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Svanhild Aabø: I am associate professor of library and information science at Oslo University College. After graduating from the library school in Oslo in 1973, I worked in public and academic libraries as well as in publishing houses. In 1988, I received my master in library and information science and then worked several years at the national library with different bibliographical and IT-related projects. Today, my time is divided between research and teaching at the library and information science programme. Research interests include information economics and valuation of libraries. I am currently engaged in a research project exploring the value and benefits of the Norwegian public libraries. |
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Sefira Ajoeb: I am trained as a librarian specialised to work in university and research libraries. After a few years of working in this specific sector, I made a switch to the world of public libraries. Here I worked for more than ten years as a general manager of several libraries. When I became a mother, I took a break of 4 years from my professional career to take care of my two kids. In 1989 I started a new job at ENDEMOL (a leading television production company), where I got the task of setting up a department on document and information management. Management of information in a structured way was something quite new in this hectic televsionproduction environment. The department started with only myself as staff, but by the time I left it had a staff of seven fulltime members. In 2000 I once again made a move, this time to work for a public broadcasting company, TROS. I now have the opportunity to see and understand the process of television and radio making from the other side, the viewpoint of the broadcaster. I work at the Department of Information Services, where I am responsible for the unit Company Archives. |
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Mikel Goedhoop: I have a university degree in communication and succesfully finished the post doc course 'Integraal document management' at the Erasmus University. I have been employed on a wide scale of jobs in the past, ranging from marketing and industrial planning to communications. Mostly staff and management, both in a commercial and non profit environment. Mainly in governement institutions. In my previous job I was invited by the management to reform and reorganise the inhouse information services and libraries. After the reform was accomplished succesfully, I joined this new departement as an information consultant/advisor. With the new information departement now in function for a year and a half, we expect that we will be required to produce management information any day now, as well as to present parameters by which our performance can be judged and benchmarked against other in-house information services. With this course I hope to gain inside and skills to anticipate on this demand. I personally also see this as an opportunity to get better equipped for management. |
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Tony Kidd: I am presently Head of Finance/Serials/Document Delivery at Glasgow University Library, having worked for most of my career in acquisitions and serials, in Southampton, Aston, and (since 1986) Glasgow Universities, following a first degree in Economics. I am involved in library budgeting and financial monitoring in general, and in managing serials and document delivery budgets in particular. I am a member of the JISC Journals Working Group, and of the COUNTER Executive Committee, developing standards for measuring electronic journal statistics, and thus demonstrating value. |
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Annalies Koelstra: For many years I was head of the HanzeMediatheek, faculty of economics of the Hanzehogeschool. Since october 2001 I am the head of the Central Medical Library of the faculty of Medicine, University Groningen and the Academic Hospital in Groningen. We have a great digital collection of electronic journals and databases. It is a very dynamic organization. We use SFX technology (Ruglinks) and we are experimenting with Metalib. We have a great team. Personal interests: sauna, reading, film, dancing, nature, walking. |
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Pia van Kroonenburgh: My present position is manager at the library of Tilburg University and member of the managementteam. In this position I'm responsable for the section user support and the section Brabant collection. Before that I worked for ten years as Faculty Librarian of the department of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. In the period 1989-1993 I worked as head of the department of cataloguing & acquisition at Tilburg University. I studied Ancient History at the university of Nijmegen and I completed a post-graduate course in information and documentation science. |
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Jarka Looks: Currently head librarian and vice-director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne. Managing a staff of 12, a collection of about 250'000 volumes and 2'000 current subscriptions, dealing with multitude of languages and cultures. Degree in Arts (1981), Law (1988) and Librarianship (1990). Teaching courses in law for ID specialists at the Geneva school of higher management. Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Librarians (IALL), of the Copyright Legal Matters (CLM) committee of IFLA. |
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Adriana Popping: I graduated from the Library and Documenation Academy Sittard in 1978 . For several years I was the deputy head of Corus (formerly Hoogovens) Corporate Library, responsible for the management library and serials management. As of april 2004 I will be responsible for the Customised Information Services department, part of the Knowledge & Library Services, at Corus IJmuiden. The main objective of this department is to provide agreed information for individual customers. My hobbies are travelling, yoga, philosophy. |
