About Nowhere North

This blog was set up in september 2006 primarily for documenting my visit to Eahil conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I will further use it primarily as a working blog where I post about things related to internet, search engines, information and library science (LIS), conferences etc I will also blog a bit about my travellings. Who am I then?

I’m a librarian working at the Umeå university library, North of Sweden. I’ve been there since 1994. From 1996-2008 I was working at the Medical Library. From December 2008 I work at the Digital Library department with web and intranet development.

I also have my own company called Iselid Info. I do lots of talks in Sweden but also in Norway and Finland. The EAHIL talk in Romania 2006 was my first outside nordic countries.

I’m also working as a freelance journalist for swedish computer mag Datormagazin and sometimes for library mag Biblioteksbladet. I also co-authored a students book on searching Internet called Informationssökning på Internet. The 2nd edition was published autumn 2008. I’ve been a blogger since 2001 at Internetbrus.com. It’s maintained by me and my colleague Lars Våge in Sundsvall, North of Sweden.

Hope this blog will get you something in return, whether you’re a librarian or not.

My CV (Curriculum Vitae)

Aug 1989 – May 1990 Museology, Arts History, Ethnology at Umeå University.
1992-1993 The Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University college of Borås.
1994-1995 Interlibrary Loan deparment, Umeå University Library.
1996-2008 Medical Library, Umeå University Library.
2008- Digital Library department, Umeå University Library.
1998-2000 Webdirectory for the Year of the Brain, Project Manager.
2000 Swets Travel Scholarship for visiting Search Engines Meetings 2000, Boston.
2001 Started swedish search engine blog Internetbrus.com with colleague Lars Våge.
2003 Published the swedish book: “informationssökning på Internet” with Lars Våge and Hercules Dalianis.
2006 Jan-Mar, June, Aug One Entry to Research, BIBSAM-funded, Project Manager.
2008 Published my first article in a scientific journal: Web of Science and Scopus: a journal title overlap study. Co-authored with Ylva Gavel.
2008 Published a revised edition of the swedish book: “Informationssökning på Internet”.
2008 1 Dec Changing office from Medical Library to Digital Library at Umeå UB main library.
2009 Book contract with foreign publisher.

My travels

My father always asks me how many and which countries I’ve visited. Because of Wouters Gerritsma at his blog I got the idea to make this map to document it. I understand if you readers don’t care about my travelling ;-) Physically I’ve also been in Italy. My train stopped in Venice, but because I didn’t go out on the pavement I don’t count it.

World map

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European map

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US (Boston) (2000), Iceland (outside the airport 2000), Belgium(1995), Norway (1990 first time, then several), Finland(1969 first time, then several), Denmark (1989 first time, then a couple), Germany (1989, 1991, 2000), Netherlands (1991, 2000), Hungary (1989), Slovenia (1989), Austria (1989, 2007), Croatia (1989), France (1989, 1991), Spain (1991), Portugal (1991), Greece (1997, 2008), Cyprus (2004), Malaysia (1994), Indonesia (1994), Singapore (1994), Romania (2006), Slovakia (2007), Great Britain (2001, 2004, 2005).