Abdulla Al-Aasim:
Librarian, Saudi Fund for Development, Research Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim Alhammad:
In 1989, I Graduated from King Saud University with BA in Library and Information Science specialised in Information Science with concentration on Computer Science. Then I worked in King Fahad National Library rotated among number of department from Classification and Cataloguing to Computer Department on establishing and analysing the library databases. KFNL after two years of work sent me on a scholarship to pursue master's degree from Clarion University, PA, United States. After Graduating from Clarion, with a Master's degree in Library Science I worked as a Director of Indexing and Abstracting Department and Director of the National Bibliography at KFNL. Then I worked with British Aerospace as a Director of User Services (including computer section, information network, information databases, general collection and circulation). Now I am working at SABIC Research and Development in the Library and Information centre as an Information Specialist to provide information resources to the researchers, which required knowledge management skills.
Mike Berrington:
The Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Current post: 1998 - Head, Electronic Information Services, Library and Information Services. Main duties: Member of the Library's senior management group with responsibility to lead development and policy setting for the provision of electronic information services. Previous posts: 1986-1998 Variety of professional posts in UK University libraries. Education: Post-graduate qualified librarian.
Fabrizia Bevilacqua:
I started my career as librarian at the Economics library of the University of Brescia (1991-1993), where I attended to serials collection management and cataloguing. Since 1994 I have been working in the library system of the University of Parma: as departmental librarian at the Physics library (1994-1998), as head librarian at the Classical Philology library (since 1999). Since 1996 I have been in charge of the development and maintenance of the University of Parma's library system Web site. Since 1997 I have been a member of the working group for the electronic resources of the University of Parma's libraries, with the task of developing the accessibility and diffusion of electronic journals and databases among the academic community. I was educated at the Classical high school (Lyceum) and received a University degree in Ancient History from the University of Bologna. My personal interests include classical music, reading, going to the cinema, travelling, cycling, and hiking.
Gesa Büttner:
I am working as information manager in the Cultural Policy and Action Department of the Council of Europe, a pan-European organisation based in Strasbourg, France. I am responsible for setting up and maintaining an information service on cultural policies in Europe, including electronic resources. Previously I worked in various bodies of the European Union, mainly as consultant specialising in multilingual thesauri. I have an educational background both in linguistics and languages (MA 1991, Free University of Berlin) and in information work (postgraduate diploma 1995, University of Geneva). My personal interests include databases and hiking.
Eduard Cohen:
General Manager Beilstein GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
Roberto Dallari:
I have been working in the Library of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 1976. It is a very large Library with a specialisation in Italian and foreign law, history, political science and, of course, parliamentary papers. The Library traditionally performs bibliographical and legislative research for Members of Parliament. I have experience in the following fields of library activity: serials management and cataloguing, subject cataloguing and description standards, foreign legislation reference (for French and German law), and I'm now head of the Reference department for the Member of Parliaments and for general public (admitted to the Library since 1988). I'm also the liaison librarian for the Constitutional Laws Standing Committee of the House (Commissione Affari costituzionali). Recently I have been working on a study project for the digital conversion of the collection of Italian Parliamentary papers (both ways: scanning/imaging and text encoding in XML). I'm also participating in a project of the Library for the access to web resources of parliamentary interest. My education includes a high school degree in Political sciences at the University of Rome, and secondary school in Brussels, at the European School. Personal interests: I like modern architecture, jazz, dancing, jogging, biking and of course: Dutch beer!
Douwe Drijfhout:
Acting Director, National Library of South Africa: Pretoria Division. Professional Experience: Assistant Director/Programme Manager/Acting Director 1994 - 2000 Institution National Library of South Africa: Pretoria Division.
Jantiene van Elk:
Since December 1999 I work at the Tilburg University Library. I designed the new user interface for the Decomate II system. The Decomate II system allows end-users to simultaneously search multiple databases. I'm working at making electronic documents available for end-users by adding URLs (to our articles database in the Decomate II system) to websites of publishers and host organisations automatically. Databases with and without full text in the Decomate II system will be connected to offer end-users as much full text as possible. Education: MA in Library and Documentation Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Personal interests: End-users and computers.
