Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing 2004 : Participants' Biographies and Pictures

Participants' biographies and pictures

The following is a list of participants.

Els van Adrichem:

Since 1994 I am Information manager of the library at NHTV Breda University. We have been building a digital library for a couple of years now. We do this in some cases in cooperation with the Consortium that is especially founded for universities in the Netherlands. I was one of the founders of this Consortium. There are a lot of databases that hasn't been yet negotiated on by this Consortium, or the database is only of interest for NHTV , so we have to negotiate ourselves on these databases. Therefore I would like to know more about possibilities and trends in negotiating on these databases. I am curious what the future will be for the electronic resources in general. I am also interested in the consequences of the copyright issues for products like thesis and readers.

Zabed Ahmed:

Education B.A. Library and Information Science, M.A. Library and Information Science, Ph.D. Information Science (Loughborough, UK). Current/previous work: Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh: 1995-1999: Lecturer, 2002-2004 Assistant Professor, 2004 - : Associate Professor. My personal interests include watching action movies and seeing live cricket matches.

Tuba Akbayturk:

I am a molecular biologist with a MLS from Indiana University, US. I have been working for Koc University Suna Kirac Library for 6 years. I started my career in librarianship as Systems Librarian. A year ago I was promoted to the Assistant Director position. I am responsible for systems, reference and outreach services.

Elly Beelen - Van Horrik:
Elly Beelen-van Horrik will start in September as interim manager faculty services at the library of Tilburg University. She also will act as an advisor to the university library management. Currently she is working as managing director of the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. Before she was a manager at Novib and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation. Recently she finished a Master programme Management and Organization at Tias Business School.

Birgit Brejnebøl:

I graduated from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark in 1987. I work at Copenhagen Business School Library with license negotiations and e-usage statistics. I am a member of Denmark's Electronic Research Library Licenses Committee. My personal interests are reading, travelling, roses and of course my family.

Since December 1994 I have worked (with two quite long interruptions) as a librarian at the University of Padova: at the beginning at the Department of Economic Sciences and, since february 2003, at the Librarian Central Office (CAB: Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche). Here I am actually in charge of managing a project for rationalising the process of print subscription of journals, and I am one of the two representants for the University of Padova in CIPE, a consortium including twelve Italian universities, one of the main aim of which is to encourage consortial acquisitions of electronic resources from the major European publishing houses. Education: graduated in Philosphy (History of Medieval Philosophy) at Pisa University with a DEA at Universiti Catholique de Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) and a Master at Pavia University (Italy).

Hans-Robert Cram:

Born in 1960. 1981-83: Free University of Berlin, departments: philosophy (major), history, musical sciences. 1984-87: University of Göttingen, philosophy major. Degree 1987: MA (Magister Artium). 1988-89: UC Berkeley, 1-year-scholarship. 1990: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin (Internship). 1990-91: Springer Publishing Co., New York. 1992: John Wiley and Sons Publishing Company, Chichester. 1993: PhD from the University of Mannheim. 1993-97: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Director of the humanities department. 1997-2003: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Managing Director. Since 2004: Member of the Board of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG.

Hala Essalmawi:

I am a lawyer in front of the appeal courts. I have been working for the Alexandria Library (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) since 1996. I have both technical and administrative duties in the Legal Department. The legal department headed by Professor Mohamed Said El Dakkak is assigned with: Preparing and taking part in negotiations for contracts, agreements and protocols including international agreements and license agreements, attending tenders as the legal representative, provide legal opinion in various fields of law, handling all legal procedures concerning cases and arbitrations, preparing memos and presentations, employee’s issues, member of the collection development committee.

Ole Evensen:

Education: Bachelor in language and literature. Degree in Library Sciences. Current/previous work: Since 2002 head of acquisitions in the University of Bergen Library. As such I am involved in the purchase and administration of electronic resources. I am also participating in a project for establishing an institutional archive at our university. We have chosen DSpace from MIT as software for our inst. archive. Two years as senior advisor in Software Innovation, a software house in Norway rendering services to public institutions. Seventheen years in various positions in Statoil's office in Bergen (the Norwegian state oil company) as head of document services and related fields. My personal interests are: music, literature, mountain hiking, vine.

