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dc.contributor.advisorGrini, Monica
dc.contributor.authorKataja, Ilona
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-13T09:34:02Z
dc.date.available2021-01-13T09:34:02Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-01en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores collection development and management and classification by examining the Finnish literature collection at the UiT libraries. The objective of the study is to find out what the background and current state of the collection is and how the collection is represented through classification. The study combines two research methods, a quantitative and a qualitative one. Statistical data was gathered from the library database and analysed, and three expert interviews were conducted. The study shows that the collection has an institutional purpose to support the teaching and research done in the Finnish and Kven study programme and is considered to be crucial for the study programme. However, the size of the collection does not correlate with the use. Over 90% of the books in the collection have not been loaned out during the past four years. Norwegian translations of the Finnish books circulate the best. The classification system used at the library, Dewey Decimal Classification, orders Finnish literature to the “other” category. Because the original language of the book determines the class number, Finnish-Swedish literature is placed under Swedish literature but separated into its own subclass. The findings also reveal that the classification of Kven literature has followed the political evolution of the Kven issue.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/20282
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDMDV-3950
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Library and information science: 320en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Library and information science: 320::Documentation science: 325en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320::Dokumentasjonsvitenskap: 325en_US
dc.subjectacademic librariesen_US
dc.subjectcollection developmenten_US
dc.subjectcollection managementen_US
dc.subjectclassificationen_US
dc.subjectrepresentationen_US
dc.subjectminoritiesen_US
dc.subjectFinnish literatureen_US
dc.titleA Fin(n)ished Collection? Examining the Finnish literature collection at the UiT librariesen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgavenor
dc.typeMaster thesiseng


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