Peter Alsbjer's Blog (12)

In a new thesis, "Bridging the distance: children’s strategies on the internet" Elza Dunkels of Swedish Umea University discusses the use of the Internet of young people.
Her conclusion is that children’s views of the Internet differ from the media related adult view. The children in this study are aware of, and can describe many downsides of the web, but these are not present in their everyday use of the Internet. Many children have well-developed counter strategies wich are int

In a new master thesis from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science author Johanna Granstrom analyzes the possibilities of using social tagging as tool for library OPAC development. Studying 500 tags from Ann Arbor District Library’s catalog the author found that tags

Those of you, who have an interest in following international blogs: there is a fairly updated presentation on Swedish blogs at the german library blog Infobib.de

I've put up a Library2.0 group on SlideShare - the place where to put your power point slides. You'll find it on http://www.slideshare.net/group/library20

Strange thing, though: I can't join my own group! It means that I can't add my own slides. Anyone with a good idea can give me a hint on what to do.

In the meantime, please feel welcome to loin the group!

Swedish master degree students Jonas Ekstein and Christian Runessons thesis "Ask.com, Web Wombat and Yahoo: A study of two global and one local search engines" compares the three search engines .
"The results of our study showed that Yahoo had the best performance for precision. Web Wombat had faulty precision but results from Jaccard´s index revealed that Web Wombat had many unique documents. Web Wombat had the best average preci