International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001 : Lecturers' biographies course 2

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Richard Biddiscombe:

Richard Biddiscombe's role as Team Leader, Arts, Social Sciences and Law is to manage a multi-skilled team of librarians, web developers and computer officers to provide IT support for students and staff, information skills training, library liaison and web development for seven of the University of Birmingham's academic Schools. Richard Biddiscombe This responsibility ensures a close involvement with the University's learning and teaching strategy, and plays an important role in furthering the research potential for the client Schools. Richard has experience of public, special and academic libraries, was closely involved with the initial development of the JISC funded BUILDER project (http://builder.bham.ac.uk/main.asp) and is now developing the new EuroStudies extension to the SOSIG database (http://www.sosig.ac.uk) though a further JISC grant. He has written extensively on information skills training and the effect of IT developments on the library and information profession.

Pieter Jan Boon:

Pieter Jan Boon studied modern history at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. Since 1990, he has been an information specialist at Tilburg University Library, specialized in international organisations. He is responsible for the European Documentation Centre (EDC) (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/library/collections/europeanunion/), a depository of the European Union. Since 1996, Pieter Jan has been the representative of the Dutch EDCs to the European Commission. He was the initiator and project leader of Desite (http://drcwww.uvt.nl/dbi/instructie/eu/), a web based instruction module that covers the decision making process in the European Union.

Christine Dugdale:

Until very recently, Christine Dugdale was the ResIDe Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she was responsible for implementing the ResIDe Electronic Reserve, a Project in the eLib Programme, in 1996/7. She oversaw its expansion into a permanent service as the ResIDe Electronic Library that also includes two other databases. A frequent speaker on aspects of the digital library in the UK and abroad, she has published widely in academic and professional literature on the subject of electronic reserves and such related issues as electronic copyright and academic/library staff partnerships in the new learning environment. Previously, she worked in the Library's Acquisitions Department where she completed an MA dissertation on the impact of the fall of the Net Book Agreement. Her career has spanned employment in academic, public and special libraries. Some full text reports and details of selected publications can be found on the ResIDe Web Site at: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/itdev/reside.

Elizabeth Dupuis:

Elizabeth A. Dupuis is Head of the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and in 1992 with a Masters of Library and Information Science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Besides directing the instructional initiatives for the General Libraries of the university, Dupuis is the project manager and instructional designer of TILT (http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/), a web-based educational site that won awards such as the Innovation in Instruction Award in 2000 from the Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section. In 1998 she was awarded the Outstanding New Librarian Award from the Texas Library Association and in 1999 was selected to participate in the ACRL Instruction Section Think Tank on "Information Literacy and the Technological Transformation of Higher Education." Over the past five years she has served on numerous committees for the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and Texas Library Association. Her recent publications and presentations have covered topics such as successful partnerships for online projects, designing interactive online environments, and how technology is shaping academic libraries. Dupuis is authoring a forthcoming book about the management, design, and evaluation of web-based library instruction.

Anneke Eurelings:

Since February 2001, Anneke M.C. Eurelings has been Director of the Transnational University of Limburg, an initiative of the Dutch Universiteit Maastricht and the Belgian Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Before that she was the executive director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI). At MMI she had the overall responsibility for setting up, executing and managing research, education and external service in the fields of digital culture, knowledge organisation and learning technology. She also held the position of Manager Learning Lab. Since 1987, she has been involved with ICT and education at the Universiteit Maastricht, first as Director of the Computing Centre and since 1995 as the university's co-ordinator in this field. She also was the initiator and co-ordinator of an EU project (ELECTRA), in which four universities in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine researched and developed electronic learning environments. This project started in January 1996 and was successfully completed in the autumn of 1999. Prior to working at the Universiteit Maastricht, Anneke M.C. Eurelings was employed by DutchTelecom as head of both Computing Centre (1985 - 1987) and Information Advice (1984 - 1987). Ms Eurelings' professional associations include: organisational chair of the Steering Committee ECSCL2000 (European Conference Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), member of the Programme Committee ICT & Education, Stichting SURF (Utrecht, the Netherlands), member of the Steering Committee of the Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Content and Training of the European Commission PROMETEUS (Brussels, Belgium), member of the "Landelijk Overleg PODIUM", a national group of university ICT & Education advisors (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Publications include:

