Els van Adrichem:
I am head of the library at NHTV Breda University of Professional Education. NHTV is a medium-sized university which offers Bachelor programmes in the fields of tourism, recreation, leisure, hospitality, traffic, transport, logistics and physical and urban planning. As of 2002, two new course programmes will be initiated: facility management and media and entertainment management. I have worked at this place for almost 12 years. Because of all the new projects I still like the job. I live in Hooge Zwaluwe, a little village near Tilburg. I'm not married. In my spare time I like to play hockey and meet friends.
Caroline Ahgren:
Since 1999 I have been working in a small library in Blekinge, an expansive region in the south of Sweden. My academic degree is M.Sc. in Library and Information Science and I have also studied Literature, Archaeology and Ethnology. In the summer of 1999, I participated in a course The digital library in Copenhagen, arranged by NORDINFO (Nordic Council for Scientific Information).
Svetlana Alexandrova:
In 1986, I graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture, Department of Library Sciences. After that I started my working career in the National Library of the Republic of Moldova, Department of Literature in Foreign Languages. Since 1994 I am working in the United Nations Development Programme in Moldova. I actively participated in the creation of the UNDP Reference Unit. In 1999 the Unit was reorganized into the UN Reference Center following the establishment of the UN House in the Republic of Moldova. My current position is UN Reference Center/Public Information Assistant. I would like also to mention that I am a happy woman, because I have faithful husband, two nice children and very interesting job.
Wan Suhaimi Ariffin:
I am currently attached to Library, Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia as the Head of Resource Management Division, comprising
acquisition, cataloging , gift and exchange units. Prior to his position,
I was an acquisition librarian at Medical Library, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia. I started my library career in 1985 as a documentation librarian in a small special library, then moved to Kuala Lumpur Library (public)and from 1991 permanently worked in academic library. I graduated from Mara University of Technology with Bachelor of Library Science (1985) and hold a Masters of Library Science (MLS) from Syracuse University (1987). In November 1999, I was awarded a Travel Research Fellowship from Southeast Asian Medical Information Center, Tokyo (SEAMIC) to conduct a comparative study on "Management and Usage of International (Medical) Databases" in Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines and Japan (http://lib.hukm.ukm.my/seamictf.html). I have been to Amsterdam twice (year 2000 and 2001) and Urk is the northern-most town visited and hopefully, Tilburg will be the southern-most town to be visited!
Zakaria Banjar:
I am workig as a teacher and co-ordinator in the library and information sector. I joined IPA on July 1981 as an assistant trainer. In 1986, I was granted a scholarship to complete the master degree in the US. I got my master's from Clarion University of Pennsylvania on June 1989.
Paul Bastijns:
After I graduated in Sociology at the University of Ghent in 1994, I studied library and information science at the University of Antwerp. In 1997, I became a lecturer in library automation at the Library School in Ghent and since 1998 I have worked at the automation departement in the Ghent University Library where I am involved in several projects: automation of circulation, administration of e-journals, and library instruction.
Ingrid Beerens:
My name is Ingrid Beerens, born in 1953 in Tilburg. Since 1979, I have been working in the Tilburg University library. I was first appointed in the Central Information and Services department and since 1989, I have been working as an information specialist for Social Sciences. After highschool I got my teaching degree and I started working as a handicraft (textile) teacher in a school for children with learning disabilities. While working at the Tilburg University library I did my library education. Since we are planning to start with an experimental e-learning centre at Tilburg University library, I am very much interested to join this summer school and to learn from the experiences elsewhere. My personal interests are partly related to my previous job: embroidery, patchwork, quilting and cooking.
Guven Berg:
After receiving a bachelors degree in English language at the University of Ankara, Turkey in 1964, I completed a Masters of Library Science program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1967 and after completion moved to Norway. During the period of 1979-1981, I worked as a high school librarian in Gjovik Norway. From 1982 to 1985, I was employed as Chief Librarian at Gjovik Technical College. My responsibilities were planning and structuring the establishment of a completely new library with a computerized library catalogue. In 1985, I moved with my family to the US and first worked briefly as reference librarian at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey. There I was responsible for assisting the students and the faculty in locating and extracting information from available databases. In 1987, I was appointed Library Director at Kenilworth Public Library, Kenilworth, New Jersey, where my main task was the management and development of overall library services. In 1989, we returned to Norway and I have since then been the Library Director at Gjovik University College. My chief responsibilities are personnel management, budgeting, and planning and development of library services. We currently work on projects such as information skills training for students, web-based education, and library services to distance education students. Parallel to this I have also completed a management course at Oslo College, Department of Economics and Social Sciences. My main interests are skiing, swimming and travelling.
Sissel Merethe Berge:
I finished library school in 1983. Since 1995, I have been working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library. I have experience from our UN deposit collection and as a reference librarian. I am the head of a group working with user education at our university library. The Main Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences is planning a new library building. We would like our new library to be a Learning Resource Centre (LRC) and as a member of the building group I am interested in all aspects of LRC and how to create a good learning environment.
