Fahad Al-Frih:
I work as the director of the main library at Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Before this job, I worked as the director of the Information Services Department and Technical Department. I got my master degree in Information Services and Library Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1998.
Saad Al-Mufleh:
I am a lecturer, working for the Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I have more than 15 years of experience in training and consultations for libraries and information centres. I worked as an IT department manager for 3 years. I have a master degree in Library and Information Science with a specialisation in Information Systems and Records Management from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1987.
David Aymonin:
Appointed Director of Scientific information of the Ecole polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss federal institute of technology - Lausanne)
in april 2003, I am also head of the central and main library, managing a
team of 22 information specialists. After graduating in chemistry and in library sciences in 1990, I have
experienced several head positions either in private or academic and
public libraries, in France and abroad (Chad, India). My main duties at EPFL are:
a) coordination of the construction of a new library building, with
enhanced IT services, docused on students needs, and b) development of a union catalogue for the whole institute, which is the first step towards a collection development policy.
I am married and have two children of 30 and 4 months.
Christine Bailey:
Currently Director of Library Services at Glasgow University Library appointed in May 2002 following eight months as Acting Director. Prior to that I was Executive Secretary to CURL 1999-2001. I have held senior management posts at Glasgow University Library, with a focus on the input of liaison activity and the development of services to support STM. I am also a member of JISC, chair JCCS. I am a Members Council delegate to OCLC, a member of the SCONUL Board and Vice Chair of SCURL.
Alia Benharrat:
After graduating in Economics and in Library sciences, I have worked since 1989 in different kinds of libraries (administrative, national and university) in France (Paris, Strasbourg and Guadeloupe). I have dealt with many aspects of library work: acquisition, coordination of research libraries, reference librarian... I am currently in charge of the development of the electronic documentation at the University library of Antilles Guyane (French West Indies).
Yolande Brockotter:
I have more than 25 years of experience in scientific and academic libraries in different positions and during that time I studied for my libray degree. Since january 2000, I have worked at the University of Amsterdam, also in different positions and libraries. In July 2002, I started my current position in the Bushuis library at the University of Amsterdam as Head Customer Support, which so far has been for me a most interesting en enriching experience.
Kyle Brogan:
I have been a sales manager in hardware
and software technology for over 20 years. Prior to joining Endeavor
Information Systems (a division of Elsevier)as a Director of North America
sales, I was the Regional Manager for Oracle software. I have spent the
past four years in Higher Education sales with Database,
Financial/Student/HR Applications, Integrated Library Systems and Digital
products.I have a degree in Political Science.I am married with 3 children.
I live in Southern California.
I am a student of Spanish language.
I am learning to play the mandolin.
I am a Harley Davidson rider.
Michele Casalini:
Michele Casalini is managing director of the family company Casalini Libri, which supplies Italian bibliographical data, books and journals to libraries and, through its Digital Division, e-publication services to publishers. After studies at the University of Florence in modern languages and literature and a period with the publishing company La Nuova Italia, Michele specialised in the field of information technology. He is now responsible for the general organisation of the company and attends conferences and debates on the subject of information technology, liasing personally with publishers, book sellers and the company's library customers.
Helen Durndell:
My current job title is Associate Director of Library Services at Glasgow University Library and my role includes responsibility for library services and staffing, as well as acting as deputy to the Director. I have worked in Glasgow since 1979 and have had a variety of roles ranging from Subject Librarian for Engineering to Sub-Librarian (Learning & Teaching). Liaison with library users (and non-users!) has always been a key element throughout my time in the library. The University of Glasgow celebrated its 550th Anniversary in 2001 and currently has 6,000 staff and 20,000 students. There have been no lack of interesting challenges during my time working for the University and I expect that to continue.
Cas Egelie:
I just started this month in a new position as ICTO-Coordinator of the
Tilburg
University. ICTO stands for the usage of ICT in the learning process.
Prior to
this new job, I was senior manager of the Learning Solutions group of
KPMG
Consulting in the Netherlands. I have developed learning and training
strategies and implemented these strategies within the specific context
and
needs of clients in both business and educational market. These
strategies
where always based on blended learning solutions but had a focus on the
new
possibilities of e-learning.
Sheona Farquhar:
I have been in my current post as Technical Services Manager within the Library Services division of the Directorate of Information Systems and Services, University of Aberdeen since February 2003 and have responsibility for the management and supervision of acquisitions, serials, document delivery and collection development. I have worked at the University of Aberdeen since 1980 and my previous posts include Help Desk Services Manager, Site Services Manager for Science and Engineering and Circulation Supervisor. I graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a degree in geography and studied at the College of Librarianship Wales, Aberystwyth for a post-graduate diploma in librarianship.