Henriette Fenger Grønfeldt:

My name is Henriette Fenger Grønfeldt, I am a lawyer and I have worked as a legal specialist adviser in the Danish National Library Authority and Denmark's Electronic Research Library since November 2003. I have a law degree from the University of Aarhus (1998). My specialities are: copyright law and the Danish library legislation. I have participated in the preparation of the Danish library legislation. Work experience: Department of Health in Greenland where I worked as Head of Section and participated in the preparation of the Greenland Medical Act and I have also worked as a Legal adviser in the Danish Pharmaceutical Association.

Joep Hutschemakers:
I recently joined Elsevier Science & Technology in the area of Market Development. I will be working on market planning for market domains which are transversal (across business units) and longer-term, and consequently help build better pictures of Elsevier in its markets. I come with experience in market and product management as well as sales from Philips, but combine this with experience as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney and as an independent consultant. I recently received my MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. I am based in Amsterdam.

Helen King:

I am currently working at La Trobe University Library, Victoria, Australia as Associate Librarian. La Trobe University has seven campuses and I am in charge of the library at the Bendigo Campus. This is the second largest of the La Trobe libraries. In addition to this, and as a member of the library senior management team, I have cross campus roles and responsibilities including participation in the strategic planning process, and quality improvement initiatives for the whole of the library. Prior to working at La Trobe University I held senior management positions at James Cook University Library in Townsville, Queensland. I started my career in librarianship at the Queensland University of Technology Library as a cataloguer. I hold Masters Degrees in Science and Business Administration from the University of Queensland, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Library Science (Queensland University of Technology).

Theo Koning:
Education: ambi hbo-he0/he1/he2 informatica, heao-bi (1st year), ict projectmanagement. Has been working as a system coordinator, ict projectmanager, technical manager. Currently working as a functional specialist, at the National Library of the Netherlands, Acquisitions & Processing Division/e-Depot. Development of electronic storage and endurance.

Patricia Marchiori

PhD degree and Master degree in Information Science (Brazil); Training Course on Knowledge Organisation For Water Sciences (Belgium); B.Ed.in Librarianship and Documentation (Brazil). I am a research teacher at the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) actually working on the Information Resources Management undergraduated Course. My activities/projects are attached on the following areas: information professionals education; virtual libraries; Internet (web design and web search tools). Currently I am envolved with 3 projects concerning DL: The UFPR -BDTD initiative, the PORTCOM-D-Space initiative and the REVISTAS (ALFA project). Besides, I also run 2 personal projects: "Internet Site - Design and development for the Science and Information Resources Management Department" and "literature guides - information sources on CD-ROM for the biological, medical and agricultural fields". My personal interests are: photography, tennis, cultural activities in general (theather, museums, cinema).

Paula Mikkonen:
FinELib, the Finnish National Electronic Library, acquires Finnish and international resources to support teaching, learning and research. FinELib negotiates user-rights agreements for electronic resources on a centralised basis for its member organisations. Helsinki University Library, The National Library of Finland, is responsible for FinELib operations and development. The National Library cooperates with universities, polytechnics, research institutes and public libraries and is involved in key national projects. Since February 2004 I have worked at the National Electronic Library as a licensing coordinator. My duties consist mainly of licensing negotiations, but I am also responsible for user surveys etc. After graduating in Tampere University, I have worked since 1989 in different kinds of information services units as an information specialist or head of information services.

Scilla Pizzarelli:
I graduated in 1992 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in Political Sciences, following an internationnally-oriented course of study. Since then, I have been working at the Documentation Sector of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the Italian Health Institute, where I developed knowledge and expertise in all aspects of online searching, document delivery, and professional training and teaching. I am also in charge of the scientific organization of training courses for the National Health Service personnel interested in the retrieval of electronic information. Furthermore I am working on the indexing and cataloguing of different sources of bioethics information within a research project for the creation and maintenance of a specialized database in this sector.

Elisabetta Poltronieri:

I graduated in Italian literature at the University of Rome in 1983 and took a post-graduated diploma in Journalism and mass-media communication and then in librarianship (Vatican school of librarianship). I worked as indexing librarian in the library of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) the National Institute of Health which is the main public institution acting in the field of biomedical research in Italy. My present position is editor and I am currently working in the Publishing activities sector of the ISS. My main area of interest concerns the bibliographic description and diffusion of scientific works published by ISS researchers and issues related to research evaluation.

