Tasks performed
Responsible for the library's collections for astronomy and astrophysics, and tuition and support belonging to these.
Local responsibility for the user services via the library system (Ex Libris Alma - fulfillment module).
Participation in the counter services, and in the Science library's support regarding research data, bibliometrics and publication.
I'm specially interested in bringing the old collections up from the storages and display them in various ways. I'm also keen to find new ways of displaying collections to the user and to improve the use of controlled metadata across platforms. Besides the daily work tasks, I'm interested in information behavior.
The traditional tasks i perform:
- Tuition in databases and helping students and employees with information requests
- Cataloguing
- Classification and indexing
Background
Work
April 2007 - present: Head librarian responsible for astrophysics at the Science Library.
November 2004 - February 2006: Librarian at the Mathematics library.
February 2002 - December 2003: Librarian at the Informatics Library.
Education
Bachelor in Library and Information Science at Oslo University College (2001), One term of Archival Knowledge at University of Oslo (2001), Examen Philosoficum and Examen Facultatum at University of Oslo (2002), Inf101 at University of Oslo (2003), and Master in Library and Information Science at Oslo University College (part-time 2003-2008).
Other tasks
Chairman for the Library branch of the Norwegian Association of Researchers (NAR) = Forskerforbundets bibliotekforening. (2015 - present)
Board member of the UiO branch of the Norwegian Association of Researchers = Forskerforbundet ved UiO. (2014 - present)
Participant in the ADS user group (2017-2019)
Participant in the UiO-Library group for Ex Libris Alma fulfillment. (2015 - present)
Participant in the UiO Canvas training team (2018)
Member of the editorial board for the Norwegian library journal "Bok og Bibliotek" (2017 - present)