Mid Sweden University

The topic of this thesis is information culture and the extent to which one can identify an information culture through using the information Culture Framework in a case study. Gillian Oliver and Fiorella Foscarini’s Information Culture Framework is used as a tool to put theory into practice. Two specific incidents at the Norwegian parliament have been chosen as cases. The two chosen cases are “the building project” which ran from 2011 – 2019, and the first month of the “corona crisis” from March 11 to April 15, 2020. Both cases will through self-ethnography be explained from the Parliamentary Archive's perspective to describe the consequences they had on the records management at the parliament. The thesis will also discuss the challenges the parliament faces related to the distinction between parliamentary and administrative processes and subsequently the information and records management. The Norwegian parliament is a large and complex organisation with a wide area of activities. The natures of the parliamentary activities make it difficult to compare the organisation with other public organizations in Norway. The organization has over 200 years of history and leans heavily on old rules and traditions for how things should be done. This is not always compatible with modern digital solutions.