Eurelings, A.M.C.: ICT & Educational policy; A must! Chapter book "Electronische leeromgevingen", Nijmegen 1999.
Eurelings, A.M.C.: Multimedia and Education. Chapter book "Social Learning", to be published.
Eurelings, A.: "ICT and strategic choices in higher education" Thema, 1998, nr. 2, pp. 58-62.
Eurelings, A.: "Educational Policy and ICT at the Universiteit Maastricht: Problem-oriented, student-centered and innovative", 1998.
Ronteltap, F. and A. Eurelings: "Final report POLARIS", October 1998.

Richard Everett:

Richard is the MLE (Managed Learning Environment) Co-ordinator for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK. He works to the MLE Steering Group which is a strategic body that advises and guides the Further and Higher Education sectors on the implementation of MLEs. The work of the group is documented at: http://www.isc.ac.uk/jciel/mlesg/. A series of guidance leaflets can be found at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/mle/reps/infopack.html. Prior to moving to the JISC Richard was most recently the Project Manager for the Western Colleges Consortium (WCC) for On-line Learning. This collaborative project installed the infrastructure for an extranet and also sourced, and configured a Virtual Learning Environment, initially solely for Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) use, but with the intention of widening this in the longer term. In addition it also started the process of collaboration between colleges in the sourcing and production of materials for use on that campus. Previous to his WCC experience Richard worked as a Programme Leader for BTEC National Computing at Trowbridge College and before that was a Key Skills Co-ordinator at Soundwell College. Richard also has considerable experience as a Project Manager implementing computer systems for organisations in the public sector. His leisure interests are Croquet and Rambling (the walking kind!).

Joseph Janes:

Joseph Janes is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Program (http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mlis/) at the Information School of the University of Washington, where has been since 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington, he was at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is also the Founding Director of the Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/), a project aimed at exploring the interplay between librarianship and networked technologies while providing services to a global networked population. His research and teaching interests are in the area of reference and user services, specifically the use of network technologies for such services. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the co-author of seven books on librarianship, technology, and their relationship, including the Internet Public Library Handbook. He was the recipient of the first Excellence in Teaching Award given by the then School of Information & Library Studies at Michigan in 1993. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany and at Syracuse.

John MacColl:

John MacColl is Director of the SELLIC Project (Science and Engineering Library, Learning and Information Centre) and Sub-Librarian (Online Services Division) at the University of Edinburgh. He holds an MA (Hons.) in English Language & Literature from the University of St Andrews, awarded in 1983, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship & Information Studies, awarded by the CNAA in 1984. He also holds the degree of MEd. from Aberdeen University, awarded in 1995. SELLIC combines digital library developments for the Faculty of Science and Engineering with the provision of a support service to Faculty staff in the delivery of innovative, computer-based teaching and learning. The Library’s new Online Services Division is responsible for Web Development (including the University Web Site), Electronic Information Services, Electronic Publications and Electronic Reserve. John is a member of the University Library’s strategic management team, and sits on several university committees concerned with library developments, learning technology and academic computing. He also acts as a referee for the Journal of the Association of Learning Technology (ALT-J), and is a member of the ALT-C 2001 Programme Committee. He worked previously as an Assistant Librarian in Glasgow University Library; as Project Officer for Project Jupiter (a national project funded by the UK's University Grants Committee, with the aim of promoting the use of the Joint Academic Network to UK academic libraries); as Information Officer in Aberdeen University Computing Centre; and as Depute Librarian and then Assistant Head of Information Services at the University of Abertay Dundee. In 1995 he devised the proposal to JISC’s Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) for the ARIADNE parallel published magazine project. He was Project Director until December 1998, and Managing Editor until September 1997. He has published several articles on library networking, digital library and learning technology developments. He currently represents the Consortium of University Libraries in discussions on the European open archiving initiative.