Jane Russell:

Since 1996, Serials Librarian at the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, DLM Library, in Rome, Italy. Among my numerous tasks, I am involved in negotiating publisher licences for electronic publications and databases, creation of records and URL maintenance. Before that I was at the University of New South Wales Library, Australia, during which time I taught Internet and HTML classes to academic staff and research students. I have a Masters Degree in Librarianship from UNSW.

Barbara Signori:

I am currently working at the Swiss National Library (SNL) as a sub-project manager of the Project e-Helvetica. After my education in librarianship I started in 1994 to work at the SNL in the Cataloguing Department. During a training period in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague (The Netherlands), I have had the opportunity to get my first experiences in the field of electronic resources. Back at SNL we started the Project e-Helvetica in 2001. The objective of the Project e-Helvetica is to build up a collection of electronic offline and online Swiss publications and to set up digital archives for the long-term archiving of these electronic Helvetica. The collecting, cataloguing, making available and archiving of electronic Helvetica should become an integral element of SNL operations. As the sub-project manager "Organisation" I am responsible for the librarian aspects in the Project e-Helvetica, such as collection policy, legal deposit for electronic publications, dealing with publishers etc.

Lucia Soranzo:
I have worked at the University of Padova Libraries since 1991 (before I worked in some public libraries and I taught for a while). I started as a serials librarian at the Chemistry Library. Later on I became involved with all the aspects concerning e-journals. In particular,I was the head of a team that developed Padova e-journals catalog and was involved in negotiating electronic resources with the three Italian consortia. Since September 2003, I'm in charge of the library services for the University of Padova library system. At present I'm one of the project managers for Metalib/SFX and quite interested in making it work at its best.

Anne-Geneviève Tisseau-Pirot:
Education: physics studiesand 3rd cycle in geophysics. Begins Work with analysing French literature for Inis database. Then creates a documentation (and online doc.) and library in a research institute of around 1000 people. Then works in a large documentation group including in the same time modern techniques like bibliometry, intelligence, and classicAL devices and technique for documentation and library; 2/ perspective of enlarging the digital library with some difficulties like a pluri network insitute.

Don Weijers:

After graduating in History at Leiden University for several years I have worked as an independent project-publisher for commercial- and non-profit organisations. My recent work involves the management of paper and electronic publication portfolio of Statistics Netherlands.

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	Participants' biographies and pictures

	The following is a list of participants.

