Jos Brekelmans:
Jos Brekelmans (1962) is working as a senior consultant at Oracle Netherlands. After his
graduation in Electronic Engineering (Communications Theory), he started
his career in 1984 as a software developer in a very small company. From developing
scalable solutions based on Oracle's Relational Database Management System
(RDBMS) and client server computing he moved towards developing Interactive
Services and Corporate Library systems based on Oracle's Internet Computing
architecture. He joined Oracle in 1994 and in 1998 he started a Master Study on
Knowledge Management at the Tilburg Institute for Advanced Studies. At this
moment he is project manager in a number of projects to develop ICT solutions for
supporting Knowledge Management initiatives in Europe and in America.
Lynne Brindley:
Lynne Brindley is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Communications and IT) and University Librarian at
the University of Leeds. Previously she was the
Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics,
where she was responsible for the British Library of Political and Economic Science,
a major research library in the social sciences, and for academic computing
services and networking. She has held previous positions as a Principal
Consultant at KPMG Management Consulting, Director of Library & Information
Services and PVC for IT at Aston University, and a variety of posts at the British Library.
Until recently she was a member of the HEFCs' Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) and chaired the Committee for Electronic Information which is responsible for
national developments in digital information and digital library developments. She
was a member of the Review Committee which led to the Follett Report and
continued involvement through chairing the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
She is a member of the ESRC Research Resources Board and a Commissioner of the
DCMS's (Department of Culture, MEdia and Sport) Library & Information Commission.
She has published extensively particularly on
the electronic campus, and information management topics.
Yvonne M. Campfens:
Yvonne Campfens graduated in econometrics from the University of Amsterdam in 1993.
After spending a year as management trainee at Elsevier Science in Cambridge, Oxford and
New York, she became Product Manager/Publishing Editor Computer Science journals and
book series at Elsevier Science in Amsterdam. In 1997, she started as
Product Manager Electronic Products at Swets in Lisse, The Netherlands. Since 1998,
she has worked at Swets as Manager Global Marketing & Sales Support.
Dominiek Decleyre:
Dominiek Decleyre studied Biology at the University of Gent, Belgium.
Since 1994 he has worked at he Central Library of the University of Gent,
as a network administrator for the local and the cdrom network (NT,
Winframe and ERL technology). He also maintains the opac workstations in
the central and the branch libraries.
Roland Dietz:
Roland Dietz holds a graduate masters degree in Electronics Engineering
(artificial intelligence software) of the Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands. From 1983 until 1989 he worked for Philips Electronic Industries in
several different positions, followed by three years at Tulip Computers
International as Vice President International Marketing. In 1992 he started at
the Amsterdam Publishing Division of Elsevier Science Inc. as Marketing
Director. Since 1994 he has been the Senior Vice President Business Development
at Elsevier Science Inc.
Martin Dillon:
From 1970 to 1985, Martin Dillon served on the faculty of the School
of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where his research and teaching focused on topics in library
automation and information retrieval. He came to OCLC as Visiting
Distinguished Scholar in 1985. In 1986, he assumed the position of Director of
the Office of Research, where he guided a staff of 30 in research supporting
OCLC's mission of improving access to information. From June 1993 until he
became executive director of the Institute in January 1997, he served as
director of OCLC's Library Resources Management Division, which is responsible
for managing OCLC's Cataloging and Resource Sharing services.
Dr. Dillon is a graduate of Canisius College and holds a doctoral
degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has
published numerous articles in the library service and information literature.
Read Dr. Dillon's "Graduation Talk for UNC School of Information and
Library Science".
As the inaugural director of the OCLC Institute, he is forging new
ways to facilitate the evolution of libraries through advanced educational
opportunities.
Hans Geleijnse:
Hans Geleijnse (1947) graduated in Dutch Law from the Nijmegen University in
1972. He attended several courses and seminars on journalism, personnel
management and academic librarianship. In 1972 he became secretary of the
University Council at Tilburg University and in 1983 he was appointed deputy
librarian at the Tilburg University Library, combining this job with the
chairmanship of the University Council for three years. Since 1989 he has worked
as university librarian. Currently he holds the chair of the Programme Management Digital
Library Tilburg University. He is a member of the Steering Group of
Dutch Innovation Projects SURF, of the Bibliotheksausschuss der
Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the Board of Ticer.