Patricia Davitt Maughan:

Pat is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara (B.A. - Comparative Literature) and Pratt Institute (M.L.I.S.) and received a certificate in languages from L'Universite of Paris IV - Sorbonne. Pat Davitt Maughan Her early career was devoted to science librarianship. Formerly Head of the Science Libraries, she is currently Program Coordinator and User Research Coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley (popularly known as "Cal"). She is a consultant to the California Digital Library in Oakland, California and Library Solutions Institute and Press in Berkeley, California. Her current areas of research focus on information literacy and assessment and she has published the results of her recent research in The Journal of Academic Librarianship and College & Research Libraries. She has taught information literacy and library research skills to thousands of students on the Berkeley campus in the past decade and has lectured at Cal's School of Information Management and Systems, the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Bogota, Columbia and the University of Helsinki. More information and publications can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/autobiography/pmaughan/.

Howard Nicholson:

Howard Nicholson has been University Librarian at the University of Bath since September 1992. Previously he worked as a Sub-Librarian at the London School of Economics and as an Assistant Librarian at the University of Sussex. Currently he serves on SCONUL committees concerned with quality assessment in libraries and copyright. His professional interests otherwise include staff development and library statistics. He went to the University of Sussex as a mature student, having already started his career in librarianship. He took First Class honours in English and an MA in English Literature. A list of publications can be found at http://www.bath.ac.uk/Library/contacts/people/hdn.html.

Hannelore B. Rader:

Hannelore B. Rader has been University Librarian at the University of Louisville in Kentucky since January 1997. Hannelore Rader Ms Rader has 30 years of library, administrative and teaching experience in higher education in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio. Her bckground includes prominent leadership in international, national and regional user instruction and information literacy activities. She has served on national and international committees dealing with information literacy. She has given many workshops and presentations nationally and internationally and has more than 80 publications related to information literacy and library administration. She is very proud of her recent work with the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" issued by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Ms Rader has a teaching certificate, a graduate degree in educational leadership and experience in adult education from the University of Michigan. She has taught library and information skills in undergraduate and graduate settings as well as schools of library and information science. She has received numerous honors, among them are:

Distinguished Alumni of the University of Michigan School of Information
Mimi Dudley Award for Bibliographic Instruction
ARCL Academic and Research Librarian of the Year in 1999
Literati Award for Best Article from MCB Press, London, April, 2000
Ms Rader is a native of Berlin, Germany. She and her parents escaped from formerly East Germany and immigrated to the United States via Brazil in the 1950s.

Hans Roes:

After studying Monetary Economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University and the Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg. In 1990 he started working as librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He was manager of the Online Contents project at the library and initiator of a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993 he has worked as deputy librarian at Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999 Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://www.ejcl.org/). In recent years, Hans has been involved in projects to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes, a project aimed at enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff, and the introduction of digital learning environments. Also, he and his staff are investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing these. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as consultant for Ticer, he was involved in developing a new strategic plan for the libraries of the Amsterdam University for Professional Education, which resulted in a realignment of the libraries’ strategy with educational innovation. More information and a list of publications can be found at http://www.hroes.de/.

Linda C. Smith:

Linda C. Smith is Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she joined the faculty in 1977. She has been Associate Dean of the School since January 1997, with administrative responsibility for LEEP (http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu), the distance enrollment option for the School's MS program. Dr. Smith holds a PhD from the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; an MS in information and computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology; an MS in library science from Illinois; and a BS in physics and mathematics from Allegheny College. Her research interests include information system design, education for library and information science, and the impact of new technologies on reference and information services. Her major teaching responsibilities are reference; scientific, technical, and medical information; and online information systems. She was awarded Award for Teaching Excellence by the Association for Library and Information Science Education in 1999. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993. She received the UIUC Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award in 1998 and was one of three UIUC faculty members named a Distinguished Teacher/Scholar for 1999/2000. She received the Isadore Gilbert Mudge-R.R. Bowker Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship in 2000 (including innovations in teaching reference online). She has held offices in several professional associations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Information Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Medical Library Association, and Special Libraries Association. She is the author of several journal articles and conference papers and is the co-editor of the textbook Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (3rd edition, 2001), used in several schools of library and information science.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Richard Biddiscombe: Richard Biddiscombe's role as Team Leader, Arts, Social Sciences and Law is to manage a multi-skilled team of librarians, web developers and computer officers to provide IT support for students and staff, information skills training, library liaison and web development for seven of the University of Birmingham's academic Schools. This responsibility ensures a close involvement with the University's learning and teaching strategy, and plays an important role in furthering the research potential for the client Schools. Richard has experience of public, special and academic libraries, was closely involved with the initial development of the JISC funded BUILDER project (http://builder.bham.ac.uk/main.asp) and is now developing the new EuroStudies extension to the SOSIG database (http://www.sosig.ac.uk) though a further JISC grant. He has written extensively on information skills training and the effect of IT developments on the library and information profession.
	Pieter Jan Boon: Pieter Jan Boon studied modern history at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands. Since 1990, he has been an information specialist at Tilburg University Library, specialized in international organisations. He is responsible for the European Documentation Centre (EDC) (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/library/collections/europeanunion/), a depository of the European Union. Since 1996, Pieter Jan has been the representative of the Dutch EDCs to the European Commission. He was the initiator and project leader of Desite (http://drcwww.uvt.nl/dbi/instructie/eu/), a web based instruction module that covers the decision making process in the European Union.
	Christine Dugdale: Until very recently, Christine Dugdale was the ResIDe Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol where she was responsible for implementing the ResIDe Electronic Reserve, a Project in the eLib Programme, in 1996/7. She oversaw its expansion into a permanent service as the ResIDe Electronic Library that also includes two other databases. A frequent speaker on aspects of the digital library in the UK and abroad, she has published widely in academic and professional literature on the subject of electronic reserves and such related issues as electronic copyright and academic/library staff partnerships in the new learning environment. Previously, she worked in the Library's Acquisitions Department where she completed an MA dissertation on the impact of the fall of the Net Book Agreement. Her career has spanned employment in academic, public and special libraries. Some full text reports and details of selected publications can be found on the ResIDe Web Site at: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/itdev/reside.
	Elizabeth Dupuis: Elizabeth A. Dupuis is Head of the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and in 1992 with a Masters of Library and Information Science, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Besides directing the instructional initiatives for the General Libraries of the university, Dupuis is the project manager and instructional designer of TILT (http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/), a web-based educational site that won awards such as the Innovation in Instruction Award in 2000 from the Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section. In 1998 she was awarded the Outstanding New Librarian Award from the Texas Library Association and in 1999 was selected to participate in the ACRL Instruction Section Think Tank on "Information Literacy and the Technological Transformation of Higher Education." Over the past five years she has served on numerous committees for the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and Texas Library Association. Her recent publications and presentations have covered topics such as successful partnerships for online projects, designing interactive online environments, and how technology is shaping academic libraries. Dupuis is authoring a forthcoming book about the management, design, and evaluation of web-based library instruction.