	Els van Adrichem: Since 1994 I am Information manager of the library at NHTV Breda University. We have been building a digital library for a couple of years now. We do this in some cases in cooperation with the Consortium that is especially founded for universities in the Netherlands. I was one of the founders of this Consortium. There are a lot of databases that hasn't been yet negotiated on by this Consortium, or the database is only of interest for NHTV , so we have to negotiate ourselves on these databases. Therefore I would like to know more about possibilities and trends in negotiating on these databases. I am curious what the future will be for the electronic resources in general. I am also interested in the consequences of the copyright issues for products like thesis and readers.
	Zabed Ahmed: Education B.A. Library and Information Science, M.A. Library and Information Science, Ph.D. Information Science (Loughborough, UK). Current/previous work: Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh: 1995-1999: Lecturer, 2002-2004 Assistant Professor, 2004 - : Associate Professor. My personal interests include watching action movies and seeing live cricket matches.
	Tuba Akbayturk: I am a molecular biologist with a MLS from Indiana University, US. I have been working for Koc University Suna Kirac Library for 6 years. I started my career in librarianship as Systems Librarian. A year ago I was promoted to the Assistant Director position. I am responsible for systems, reference and outreach services.
	Elly Beelen - Van Horrik: Elly Beelen-van Horrik will start in September as interim manager faculty services at the library of Tilburg University. She also will act as an advisor to the university library management. Currently she is working as managing director of the Faculty of Philosophy at Tilburg University. Before she was a manager at Novib and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation. Recently she finished a Master programme Management and Organization at Tias Business School.
	Birgit Brejnebøl: I graduated from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark in 1987. I work at Copenhagen Business School Library with license negotiations and e-usage statistics. I am a member of Denmark's Electronic Research Library Licenses Committee. My personal interests are reading, travelling, roses and of course my family. Since December 1994 I have worked (with two quite long interruptions) as a librarian at the University of Padova: at the beginning at the Department of Economic Sciences and, since february 2003, at the Librarian Central Office (CAB: Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche). Here I am actually in charge of managing a project for rationalising the process of print subscription of journals, and I am one of the two representants for the University of Padova in CIPE, a consortium including twelve Italian universities, one of the main aim of which is to encourage consortial acquisitions of electronic resources from the major European publishing houses. Education: graduated in Philosphy (History of Medieval Philosophy) at Pisa University with a DEA at Universiti Catholique de Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) and a Master at Pavia University (Italy).
	Hans-Robert Cram: Born in 1960. 1981-83: Free University of Berlin, departments: philosophy (major), history, musical sciences. 1984-87: University of Göttingen, philosophy major. Degree 1987: MA (Magister Artium). 1988-89: UC Berkeley, 1-year-scholarship. 1990: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin (Internship). 1990-91: Springer Publishing Co., New York. 1992: John Wiley and Sons Publishing Company, Chichester. 1993: PhD from the University of Mannheim. 1993-97: Walter de Gruyter & Co., Director of the humanities department. 1997-2003: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Managing Director. Since 2004: Member of the Board of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG.
	Hala Essalmawi: I am a lawyer in front of the appeal courts. I have been working for the Alexandria Library (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) since 1996. I have both technical and administrative duties in the Legal Department. The legal department headed by Professor Mohamed Said El Dakkak is assigned with: Preparing and taking part in negotiations for contracts, agreements and protocols including international agreements and license agreements, attending tenders as the legal representative, provide legal opinion in various fields of law, handling all legal procedures concerning cases and arbitrations, preparing memos and presentations, employee’s issues, member of the collection development committee.
	Ole Evensen: Education: Bachelor in language and literature. Degree in Library Sciences. Current/previous work: Since 2002 head of acquisitions in the University of Bergen Library. As such I am involved in the purchase and administration of electronic resources. I am also participating in a project for establishing an institutional archive at our university. We have chosen DSpace from MIT as software for our inst. archive. Two years as senior advisor in Software Innovation, a software house in Norway rendering services to public institutions. Seventheen years in various positions in Statoil's office in Bergen (the Norwegian state oil company) as head of document services and related fields. My personal interests are: music, literature, mountain hiking, vine.
	Henriette Fenger Grønfeldt: My name is Henriette Fenger Grønfeldt, I am a lawyer and I have worked as a legal specialist adviser in the Danish National Library Authority and Denmark's Electronic Research Library since November 2003. I have a law degree from the University of Aarhus (1998). My specialities are: copyright law and the Danish library legislation. I have participated in the preparation of the Danish library legislation. Work experience: Department of Health in Greenland where I worked as Head of Section and participated in the preparation of the Greenland Medical Act and I have also worked as a Legal adviser in the Danish Pharmaceutical Association.
	Joep Hutschemakers: I recently joined Elsevier Science & Technology in the area of Market Development. I will be working on market planning for market domains which are transversal (across business units) and longer-term, and consequently help build better pictures of Elsevier in its markets. I come with experience in market and product management as well as sales from Philips, but combine this with experience as a management consultant at A.T. Kearney and as an independent consultant. I recently received my MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management. I am based in Amsterdam.
	Helen King: I am currently working at La Trobe University Library, Victoria, Australia as Associate Librarian. La Trobe University has seven campuses and I am in charge of the library at the Bendigo Campus. This is the second largest of the La Trobe libraries. In addition to this, and as a member of the library senior management team, I have cross campus roles and responsibilities including participation in the strategic planning process, and quality improvement initiatives for the whole of the library. Prior to working at La Trobe University I held senior management positions at James Cook University Library in Townsville, Queensland. I started my career in librarianship at the Queensland University of Technology Library as a cataloguer. I hold Masters Degrees in Science and Business Administration from the University of Queensland, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Library Science (Queensland University of Technology).
