Michiko Bäckström:
I am Japanese and moved to Sweden 19 years ago. I am working as a librarian at the Royal Insitute of Technology Library, which is one of the largest technology libraries in Scandinavia. We have been registering theses (dissertations and licentiates) on the
Internet since 1997. I work mostly with publishing Electronic theses.
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, am I 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.
Maria do Rosario Costa:
Education:
- Economics and Management of Science & Technology (MSc at Technical
University of Lisbon / Institute for Economics and Business
Administration)
- Library Science (Postgraduate Course at University of Lisbon / Faculty
of Letters)
- Philosophy (Graduation at New University of Lisbon / Faculty of Social
and Human Sciences)
Work experience:
I have been working in the field of library science since 1986 in
institutions linked to the national scientific system. My experience has
been varied. I'm currently work at the Observatory for Sciences and Technologies
(OCT) / Ministry of Science and Technology as leader of the team which carry out
activities concerned with collect, process and analyse the information about the
national production of scientific literature. Recently, we are managing the new
national subscription of Web of Knowledge and preparing the implementation of
new consortia.
Anne Duus:
I work as Webmaster at the European University Institute in Florence, with the responsibility of the development of the website. In this context I am partucularly interested in electronic publishing and how the web changes the access to research publications/results. I return to the library world after working as Information Specialist (researcher) in an international consulting firm, and later as knowledge manager/project manager of webprojects in a public organization. I have Masters Degree in Library and Information Science (1997) from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark.
Henk Ellermann:
My name is Henk Ellermann. I work for the University Library of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands) as project leader Electronic Publishing. It is my job to easen the process of electronic publishing for our researches and let them profit at much as possible from having their own work on line. I've been trained as a cognitive psychologist and earned a Ph. D. on the application of ICT in primary education. Since then I've worked in, and taught about, a number of projects related to the application of ICT in education, publishing and business in general.
Antonella Fabbrini:
Director of Edizioni Cadmo (Publishing House and Publishing Division of Casalini Libri) and Casalini Libri Digital Division, the new division of Casalini Libri which offers online services for publishers, especially concerning the e-publishing of full-texts.
Antonio Fantoni:
1939, Born May 31st.
1963, MD degree, University of Genoa, Italy
1965 - 68 post doctoral fellow, Columbia University, New York
1969, PhD in Biochemistry
1980, full professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Rome "La
Sapienza"
1995 - 2001 Head of Department, Biotecnologia Cellulare ed Ematologia
1998 - in charge of BIDS, Biblioteca Digitale della Sapienza
Beatrice Fournier:
With a doctorate degree in Molecular Biology and a post-doctorate stint of 2 years, I decided that although I found research fascinating, I could not handle the long hours anymore. After much hesitating over what to do next I entered the scientific publishing field. This was an area where my experience as an author/reader would be a plus. After three years on the production side, I have become a publishing editor in the Math & Computer Sciences department of Elsevier Science. I have found that having been on the other end of publishing gives me an understanding of what the scientific community expects from commercial publishers. As technology progresses, I believe that e-publishing will gain in importance, not only as a tool but also for archiving purposes.
Simone Groothuis:
My name is Simone Groothuis, and I am a publishing editor at the Mathematics & Computer Science Department of Elsevier Science in Amsterdam, where I am responsible for the journals on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Human-Computer interaction. I studied Physics at the Free University in Amsterdam. Before I started at Elsevier, I worked for the research department of KPN, the largest dutch telecommunications company, and I worked as a freelance journalist for an engineering magazine, Technisch Weekblad.