	Anneke Eurelings: Since February 2001, Anneke M.C. Eurelings has been Director of the Transnational University of Limburg, an initiative of the Dutch Universiteit Maastricht and the Belgian Limburgs Universitair Centrum. Before that she was the executive director of the Maastricht McLuhan Institute (MMI). At MMI she had the overall responsibility for setting up, executing and managing research, education and external service in the fields of digital culture, knowledge organisation and learning technology. She also held the position of Manager Learning Lab. Since 1987, she has been involved with ICT and education at the Universiteit Maastricht, first as Director of the Computing Centre and since 1995 as the university's co-ordinator in this field. She also was the initiator and co-ordinator of an EU project (ELECTRA), in which four universities in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine researched and developed electronic learning environments. This project started in January 1996 and was successfully completed in the autumn of 1999. Prior to working at the Universiteit Maastricht, Anneke M.C. Eurelings was employed by DutchTelecom as head of both Computing Centre (1985 - 1987) and Information Advice (1984 - 1987). Ms Eurelings' professional associations include: organisational chair of the Steering Committee ECSCL2000 (European Conference Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), member of the Programme Committee ICT & Education, Stichting SURF (Utrecht, the Netherlands), member of the Steering Committee of the Memorandum of Understanding on Multimedia Content and Training of the European Commission PROMETEUS (Brussels, Belgium), member of the "Landelijk Overleg PODIUM", a national group of university ICT & Education advisors (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Publications include: Eurelings, A.M.C.: ICT & Educational policy; A must! Chapter book "Electronische leeromgevingen", Nijmegen 1999. Eurelings, A.M.C.: Multimedia and Education. Chapter book "Social Learning", to be published. Eurelings, A.: "ICT and strategic choices in higher education" Thema, 1998, nr. 2, pp. 58-62. Eurelings, A.: "Educational Policy and ICT at the Universiteit Maastricht: Problem-oriented, student-centered and innovative", 1998. Ronteltap, F. and A. Eurelings: "Final report POLARIS", October 1998.
	Richard Everett: Richard is the MLE (Managed Learning Environment) Co-ordinator for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK. He works to the MLE Steering Group which is a strategic body that advises and guides the Further and Higher Education sectors on the implementation of MLEs. The work of the group is documented at: http://www.isc.ac.uk/jciel/mlesg/. A series of guidance leaflets can be found at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/mle/reps/infopack.html. Prior to moving to the JISC Richard was most recently the Project Manager for the Western Colleges Consortium (WCC) for On-line Learning. This collaborative project installed the infrastructure for an extranet and also sourced, and configured a Virtual Learning Environment, initially solely for Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) use, but with the intention of widening this in the longer term. In addition it also started the process of collaboration between colleges in the sourcing and production of materials for use on that campus. Previous to his WCC experience Richard worked as a Programme Leader for BTEC National Computing at Trowbridge College and before that was a Key Skills Co-ordinator at Soundwell College. Richard also has considerable experience as a Project Manager implementing computer systems for organisations in the public sector. His leisure interests are Croquet and Rambling (the walking kind!).
	Joseph Janes: Joseph Janes is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Program (http://www.ischool.washington.edu/mlis/) at the Information School of the University of Washington, where has been since 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at Washington, he was at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is also the Founding Director of the Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/), a project aimed at exploring the interplay between librarianship and networked technologies while providing services to a global networked population. His research and teaching interests are in the area of reference and user services, specifically the use of network technologies for such services. A frequent speaker in the US and abroad, he is the co-author of seven books on librarianship, technology, and their relationship, including the Internet Public Library Handbook. He was the recipient of the first Excellence in Teaching Award given by the then School of Information & Library Studies at Michigan in 1993. He holds the M.L.S. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the State University of New York at Albany and at Syracuse.
	John MacColl: John MacColl is Director of the SELLIC Project (Science and Engineering Library, Learning and Information Centre) and Sub-Librarian (Online Services Division) at the University of Edinburgh. He holds an MA (Hons.) in English Language & Literature from the University of St Andrews, awarded in 1983, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship & Information Studies, awarded by the CNAA in 1984. He also holds the degree of MEd. from Aberdeen University, awarded in 1995. SELLIC combines digital library developments for the Faculty of Science and Engineering with the provision of a support service to Faculty staff in the delivery of innovative, computer-based teaching and learning. The Library’s new Online Services Division is responsible for Web Development (including the University Web Site), Electronic Information Services, Electronic Publications and Electronic Reserve. John is a member of the University Library’s strategic management team, and sits on several university committees concerned with library developments, learning technology and academic computing. He also acts as a referee for the Journal of the Association of Learning Technology (ALT-J), and is a member of the ALT-C 2001 Programme Committee. He worked previously as an Assistant Librarian in Glasgow University Library; as Project Officer for Project Jupiter (a national project funded by the UK's University Grants Committee, with the aim of promoting the use of the Joint Academic Network to UK academic libraries); as Information Officer in Aberdeen University Computing Centre; and as Depute Librarian and then Assistant Head of Information Services at the University of Abertay Dundee. In 1995 he devised the proposal to JISC’s Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) for the ARIADNE parallel published magazine project. He was Project Director until December 1998, and Managing Editor until September 1997. He has published several articles on library networking, digital library and learning technology developments. He currently represents the Consortium of University Libraries in discussions on the European open archiving initiative.
