International Summer School on the Digital Library 2002 : Lecturers' biographies course 2

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2002, Digital Libraries and the Changing World of Education

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Richard Biddiscombe:

Richard Biddiscombe has spent most of his career in management positions in university libraries though he also has had considerable experience in public and special libraries. Since 1995 he has been an information manager working with a hybrid team to support learning, teaching and research in arts, social sciences and law at the University of Birmingham. He is also Project Director of the EuroStudies Project. This manages a new section of the Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG)designed to make the database more Eurocentric. Richard has held various offices in the UK Library Association (now CILIP) including Chair of the West Midlands Branch and Hon Secretary of the University College and Research Group. He has authored many journal articles, written a number of books and given conference papers in half a dozen countries. His main subject interests have been with the user/machine and user/librarian interfaces; he is currently concerned with the development of hybrid approaches to managing information and consequent changes in the role of library and information professionals. In 2002 he was appointed Visiting Lecturer at the University of Central England in Birmingham UK

Rien Brouwers:

Rien Brouwers (45) is the Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting of the Breda Business School, one of the five faculties of the Hogeschool Brabant in Breda. He was responsible for the change from traditional education to problem based learning at the Business School in 1994. Since then, he has been continuously looking for curriculum improvement. In recent years the cooperation with the library department at the hogeschool has started, resulting in a number of projects. The latest development, which will be highlighted in our presentation, is the collaboration between educational and library staff in course design.

Graham Bulpitt:

Graham Bulpitt was appointed University Librarian at Sheffield Hallam University in 1990, and since September 1996 he has been Director of the Learning Centre. This new department integrates library, computing and media production provision as well as the University Learning and Teaching Institute. The city campus operation is housed in the £14m Adsetts Centre, an ambitious new building which was completed in 1996. He has been Chair of the Library Association University College and Research Group and is Secretary of the SCONUL (Standing Committee of National and University Libraries) Advisory Committee on Buildings. He is a specialist advisor to the Open University's Validation Services (previously CNAA) and the European Commission and carries out consultancy work, particularly on the development of academic services, personnel and training matters. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Libraries, which advises the Secretary of State, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, on public library provision. He is a member of the editorial boards of the New review of libraries and lifelong learning and the New review of academic librarianship. Graham holds degrees from the Open University and the University of London; he is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher. He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Mary, and Alexander, who is 13. They have two older children: Richard (28) works for a software house in London, and Katy (25) is employed by a film production company in New York. His interests include work for TOFS: a national charity for children born unable to swallow. Graham is now a director of the charity. He is also a governor of Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire.

Erik Driessen:

Since 1994 I am working as an assistent professor and educational psychologist at the department of Educational Development and Research, especially for the Faculy of Medicine. At this faculty I am the coördinator of a portfolio project. My major interests are in the areas of portfolio learning and portfolio assessment, assessment in problem-based learning and problem-based learning. I have expertise in consultancies and workshops on portfolio learning and portfolio assessment, assessment in student-centered learning environments and problem-based learning. My research activities focus on portfolio learning and portfolio assessment and assessment in problem-based learning.

Christine Dugdale:

Until last year, 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. She currently works for South Gloucestershire County Council as a Prison Librarian.

Elizabeth Dupuis:

Elizabeth Dupuis is Head of Instructional Services at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. She was 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. She has served on numerous state and national library association committees and think tanks. 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 editing a forthcoming book about the management, design, and evaluation of web-based library instruction.

Patricia Davitt Maughan:

Pat Davitt Maughan is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara (B.A. - English & 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 at the University of California, Berkeley, she is currently User Research Coordinator at UC Berkeley's Teaching Library. She is a 2001-2002 Fellow at UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. Beyond the campus, she serves as 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 UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Bogota, Columbia and the University of Helsinki. For even more fun, she is an avid devotee of Argentinean Tango and kick boxing. Additional 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.