Hans Helffer:
To introduce myself: I'm Hans Helffer forty-six years old, born and still living in Amsterdam. From 1975 till now, I have been working at the University of Amsterdam, since 1986 as a subject specialist for the department of Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of the Political and Social-Cultural Sciences (PSCW). Since the end of last year, after a reorganisation of the Library of this Faculty, I have managed the section of the information specialists. I recently started in my new job and I still do not have enough knowledge about the Management of Change and Electronic Publishing. But that's the reason why I attend this Summer School! I studied history. About my personal interests I can tell you that these vary from music (from blues to classic and I am especially fond of the Rolling Stones) to football. Both passively, that means a spectator and a listener. Actively I am a runner.
Aissa Issak:
Director of Documentation Services, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. In a way, my work experience was always in the area of information and books. I started with collecting information in a project about fiction writers in Mozambique, and that is why the job on the area of library and information services was offered to me. When I joined this profession, my first big task was to collect information on theses and dissertations at our university. I am still collecting that information, and I am aiming to publish a catalogue containing the references to our collection. My main job is the co-ordination of the activities in our Directorate, but I try to collaborate in the professional work, instead of being the person who just sign the papers. Personal interests: application of information technology in library activities, computers, any reading, cinema, travelling and meeting people.
Lorette Jacobs:
I am a lecturer in Library and Information studies at Technikon SA, Johannesburg, South Africa. I obtained my D.Litt.Ed.Phil degree at the Rand Afrikaans University in 1999. The title of my thesis is the Design and Implementation of a volunteer programme for public libraries in South Africa. My work experience include the management of a children's library, establishing and managing of literacy programmes in community libraries and lecturing subjects such as library promotion, information technology, user studies and information literacy. I am currently also responsible for the development of two new library and information technology subjects for the B.Tech degree.
Tomas Johansson:
I have a background in natural science (a BSc in biochemistry). Since 1990 I have been working at The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille.
I work mostly with the production of E-books and digital talking books. I am active in the international DAISY Consortium (WWW.DAISY.ORG) where a new standard for talking books is created. I am also active in a project where we are negotiating with publishers to get their books as digital files to simplify our Braille and E-book production. I am very interested in copyright issues in the new digital environment and electronic publishing in general. For our print disabled customers access to digital publications is very promising.
Leena Koho:
I got my master's degree in library and information science from the University of Tampere. In the beginning of my librarianship I worked in public libraries about 15 years, loving books - at that time there were no computers. After that I worked as an information specialist in the Helsinki School of Economics Library - Helecon Information Centre, which is the national resource centre in Finland in economics and business sciences. The library produces online and CD-ROM databases and has an outstanding digital library. From the beginning of August 2000 I will start working in the University of Helsinki Undergraduate Library and my responsibilities include the collections, both digital and printed. The Undergraduate Library will be developed to a versatile learning centre offering virtual working environments. At the moment my special interest is in education and personnel matters, the key question being: How to motivate and train myself and the library staff to meet these new challenges? What is the future of the printed library together with the digital library - or is there any?
Eduardo Lasser Alvarez:
University degree in Psychology, Library sciences and Archives studies diploma at the Vatican School and four languages are the main structure of my education. Good knowledge of Sinbib, ISIS and ALEPH 330 as library management software. Although I started at a religious library and have some experience in the economic - law field, I have basically worked in the field of sciences and technology (engineering). With 13 yrs of experience, I have spent the last six at Università degli studi Roma Tre where apart from others, I have coordinated the Self-check project for library loans (ALEPH - 3M). At present, I work for the Information and documentation service of the university so involved with electronic journals, consortia and considering the idea to introduce a 'one stop shopping' programme.
Nigel Lees:
Nigel has worked for the Royal Society of Chemistry for 6 years, first as Senior Marketing Officer (Library & Information Centre) and now Manager, Library & Archival services. Other posts include: the British Library as an information specialist in chemistry; information officer at Dr J. H. Burgoyne & Partners; libraries co-ordinator in Egypt for Voluntary Services Overseas and information scientist at Rhone Poulenc Rorer. He has a degree in Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, and obtained his MSc in Information Science from City University. Personal interests include gardening, circle dancing, reading (currently Harry Potter!) and socialising.