Daya Chandrani Kuruppu:
In 1985,I graduated in B.Sc degree from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. Before issuing official result I was absorbed to the Department of Chemistry, University of Ruhuna as a demonstrator and promoted as an assistant lecturer. In 1991, I have joined as an Assistant Librarian in the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I have a B.Sc Degree and M.Phil Degree in Chemistry, but my subsequent education has been Information Management for the past 12 years. Now, I have six years of experience as an Assistant Librarian and 05 years as a Senior Assistant Librarian in the University of Colombo. I was an Editor of the Journal of University Librarians Association in 1999. I have completed my Master Degree in Information Management in the University of Sheffield, UK. At present I am in-charge of the librarian in the Science Faculty and the Medical Faculty library in the University of Colombo and engaged in current development and developing activities of the LAN in the two libraries as a Network Administrator and the Programme Manager. The medical faculty library has been assigned as a focal point library in the HELLIS (Health Library & Information Services) Network in the Asain Region. I serve as a focal point librarian in the project in Asian Region. The knowledge gained by master programmed could be implemented when the LAN was established in the two libraries. I have followed short course in
specialized areas of Computing Technology such as Networking with Windows
NT and participated workshops on Managing Departmental Networks connected
to the University of Colombo - Wide Area Network. I am always interesting to improve my IT knowledge to give whatever benefits to our user community. I would therefore expect to build a digital library system for information development in Sri Lanka to share our resources in each other universities and the institutions to reduce our library capital expenditure and economically deliver information just in time.. To achieve my expectation, I am keen to continue my further studies with related to Digital Library Systems and I have been offered a place for my studies in UK.
Christopher Leonard:
I have worked for 5 years at the interface of science and electronic publishing, initially with the virtual community ChemWeb.com and now with Elsevier Science in Amsterdam. My responsibilities nowadays are to drive electronic initiatives from the side of the publishers. To this end we have been quite successful in implementing electronic submission, preprint servers, portals and novel
search and navigation methods for STM articles. Although perceived by some as a big, bad publisher, Elsevier is in fact involved with many community developments including CrossRef, Open Archives and the STIX fonts projects. We also developed the 'science-only' search engine Scirus.
Mugyabuso J.F. Lwehabura:
I hold a BA (ed)(Hons) and MA (LIB) degrees obtained in 1989 and 1997 from universities of Dar-es-Salaam and Sheffield respectively. I joined Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) as Trainee Asistant Librarian in 1992. Between 1995 and 1992 I worked as a teacher both in teacher Colleges and Secondary School. As librarian Sokoine University of Agriculture I worked as Reader Service Librarian between 1993 and 1996 and Periodicals Librarian from 1997 to date. Currently I am working as Virtual Library Officer within the Electronic Supply of Academic Publications (eSAP) Project a project funded jointly by IAUP and FIUC. My main areas of interest in library work is user education and information literacy.
Marja Malmgren:
I'm 45 years old and working as an Information Specialist at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) Library in Finland. I have over 17 years of experience working for various libraries and at HUT Library I have been since 1989. Currently I coordinate the HUT Electronic Dissertations project. The questions we are dealing with are: electronic publishing as a process, copyright issues, creating and maintaining web services, metadata, electronic archiving, etc. At library I have also been responsible for subject analysis and input of Finnish literature into international energy databases in the field of nuclear energy. I have also acted for some years as EU librarian at HUT. My studies include physics, mathematics and radiochemistry at Helsinki University and management of information resources (Information Specialist) at Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli of Helsinki University of Technology. Before my 'library career' I worked for some years at secondary school as a teacher of physics and mathematics. My personal interests: literature, cycling, opera, traveling.
Aileen McHugh:
As Director of Electronic Publishing for Johns Hopkins University Press, I oversee the digital journal collection, Project MUSE. Managed by the Press in cooperation with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, Project MUSE features a collection of 226 distinguished journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences from more than 30 nonprofit publishers.
Blessing Murahwi:
I was born on February 3, 1961 in Mutare, Zimbabwe where I did my Primary
and High School education. On completing my High School, I enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe where I graduated with a BSc degree in Computing Science and Mathematics. I have since then held various technical and management positions in IT .In the past six(6) years I have employed as ICT Projects Manager for the University of Zimbabwe Libraries. Recently, I was selected to head the IT workgroup for the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium. I have some special interest in Digital Libraries and Web Publishing and am currently engaged in a number of projects in this area. I therefore feel that some formal training in Electronic Publishing will benefit me a lot.
Catherine Muyawala:
After acquiring my BA degree in Library and Information Science from the
University of Zambia in 1990, I joined the Small Industries Development
Organization where I Librarian and Coordinator of the Industrial and
Technological Information System which is an initiative of local
librarians and information professionals working together in providing
vital information services the manufacturing sector in Zambia more
especially to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Since October 1995, I
have been Librarian at the Zambia Privatization Agency ( ZPA) in charge of the Agency technical library and archives housing over 400,000 records on former State-Owned Enterprises. I also work in collaboration with the Public Realtions and Information Technology Departments of the ZPA in
website management as well as other digitization projects. Over the
years, I have had specialist training in Marketing and Management of
Information Services, Database design, development and maintenance for Information Centers as well as in management of industrial information services.
