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Libraries, archives and museums: changes, challenges and collaboration

LAMC3 brings into focus the current changes and challenges experienced by publicly funded libraries, archives and museums, the so-called LAM institutions. Budget cuts, digital technology, cultural policy requirements and new patterns of use are among the conditions that have resulted in major changes since the millennium.

By Isto Huvila, 21 November, 2017

Har du kommenterat eller recenserat böcker, bilder eller annat material pÄ bibliotekens, museernas eller arkivens webbtjÀnster?

Har du undrat varför folk skriver kommentarer och recensioner pÄ webben? Eller har du gjort det sjÀlv?

Vi forskar om kommentarer och deras betydelse för aktiva anvĂ€ndare av bibliotekens, museernas och arkivens webbtjĂ€nster. Som “kommentarer” rĂ€knas kommentarer, recensioner och annat deltagande som syftar till att skapa eller dela information eller Ă„sikter om webbtjĂ€nstens innehĂ„ll och som publiceras pĂ„ den pĂ„ den sjĂ€lva tjĂ€nsten. Alla möjliga lokala, regionala och nationella tjĂ€nster Ă€r aktuella t. ex.

ALMPUB

The ALM-Field, Digitalization, and the Public Sphere (ALMPUB) is a three year research project financed by the Norwegian Research Council’s KULMEDIA Program. The project is administered and co-founded, by the Department of Archivistics, Library, and Information Science, at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Norway.

More information about the project at https://almpub.wordpress.com

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Latest Publications

Habitats of Archaeological Knowledge: From Information Ecologies to Information-in-Ecologies
Huvila, I. (2026). Habitats of Archaeological Knowledge: From Information Ecologies to Information-in-Ecologies. In N. Solhjoo (Ed.), Multispecies Information Science (pp. 201–220). London: Routledge. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003583424-15
Documenting AI Use in Humanities Research
Huvila, I. (2025). Documenting AI Use in Humanities Research. In H. Verhagen, S. Tienken, A. Widholm, M. Fridlund, M. Nermo, & A. BlĂ„der (Eds.), Huminfra 2025 (pp. 57–62). Stockholm: Stockholm University.
Letting AI Loose in an Archive: Technology to Manage or to Manage With
Huvila, I. (2025). Letting AI Loose in an Archive: Technology to Manage or to Manage With. Archiv, Theorie & Praxis, 75, 12–15.
Researchers Data Processing Descriptions–Understanding Paradata Creation Practices and Their Underpinning Instrumentalities
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., & Sköld, O. (2025). Researchers Data Processing Descriptions–Understanding Paradata Creation Practices and Their Underpinning Instrumentalities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 76(11), 1570–1590. http://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70003 (Original work published 2026)
Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Huvila, I., Andersson, L., Friberg, Z., Liu, Y.-H., & Sköld, O. (2025). Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366564

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Isto Huvila

(nĂ© Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Åbo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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