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Nicolas Abundo:
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Judith Bissegger:
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Marie-Christine Blanchet:
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Edith Bomers:
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Frédéric Brodkom:
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Jørgen Burchardt:
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Caterina Ciandrini:
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Kristine Clara:
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Bernadette Claus:
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Roel de Cock:
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Caroline Collette:
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Valentina Comba:
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Francine Dreier:
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Nathalie Fargier:
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Regula Feltknecht:
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Liv Fugl:
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Julia Gelfand:
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Ingrid Geretschlager:
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Max Gerzon:
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Luca Guerra:
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Henk van den Hoogen:
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Isabelle de Kaenel:
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Ellie van Kerkhoff:
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Françoise Khenoune: After 4 years teaching french literature and history in high schools and colleges, I held different positions in academic libraries. Since 1989, I have been working for the Bibliothhque cantonale et universitaire of Lausanne in Switzerland. My first exciting job when I started in the library, was to build a new audiovisual department. I managed it as well as general movie collections (books and films) during 5 years. Since 1994, I have had various functions and was involved in many projects of the library. Currently, I am responsible of Serials department and Reference Service. My education is master of philosophy and during my professional career, my special interests have been in general library management, arts and humanities collections development, publishing, project management, new media and electronic resources.
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Gilda Leoni:
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Kristina Lindgren:
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Jaana Lumatjärvi:
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Silvana Mangiaracina:
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Robert Noel:
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Carmen O'Dell:
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Hisao Ogura:
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Anne Parrical:
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Svein-Eirik Paulsen:
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Vittorio Ponzani:
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François Rappaz:
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Demond Reaney:
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Alexis Rivier:
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Harriette Rodari:
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Joëlle Rosselet:
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Francine Sacco:
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Carole Silvy:
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Christina Sironi-Windahl:
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Anne-Gry Skonnord:
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Anna Stampanoni:
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Cécile Thiéry:
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Nick Vos:
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Steven Watson:
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Joanne Yeomans:
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Greg Youngen:
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Antonella Zane:
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Nicolas Abundo is currently a Director for The Dialog Corporation, Switzerland. His responsibilities include business development, Dialog education programs, and technology transfer opportunities. Dialog's current Swiss sales team is based in Zurich and Montreux, with a Technical center located in Bern. Mr Abundo graduated with a degree in Economics and graduate certificates in Business from the University of Limburg, Maastricht and RWTH, Aachen, Germany. Prior to joining Dialog he was a consultant specializing in trading platform technologies, channel marketing partnerships, and public relations within the IT industry.
I have been working for the ETH Library Zurich since 1994. For three years I have been the head of the Journals Group. Before I came to the ETH Library I completed the academic degree lic. phil. I in "Germanistik" at the University of Zürich.
I participate in the creation and work with two data bases (INIS-IAEA) and DEMOCRITE (two parts: 1) holdings of the 18 IN2P3 libraries, 2) publications of the IN2P3 researchers). In the past, I did a lot of work for the creation of a consortium with the Institute of Physics and all the Orsay-Gif physics laboratories for about 31 electronic periodicals.
I am a publishing editor in mathematics and computer science with Elsevier Science. In this job, I am responsible for the publication of 15 journals. My challenge is to publish a portfolio of journals which perfectly fit research developments in their fields and the authors' and readers' needs. I much enjoy the cooperation with the journals' scientific editors. I have got a MSc degree in Management and Organisation from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My specific interests are in marketing and communications.
Since Augustus 2001, I have been the Librarian of the Library of Exact Sciences, the central scientific and technical library of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium.
In 1994, as teaching assistant in geology, I finished my PhD in science and a graduate from the IAG school of management. After that I participated in the creation of a research center where the quality of our technical information was the key factor of our success.
As Project Manager, I performed different technical and environmental studies as this one awarded in 2000 by the EU publication on "Good Environmental Practice Guide in the European Extractive Industry", a review translated in four languages. The objectives of our Library are to help users to find asap the relevant information necessary to improve their study and research. By this way, I wish to participate to the advance of sciences and technologies for a more human and clean world and I'm convinced that both the digital library and E-publishing can help to this advance.
I have studied at The Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark, The University of Copenhagen, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and Deutsches Museum, München. My work is a mix: Editor-in-chief at 
I have been working for the ETH Library Zürich since 1994. My current jobs: electronic journals, interlibrary loan and information service.