John Paschoud:

John Paschoud has worked at the Library of the LSE since January 1996, as a technical specialist and project manager in a number of institutional, national and European projects, such as Decomate 1 and 2 (www.bib.uab.es/decomate2), HeadLine (www.headline.ac.uk) and ANGEL (www.angel.ac.uk) researching and developing new ways to provide access to information resources. John Paschoud Some specific current areas of interest are Web Services, middleware and authentication & authorisation systems. John has worked as an IT professional since 1972, in a variety of specialist fields including Geographic Information Systems and very large databases, for organisations in the government, commercial and education sectors, collecting a Masters degree (in information systems engineering) and Chartered Engineer status along the way. One of his leisure occupations is politics, and he has served as an elected borough councillor in London for eight years and has also been a member of various committees and working groups to establish standards for e-government and to shape government policies affecting the information industry and information resources for citizens.

Mark Pettigrew:

I am a member of Sheffield Hallam University’s Learning and Teaching Institute, which involves support across the University for development and innovation in learning, teaching and assessment. Really this means offering help where University staff (usually, but not always, teaching staff) most need it, very often helping to translate ideas between the culture and language of their own very good practice in teaching and the languages and cultures of the wider learning & teaching community in general and the languages and cultures of computers. I am currently advising and supporting the University’s team on the UK’s eUniversity project. Over the years, I have been involved in all stages of education from Primary Schools to Higher education. More formally, my qualifications include a BA from Oxford University, a PhD from the University of London, a teaching qualification, and membership of the UK’s Institute for Learning and Teaching. The Learning & Teaching Institute is a part of the University’s Learning Centre, which also integrates library, computing and media production provision.

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 the librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He managed the Online Contents project at the library and initiated a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993, he has been working as a deputy librarian at the Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999, Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law. 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. Hans and his staff are also investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing them. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as a 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/.

Rebecca Scholte:

Rebecca Scholte (1956) graduated in contemporary history at Utrecht University. She attended several courses in the field of librarianship, automation, and management. She started working at the Tilburg University computer centre in 1988, first as a consultant and soon as head Information Services and Education. In 1995, she became interim managing director of the Tilburg Institute of Advanced Studies in management. In 1996, she returned to her previous position at the Tilburg University computer centre. She was leader of several projects implementing campus wide services (integrated desktop, student e-mail, electronic help desk). She has an active interest in e-learning, developed a program enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff and was involved in the introduction of digital learning environments. Recently she participated in the Dutch re-design of the Texas Information Litaracy Tutorial.

Ellen Simons:

Ellen Simons got her professional education at the Academy of Library and Documentation.
She has worked as a librarian at the St. Joost, Academy of Art and at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Hogeschool Brabant. In 1995 she was appointed Head of Library of the Hogeschool Brabant, that now counts 12.000 students. The library includes a main library in Breda and 6 dependance-libraries in Breda, Tilburg and Etten-Leur. Since 2000 a learning resource centre has been integrated with the traditional library. For 6 years Ellen has been a member of the board of the Library Association of College libraries. Recently she has been partcipating in the strategic planning for educational innovation within the Hogeschool, involving the transformation of the traditional library into a Learning and Innovation Centre. The Learning Centre of the Sheffield Hallam University serves as an example in this process. Ellen is also actively involved in planning a new multifunctional building for the 6 libraries in Breda. Ellen lives in Vught with her partner and their two children Pascale (3) and Renee (1). Her professional interests are to promote the collaboration between educational and library staff and the integration of computer-assisted Information retrieval possibilities with the new Dutch approach in education of problem-based learning (searching for information single handedly).

Shan Wareing:

I joined Royal Holloway as Director of the Educational Development Centre in May 2000, where I co-ordinate the professional development of staff with teaching responsibilities. Before moving into Educational Development, I was a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. My qualifications are a BA(hons) in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, an MLitt in Linguistics for Teaching English Language and Literature from Strathclyde University, a PhD from Strathclyde on 'Gender, Speech Styles and the Assessment of Discussion', and an Advanced Diploma in Higher Education Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London. I'm a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, and on the executive committee. I'm also a member of the ILT and the SRHE (Society for Research in Higher Education). I have a particular interest in embedding skills in the curriculum, especially writing skills, and in discipline boundaries/interdisciplinarity, which is my current research topic.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Richard Biddiscombe: Richard Biddiscombe has spent most of his career in management positions in university libraries though he also has had considerable experience in public and special libraries. Since 1995 he has been an information manager working with a hybrid team to support learning, teaching and research in arts, social sciences and law at the University of Birmingham. He is also Project Director of the EuroStudies Project. This manages a new section of the Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG)designed to make the database more Eurocentric. Richard has held various offices in the UK Library Association (now CILIP) including Chair of the West Midlands Branch and Hon Secretary of the University College and Research Group. He has authored many journal articles, written a number of books and given conference papers in half a dozen countries. His main subject interests have been with the user/machine and user/librarian interfaces; he is currently concerned with the development of hybrid approaches to managing information and consequent changes in the role of library and information professionals. In 2002 he was appointed Visiting Lecturer at the University of Central England in Birmingham UK
	Rien Brouwers: Rien Brouwers (45) is the Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting of the Breda Business School, one of the five faculties of the Hogeschool Brabant in Breda. He was responsible for the change from traditional education to problem based learning at the Business School in 1994. Since then, he has been continuously looking for curriculum improvement. In recent years the cooperation with the library department at the hogeschool has started, resulting in a number of projects. The latest development, which will be highlighted in our presentation, is the collaboration between educational and library staff in course design.
	Graham Bulpitt: Graham Bulpitt was appointed University Librarian at Sheffield Hallam University in 1990, and since September 1996 he has been Director of the Learning Centre. This new department integrates library, computing and media production provision as well as the University Learning and Teaching Institute. The city campus operation is housed in the £14m Adsetts Centre, an ambitious new building which was completed in 1996. He has been Chair of the Library Association University College and Research Group and is Secretary of the SCONUL (Standing Committee of National and University Libraries) Advisory Committee on Buildings. He is a specialist advisor to the Open University's Validation Services (previously CNAA) and the European Commission and carries out consultancy work, particularly on the development of academic services, personnel and training matters. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Libraries, which advises the Secretary of State, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, on public library provision. He is a member of the editorial boards of the New review of libraries and lifelong learning and the New review of academic librarianship. Graham holds degrees from the Open University and the University of London; he is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher. He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Mary, and Alexander, who is 13. They have two older children: Richard (28) works for a software house in London, and Katy (25) is employed by a film production company in New York. His interests include work for TOFS: a national charity for children born unable to swallow. Graham is now a director of the charity. He is also a governor of Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire.
	Erik Driessen: Since 1994 I am working as an assistent professor and educational psychologist at the department of Educational Development and Research, especially for the Faculy of Medicine. At this faculty I am the coördinator of a portfolio project. My major interests are in the areas of portfolio learning and portfolio assessment, assessment in problem-based learning and problem-based learning. I have expertise in consultancies and workshops on portfolio learning and portfolio assessment, assessment in student-centered learning environments and problem-based learning. My research activities focus on portfolio learning and portfolio assessment and assessment in problem-based learning.
	Christine Dugdale: Until last year, 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. She currently works for South Gloucestershire County Council as a Prison Librarian.
	Elizabeth Dupuis: Elizabeth Dupuis is Head of Instructional Services at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. She was 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. She has served on numerous state and national library association committees and think tanks. 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 editing a forthcoming book about the management, design, and evaluation of web-based library instruction.
	Patricia Davitt Maughan: Pat Davitt Maughan is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara (B.A. - English & 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 at the University of California, Berkeley, she is currently User Research Coordinator at UC Berkeley's Teaching Library. She is a 2001-2002 Fellow at UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. Beyond the campus, she serves as 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 UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Bogota, Columbia and the University of Helsinki. For even more fun, she is an avid devotee of Argentinean Tango and kick boxing. Additional 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.
