What is Librarian 2.0 – New competencies or interactive relations? A library professional viewpoint

Isto Huvila is a senior lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management at the School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland and an associate professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. His primary areas of research include information work and information management, knowledge organization, documentation, and social and participatory information practices. The contexts of his research range from archaeology and cultural heritage, archives, libraries and museums to social media, virtual worlds and corporate and public organizations. Huvila has given numerous invited talks and published broadly on topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, social media, virtual reality information issues to archival studies and museum informatics, ancient history and archaeology. He received an MA degree in Cultural History at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD in Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University in 2006.

Kim Holmberg, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group at University of Wolverhampton, UK, and a Research Fellow at the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research interests include webometrics, scientometrics, information dissemination, social media, Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and virtual worlds in education. He has published widely on these topics and held several talks and presentations and organized courses and workshops for companies, universities, libraries and other organizations.

Maria Kronqvist-Berg is a doctoral student at the Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University and a member of the research project Library 2.0 – a new participatory context funded by the Academy of Finland. Kronqvist-Berg received her MSc from the Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in 2007. Her current research interests are information activities, users, library professionals, social media and public libraries.

Outi Nivakoski is a doctoral student in Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University. She holds a Masters degree in Information Studies from the University of Oulu.

Gunilla Widén is Professor of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University where she has been a teacher and researcher since 1996. She received her PhD in Information Science in 2001. During 2004–2005 she was a visiting researcher at School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University. She is also Docent in Information Management at the University of Tampere. Her research fields concern information behaviour, information and knowledge management in business organizations, and aspects of social capital and knowledge sharing in groups and organizations. She has published widely in her areas of expertise and been appointed external expert in several different evaluation committees. She has been project leader of two larger research project financed by the Academy of Finland investigating social aspects of information behaviour on both individual and organizational levels as well as various aspects of social media and a changing information behaviour.