Birger Hjørland
Professor
Information Science
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Denmark
Biography
2006- Professor in Knowledge Organization, The Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) in Denmark. 2001 - 2006: Research professor in Knowledge Organization, The Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS) in Denmark. 2000 - 2001: Professor in Knowledge Organization at the University College in Borås, Sweden. 1994 - 1997: External lecturer in the history and philosophy of psychology at the University of Copenhagen (Open University). (Additional job). 1990 - 2001: Head of Department of "Science and Humanities Information Studies" at RSLIS. 1983 - 1986: External lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Applied and Mathematical Linguistics. (Additional job). 1984: Degree in library science from RSLIS: Research librarians and documentalists. 1978 - 1990: Research Librarian at the Royal National Library in Copenhagen. Coordinator of the computer based reference services. 1974: MA in psychology, the University of Copenhagen. 1972 - 1975: Documentalist in the NORDDOK-17 project. Training in documentation in Stockholm. 1973 - 1978: Lecturer in the Department of Reference and Documentation at the RSLIS. Participated in the introduction of information science.
Research Interest
Infometrics
Publications
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Theoretical development of information science: A brief history.
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Book review of Sonnenwald (2016). : Theory Development in the Information Sciences. Edited by Diane H. Sonnenwald. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016
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A rejoinder to Nicolaisen’s (2016) refutation of Hjørland’s relevance definition.
