SAM - Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL)
Recent Submissions
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Accessibility and provision of digital library resources to the visually impaired students in academic libraries: A case study of University of Oslo Library
(Master thesis, 2011)The study explored the accessibility and provision of digital library resources to the visually impaired (VI) students in academic libraries, and it used the library of university of Oslo as a case institution. This study ... -
Academic Library and Research Data management Roles: The Case of Norwegian Libraries
(Master thesis, 2015)Within the knowledge society, data constitutes a significant fragment. The management and sharing of data especially with respect to research data coupled with the influx of information communication and technology is thus ... -
Preservation of the Archival Content: Teaching and Learning materials at HIOA Institutional Repository
(Master thesis, 2012)Colleges and universities are increasingly creating institutional repositories (IRs) in order to capture, preserve, and reuse the intellectual output of teaching and research activities. This study investigates the ... -
User Experience (UX) and user engagement: a case study
(Master thesis, 2015)Aim and objectives The aim of the study is to understand to what extent User Experience strategies may positively impact users’ perception in a digital context such as the E-learning ones given by MOOCs, and to what ... -
Using participatory action research methodology for the development of academic librarians e-book competences
(Master thesis, 2016)Aim. The aim of the study is to understand how to improve librarians’ competences in order to develop an e-book service, in an active and reflective participative process. Objectives of the research are to explore ... -
Digital preservation of scientific e-journals: Colombian case study
(Master thesis, 2015)Largest publishers and biggest libraries around the world have treated the long-‐term preservation of scientific e-‐journals with high standard practices. There are international initiatives tha ... -
Baltic and nordic university libraries marketing in facebook
(Master thesis, 2015)Facebook provides possibility to every organization to market their services and products through Pages and also libraries have a chance to be closer to their audiences. Libraries have always had standpoint of being where ... -
Performance appraisal of braindigit IT solutions
(Master thesis, 2015)Performance Appraisal System and procedures has been considered as the most important and significant in an organization. It is an indispensable tool for any organization.The information it generates and provides are highly ... -
Virtual storytimes: implementing dialogic reading into children’s digital libraries
(Master thesis, 2015)Early literacy skills in children are an important factor for later academic success. In particular, preschool years is profound in providing children reading skills that serve as a bridge to formal learning in school. Today ... -
Impact of mobile technology on digital libraries
(Master thesis, 2012)With the rapid advancement in technology in last two decades, mainly because of the advent of internet, the world no longer works the same. The advent of wireless networks and more recently mobile devices such as smart ... -
Visual Literacy Practices in Higher Education
(Master thesis, 2015)In our media-driven age visuals are increasingly frequent and prominently present in society and their importance and influence across academic disciplines is growing. This makes it essential to enable learners to become ... -
Cataloging images in library, archive and museum
(Master thesis, 2015)This research was supposed to illustrate the process of image cataloging in a library, an archive and a museum in Oslo. Because of the importance and performance of visual items, cataloging becomes an effective aspect in ... -
Similarities and Differences Between Cloud Service Vendors
(Master thesis, 2015)The purpose of this study is to find out the Similarities and differences between different Cloud Service Vendors in terms of their fundamental technical aspects and range of service provided by them. This research has ... -
Ontologies for Digital libraries
(Master thesis, 2015)The amount of information available in both printed and electronic formats has increased dramatically in recent years. This rapid growth of information in the modern world leads people and especially the organisations ... -
Digital Reference Services in a digital environment: user’s perceptions of the Library and Information Center of Harokopio University
(Master thesis, 2015)Digital Reference Service operates as a supplementary service for traditional libraries by embracing the potentials of new technologies with the purpose of supporting distant users. On the contrary, in digital libraries ... -
Enriching Metadata Contents in Repositories: A case study in Institution Repositories of HIOA(ODA)
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis aims to explore the current state of metadata practices in Institution Repositories of HiOA in terms of the awareness of Institution Repositories, metadata and metadata types, the availability of guidelines, ... -
The use of Wikipedia in secondary level education in an academic curriculum in Nepalese context
(Master thesis, 2015)Information and knowledge are the key components to be success in this 21st century. For this each and every one is searching or seeking information to make more knowledgeable. The use of Wikipedia pages as an academic ... -
Exploring the academic libraries' readiness for research data management: cases from Hungary and Estonia
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis was to examine the academic libraries readiness for research data management in countries where this issue is only getting recognised. Therefore, eight academic libraries from Estonia and Hungary has ... -
Digital Curation in the Italian context: new roles and professions for Digital Librarians
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this research is to analyse the activity of digital curation in the Italian context, focusing the attention on the IT skills and competencies of the digital curator. The main hypothesis comes from a reflection ... -
Analysis of User’s Data for Book Search
(Master thesis, 2015)Today the world is flooding with enormous amount of information in the web. For retrieval of proper information, it can be a confusing task though with help of some effective tools we can seek desired information within ...