International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001 : Lecturers' biographies course 1

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Managing the Change Process Towards Your Library of the Future

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Lars Bjoernshauge:

Since May 1st, 2001, Lars has been Director of Libraries at Lund University Libraries in Sweden. His educational background is a masters degree in Public Administration, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1983. Lars has 14 years of experience in management positions. From 1992 until 2000, he held positions as Director of Finance, Deputy Director and Director at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV). Furthermore he has experience as a senior lecturer and consultant in Management, Organization, Economics, Human Resources and Knowledge Management. Among his latest achievements is the internationally well-known re-engineering of DTV based on the implementation of electronic library services. This process received significant international attention. During the recent years he has gained a lot of knowledge in managing modern academic library services, implementing electronic library services, co-operation with publishers and most importantly managing people. He published a number of papers and articles and gave presentations in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.

Daan Boom:

Daan Boom (1950) is the Senior Knowledge Manager at KPMG Assurance and FAS (Financial Advisory Services) of KPMG Headquarters in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Prior before joining KPMG Consulting in 1973 he worked for Perscombinatie, een major daily newspaper publisher. Within KPMG Daan worked at several divisions before joining the Audit practice in 1992. In 1993, for KPMG, he built one of the first corporate Intranets DOKOS which is still operational. In 1997, he became involved in the Research and Strategy Group of KWorld, the knowledge sharing initiative of the global KPMG organisation. Daan is a member of the Global Knowledge Management Assurance Team in Montvale (USA) and, in this capacity, is working closely together with his counterparts from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany to crate a truly global and local Intranet. He graduated in Library Science (1972) and Archive Science (1974), and received a 4-year training in Computer Science (AMBI) in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Deventer School on Information Science. Daan is a frequent speaker on conferences on Knowledge Management and Intranets throughout the world. He was conference chair session leader on the International Knowledge Management Conference 2000 in Palo Alto, speaker at the Internet and Librarian Conference in London (March 2000 and 2001) and speaker at several meetings in the Netherlands. He wrote several articles about the of role of information professionals, the impact of technology on the profession, and cultural aspects of information transfer within global companies.

Lynne J. Brindley:

Lynne J. Brindley has been Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. Previously, she was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds. She has held previous positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, 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).

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) studied Geography, Journalism and Law at the University of Nijmegen. He graduated in Dutch Law from the Nijmegen University in 1972. 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. From 1989 until 2000 he was the university librarian at Tilburg University. Since November 2000, he has been working as Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the Board of Ticer, and of the Frankfurt Group (a consensus group of representatives of European Library organizations, publishers, rightsholders, organisations of authors and intermediaries). He was and still is involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II and T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing. He also was the programme director of the successful Ticer Summer School on Electronic Publishing in August 2000.

Lucy Jeynes:

Lucy is a founder director of Larch Consulting, an independent consultancy practice specialising in change management. She has worked with a wide variety of client organisations in the education, public and commercial sectors including BBC, Greater London Authority, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency and Mars Confectionery. Lucy studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge and began her career in marketing. She moved on to work in the City and trained as an investment manager before entering consultancy. She set up Larch Consulting with Michael Cant in 1995, and her success in growing the business was marked by achieving the Midlands Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2000. She chairs her local Woman in Business network and sits on a number of steering groups and committees.

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).

Linda Stoddart:

Linda Stoddart, was appointed the Director of the Bureau of Library and Information Services of the International Labour Office (ILO), a U.N specialized agency in Geneva, in January 2001. She was previously Professor of information management, specializing in knowledge management at Theseus International Management Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, where she was responsible for an executive education programme for senior managers. As Director of Information Systems at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, based in Geneva and later in Harare, she lead the implementation of a global knowledge management strategy in field delegations and Red Cross national societies worldwide. She also worked at IMD, (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, as Director of Information Services. Linda also served as an adviser to government agencies on information management issues for the International Trade Centre in Portugal, and for the ILO in Asia (China, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand), and in Africa (Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe). Recently she has worked with a number of start-ups in Sophia Antipolis, France on knowledge management issues. She has a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; a MLS, State University of New York; a BA, Denver University, and is the author of a number of articles and other publications on information and knowledge management issues.

