Lars Bjørnshauge:
From August 1st 2000 Lars will be International Sales & Partner Manager at the eHuset Dansk Data Elektronik. Until then he is employed as Library Director of the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV) where he has been working since 1992. He has specialized in management, human resource management, economical management and evaluation, all seen in a perspective to modern library management. In the effort of making DTV a full electronic library, for example allowing users 24 hour access to facilities such as search and retrieval of full-text scientific articles via the Internet, he gives lectures on the measures taken in the planning phase and experiences in this regard. He has a master degree Public Academic Planning from the Roskilde University.
Lynne J. Brindley:
Programme director of this course is Lynne J. Brindley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds. Previously she was the Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, where she was responsible for the British Library of Political and Economic Science, a major research library in the social sciences, and for academic computing services and networking. She has held previous positions as a Principal Consultant at KPMG Management Consulting, Director of Library & Information Services and PVC for IT at Aston University, and a variety of posts at the British Library. She was a member of the Review Committee which led to the Follett Report and continued involvement through chairing the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). In February 2000 it was announced that Lynne Brindley had been appointed to the position of Chief Executive of the British Library. She will take up this post on 1st July 2000.
Michael Cant:
Michael Cant is one of the founding directors of Larch Consulting. He is responsible for the consulting activities of the company, his specialist field being strategic change/transformation management. Holding non-executive directorships and advisorships on a number of management boards, Michael is one of the country's leading experts on infrastructure support services, speaking regularly for the British Institute of Facilities Management, Civil Service College and IFMA and is an external examiner for the University of Reading (College of Estate Management). Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, Michael gained his degree in architecture from the University of Cape Town and practiced as an architect for the prestigious South African practice of Mallows Louw Hoffe and Partners. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1982, following receiving a MBA and then qualified as a (General Practice) chartered surveyor. Over the past ten years, Michael's work has ranged from managing the development and trading of over 200 restaurants and hotels (including the refurbishment of the Royal Albert Hall) to evolving corporate and FM strategies for national and global organisations and managing business process re-engineering/change projects in a diversity of business sectors. Larch Consulting clients include Mars Confectionery, The University of Leeds, KPMG, Imperial College, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, ABN Amro, Littlewoods Retail and British Nuclear Fuel (BNFL), as well as a number of public sector organisations including Ordnance Survey, Home Office, Serious Fraud Office, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and Land Registry.
Hans Geleijnse:
Hans Geleijnse (1947) graduated in Dutch Law from the Nijmegen University in
1972. He attended several courses and seminars on journalism, personnel
management and academic librarianship. In 1972 he became secretary of the
University Council at Tilburg University and in 1983 he was appointed deputy
librarian at the Tilburg University Library, combining this job with the
chairmanship of the University Council for three years. Since 1989 he has worked
as university librarian. Currently he holds the chair of the Programme Management Digital
Library Tilburg University. He is a member of the Steering Group of
Dutch Innovation Projects SURF, of the Bibliotheksausschuss der
Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the Board of Ticer.
He was and is involved in various European project (Telephassa, Elise
I, Elise II, Decomate I, T-ECUP). Currently he is the programme
director of the EC funded project Decomate II.
Paul Laker:
Paul's career in the Land Registry began in 1961. From 1961 to 1971 he carried out virtually all aspects of the Registry's primary function of registering title and interests in land. He bcame a fully qualified registered conveyancer. In 1971 he began, but still within the Land Registry, his alternate career in change management (at that time called Organisation and Methods). From 1975 to 1983 he was senior manager in a District Land Registry (one of the regional offices). From 1983 he became part of the Land Registry's IT project team developing the core systems for todays Computerised Application Processing System and bringing the Registry into the electronic age. In 1987 he was made Head of Finance with a brief to develop the financial and management information available to the Registry. He prepared the way for introduction of commercial accounts which led to the Land Registry becoming an Executive Agency and later a Trading Fund.
In 1991 he became Controller of Operations Development with a brief to develop operational performance to meet the targets required by Agency status. He introduced organisational changes and Total Quality Management concepts. In 1994 he was appointed to the Land Registry Management Board as Director of Facilities.
Di Martin:
Di Martin is currently Director of Learning & Information Services at the University
of Hertfordshire, heading up a department responsible for the development and delivery
of integrated computing, library, and media services to a large multi-site, multi-disciplinary
university. She first joined the university in 1991 as Deputy University Librarian. She was promoted
to the post of University Librarian in 1995 and then appointed to her present post when the services
converged in January 1997. Her earlier experience in managing library and information and other
learning resources services was gained in a number of further education colleges. She has a
degree in German, a postgraduate diploma in librarianship, a teaching certificate and a Master's
degree in Human Resource Management. She is a member of the Library Association and the
Institute of Personnel & Development.
Eugenie Prime:
Eugenie Prime is Manager of Corporate Libraries at Hewlett-Packard Company,
headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Before joining HP in 1987, Eugenie was
President of CINAHL Corporation, a publisher and database producer of the Index to
Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Eugenie speaks extensively in the areas of
Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge
Management, and has been an invited speaker at ASIS, ASIDIC, Online, MLA and SLA
Regional Chapters and Annual Convention meetings. She was a keynote speaker at the
SLA Annual Convention in Seattle in 1997. She has also given presentations and has
lectured across Noth America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa. An interview
with Eugenie appeared in the inaugural issue of "Information Outlook" (January 1997) in
which she discussed the importance of a vision for libraries and the process
for developing that vision, and another interview by Barbara Quint "Retooling the
Information Professional: The Librarian as a Winner - Eugenie Prime of Hewlett-Packard"
was published in "SEARCHER: The Magazine for Database Professional" (October
1997). Eugenie received a Bachelor's degree in History and Sociology from the
University of the West Indies, and a postgraduate research scholarship in History from
the University of London. Ms. Prime also holds a M.A. in History from Andrew's
University, and M.S. from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Jan Wilkinson:
Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and twelve years as a senior manager in seven different posts. She currently is University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University Library. She had been Director of Library Services at Leeds University Library, UK, since 8/98, responsible for the leadership and development of the University Library, with a particular emphasis on direction of organisational change. From 9/96 to 8/98, she was Deputy Librarian at the British Library of Political and Economic Science (London School of Economics) where, as a senior manager, she was involved in strategic planning and policy making for this international research library for the social sciences. She also became a leader in the UK at this time for library fundraising and has published in this area. Previous senior posts are as follows: 1/93 - 7/96 Sub-Librarian, BLPES (LSE); 11/90 - 12/92 Sub-Librarian, University of Hertfordshire; 11/98 - 10/90 Librarian, Business School, University of Hertfordshire Library. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL), the JISC Committee on Communication and Information Strategies Advisory Panel and the Lamda Board. She has undertaken consultancies for the the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) and for other UK universities.
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