Of belgian nationality, I was born in Antwerp (Flanders), lived in Ghent (Flanders) before coming to Geneva. Since Summer 1998 I have been head of the Library & Archives Service of the ITU (
I was born in Sint-Niklaas, a provincial town near Antwerp on the 6th of July 1950. In 1976, I accepted the task of organising the library of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (now Institute of Public Health - IPH), scientific institute of the Belgian Ministry of Public Health and Environment although my scholar education predisposed me to be a lawyer or counsellor. In addition to this librarianship several administrative responsibilities have been conferred to me e.g. the Public Relations, the Central
Archives... Working in the library became very exciting when we started the development of the 
Roel de Cock (1965) started his career in libraries in 1991, first at Nijmegen University but soon after at the (thence
sparkling new) Tilburg University Library. Ostensibly unable to choose between the library or computer discipline, he subsequently acted as computer helpdesk assistant, documentalist
for Excerpta Informatica and Novell systems manager. From 1995 onwards, though, he found his destiny as a (Unix) programmer of bibliographical database systems both at Tilburg University and later inside the Decomate II project. Mainly out of interest for Scandinavia, he moved to a similar position at the 
I studied chemistry at the University of Liege (Belgium) and I got a PhD in chemistry in the field of mass spectrometry. I started my experience in library management as head librarian of the physics library in March 2000. This year, the libraries of astrophysics, chemistry and physics were merged and I have just started to work as scientific librarian in the new library of sciences. Since I work in a library, I'm interested in electronic resources
management. I focus my work on the management of electronic journals, databases and the development of the library website. I work now to develop an electronic gateway to astrophysics, chemistry and physics resources.
I was born in Torino (Italy) on 18 June 1952. I have a degree in Arts and Humanities (thesis in Contemporary History) - 1979. I have been working at University of Torino as Librarian since 1974.
I attended a British Council course on Library and Information Services Management at CLW (Aberystwyth) in 1981. I have been Director of the Torino University Medical Library since 1988. From 2000-2001, I was a part-time Director Libraries of the Universitá dell'Insubria (Varese) for one year. Memberships:
PhD (1982) in Chemistry and Scientific information specialist (since 1989) at the Chemistry Section, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Associated with the Consortium of swiss academic libraries. Imvolved in development of electronic ressources at local network which includes scientific graphical tools, international & specialist databases and journals. Responsible for research and student training in electronic documentation. I am currently involved in digital library projects.
My name is Nathalie Fargier. I graduated in Political Science and I have a post-graduate diploma in Public Policies and in Library Information Science from the ENSSIB (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques). I did an internship at the electronic collections service at Yale University Library to manage electronic journals and I dealt with licencing issues. Since then, I have worked at Lyon 2 University in the electronic publishing department which is involved in an ETD program and in the digitisation of social science journals. I am currently the scientific coordinator for a local program called BRAIN (Bibliothèque Rhône-Alpes d'Information Numérique). The Rhône-Alpes digital library was founded in 1999 and is based on the parternship of 13 universities and schools. Within this program, the aim is to build and share electronic collections including abstracting databases and full content electronic journals and to develop the electronic publishing with the digitisation of special and archival collections and the online dissemination of thesis. I am the project leader for the consortium and I am responsible for the development of a unique gateway with free acces to electronic publishings. I am deeply interested by the new role of libraries in the information chain. I would like to know about concrete experiences in e-preprints and library consortia management.
Since 1992 I have been working for the Bibliothhque cantonale et universitaire Fribourg (BCU/F) as a library
coordinator. The aim of this job is to insure the link between the central library (which has an academic and a public character) and 20 decentralized libraries of the University (very different in size, equipement, etc. and with a well-marked academic character).
Liv Fugl graduated with a Masters in Library and Information Science from the Royal Danish School of Library and Information Science in the summer of 2001. She is currently working at the Development Laboratory at the Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark, where she participates in different projects concerning digital libraries and digital publishing. In her sparetime she enjoys to attend various courses to keep herself updated. Also, she enjoys being on the run and socially active by going to the movies, and enjoying the odd foreign beer in Copenhagen's pubs.
Julia Gelfand is the Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian/Bibliographer at the University of California, Irvine Libraries where she has been a member of the staff since 1981. She has an AB from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, her MSLS and MS from Case Western Reserve University. Active professionally, she is very interested in scholarly communication issues in the sciences & grey literature, subjects she writes and speaks about often. She has participated as a Resource Liaison for several fulltext publishing initiatives that are part of the California Digital Library. She is an adjunct faculty member at the School of Information Resources & Library Science at the University of Arizona, and is a current co-editor of Library Hi-Tech News, and chair for 2001-03 of the IFLA Science & Technology Section. In 1992-93 Julia was the US/UK Fulbright Librarian at Imperial College & the Science Museum, London Libraries.