Jacqueline van der Linde:
Jacqueline HM van der Linde (1960) has had different positions at the Union Catalogue of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek since 1985. For three years now she is the acting head of this department. Being the national Inter Library Loan co-ordinator is part of this position. From 1996 the Union Catalogue is participating in the project for developing the Deposit of Netherlands Electronic Publications. As ILL co-ordinator she is an independent advisor towards libraries in the Netherlands in the field of ILL policy and protocols. She also participates in several national projects on electronic document delivery via the Netherlands Central Catalogue database.
Susanna Peruginelli:
I was born in Florence, Italy, in 1940. I attended classical studies, including Latin and Greek, and graduated in Political Science at Florence University. In 1965 I got a scholarship from London School of Economics and did a one year course in Sociology. I got married in 1969 to an IBM engineer and after some teaching in schools and stages in University libraries I got a post as head librarian at the National Central Library of Florence on the basis of a public competition. I started working in the newly established Automation Departmentand and continued working in this field at national and international level. I have two daughters (one pharmachologist and the other one recently graduated in law). After leaving the National Library in 1990, I can dedicate myself to the favourite side of my work: research studies and consultancy on new developments of library automation, networking, use of standards, cooperative projects. I have been travelling a lot for my job, i. e. doing consultancy work for the European Commission both as a reviewer and evaluator of library project proposals, for UNESCO (in Lebanon) and as tutor in study tours in the United States. I like reading (clasical and modern literature), hiking, gardening, travelling. I am fond of my job and very much interested in new information technologies but also in their overall social implications.
Sarmite Putekle:
Education:
- 1998 - present: University of Latvia, Library Science and Information Department, Master programme
- 1994 - 1998: University of Latvia, Library Science and Information Department, Bachelor programme
- Nov. 1998 - present: Eurofaculty library, Head librarian
- May 1997 - Nov. 1998: Eurofaculty library, Librarian
- Sept. 1995 - Nov. 1998: Medical Research Library, Reference librarian
Arno Reuser:
Professional librarian (bachelor degree); works as a information specialist and intermediary; head of the open source intelligence (OSINT) bureau of the Dutch military intelligence service (MIS). Interested in modern technology, especially where information processing is concerned, programming, HTML design, literature searching, Monty Python, "just-in-time information" etc. The MIS' - which is in the process of detailed reorganisation - main interest is international relations and international security, the OSINT bureau solves information needs by negotiating commercial online databases and running current awareness services. The philosophy is not to collect information and wait for questions, but instead to collect full-text sources, answer questions before they are asked, and device some kind of very fast acquisition and delivery service. Most information is delivered electronically and made accessible through a WWW intranet site. Perl scripts are used to automate the process of information dissemination and updating the WWW pages as much as possible. The library (which - unfortunately - is inevitable) has a few books and some journals and newspapers, the main core is electronic, on intranet and the OSINT home page. Monty Python?
Ritsuko Miki:
I Joined IBM Japan K.K. in 1986. Transferred to IBM Asia Pacific Service Corporation in 1998, I Joined Elsevier Science K.K. as Associate Sales Director responsible for the Japan market in January, 2000. During the 13 years with IBM right before I joined Elsevier Science, I was mainly selling and marketing all kinds of computers, from supercomputers to PCs, to Education Industry including universities and colleges in Japan with IBM Japan and in Asia Pacific with IBM Asia Pacific Service Corporation. Asia Pacific included Japan, Korea, Australia, Chinese countries and ASEAN countries.