Marianne Foss:
I received my M.Sc. in 1981, and my Ph.D. in 2001, both in physics, from the University of Tromsø. Since 1993, I have worked as Head of the Library of Sciences, Medicine and Health Care at the University Library of Tromsø. Before that, I worked as a Ph.D. student, research fellow, and assistant professor at the University of Tromsø, as an Executive Officer at the State Educational Loan Fund in Tromsø, and as a research assistant at the University of Tromsø. My professional interest is to make "my" library being considered as a vital and dynamic resource by scientists and students at the University, with a competent and enthusiastic staff. I am very concerned with the welfare of my staff and the resource they represent. I am married and have an 18-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter. I enjoy being out in the nature, hiking in the mountains, but also to travel and visit historical and cultural sites and museums. I am fond of reading novels, especially crime, and enjoy theatre and film.
Monique Goemans:
Since January 2003, I have been Deputy Head a.i. of the Library of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. Until that time I worked as Information Specialist Social Sciences at the Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information Services of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam (NIWI-KNAW). From 1986 until 1997 I was Head of the Library and Documentation Department of the Netherlands Institute of Educational Research in The Hague SVO. I have a postdoctoral degree in information management.
Annu Jauhiainen:
I have been working at the National Library of Finland since 1997. My main job has been to coordinate the selection of the new integrated library system for the national library network, which consists of 20 universities and some special libraries. I also coordinated the implementation of the system, which took place in 2001. One of my main duties at present is to coordinate the Linnea2 Consortium, which was formed to handle the library system cooperation in the country. At the national library I'm also in charge of the national and union catalogue databases. My job also includes a lot of personnel administration. My previous job was at a university library where I was responsible for the circulation department and participated also in systems management and all kinds of customer services.
Dick Kaandorp:
In 1976, I graduated in chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. Then I worked for Kluwer Publishers for eight years. In 1985 I started to work as head and chemical information specialist of one of the branch libraries of Wageningen University. Since 1994, I have fullfilled several management posts in the same library. At the moment I am Deputy Librarian of Wageningen University and Research Centre.
Henk Kempff:
Henk Kempff (1952) graduated in
linguistics at Nijmegen University in
1979. For several years, he worked as a researcher in sycholinguistics at
Nijmegen University. During this period, his interests gradually shifted
from science to computers. In 1985, he started working at the Faculty of
Arts at Tilburg University, where he combined positions as lecturer,
scientific programmer, and head of the computer support group. In 1993, he
started working at the computer centre in his current job as head of the
systems department. He has participated in several computer centre and
library projects.
Steve Knight:
Steve Knight is the Digital Library Transition Co-ordinator, Electronic Services at National Library of New Zealand. The Digital Library Transition Team was established to ensure the long term storage, preservation, and provision of access to New Zealand's digitial cultural heritage and to enhance access to New Zealand cultural heritage online through an increased digitisation programme. In conjunction with other business units, the team researches and facilitates the implementation of the technical and operational infrastructure for the integration of digital materials into the collections of the National Library. From a library background Steve has had experience in a range of information management disciplines, including records management and document management. Much of this work has been in the design and implementation of electronic services.
Pia van Kroonenburgh:
My present position is Faculty Librarian of the department of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Before that, I worked as head of the department of cataloguing & acquisition at Tilburg University and also at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. I studied Ancient History at the university of Nijmegen and I completed a post-graduate course in information and documentation science.
Peter Lindgren:
I have been working as Library director at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life (Arbetslivsinstitutet) since 1996. After graduating from library school twenty years ago I worked with many aspects of information, computers and people in libraries. At present I am involved in different projects concerning digitalisation, e-learning and library services on the Internet. I am a member of the Board of the Swedish Association for Information Specialists and chair its Information and Conference Committee.
Jenny Mendelsohn:
I am the Head of the Reference Department in Robarts Library (Humanities and Social Sciences) at the University of Toronto. I have worked in reference and provided library instruction for over twenty years at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in humanities, social sciences and science libraries. I have also written journal articles (one of them an award winning article) on reference service, instruction and other topics. I have created subject-based web resources, the most recent being "An Academic Guide to Jewish History", which today is maintained by a collaboration of eleven research libraries. For many years I led Staff Development initiatives in the library, one involving collaborative learning groups, and I still maintain an interest in the area of ongoing staff learning. I initiated and co-chaired a very successful Information Technology Forum for over 750 faculty and researchers. I am now working in the area of information specialists and faculty liaison - attempting to tie this in to a project to enhance selective subject access to major resources.