Austrian. I have a PhD phil. and a post-graduate diploma in Library Information Science from the ENSSIB (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques, Lyon). Scientific Information Officer at CERN. Since 1995 Head of the Document management section: CERN databases on the Web, HEP grey literature (preprints, reports, theses, proceedings), acquisition policy, e-submissions, e-import, Web links, added value. Increase rate: 60,000 new records per year, 420,000 records. Co-operation with other research labs (DESY, KEK, IN2P3, JINR, FERMILAB, ...).
Recently published:
My name is Max Gerzon. I have a Dutch Masters degree (Drs.) in Biology. In 1974 I started my work as a subject librarian in the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. First in the Medical Library and since 1997 I have worked in the Science Library. From 1983 until 1997 I worked part-time and participated in a University course of Theology which, in the end, I did not finish. I live in Amsterdam, district Bijlmermeer. My personal interests are wide-ranging. I do think that electronic publishing in the field of Science and Technology is a very actual and relevant subject for a course.
I'm a librarian for the Central Library at the Brescia State University. I graduated in Theorethical philosophy and I completed a Master in international studies (International economics, International law and History of International relations) in Milan. I am currently responsible for the legal, financial and economic databases of the University and I also look after the experimental stage of acquisition based upon approval plan. When this acquisition policy is well grounded, e-publishing will be the next step for our library.
I am Henk van den Hoogen, 45 years old and head of the department of Scientific Information at the University Library of the Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands. I studied Economics and Business Administration at Tilburg University. I came to the University Library in Maastricht in 1983 where my main task was to set up library facilities for the new faculty of economics. Currently, I am the head of the faculty librarians and information specialists. We support research and education for the faculties of medicine, health care, psychology, law, economics, cultural sciences and sciences. Digitisation and the proper ways to make all information resources available and retrievable are main topics. I was manager or participant of several projects related to the digital library, such as publishing electronic documents, the digital press of the university, search engines and portals and e-archiving.
I am Head Librarian of the Lausanne university medical library, where my principal responsibilities are the general management of the library with a strong emphasis on the development of electronic resources (web databases, e-journals) for our users. I am right in the process of studying the studying the opportunity of transforming the medical library from a paper-based library to a digital one. I am also chairman of the commission for the coordination of electronic information resources on the Lausanne university campus. Before that I was Reference Librarian at the Institute for Management
Development (Lausanne , Switzerland) and then full time lecturer for 4 years at the school of librarianship (Geneva, Switzerland), lecturing on Internet and electronic information resources (on-line databases, CD-ROM databases, web). My educational background include an MA in Comparative Literature - Lyon University 1981 and an M.Sc. in Information Science - Institut National des Techniques Documentaires, Paris 1983.
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I received my Humanities Degree from University of Rome in 1975. I have been working as Librarian at INFN, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Frascati National Laboratories, near Rome, since 1977.
From March 1999 to February 2001, I was Scientific Associate at CERN Library in Geneva. During my stay there, my work was focused on Web based resources, reference services and Interlibrary Loan.
A major project was the Presscuttings database, in order to provide an online documentation of news related to Cern from 1950 to date. I was in charge of the organization of the 2nd Workshop on
Electronic Publishing in Physics held at Cern on March 2000. In the same period I was asked to produce and implement a new electronic journal, devoted to High Energy Physics Librarians. The e-journal, High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/) features articles from information specialists worldwide. I am a member of the Editorial Board and member of AILIS ( Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists, Geneva).
After nine years of working experience in different research libraries (Main Library for Science, Technology and Medicine, Botanical Library and International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics) at Lund University, I started a postition as Head of the Physics- & Astronomy Libraries in June 2001. Prior to that I graduated from The University of Librarianship in Bores, Sweden. My focus now is to develop an electronic gateway of physics and astronomy resources, tailored to fit the needs of our students and researchers.
My name is Jaana Lumatjärvi and I live in Joensuu, which is a small university town in eastern part of Finland. I have a master's degree in biology by the University of Oulu and licentiate's degree in agriculture and forestry by the University of Joensuu. At the present I am working in the Joensuu University Library participating Electronic Library of Eastern Finland project. My assignments at the project are related to e-publishing. Earlier I participated in forest research project in Faculty of Forestry in the same university. I have also some teaching experience from North Karelia Polytechnics.
