions, but also the importance of people’s own active resp...

The article highlights the importance of conceptual and theoretical work in the design of information retrieval systems. Two epistemological positions leading to different solutions in digital library (DL) design are examined: the information transfer perspective and the social contructionist knowledge production perspective. The first section of t...

Functional requirements of the Renardus broker system are analysed from service provider and end-user perspectives. The service provider requirements are collected from a survey answered by Renardus participants. The viewpoint of end-users is represented by use case scenarios and collected results of end-user surveys. The results show that Renardus...

This paper contrasts monologic and dialogic World Wide Web services in a library context. The first section contrasts monologic and dialogic ways of understanding human nature and the way knowledge is constructed. The second section describes the dialogic nature and potential of the Web, including intranets as dialogic spaces and the dialog between...

The theoretical turn in library and information science to analyze the "inner worlds of the user" is critically evaluated looking for hidden ideas and institutional implications. The evaluation is done through a discourse analytic reading of how the identities of users and librarians are constructed in one much-cited user-centered text. The reading...

Purpose - Describes the basic premises of three metatheories that represent important or emerging perspectives on information seeking, retrieval and knowledge formation in information science: constructivism, collectivism, and constructionism. Design/methodology/approach - Presents a literature-based conceptual analysis. Pinpoints the differences b...