	Theo Koning: Education: ambi hbo-he0/he1/he2 informatica, heao-bi (1st year), ict projectmanagement. Has been working as a system coordinator, ict projectmanager, technical manager. Currently working as a functional specialist, at the National Library of the Netherlands, Acquisitions & Processing Division/e-Depot. Development of electronic storage and endurance.
	Patricia Marchiori PhD degree and Master degree in Information Science (Brazil); Training Course on Knowledge Organisation For Water Sciences (Belgium); B.Ed.in Librarianship and Documentation (Brazil). I am a research teacher at the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) actually working on the Information Resources Management undergraduated Course. My activities/projects are attached on the following areas: information professionals education; virtual libraries; Internet (web design and web search tools). Currently I am envolved with 3 projects concerning DL: The UFPR -BDTD initiative, the PORTCOM-D-Space initiative and the REVISTAS (ALFA project). Besides, I also run 2 personal projects: "Internet Site - Design and development for the Science and Information Resources Management Department" and "literature guides - information sources on CD-ROM for the biological, medical and agricultural fields". My personal interests are: photography, tennis, cultural activities in general (theather, museums, cinema).
	Paula Mikkonen: FinELib, the Finnish National Electronic Library, acquires Finnish and international resources to support teaching, learning and research. FinELib negotiates user-rights agreements for electronic resources on a centralised basis for its member organisations. Helsinki University Library, The National Library of Finland, is responsible for FinELib operations and development. The National Library cooperates with universities, polytechnics, research institutes and public libraries and is involved in key national projects. Since February 2004 I have worked at the National Electronic Library as a licensing coordinator. My duties consist mainly of licensing negotiations, but I am also responsible for user surveys etc. After graduating in Tampere University, I have worked since 1989 in different kinds of information services units as an information specialist or head of information services.
	Scilla Pizzarelli: I graduated in 1992 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in Political Sciences, following an internationnally-oriented course of study. Since then, I have been working at the Documentation Sector of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the Italian Health Institute, where I developed knowledge and expertise in all aspects of online searching, document delivery, and professional training and teaching. I am also in charge of the scientific organization of training courses for the National Health Service personnel interested in the retrieval of electronic information. Furthermore I am working on the indexing and cataloguing of different sources of bioethics information within a research project for the creation and maintenance of a specialized database in this sector.
	Elisabetta Poltronieri: I graduated in Italian literature at the University of Rome in 1983 and took a post-graduated diploma in Journalism and mass-media communication and then in librarianship (Vatican school of librarianship). I worked as indexing librarian in the library of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) the National Institute of Health which is the main public institution acting in the field of biomedical research in Italy. My present position is editor and I am currently working in the Publishing activities sector of the ISS. My main area of interest concerns the bibliographic description and diffusion of scientific works published by ISS researchers and issues related to research evaluation.
	Jane Russell: Since 1996, Serials Librarian at the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, DLM Library, in Rome, Italy. Among my numerous tasks, I am involved in negotiating publisher licences for electronic publications and databases, creation of records and URL maintenance. Before that I was at the University of New South Wales Library, Australia, during which time I taught Internet and HTML classes to academic staff and research students. I have a Masters Degree in Librarianship from UNSW.
	Barbara Signori: I am currently working at the Swiss National Library (SNL) as a sub-project manager of the Project e-Helvetica. After my education in librarianship I started in 1994 to work at the SNL in the Cataloguing Department. During a training period in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague (The Netherlands), I have had the opportunity to get my first experiences in the field of electronic resources. Back at SNL we started the Project e-Helvetica in 2001. The objective of the Project e-Helvetica is to build up a collection of electronic offline and online Swiss publications and to set up digital archives for the long-term archiving of these electronic Helvetica. The collecting, cataloguing, making available and archiving of electronic Helvetica should become an integral element of SNL operations. As the sub-project manager "Organisation" I am responsible for the librarian aspects in the Project e-Helvetica, such as collection policy, legal deposit for electronic publications, dealing with publishers etc.
	Lucia Soranzo: I have worked at the University of Padova Libraries since 1991 (before I worked in some public libraries and I taught for a while). I started as a serials librarian at the Chemistry Library. Later on I became involved with all the aspects concerning e-journals. In particular,I was the head of a team that developed Padova e-journals catalog and was involved in negotiating electronic resources with the three Italian consortia. Since September 2003, I'm in charge of the library services for the University of Padova library system. At present I'm one of the project managers for Metalib/SFX and quite interested in making it work at its best.
	Anne-Geneviève Tisseau-Pirot: Education: physics studiesand 3rd cycle in geophysics. Begins Work with analysing French literature for Inis database. Then creates a documentation (and online doc.) and library in a research institute of around 1000 people. Then works in a large documentation group including in the same time modern techniques like bibliometry, intelligence, and classicAL devices and technique for documentation and library; 2/ perspective of enlarging the digital library with some difficulties like a pluri network insitute.
	Don Weijers: After graduating in History at Leiden University for several years I have worked as an independent project-publisher for commercial- and non-profit organisations. My recent work involves the management of paper and electronic publication portfolio of Statistics Netherlands.