	John Paschoud: John Paschoud has worked at the Library of the LSE since January 1996, as a technical specialist and project manager in a number of institutional, national and European projects, such as Decomate 1 and 2 (www.bib.uab.es/decomate2), HeadLine (www.headline.ac.uk) and ANGEL (www.angel.ac.uk) researching and developing new ways to provide access to information resources. Some specific current areas of interest are Web Services, middleware and authentication & authorisation systems. John has worked as an IT professional since 1972, in a variety of specialist fields including Geographic Information Systems and very large databases, for organisations in the government, commercial and education sectors, collecting a Masters degree (in information systems engineering) and Chartered Engineer status along the way. One of his leisure occupations is politics, and he has served as an elected borough councillor in London for eight years and has also been a member of various committees and working groups to establish standards for e-government and to shape government policies affecting the information industry and information resources for citizens.
	Mark Pettigrew: I am a member of Sheffield Hallam University’s Learning and Teaching Institute, which involves support across the University for development and innovation in learning, teaching and assessment. Really this means offering help where University staff (usually, but not always, teaching staff) most need it, very often helping to translate ideas between the culture and language of their own very good practice in teaching and the languages and cultures of the wider learning & teaching community in general and the languages and cultures of computers. I am currently advising and supporting the University’s team on the UK’s eUniversity project. Over the years, I have been involved in all stages of education from Primary Schools to Higher education. More formally, my qualifications include a BA from Oxford University, a PhD from the University of London, a teaching qualification, and membership of the UK’s Institute for Learning and Teaching. The Learning & Teaching Institute is a part of the University’s Learning Centre, which also integrates library, computing and media production provision.
	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 the librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He managed the Online Contents project at the library and initiated a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993, he has been working as a deputy librarian at the Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999, Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law. 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. Hans and his staff are also investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing them. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as a 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/.
	Rebecca Scholte: Rebecca Scholte (1956) graduated in contemporary history at Utrecht University. She attended several courses in the field of librarianship, automation, and management. She started working at the Tilburg University computer centre in 1988, first as a consultant and soon as head Information Services and Education. In 1995, she became interim managing director of the Tilburg Institute of Advanced Studies in management. In 1996, she returned to her previous position at the Tilburg University computer centre. She was leader of several projects implementing campus wide services (integrated desktop, student e-mail, electronic help desk). She has an active interest in e-learning, developed a program enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff and was involved in the introduction of digital learning environments. Recently she participated in the Dutch re-design of the Texas Information Litaracy Tutorial.
	Ellen Simons: Ellen Simons got her professional education at the Academy of Library and Documentation. She has worked as a librarian at the St. Joost, Academy of Art and at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Hogeschool Brabant. In 1995 she was appointed Head of Library of the Hogeschool Brabant, that now counts 12.000 students. The library includes a main library in Breda and 6 dependance-libraries in Breda, Tilburg and Etten-Leur. Since 2000 a learning resource centre has been integrated with the traditional library. For 6 years Ellen has been a member of the board of the Library Association of College libraries. Recently she has been partcipating in the strategic planning for educational innovation within the Hogeschool, involving the transformation of the traditional library into a Learning and Innovation Centre. The Learning Centre of the Sheffield Hallam University serves as an example in this process. Ellen is also actively involved in planning a new multifunctional building for the 6 libraries in Breda. Ellen lives in Vught with her partner and their two children Pascale (3) and Renee (1). Her professional interests are to promote the collaboration between educational and library staff and the integration of computer-assisted Information retrieval possibilities with the new Dutch approach in education of problem-based learning (searching for information single handedly).
	Shan Wareing: I joined Royal Holloway as Director of the Educational Development Centre in May 2000, where I co-ordinate the professional development of staff with teaching responsibilities. Before moving into Educational Development, I was a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics. My qualifications are a BA(hons) in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, an MLitt in Linguistics for Teaching English Language and Literature from Strathclyde University, a PhD from Strathclyde on 'Gender, Speech Styles and the Assessment of Discussion', and an Advanced Diploma in Higher Education Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London. I'm a Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, and on the executive committee. I'm also a member of the ILT and the SRHE (Society for Research in Higher Education). I have a particular interest in embedding skills in the curriculum, especially writing skills, and in discipline boundaries/interdisciplinarity, which is my current research topic.