My education includes:
- BA in American Studies from Tsuda College located in Tokyo, Japan (in 1977)
- BA in American History from Lake Erie College located in Ohio, USA (in 1976)
- MBA from University of Washington located in Seattle, USA (in 1986)
Catherine Savary:
My name is Catherine Savary and I am working as electronic resources librarian at Novartis Crop Protection in Basel, Switzerland. I started my job in October 1999 with setting up an electronic journals service for Novartis Agribusiness world-wide. I am webmaster of the library homepage and also member of a project team, which is developing an integrated information service with a web portal as central starting point. Besides I also do some traditional library work like maintaining the reading room collections. Before joining Novartis I worked as a subject librarian at the University Library of Basel and completed a post-graduate course for scientific librarians. My former jobs were in the field of environmental sciences, wherein I got my diploma from ETH Zurich in 1994.
Jan Schoolmeesters:
M.A. Philosophy and Arts at Louvain University (Belgium). Former Director of Tilburg University Press. Librarian Philosophy and Arts at Tilburg University. Lecturer Philosophy and Information Technology.
Mike Snell:
Following a degree in Physics, a postgraduate degree in Information Studies and some shorter term posts I began working at the University of Stirling Library some 25 years now (right back to punched cards!). My main responsibility as 'Library Development Manager' has been to manage the ever growing IT infrastructure in the Library, to purchase or develop new services or systems and to provide support to Library staff in their use of this technology. My personal interests include music, photography, reading, gardening - and finding the time to do all these things.
Corry Stuyts:
After working as an accountant and a social worker, Corry Stuyts (1948) attended the School for Librarianship in Tilburg. She started working at the Tilburg University Library as a library assistant in 1985. After working for six years as a documentalist she became the information specialist of the economic sciences collection in 1993. Corry followed the propaedeutic course in economic sciences. She managed the Grey Files project, which made the research papers of Tilburg academics electronically available via the WWW. She also was project leader of the DEGREE project (Dissemination of Electronic GREy files on Economics). In this project, seven Dutch universities cooperated in organizing the electronic dissemination of their research papers on economics. As such the DEGREE archive is one of the RePEc archives.
Toshiko Takeda:
Account Manager, Regional Sales Office Japan, Elsevier Science KK.
- Feb. 1998 - Present: Account Manager
Selling ES's electronic journals program (ScienceDirect) to the Japanese libraries. The first contract agreed was made with a Japanese electronic company in November 1998. The overall number of the agreement is 50. The current territory for the sales includes Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and the Western part of Japan. - Feb. 1996 - Jan. 1998: Customer Support Manager.
- Feb. 1993 - Jan. 1996: Promotion Manger for Electronic Products (CD-ROM/FD).
- April 1986: Joined Elsevier Science
Tiina Tuomaala:
I received my MA degree in information studies from University of Oulu in 1999. Since then I have been working as a librarian at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) Library. HUT is the leading institute of its kind in Finland. Founded in 1849 as the Helsinki Technical School, it became Helsinki University of Technology in 1908, and this meant the beginning of higher technical education in Finland. HUT Library is the central source for technical information in Finland. My main responsibilities consist of maintaining and developing library's electronic resources and introducing them to the campus.
Ligita Vasermane:
Head of the Riga Graduate School of Law Library. More than 20 years Ligita worked in the library environment of Latvia as head of some special libraries. Beginning with 1996 she was responsible for the Library programme development in the Soros Foundation Latvia. In that same time her responsibilities included as well building up absolutely new library - the Law Library. This Library now operates as open well-equipped information centre providing wide possibilities to use its extensive holdings of books and journals but also the on-line and local data bases and Internet information resources accessible at the library. Ligita's favourite field is electronic information sources. She is regularly teaching courses on Internet information resources for library and information specialists.
Caroline Weber-Brandenberger:
My name is Caroline Weber and I am currently working with Novartis Crop Protection AG in Basel (Switzerland). After finishing my library studies at the University Library in Basel in 1989 and a law study in Basel (1989-92) and Glasgow (Scotland, 1993-94), I worked with Zurich Insurance Group in Zurich (Switzerland, 1992-93) and at the Law Library of the University in Basel (1994-96). I started my part-time job in the Agribusiness Library in 1997. Together with the Research Computing team we provide library and information services and IT systems for the Agribusiness sector of Novartis. I am responsible for our online article/book/loan-ordering-system, together with Catherine Savary I am responsible for all our reading room services, and I co-ordinate library-related contracts.
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