Peter Blok:
I studied philosophy at the Unversity of Groningen in The Netherlands, with an emphasis on philosophy of language, logic and algebraic linguistics. I took my PhD (1993) at the same university on a subject in the interface between semantics and pragmatics. In this period, I developed a strong interest in computational linguistics, which brought me to the IBM-scientific centre in Heidelberg (Germany) where I participated in the Logic Programming based Machine Translation program. In 1998, I became the managing director of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Since October 2001, I have worked as director of the Scientific Information Services, housing and facilities of the Faculty of Science. My main interest are the technological developments in the distribution of information in a scientific environment.
Paul Buschmann:
After my studies in Germanic Philology, I followed "Library and Information Science" at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Since 1998, I have worked as a librarian at the polytechnic Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen. In this function I am not not only responsible for, e.g., library automation and electronic information, I am also involved (and very much interested) in a project on e-learning and digital learning environments. Currently we are rethinking the function of the traditional library within our organization. I am married with 4 children aged between 7 and 2. (So you will indoubtedly understand that time left for hobbies is rare ...)
Anneke Dirkx:
I started my professional career as librarian at a school for physiotherapists in Arnhem. After that I moved to the Nederlands Centrum voor Geestelijke Volksgezondheid (Dutch centre for mental health) in Utrecht. There I started as librarian and ended as manager of the library department. Since three years, I have been head of the library of the University Inholland, Alkmaar. Because of our role in education and the developments in digital libaries I followed a course at the University of Amsterdam on ICT and education. I learned a lot, but now I'm trying to find a way to integrate our digital library in digital learning environments. We are also developing courses information literacy.
Gusta Drenthe:
After finishing library school in Amsterdam in 1975, I started working part-time as a documentalist and studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in women's studies. From 1985 till 1991, I worked at the women's studies department of the Utrecht University, setting up a documentation centre, followed by a research project together with the International Information Centre and Archive for the Women's Movement (IIAV) to develop a women's studies thesaurus. In 1992, the university library of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) hired me as their social sciences librarian and I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. This last year Ie worked on programs for information literacy in a electronic learning environment.
Sharida Hosein:
I am presently employed at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago in the University Libraries where I have responsibilities for Electronic Resources. Until February 28, 2002 I was a Subject Librarian in charge of Agriculture and Life Sciences. I provided reference services, developed and maintained the collection and generally did the necessary administrative duties associated with that job. I also provided User Education to all categories of users, staff, lecturers and researchers and students. I developed training modules in all aspects of information literacy including information retrieval, evaluation of information resources. etc. I provided bibliographic instruction for research students and staff. I have a BSc in Agriculture from The University of the West Indies, an MSc in Applied Plant Sciences from London University (Wye College) and an MSc in Information Science from City University, London, UK. Education and Training will also feature heavily in my new position and that is why I am very much interested in participating in this course.
Rita Käkelä:
I am 51 years old. My education is Master of Social Sciences, Librarian. I have been working in the field of library science since 1979 when I got a degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Tampere. Over ten years I worked in public libraries. From 1991 to May 2000 I worked in Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland.
Hanne Marie Kværndrup:
I am employed as a Library Advisory Officer in the Danish National Library Authority (Biblioteksstyrelsen) which is the Danish government's central administrative and advisory body to the public libraries and the research libraries and is an independent agency under the Ministry of Culture. During the last 5 years I have been working with the Danish project Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEF) as Manager of the DEF secretariat and project co-ordinator in close co-operation with Bo Vhrstrvm, managing director, who has the overall responsibility for the DEF project. The aim of the project is like that of other electronic library projects, namely primarily to offer users the chance to obtain relevant research information directly, regardless of the physical location of the information. It will provide the user with access to a huge number of international online articles as well as data on the existing collections in the Danish research libraries - all linked together in one system. Short presentation of my education and previous tasks:
- Librarian graduated from Royal school of librarianship, Copenhagen 1971
- 1967 - 1974 Librarian at the Danish Royal Library
- 1974 - 1980 Librarian at Aalborg University Library
- 1980 - 1985 Consultant in library systems at KMD, the largest provider of IT solutions in the public sector
- 1985 - 1996 IT consultant in Mentor Informatic (now by the name WMdata)
- 1996 - now Library Advisory Officer in the Danish National Library Authority
Lai Chu Lau:
I work at the Run Run Shaw Library at the City University of Hong Kong. My responsibilities are to provide user education and library services to postgraduate students. I am also involved in interlibrary loan operations. Throughout my librarianship career, I worked both in special and academic libraries. My experiences span from cataloguing and reader services to library instruction and management in small library settings. After graduating from the library school over ten years ago, I believe it is time to receive some formal training on the latest development in this field.
Helma van Noije:
I live in Tilburg with my husband. Since 1991, I have worked in the library of the NHTV, the Breda University of Professional Education. In 1998, I became reference-librarian of the departments of traffic, transport, logistics and physical and urban planning. My personal interests are: reading, going out/doing things with friends and doing some sports (playing tennis, swimming and step-aerobic).
