Claes Dahlqvist

I am a Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the Department of Cultural Sciences and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. I earned my PhD in 2024 from Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and hold a Doctor of Political Science in Information Science. Previously, I obtained a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from Lund University.

I have a background as a librarian and have worked in all types of libraries since 2004, the last 14 years as a teaching academic librarian.

I have worked as a teaching librarian for over 20 years, teaching students and pupils information literacy or media and information literacy. Since earning my PhD, I have also supervised and examined theses at both undergraduate and advanced levels in primary and special education programs.

Teaching

At Linnaeus University, I teach and supervise on the bachelor and master programs in library and information science both on campus and online. The courses I teach and supervise on campus in 2026 are:

• Library and Information Ethics II (course coordinator and teacher)
• Knowledge Organisation II: Information retrieval (course coordinator and teacher)
• Media and Information Literacy in theory and practice (teacher)
• Project Work in the Library and Information Sector: Theory and Practice (co-course coordinator and examiner)
• Introduction to Library and Information Studies (teacher)
• Promoting Literature and Reading (course coordinator and teacher)
• Professional Ethics in the Library and Information Sector (teacher)

Online, I teach the courses:

• Knowledge Organization I: Introduction to Knowledge Organization and Classification (course coordinator)

In the fall of 2026, I will also guest lecture on the masters program in Library and Information Science at OsloMet, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

Research

My research stems from my practice as a teaching librarian in teacher education, where students' learning of information competencies is the subject of study, which was also the focus of my dissertation.

I am particularly interested in students' and pupils' cognitive and emotional experiences in the learning process, specifically in learning information retrieval skills and other information competencies.

My research is positioned within the field of Library and Information Science, specifically information behavior, where people's behavior in relation to information in a broad sense is explored. In my research, the focus is on people's internal behaviors in the form of cognitive and affective behaviours in learning processes. Using cognitive and educational psychological explanatory models, I try to understand how students and pupils learn information competencies or information skills and thus how learning contexts can be designed to support learning.

Commissions

Reviewer for Information Research