Jasper Muvezwa:
Mr. Jasper Muvezwa is the Head, Library
Sub-Unit, overall in charge in the provision of ACBF library and
information services. He holds a Masters Degree in Library & Information
Science from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Mr.
Muvezwa is a Zimbabwean and joined ACBF in August 1998. My age is 44. My
duties include Coordinate the development and application of Information
Center technology. This includes selecting, designing, implementing,
evaluating, and monitoring online library equipment and software.
coordinate the development and application of Information Center
technology. This includes selecting, designing, implementing, evaluating,
and monitoring online library equipment and software.
Katherine Nicol:
I graduaded in Information and Library Management in 1995. I have worked at the Welsh Development Agency, the Environment Agency and currently I am working for the British Council. I
have experience of running a workplace library, of managing an
organisation wide service and I am currently the Planning and Comunication
Co-ordinator for Information Services Management at the British Council.
Gabriella Padovan:
Work History at Swiss Reinsurance Company in the Unit Knowledge & Information Management: In February 2003, I was appointed Head of Library Services. Swiss Re has one of the world's leading insurance libraries. Our branches in Armonk, Manhattan and Zürich lend materials on insurance, reinsurance, financial markets, and related topics to our internal clients. We circulate newspapers, journals, and other periodicals. Evaluation, acquisition, and distribution of print and electronic resources are part of our ongoing activities. Before assuming this position I worked since 1999 first as Information Specialist and subsequently as Senior Information Specialist in the Knowledge & Information Management Unit. Projects and work areas were: In the Knowledge Management Consulting/Solutions team leading the project Media Management, which aims at building a web-based photo gallery and an archive for power point presentations. Doing Knowledge Workplace Consulting: an initiative we have started in Swiss Re to support the upper management to fight information overload with especially developed techniques. Furthermore I have lead the initiative 'Thesaurus Evaluation'. This evaluation aimed at clarifying the future of our internally developed thesaurus in the light of how people execute searches and how we could improve the functionality already in place. Before that I was part of the portal project team, where I was responsible to build the structure to navigate the content. Presentations of the portal in the year '99 at DGI conference in Frankfurt a. M. and at Plumtree Odyssey in San Francisco. Also I was working in the information management area as researcher and produced our electronically distributed internal press review. Education: 2002, Information Audit in Companies, Course at tfpl; 2001, Personal Knowledge Management, Course at ZfU; 1989 - 1997, Study (Study of History of Arts of the Middle Ages and Modern Times), degree: phil. I (written on Sonja Sekula, Swiss painter), during study working at the library of the Institut für Denkmalpflege der ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute for preservation of monuments and historic buildings); 1995, Course for librarians at Zentralbibliothek Zürich (University library).
Barbara Paton:
I am the Deputy University Librarian at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. In this role I am responsible for coordinating the planning and development of information technology applications in the Library, and for the coordination of library services offered at the main campus of the University. I also assist the University Librarian in all aspects of the management of the wider Library system across seven campuses. Prior to this position I held senior management roles in reference and information services at La Trobe University Library and at the University of Queensland Library. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship from the RMIT University.
Thomas Place:
In 1974, I graduated in Psychology from
the University of Amsterdam. I started as lecturer for Methodology and
Philosophy of Science in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg
University. In 1988, I became head of the Social Sciences Library and in
1993 Deputy Librarian at Tilburg University. Since 1989, I've been project
manager of local, national and international library automation projects.
Currently, among many other things, I coordinate the software development
of iPort, the information portal of OCLC|Pica.
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.
Tim Tamminga:
Currently I am Director of Major
Accounts at Endeavor Information Systems, a subsidiary of Elsevier. My
focus and interest lies in digital library technologies. Prior to
Endeavor, I was Director of Sales for ObjectWave Consulting, which is a
software development consulting service, specializing in the design and
implementation of object-oriented enterprise-class applications for
Fortune 1000 companies. I have also worked at SCT Corporation, which
provides ERP solutions and professional services for educational
organizations, for Ovid Technologies, which develops and sells local and
online technologies for searching scientific, medical and business
research databases, and for NOTIS Systems, Inc., which provided
mainframe-based library management solutions for University and research
libraries. I have published several articles about consulting services and
object-oriented development projects. Education: Faculty of Information and Library Science at the University of Toronto, Ontario (1982-1984, Master´s Degree); Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario (1980-1982, Master´s Degree); History and Social & Political Theory Departments at York University, Toronto, Ontario (1975-1980, Combined Honor´s B.A.)