Jan Wilkinson:

Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and thirteen years as a senior manager in seven different posts. She currently is University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University Library, UK where she was Director of Library Services from 8/98. In her time at Leeds she has led a major programme of cultural change for the University Library. 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. Jan's previous senior posts were held at BLPES (LSE) and the University of Hertfordshire. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL), the JISC 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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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Lars Bjoernshauge: Since May 1st, 2001, Lars has been Director of Libraries at Lund University Libraries in Sweden. His educational background is a masters degree in Public Administration, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1983. Lars has 14 years of experience in management positions. From 1992 until 2000, he held positions as Director of Finance, Deputy Director and Director at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV). Furthermore he has experience as a senior lecturer and consultant in Management, Organization, Economics, Human Resources and Knowledge Management. Among his latest achievements is the internationally well-known re-engineering of DTV based on the implementation of electronic library services. This process received significant international attention. During the recent years he has gained a lot of knowledge in managing modern academic library services, implementing electronic library services, co-operation with publishers and most importantly managing people. He published a number of papers and articles and gave presentations in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
	Daan Boom: Daan Boom (1950) is the Senior Knowledge Manager at KPMG Assurance and FAS (Financial Advisory Services) of KPMG Headquarters in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Prior before joining KPMG Consulting in 1973 he worked for Perscombinatie, een major daily newspaper publisher. Within KPMG Daan worked at several divisions before joining the Audit practice in 1992. In 1993, for KPMG, he built one of the first corporate Intranets DOKOS which is still operational. In 1997, he became involved in the Research and Strategy Group of KWorld, the knowledge sharing initiative of the global KPMG organisation. Daan is a member of the Global Knowledge Management Assurance Team in Montvale (USA) and, in this capacity, is working closely together with his counterparts from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany to crate a truly global and local Intranet. He graduated in Library Science (1972) and Archive Science (1974), and received a 4-year training in Computer Science (AMBI) in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Deventer School on Information Science. Daan is a frequent speaker on conferences on Knowledge Management and Intranets throughout the world. He was conference chair session leader on the International Knowledge Management Conference 2000 in Palo Alto, speaker at the Internet and Librarian Conference in London (March 2000 and 2001) and speaker at several meetings in the Netherlands. He wrote several articles about the of role of information professionals, the impact of technology on the profession, and cultural aspects of information transfer within global companies.
	Lynne J. Brindley: Lynne J. Brindley has been Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. Previously, she was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds. She has held previous positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, 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).
	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) studied Geography, Journalism and Law at the University of Nijmegen. He graduated in Dutch Law from the Nijmegen University in 1972. 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. From 1989 until 2000 he was the university librarian at Tilburg University. Since November 2000, he has been working as Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the Board of Ticer, and of the Frankfurt Group (a consensus group of representatives of European Library organizations, publishers, rightsholders, organisations of authors and intermediaries). He was and still is involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II and T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing. He also was the programme director of the successful Ticer Summer School on Electronic Publishing in August 2000.
	Lucy Jeynes: Lucy is a founder director of Larch Consulting, an independent consultancy practice specialising in change management. She has worked with a wide variety of client organisations in the education, public and commercial sectors including BBC, Greater London Authority, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency and Mars Confectionery. Lucy studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge and began her career in marketing. She moved on to work in the City and trained as an investment manager before entering consultancy. She set up Larch Consulting with Michael Cant in 1995, and her success in growing the business was marked by achieving the Midlands Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2000. She chairs her local Woman in Business network and sits on a number of steering groups and committees.
	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).
	Linda Stoddart: Linda Stoddart, was appointed the Director of the Bureau of Library and Information Services of the International Labour Office (ILO), a U.N specialized agency in Geneva, in January 2001. She was previously Professor of information management, specializing in knowledge management at Theseus International Management Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, where she was responsible for an executive education programme for senior managers. As Director of Information Systems at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, based in Geneva and later in Harare, she lead the implementation of a global knowledge management strategy in field delegations and Red Cross national societies worldwide. She also worked at IMD, (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, as Director of Information Services. Linda also served as an adviser to government agencies on information management issues for the International Trade Centre in Portugal, and for the ILO in Asia (China, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand), and in Africa (Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe). Recently she has worked with a number of start-ups in Sophia Antipolis, France on knowledge management issues. She has a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth; a MLS, State University of New York; a BA, Denver University, and is the author of a number of articles and other publications on information and knowledge management issues.
	Jan Wilkinson: Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and thirteen years as a senior manager in seven different posts. She currently is University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University Library, UK where she was Director of Library Services from 8/98. In her time at Leeds she has led a major programme of cultural change for the University Library. 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. Jan's previous senior posts were held at BLPES (LSE) and the University of Hertfordshire. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL), the JISC 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.