	Patricia Davitt Maughan: Pat is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara (B.A. - Comparative Literature) and Pratt Institute (M.L.I.S.) and received a certificate in languages from L'Universite of Paris IV - Sorbonne. Her early career was devoted to science librarianship. Formerly Head of the Science Libraries, she is currently Program Coordinator and User Research Coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley (popularly known as "Cal"). She is a consultant to the California Digital Library in Oakland, California and Library Solutions Institute and Press in Berkeley, California. Her current areas of research focus on information literacy and assessment and she has published the results of her recent research in The Journal of Academic Librarianship and College & Research Libraries. She has taught information literacy and library research skills to thousands of students on the Berkeley campus in the past decade and has lectured at Cal's School of Information Management and Systems, the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Bogota, Columbia and the University of Helsinki. More information and publications can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/autobiography/pmaughan/.
	Howard Nicholson: Howard Nicholson has been University Librarian at the University of Bath since September 1992. Previously he worked as a Sub-Librarian at the London School of Economics and as an Assistant Librarian at the University of Sussex. Currently he serves on SCONUL committees concerned with quality assessment in libraries and copyright. His professional interests otherwise include staff development and library statistics. He went to the University of Sussex as a mature student, having already started his career in librarianship. He took First Class honours in English and an MA in English Literature. A list of publications can be found at http://www.bath.ac.uk/Library/contacts/people/hdn.html.
	Hannelore B. Rader: Hannelore B. Rader has been University Librarian at the University of Louisville in Kentucky since January 1997. Ms Rader has 30 years of library, administrative and teaching experience in higher education in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio. Her bckground includes prominent leadership in international, national and regional user instruction and information literacy activities. She has served on national and international committees dealing with information literacy. She has given many workshops and presentations nationally and internationally and has more than 80 publications related to information literacy and library administration. She is very proud of her recent work with the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" issued by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Ms Rader has a teaching certificate, a graduate degree in educational leadership and experience in adult education from the University of Michigan. She has taught library and information skills in undergraduate and graduate settings as well as schools of library and information science. She has received numerous honors, among them are: Distinguished Alumni of the University of Michigan School of Information Mimi Dudley Award for Bibliographic Instruction ARCL Academic and Research Librarian of the Year in 1999 Literati Award for Best Article from MCB Press, London, April, 2000 Ms Rader is a native of Berlin, Germany. She and her parents escaped from formerly East Germany and immigrated to the United States via Brazil in the 1950s.
	Hans Roes: After studying Monetary Economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University and the Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg. In 1990 he started working as librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He was manager of the Online Contents project at the library and initiator of a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993 he has worked as deputy librarian at Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999 Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://www.ejcl.org/). In recent years, Hans has been involved in projects to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes, a project aimed at enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff, and the introduction of digital learning environments. Also, he and his staff are investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing these. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as consultant for Ticer, he was involved in developing a new strategic plan for the libraries of the Amsterdam University for Professional Education, which resulted in a realignment of the libraries’ strategy with educational innovation. More information and a list of publications can be found at http://www.hroes.de/.
	Linda C. Smith: Linda C. Smith is Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she joined the faculty in 1977. She has been Associate Dean of the School since January 1997, with administrative responsibility for LEEP (http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu), the distance enrollment option for the School's MS program. Dr. Smith holds a PhD from the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; an MS in information and computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology; an MS in library science from Illinois; and a BS in physics and mathematics from Allegheny College. Her research interests include information system design, education for library and information science, and the impact of new technologies on reference and information services. Her major teaching responsibilities are reference; scientific, technical, and medical information; and online information systems. She was awarded Award for Teaching Excellence by the Association for Library and Information Science Education in 1999. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993. She received the UIUC Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award in 1998 and was one of three UIUC faculty members named a Distinguished Teacher/Scholar for 1999/2000. She received the Isadore Gilbert Mudge-R.R. Bowker Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship in 2000 (including innovations in teaching reference online). She has held offices in several professional associations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Information Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Medical Library Association, and Special Libraries Association. She is the author of several journal articles and conference papers and is the co-editor of the textbook Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (3rd edition, 2001), used in several schools of library and information science.