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Louise Limberg is a Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, working within the Department of Library and Information Science under the Academy of Library, Information, Education and IT. With a career spanning since the 1980s, she has established herself as a leading researcher in information literacy and its intersection with learning processes.
Her research focuses on the critical relationship between information retrieval and learning, with information literacy serving as the central hub. Limberg employs phenomenographic and sociocultural theoretical frameworks to examine how students search for and use information across various tasks, alongside their interactions with peers and educators. Her work demonstrates that variations in information activity quality directly correlate with learning outcomes, particularly in digital environments.
Limberg's publications reveal consistent focus areas across recent years: school library practices (2021-2022), information literacy pedagogy (2021-2022), historical perspectives on library science (2022), and the evolution of information practices in educational contexts (2018-2024). Her research shows strong continuity in examining how information literacy functions as a critical dimension in digital learning.
She has secured research funding from major Swedish institutions including the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Agency for School Development, the Swedish National Agency for Education, and the Knowledge Foundation. Limberg maintains active affiliation with LinCS (The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society), a collaborative research center between the University of Gothenburg and University of Borås.
Her academic journey includes defending her doctoral thesis 'Seeking information to learn. A study of the interaction between information seeking and learning' at the University of Gothenburg in 1998, followed by a visiting professorship at Queensland University of Technology during 2010-2011. Current projects continue her longstanding investigation into information/media literacy (MIK) while expanding into historical perspectives on library and information science.