Married with two children. Enjoy playing with my kids, running,
reading and fly fishing.
Mark Toole:
I am Director of Information Services at the University of Brighton. After working in the commercial sector, for the past ten years I have worked in four diverse higher education institutions in the UK in a variety of management roles in Information Services departments. I have been involved in developing support services,undertaking strategic planning to underpin the use of networked learning, and have taken the lead in a number of projects, particularly those focused on introducing learning technologies. I have extensive experience of change management, particularly in the promotion of a customer focus ethos and collaborative approaches to managing change.
Paul van de Ven:
I was born on 18 June 1966 in a village in the south of the Netherlands. From 1984 to 1990 I studied Econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Economics at the Universitat Autonoma in Barcelona (1989). In 1994 I started working at the Ministry of Finance in The Hague as a policy advisor Multilateral Development Banks. In 1993 I became a senior-policy advisor and tax forecaster at the Ministry of Finance. In 1994 I joined the Economic Research Department (ERD) of Rabobank to become an economic analyst. In 1997 I became the head of one of the sub-departments within the ERD responsible for domestic economic research. Also in 1997 I graduated for a master's degree in Financial Economics at TIAS Business School. In 2001-2002 I joined the Corporate Strategy Department of the Rabobank Group and was involved in the preparation of a new strategic framework for the Rabobank Group. As from 1 January 2003 I was appointed as chief-economist and head of the Economic Research Department of Rabobank Nederland and also responsible for the Knowledge and Information Centre of the Rabobank (KIRA). I am 37 years old, married and have two beautiful little children (4 and 3 years old). Hobbies are soccer and gardening and, of course, general family life.
Mike Visser:
I work at Endeavor Information Systems
as the product manager for ScienceServer, a product that enables libraries
to locally load and provide access to electronic journal content. I have
been working in the library world since the mid 90s. After receiving my
MLIS from UT Austin, I worked for a number of years at New York Public
Library as a reference librarian and systems analyst, and subsequently at
Plumb Design, a Web software company with a particular focus on
information publishing, where I had the opportunity to work on a variety
of projects with library related clients. I am particularly interested in
the role well designed interfaces can play in making the ever expanding
universe of digital library resources more accessible and visible to
library patrons, and am looking forward to taking part in the seminar.
Gabrielle von Roten:
I got my diploma as librarian in 1970 and worked in several libraries in Zurich and Geneva, among those, as chief librarian of the Translators' and Interpretors' School for 11 years. During this time, I follow a two-years course for the "Certificat de formation continue en information documentaire (CESID)". Since 1989, I have been working at the University of Geneva with a team that I manage, as coordinator for the information services, the maintenance, the training and the support of the library system (VIRTUA) for the fifty libraries in Geneva who belong to the Swiss network RERO for the French speaking part of the country. Moreover, our library service called SEBIB manages the local modules for loan, periodicals and in the close future, for acquisitions for the same libraries, the statistics, and the web site. I am the secretary of the University Library Board and President of the Swiss University Library Conference. I have participated in many cooperative projects, the latest ones being the Swiss Consortium for electronic publications, electronic doctorate theses and Bibliopass. I'm involved in library projects at the local and regional scale and still very interested to learn more about the changing roles of the library, the new opportunities with IT developments, and the demands of students, professors and researchers. My hobbies are skiing, art and movies.
Ans ter Woerds:
In 1979 I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Sittard and since then have been working in the information world. Only briefly as school librarian at my former highschool, then for almost 19 years at Nyenrode University, the Netherlands Business School (first as information specialist and later as head of the library), and 4 years ago I transferred to a corporate library and became head of KIRA the Knowledge and Information Centre of the Rabobank. In 1992/93 I did a part-time course in library management, and in 1996 I graduated for a master's degree in Social and Cultural Sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam. I have always been and still am involved in professional activities. At present I am member of the Board of the Dutch Library Association, member of the Program Council of Stichting GO (training centre for information specialists), member of the editorial board of Informatie Professional (the Dutch library journal) and co-organizer of study tours for librarians. My biggest hobby is travelling.
Ben Wynne:
My background is largely in academic libraries and also includes a number of years working in the information unit of a large London law firm. During the early years of my career, I specialised in legal and European Union information. Since 1997 I have held a number of management roles in the libraries of the London School of Economics & Political Science, University College Dublin and, currently, the University of Sussex where I am E-Strategy Leader. My experience includes managing both 'front-of-house' (enquiry services, training, promotion, collection development etc.) and 'back-of-house' (acquisitions, cataloguing, systems etc.) departments. As my job title suggests, my current focus is on the development and use of electronic library resources and services.
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