He was and is involved in various European project (Telephassa, Elise
I, Elise II, Decomate I, T-ECUP). Currently he is the programme
director of the EC funded project Decomate II.
Emanuella Giavarra:
Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and
English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer.
From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests
of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was
appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation
Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of
the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a
partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and
a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII).
John A. Hearty:
John A. Hearty received his undergraduate degree at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
He has an MA from Kent State University and a M. Phil. from George Washington University in
international Affairs/Middle East Studies. After finishing his graduate studies, he worked for
United Communications Group where he was Director of the Federal Marketing Information
Service which provided the full-text of the electronic edition of the Commerce Business Daily.
In 1985 he accepted a position as Manager of Electronic Publishing at the American Chemical
Society where he was responsible for development and implementation of electronic products
such as the full-text CHEMICAL JOURNALS ONLINE database and ACS/ECOM, American
Chemical Society's Electronic Communications Network. In 1991, Mr. Hearty took over the
responsibility for reference products including EPIC, FirstSearch, and the Electronic Science
Journal project at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio as Director of Reference Services. Currently, he is
Director of the Business Development Division responsible for pursuing new business
opportunities, alliances, and acquisitions. Mr. Hearty has published and spoken extensively
on all aspects of electronic publishing and online delivery of information.
He was one of the speakers at the 1998 Summer School.
Richard Luce:
Richard Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National
Laboratory and LANL's Project Leader for the Library Without Walls. He was
awarded LANL's 1996 Distinguished Performance Award for contributions
supporting science and technology through the transformation of the
Research Library.
Mr. Luce is recognized as a Laboratory leader in process management, where
he has implemented Strategic Business Management, an evolution of TQM. The
LANL Research Library recently received a 1997 New Mexico Roadrunner
Quality Award for organizational performance excellence -- the only library ever
so recognized at the state level.
Richard has held positions as Assistant Director for Boulder Public
Library, Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and as the first
Executive Director of SEFLIN, prior to his position at Los Alamos. He is
known nationally as a digital library pioneer, as well as for his early
work in linking heterogeneous library systems. The IRVING Network, cited as a
model innovative cooperative technology project in the early 1980's, was the
world's first library network to connect heterogeneous multi-vendor library
catalog systems through a common user interface the using OSI model. Today,
LANL's Library Without Walls project is one of the more evolved and successful
digital library efforts in the US.
Richard is a past-President of the Colorado Chapter of ASIS and has served
as a consultant for numerous libraries in three countries. He holds a MLIS
from the University of South Florida and an MPA from San Diego State
University.
John Mackenzie Owen:
John Mackenzie Owen is professor of information science
at the University of Amsterdam and a former senior consultant for Ticer.
During his career, he has worked for academic institutions and in
the commercial information industry. In addition to numerous consultancy and
project management assignments, he has been senior consultant for NBBI and director of the R&D company
of Cap Gemini Innovation in the Netherlands, responsible for product innovation
and R&D projects. He has published several well-known studies on innovation
in the information chain, information policy and information science. He has
conducted strategic studies for the Dutch government, library organizations and
major international companies. He is also actively involved in programme
development, project evaluation and research activities for the European
Commission.
Di Martin:
Di Martin is currently Director of Learning & Information Services at the University
of Hertfordshire, heading up a department responsible for the development and delivery
of integrated computing, library, and media services to a large multi-site, multi-disciplinary
university. She first joined the university in 1991 as Deputy University Librarian. She was promoted
to the post of University Librarian in 1995 and then appointed to her present post when the services
converged in January 1997. Her earlier experience in managing library and information and other
learning resources services was gained in a number of further education colleges. She has a
degree in German, a postgraduate diploma in librarianship, a teaching certificate and a Master's
degree in Human Resource Management. She is a member of the Library Association and the
Institute of Personnel & Development.