Thomas W. Place:
I graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship with the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, I became a lecturer in the Methodology and Philosophy of Science with the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University (1975 until 1987). From 1988 until 1993 I was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 I've been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg University. Since 1989, I've been involved in library automation projects. I was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). I was project manager of the European project Decomate II that aims at creating a pan-European Digital Library for Economics with mutual access to the heterogeneous, distributed and pooled digital resources of the consortium members in the field of Economics. Currently, I coordinate the further development of the Decomate software. The software is marketed by OCLC|Pica under the name iPort.
Maria Qvinth:
I work at the Economics Library in Gothenburg, Sweden. I am currently responsible for our user education and tuition in information literacy for our postgraduate students, teachers and researchers. The Economics Library belongs to Goteborg University Library and is serving seven departments: Economics, Business Administration, Economic History, Human and Economic Geography, Statistics, Informatics and Law. I graduated in languages in 1972 and left the Teachers Training College of Gothenburg two years later. After teaching languages in high school for five years I studied two more years and got my postgraduate diploma in librarianship and entered the library world in 1981. With ten years experience from public libraries and high school libraries, I moved to the Goteborg University Library in 1991, where I have mainly worked with serials, cataloguing, acquisitions, user education, online resources and digital services. In 1998, I started as project leader for user education, information searching skills, information literacy training and user support directed to all our staff, so during the last few years I have been concentrating on support online and courses in information searching. My main interests are health, film.
Eija Räisänen:
In 1991, I graduated from the University of Tampere. I've got master's degree in library and information science. After that I worked in various tasks, mostly in public libraries. Last year, I started as an information specialist at the Häme polytechnic library in Forssa. Having started my work at the Häme Polytechnic library only last year, I have a lot to learn about how students and teachers can make the best use of the (digital) library inresearch and teaching.
Josée Roek:
I live in Tilburg with my partner and little son. Since 1995, I have worked as a subject librarian in the library of the University of Professional Education, Faculty Economics and Management in Breda. I participate in several projects. In one of these projects the subject librarians are involved in the development of a new course in a digital learning environment. We are working on a program for library instruction and information literacy.
Kaija Sipilä:
I started as a librarian at Kumpula Science Library, Helsinki, in January, 2002. Our library was founded last spring when the former libraries of Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, Geology and Geography were merged into a new campus library. This year I am finishing my PhD in synthetic organic chemistry and start to study information science. I also have a degree in pharmacy, and studies in adult education and higher education. Earlier I worked as a teaching assistant and researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki. Chemical literature and user education for chemistry students besides acquisitions are my special areas at Kumpula Science Library. In the future I will also be responsible for the information services.
Alice Tai:
I finished my undergraduate studies at the University of Hong Kong. Then I obtained my librarianship training from the University of New South Wales in Australia. I am currently working as a reference librarian in the Research and Postgraduate Studies Section of the Library at the City University of Hong Kong. My major responsibilities include user education, interlibrary loans and special collection development. Out of the different responsibilities, I am particularly interested in user education. I would like to learn more about online reference, online bibliographic instruction and the use of web technology to enhance information search and delivery.
Sylvia Van Peteghem:
I have worked at the Ghent University Library since 1983 in a number of different functions. I started in the ephemera-collection of the Special Collections Department and got fascinated with the 19th Century collection of the library. Later on I coordinated the Cataloguing and Acquisition of the faculty of Arts and Humanities and became Head of the Cataloguing and Acquisition Department of the Central Library. Since October 2000, I have been Acting Chief Librarian. The digital library and all its aspects is not unknown to me since for many years I had the privilege to work together with Herbert Van de Sompel and his team and I was on the first row when ALEPH was implemented in the library. At this very moment the University of Ghent is in the middle of a complete administrative reorganisation and the library is an important part of it.
Martin Versteeg:
I graduated (1983) at the University of Amsterdam in Dutch language and literature. In 1987 I obtained a post-doctorate degree in Information Science at the same university. This academic training was followed by a variety of courses in the field of management and IT. Since 1983, I have been working at the Library of the University of Amsterdam, successively as cataloguer and as department and institute librarian. To date I am subject specialist for the History of Art and Cultural Studies. I am currently involved in several projects, such as developing a new shelf-mark system for open shelving for the humanities (in co-operation with the University of Utrecht), developing a format for the description of our collections of visual material, approval plans, library instruction, electronic reserves. Apart from my work I am a member of the board of OKBN (Art Libraries Society / The Netherlands). At Ticer I hope to find alternative ways to offer visual (art-historical) material for educational and scholarly purposes.
Rashed Said Zahrani:
I am the director of the computer training department at the Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In July 2000, I got my Ph.D. in information studies from Florida State University, Florida, USA. I was the director of the IPA main library until the beginning of June 2002. I attended several workshops and conferences in USA, UK, and the Middle East. I like swimming, playing football, and walking. This is my second trip to the Netherlands.
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