Ruth Nirere:
Born in Burundi, I obtained an MA in Physics and Chemistry in Paris. From 1991 to 1993 I worked for the European Parliament. In 1993 I started working in the Periodicals Department of the Library of the European University Institute in Florence. In the meantime I obtained a library degree at the Vatican Library School. During the last few years my job has been concentrating above all on the development and maintenance of electronic journals.
Eugenio Pelizzari:
I was born in 1957 in Brescia (Italy).
After graduating from the University of Trento in Sociology, I started my
career in the world of librarianship in 1986, working at the Biblioteca
Queriniana, the main public library of my town. In 1992 I moved to the
Central Library of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia.
From 1995 to 1997 I lived in Brazil, working at a cooperation project in
the Human Rights field. In 1997 I was charged to reorganize the IIC
(Italian Institute of Culture) Library in Rio de Janeiro. Back to Italy,
in the years 1998-1999 I attended the Master in Library Direction and
Management, held at the Universit` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.
At present I'm attending the Ma/MSc International Information Studies
promoted by the University of Northumbria and the University of Parma.
Since January 2001 I.ve been the Director of the Interfaculty Central
Library of Economics and Law, University of Brescia.
Reg Readings:
I am Production Director at the Gale Group's Reading offices. I am responsible for the creation of Indexes to The Times & Financial Times as well as the creation and administration of databases associated with our microfilm projects. In addition I have been
closely involved in a project to digitise The Times for the period
1785-1985. This has involved the capturing of images from microfilm, the
creation of metadata and XML and the design of the delivery platform.
Danielle Roger:
I am director of the Library of the Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines, Lyons (France). After graduating in mathematics, I have been working as a high school teacher for three years. Then I started a new career in the library world. I have now an experience of 27 years as a librarian, initially in university libraries, then at the ENSSIB [Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques], and, in 1999, I joined the ENS Lettres et sciences humaines to carry out the automation of the library and organize its transfer from the Paris suburbs to Lyons in a new building. During my career as a librarian, I have been involved in most of the classical activities of librarianship and library management, focusing, in the last 15 years, on library automation and networking. More recently, at the ENSSIB, I managed programmes of electronic publishing (web site, journals, student works). Having been caught by time consuming library management tasks in the last 3 years, I expect, attending the Ticer school, to complete and refresh my knowledge in electronic publishing in order to be more efficient in developing the digital library and participating in the forthcoming programs of electronic publishing of my institution.
Takeshi Shimizu:
I am born in Tokyo Japan, 39 years old. My education is Master of Medical Science and my major was radiation biology. After I worked in Du Pont chemical company as a technical manager for 10 years, I have been in Elsevier Science Japan as a sales manager from 2000. I was an end user of life science databases but still a beginner in the library information field.
Elin Sputnesset:
I was born in 1958 in Oslo, Norway and moved to Amsterdam in 1980. Here I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in 1989. After having worked in different public libraries in Amsterdam I worked as a librarian at an institute for research of atomic and molecular physics until 2001. At this moment I am the librarian of Sanquin Research in Amsterdam, which is the leading institute in blood research in the Netherlands. My aim is to make this a modern (electronic) library in order to support the researchers in their activities.
Tessa Sterkenburg:
Currently I am working for Elsevier Science in the Sales and Market Development Department where I am responsible for the coordination of product launches. I studied International Economics at Utrecht University and started at Elsevier Science as a management trainee. After my traineeship I worked as a publishing editor in the Neuroscience group. In June 2000, I joined the sales organisation and in March 2002, I started in my current position as strategic sales manager.
Arja Tuuliniemi:
I am working as a Planning Officer at FinELib, the National Electronic Library of Finland. FinELib, belonging to the National Library,
is responsible for negotiating user-rights agreements for electronic resources for its member organisations. I graduated from the University of Tampere with a degree in Library and Information Science. In 1991 I started my career at Tampere University Library and worked as library's VTLS-manager until 1999. Then I moved to only just established
Finnish Social Science Data Archive where, as a Research Officer,
I was involved in archiving social science research data in electronic format. I have also worked as Information Specialist at the Arts Faculty Library at the University of Helsinki.
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