Kees Mouwen:
Dr. Kees Mouwen was originally trained as a physicist. After getting
his PhD in Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology, he became head of the
physics department of a Teacher Training College. Later in his career he held
positions as principal of various Colleges for Higher Professional Education. In
the late eighties he became a member and chairman of the Executive Board of a
large Polytechnic in the northern part of the Netherlands (Leeuwarden). His
interest and work in the field of management started in the early eighties, when
he co-founded a Business School at which he taught Leadership, Strategy and
Innovation. In 1992 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Strategy and
Innovation at the Glasgow University Business School. In 1994 he was appointed
member of the Executive Board of Tilburg University. In this function he is,
among other things, responsible for information technology and the library.
Karl Wilhelm Neubauer:
Dr. Neubauer studied Theology and Religion at the Universities of
Tübingen, Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. He did his doctorate of
theology in Berlin in 1964. Later on he studied Library and
Information Science in Cologne. From 1968, he worked for four years at
The Institute on Library Technologies in Berlin. In 1973, he became the
director of the National Serials Data System in the State Library in
Berlin. At the same time he was the director of the International
ISBN-Agency in Berlin, too, and was responsible for the world-wide
development of the ISBN-System. Since 1985, he has been working at the
Bielefeld University as the Director of Libraries. The library is
supplying a relatively complete electronic service around the local area network of the
university and via Internet, including electronic document delivery.
At present, dr. Neubauer also is project manager of The Digital
Library Nordrhein Westfalen and member of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) -
Subcommittee for data processing and communication technologies.
Moreover, he has been a member of the board of the GEP (Gemeinschaftswerk
Evangelischer Publizistik der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland)
committee of experts of books since 1989 and member of the GEP
management since 1994.
Teun Nijssen:
Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for
Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been
employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since since 1978, first
as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for
ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992
he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University
Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project
Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University
(1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht.
Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America.
He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in
several SURFnet projects on encryption and multimedia.
Thomas Place:
Thomas Wessel Place (1950) 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, he 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 he was librarian of
the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 he has
been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg
University. Since 1989, he has been involved in library automation
projects. He was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking
CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing
Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). Currently, he is 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.
Eugenie Prime:
Eugenie Prime is Manager of Corporate Libraries at Hewlett-Packard Company,
headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Before joining HP in 1987, Eugenie was
President of CINAHL Corporation, a publisher and database producer of the Index to
Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Eugenie speaks extensively in the areas of
Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge
Management, and has been an invited speaker at ASIS, ASIDIC, Online, MLA and SLA
Regional Chapters and Annual Convention meetings. She was a keynote speaker at the
SLA Annual Convention in Seattle in 1997. She has also given presentations and has
lectured across Noth America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa. An interview
with Eugenie appeared in the inaugural issue of "Information Outlook" (January 1997) in
which she discussed the importance of a vision for libraries and the process
for developing that vision, and another interview by Barbara Quint "Retooling the
Information Professional: The Librarian as a Winner - Eugenie Prime of Hewlett-Packard"
was published in "SEARCHER: The Magazine for Database Professional" (October
1997). Eugenie received a Bachelor's degree in History and Sociology from the
University of the West Indies, and a postgraduate research scholarship in History from
the University of London. Ms. Prime also holds a M.A. in History from Andrew's
University, and M.S. from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Jola Prinsen:
Jola G.B. Prinsen finished the library school in 1985. She started
working with Excerpta Informatica (the computer science documentation centre at
Tilburg University Library) as a documentalist. Since then she has had jobs in the Tilburg
University library as head of Excerpta Informatica,
and as head of the fee-based information services.
In December 1997 she became responsible for the library's public relations and its
web site.
Since October 1995, she has also worked with Ticer.
At Ticer, Jola is responsible for marketing, account
management and the organisation of the Summer School. Jola attended several
computer and marketing courses as well as a course on Academic Library
Management.
Jeff Pudewell:
Jeff Pudewell is the Assistant University Librarian for Finance and Enterprise
at Stanford University.
This title is indicative of the more active role which libraries will play in the information industry of the next century.