Silvana Mangiaracina graduated in Mathematics in 1983 at the University of Palermo, Italy. Her work Experience includes:
I received my MLS from Indiana University in 1990, then spent five years with Lockheed/Martin (formerly Martin Marietta Energy Systems) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory working with the central research library and in an information applications group. In 1995 I took a position with the University of Chicago at the Argonne National Laboratory as the Head of the Materials Engineering Library. In 2000, I moved back to Bloomington, Indiana, and am now the collection manager and Head of the Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Astronomy Library.
After completing a physics degree at Durham Univeristy I worked for a year as a library assistant at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Library, Oxfordshire. I then did an MSc in Information Science at U.C.E in Birmingham. My first professional post was as an information researcher for the engineering company Delta Plc. In 1998 I moved to Geneva to take up my current position as Information Scientist in the documentation section of the CERN library.
In 1978, I joined Elsevier, publisher of scientific journals and books. More than 20 years ago, there were no electronic journals yet. There was a typewriter on my desk instead of a word processor. A small office computer with a Japanese OS and 11MB hard disk in the office was $50,000. We had to pay $10,000 for changing the program, which can be done by a pc very easily at present. We did not use email but post mail or telex for only urgent matters because of its high cost. Nowadays, 99% of my communication is done by email from the office or at home. Everything is changing dynamically and quickly. I have decided to attend the Ticer Course to catch on the latest information.
French Nationality. Graduated from Library school Paris in 1974. Master in management Paris IX Dauphine 1977. Health sciences phd Paris IX Dauphine 1978. Librarian in Chicago, Paris, Bordeaux; in the health and medical field since 1979. Reference librarian in CHUV hospital library Lausanne Switzerland since 1994. Fluency in french, english. Some spanish. Personal interests: theatre and movies, travelling, walking and swimming.
Periodicals consultant at the Library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Now working mainly with E-journals and databases. Consortia and licencing. I have a degree in physics from NTH (NTNU).
I graduated in Italian modern literature at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome and I got the Postgraduate Certificate in Librarianship from the Vatican Library. I have collaborated with several libraries, both in Italy and in England; since 1999 I have been working as the librarian in the library of AIB (Italian Library Association) and, since 2000, I have been in the Editorial Committeee of AIB-WEB, the official web site of the Association. In 1999, I worked in the project of the Biblioteca Italiana Telematica, building a thesaurus of literary genres. I am currently involved in the project of Italian DoIS (Documents of Information Science), working with ReDIF metadata harvested by the OAI protocol.
I have studied Biology in Switzerland and got a PhD in mycology. After some years in teaching Biology, I have worked for ten years now in the library science field. I chair the Scientific documentation center of the University of Fribourg. I also have a strong interest in programming (VB and Java).
Apart from a five-year period during the late 1980s, when I was Development Director of Filofax plc, I have worked for a number of publishing companies in the UK, Europe and the USA. I am currently Head of Business Development at Institute of Physics Publishing and, among things, responsible for the development of IoPP's consortia business. I also serve as Co-Chair of the Publisher and Library Solutions Committee in the UK, and I am a member of the Serials Publisher Executive of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers.
I'm currently Librarian at the City and University Library of Geneva, in charge of computing and new technologies from 1995. In particular I'm involved with the collections' digitization and electronic access. I teach a postgraduate class on Computer and Information Science at the University of Geneva and give lectures as invited speaker. I'm also co-author of a book (in French) about Digital Libraries. With these activities I keep myself informed about the continuous developments in this domain. I graduated with a Master's degree in Philosophy at Lausanne and a post-graduate diploma in Library and Information Science by the ENSSIB in Lyon.
After teaching for 11 years in the Switzerland and the US, an opportunity to participate in the development of translation software introduced me to the extraordinary world of digital information. This lead to IT project and implementation management in a variety of areas including pan European open distance learning projects. For the last 4 years, I have been responsible for the "digitalization" of an industrial R&D Library and Information Center, a fascinating challenge.
During my studies I worked for three years in library and media library of the the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross). When I got my librarian diploma in 1996, I went to Canada to improve my English and there I had the opportunity to work as volunteer (two months) at the Chiropractic College library in Toronto. Now, I have been working for five years as head librarian at the psychiatric hospital in Lausanne. To complete my librarian studies, I also got a certificate in Information Science, at the Geneva University (October 1997 to October 1999).
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My profile is scientific (PhD in geology and a master in computer sciences in 1985). I worked 3 years as a geophysical engineer in an oil company before joining the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1988 as an industrial relation officer. This job dealt with research and technology transfer in the field of "engineer sciences". In 1994 I asked to be transfered to the Intitute National de recherche en Informatique et Automatique where I was in charge during 6 years of the external and industrial relations office. In January 2001, I moved inside INRIA to a new corporate department called "Scientific Information and Communication Direction" where I'm in charge of mainly two projetcs : INRIA digital library and the creation of a popularizing web site in the field of applied mathematics and information sciences. I'm specially interested in the new models of electronic publishing and their impact on the academical scientific publication, and access to documentation.
