[NORSLIS] NJLIS special issue out: "LIS in the climate crisis"

[Jutta Haider]

Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new special issue of the Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies (Vol 4, nr 1).
https://tidsskrift.dk/njlis/issue/view/9991

The theme is "Library and Information Studies in the Climate Crisis" and guest editors were Carin Graminius, Björn Ekström and Jutta Haider.
It contains one editorial, three research articles, and one research note.


  *   "LCSH and Environmental Science: A Comparison of Subject Heading and Domain Analyses." by Frances Purcell and Julia Bullard
  *   "Simple questions for complex matters? An enquiry into Swedish Google search queries on wind power." by Björn Ekström and Elisa Tattersall Wallin
  *   "The art of storytelling: against the instrumentalisation of stories as information sources in climate communication." by Carin Graminius and Phil Dodds
  *   "UPSCALE: Upscaling Sustainable Collaborative Consumption Using Public Libraries." by Henrik Jochumsen and colleagues.

>From the editorial:
"As the  months  progressed,  the  summer  of  2023  saw  one  global  temperature  record  after another being broken (Copernicus, 2023). The newsreel made the consequences of sustained downpours or drawn-out heat waves into headlines as people grappled to adjust to so-called adverse  weather  events.  The  relentlessly  ongoing  climate  crisis,  comprising  the  natural,  social, cultural and political consequences of climate change, has come to permeate our daily existence. As people and institutions struggle to make sense of new environmental realities and uncertain futures, urgent  research  vistas  are  opening  up  for  library  and  information  studies  (LIS)  to  engage  in  social research and shed light on the changing and transforming conditions of life. /.../."

In addition, the issue includes a thematically independent paper addressing e-lending and challenges in a Scandinavian library context as well as a number of interesting book reviews.

Best wishes,
Jutta



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Jutta Haider | Professor in Information Studies
Swedish School of Library & Information Science
Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education & IT | University of Borås
Affiliate Professor and reader (docent)
Dep. of Arts & Cultural Sciences | Lund University, Sweden
https://www.hb.se/en/research/research-portal/researchers/JUHA
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Recent publications:

  *    Paradoxes of media and information literacy: The  crisis of information (book)<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53690>
  *    Google Search and the creation of Ignorance: The case of the climate crisis<https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231158997>
  *   Algorithmically embodied emissions: the environmental harm of everyday life information in digital culture<https://informationr.net/ir/27-SpIssue/CoLIS2022/colis2224.html>
  *   Information literacy challenges in digital culture: conflicting engagements of trust and doubt<https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1851389>


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