Jeff is the Chief Financial Officer for the Stanford Libraries
and is also responsible for developing knowledge
enterprises that parallel traditional library services and structure. Knowledge enterprises include
HighWire Press,
Knowledge Environments (TM), digital collection building, database development and electronic resource marketing.
Jeff has an MBA and an MLIS from the University of California, with an undergraduate degree in history and sociology.
Prior to employment at Stanford University, Jeff was the Director of Main Library Services and Collection Development
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Hans Roes:
After studying Monetary Economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as
a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University and the Katholieke
Leergangen Tilburg. In 1990 he started working as librarian for Economics and
Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He was manager of the Online
Contents project at the library and initiator of a project for electronic document delivery.
Since 1993 he has worked as deputy librarian at Tilburg
University Library. In 1998 and 1999 Hans managed the IWI project
Electronic Journal of Comparative Law.
Occasionally, he does some consultancy work. Currently, he is working
on a project to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation
of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes. Most of his time
is spent though managing collection development and information services
of the library. Hans' professional interests include: (networked) information
retrieval; distributed databases; SGML; current awareness services; full text
databases; electronic document delivery; electronic journals and preprints; and
collection development in a transitional period moving from printed towards
electronic information. More information can be found at
http://www.hroes.de/.
Bas Savenije:
Bas is currently director / head librarian of the Utrecht University Library.
His former position was director budgeting & control at Utrecht University.
Bas has a philosophy background and has published on topics such as:
strategic management, planning and control, library innovation, and library management.
More information can be found at http://www.library.uu.nl/staff/savenije/
Herbert Van de Sompel:
Herbert Van de Sompel (1957) graduated in mathematics
and computer science at the University of
Gent, Belgium. Since 1982 he has worked in the central
library of the University of Gent as Head
Automation. Milestones in his career were: first LAN in
a Belgium university library (1986); realisation of
a joint catalogue for Belgium on CD-ROM (1989 and
onwards); prototype CD-ROM LAN solution in
the central library (1990); first generation CD-ROM
network solution distributed over the University of
Gent (1991); beta test SilverPlatter Electronic
Reference Library (1993); cooperation with SilverPlatter
within the scope of WWW access to Electronic Reference
Library (1994); second-generation
CD-ROM network solution (1996); realisation of the
Executive Lounge, an integrated, web-based access
to the electronic collection of the university (1997);
introduction of the institution based resolver service
(SFX-mechanisms) for interlinking information (1998). Herbert Van de
Sompel is currently preparing a PhD on the position of the research
library in a digitized information chain. In that context, he spent 6
months at the Los Alamos National Research Library working on linking
and preprint related matters.
Solke Veling:
Solke Veling (1947) combines a position as director of the Computer Centre
of Tilburg University with that of general manager of Ticer B.V. He graduated in
Mathematics at Nijmegen University in 1976. For ten years he was statistician at
the Medical Faculty in Nijmegen, followed by two years as head of the Scientific
Applications Department of the Erasmus Computing Centre at Erasmus University
Rotterdam. Since 1986 he has been director of the Tilburg University Computer
Centre and since 1995 general manager of Ticer. He holds the chair in several
boards and committees at Tilburg University, in The Netherlands and Europe.
Leo Waaijers:
Leo Waaijers studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Leiden. He started his career as an assistant professor at the Delft University of Technology, where he also gained his PhD degree, in 1994. Gradually his work shifted to the managerial domain and from 1984 to 1988 he was a member of the Executive Board of his University. In 1988 he was appointed university librarian. He attended several international management courses and studies among which an OECD study tour on academic research and education in the USA and an IMD training in Lausanne. He was member of the 'Expertengruppe' who audited the library of ETH Zurich. He won an MCB award for his article 'End User's Hopes and Expectations' in Interlending and Document Supply, for which journal he became a member of the editorial board. He was vice chair of Eusidic (European Association of Information Services), board member of ITC (International Translations Centre) and member of the Advisory Council of Engineering Information Inc. Currently he is IATUL's treasurer (International Association of Technical University Libraries). He has published and spoken extensively, particularly on library strategy, management and finances.
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