I work at the Physics Library at the University of Geneva since 1987. I was born in Sweden but I live in Switzerland since 1982. In the beginning of my career I was very involved with children's literature and my diploma work in Library Science was devoted to this field. Fundamental changes in the librarian profession these last years and working in a scientific environment has inspired me to follow another direction. I principally work with electronic periodicals and databases in the field of Physics. I'm generally interested in new technologies in Library and Information Science and particularly in bibliographic description of electronic resources (metadata etc.).
After graduating from the Norwegian School of Library and Information Science in 1988, I worked for three years in the library of the Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine. I then moved on to the National Institute of Public Health's library, where I worked for two years, the second year I was the head of the library. Then I was employed as senior librarian by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where I worked until moving to England with my family in 1998. We stayed there for three years and returned to Norway in July 2001. I'm currently working in the University of Oslo Library, Library of Medicine and Health Sciences, as a senior librarian. My main area of responsibility is to manage the electronic journals.
My name is Anna Stampanoni and I was born in 1964 in Lugano, Switzerland. I have a diploma in physics from the ETH in Zürich. I started my career as a research scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland in 1989. My research activity was on the field of combustion diagnostics by nonlinear optical methods. Since december 2000, I have been head of the Physics Library of the ETHZ.
I am the librarian at IUCN-The World Conservation Union, in charge of a small specialised library, and we have an ongoing digital library project based on our own publications. IUCN is an international association (NGO) promoting the conservation of nature by ensuring that the use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Among previous work experiences, I spent few years in another library specialised in oceanography and marine sciences in the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.
Nick Vos joined the RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment) in September 2001 as Head of the Library and Archives. Prior to joining RIVM he worked in a similar position at the Trimbos Institute (Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addictions) in Utrecht. He has twelve years of experience working with automated systems in libraries. His experience ranges from designing specifications for an integrated library system, the migration from a in-house system to the implementation of a commercial system, to setting up a system for publishing journals via the Internet. Nick Vos has held a management position at EBSCO Information Services (regional office Benelux and Nordic Countries) and was Head of the Acquisitions & Cataloging Department of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. He started his career as a librarian for ICODO, a Utrecht foundation that occupies itself with survivors of World War II. Mr. Vos' expertise lies in management, project development and execution, problem solving, training, and library technical services. Mr. Vos received a degree in library and information science in 1989 and a Master of Arts degree in History from the Catholic University Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 1979.
Steven Watson has a degree in Physics with Astrophysics, Leeds University (1993). He started working for Elsevier Science in April 1994 as a desk editor. After several years' experience in a variety of positions, Steven is now Portal Manager for websites in mathematics and computer science, managing the content and developing new features. He is also Publishing Editor for a small portfolio of computer science journals and book series.
Always having had a love of physics I've dreamed of visiting CERN for many years. I completed a degree in maths and physics at Warwick University and then accidentally got a job in the Library there where I worked mainly in Acquisitions and Arts and Humanities support. I completed a Library qualification at Loughborough University and have been working at Leeds University Library as the Faculty Team Librarian for Maths and Physical Sciences for four years now. Leeds is one of the largest universities and academic libraries in the UK and we get a lot of opportunities for developing ideas: I'm deeply involved in the information skills area. I'll also shortly be acting as a physics subject consultant for the PSIgate Information Gateway. I love dancing, seeing bands and participating in various sports depending on the time of year, and I'm currently struggling to learn Latin.
I am the Physics/Astronomy Librarian and Assistant Professor, Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. My research interests include the role of electronic publications in scientific scholarly communication, and specifically, the impact electronic preprints have had on the disciplines of physics and astronomy. I am also concerned about the role libraries will have in the provision of electronic information, especially in light of new resources that are "born electronic" and/or those available only through the internet. I look forward to hearing new thoughts and ideas on these issues and more from librarians, publishers, and scientists at this meeting.
I am librarian on the staff of Vallisneri biological-medical Library, University of Padua (Italy), since 1998. Previously, I carried out scientific research and took a doctor's degree on Earth Sciences. My contributions to library operations are mainly focused on electronic resources management, the organisation of information on the Library Web site, reference service and user training. In addition, I work with the University of Padua - Library Central Office (CAB), participating in projects related to e-journals' public catalogues and consortial acquisitions from the major European publishing houses. I've been recently appointed as resource person for European Community Projects.