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Nynke Wiersma: 1997-2001: Informatiedienstverlening en- management, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 2000/2001: three month course 'Access to information at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen Denmark, 2001/2002: employee corporate communications Royal Friesland Foods, 2002-present: Knowledge & Information Co-ordinator Royal Friesland Foods Corporate Research DepartmentCurrent projects/activities: Chair of an corporate platform for knowledge & information management Developing a knowledge management plan (locally)for the future Personal interests: reading, keeping up with my social contacts, listening music, sports |
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Myrna Wijngaarden: I am trained as a librarian for specialist and technical libraries and took management courses for information providing institutions. I joined Statistics Netherlands as a documentalist and was appointed Head of Library in 1997. |
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Dick van Zaane: Biochemist Utrecht; PhD and research on biochemistry of and immunity to animal viruses; research management, including financial aspects; advisor integration Wageniungen UR; Librarian |
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Anneloes Blekxtoon is Information Manager Wholesale Clients Information Resource Centre for ABN AMRO Bank N.V. since 2003. Before taking this position Ms. Blekxtoon was Information Manager for the Corporate Finance division of ABN AMRO Bank for several years. Prior to this position, Ms. Blekxtoon worked in Singapore as a Marketing Analyst for Crown Worldwide for nearly 3 years and started her career at the Library department of the Chamber of Commerce in Rotterdam. In December 2003 Ms. Blekxtoon was an invited speaker at a seminar and spoke about the subject of "Offshoring Information Departments". Ms. Blekxtoon is a graduate from the Library & Documentary Information Academy in 1994
Since 2202 I am the deputy director of the Goettingen State and University Library. My responsibilities are strategic and financial planning, human resources management and development, controlling. From 1997 to 2002 I worked as assistant director and head of the acquisition department at the Regional and University Library at Munster. There I was responsible for two projects funded by the German Research Association, which dealt with the development and implementation of activity based costing and a balanced scorecard for academic libraries. At present I am also engaged in the development of a country-wide benchmarking system for university information services in a project initiated by the Bertelsmann foundation.
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I work for Elsevier since May 2001 as Market Intelligence Manager for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. It is my responsibility to develop value statements for Elsevier.s. products and/or concepts. Showing the added value of our products or of libraries in general will help in the consultative sales process.
I also segment the market; research institutes can now be profiled by a number of indicators. To name a few important ones: turn over data (invoice information), usage data (ScienceDirect web logs), population data (students and faculty research staff) and article output (from ISI). This assists in offering relevant scientific information / new products to prospective customers.
I also analyse emerging markets in my region; the output and quality of academic research in Russia, the Balkan and some Middle Eastern countries is developing quite fast, and this of course has our interest.
Before Elsevier, I worked as a Project Manager at a small Internet start up that develops intra-/extranets and web applications for medical and patient societies in the Netherlands. Before that, I worked as an Information Broker at the Scientific Information Department of DSM-Gist in Delft, largest producer of raw penicillin in the world, where I led several innovative library projects.
I hold a Masters degree in Biology, specialised in Molecular Genetics from the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Reekx, Adviseurs en dienstverleners in informatievoorziening), Groningen; Manager Reekx Projecten and senior consultant. Education:
1993-1995: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts, Book and Information Science
I am a Customer Support Consultant in the National Library of New Zealand.s Electronic Services Division, with responsibility for market research and product development. I was closely involved with the Library.s 2002 project to measure the national economic value of the online National Bibliographic Database and National Union Catalogue and their access, identification and supply functions. I am currently involved in a project to reshape the delivery of National Library.s increasingly digital library to meet the government outcome of making available to New Zealanders information important to all aspects of their life, in a country with a low population base, where most people live and work some distance from the Library, but have high take up of technology. I undertook post .graduate library training and have worked in Scotland and New Zealand mostly in the public library sector.
My present position is manager of the Resins Knowledge Center of Akzo Nobel. After my military duty I have worked for General Electric Plastics in Bergen op Zoom (NL). In 1989 I started at Akzo Nobel Resins in the R&D organization. I changed in 1991 to the library and documentation department. Since that moment we changed our department to a Knowledge Center with a more global focus and slightly extended our services from only R&D oriented to multi discipline information /knowledge supply. I am currently running a project to transform our Resins Knowledge Center to Business Intelligence Services.
I have a Bachelor degree in Chemistry (1988) and I completed a post graduate course in information and documentation science (1993).
My present position is Information Specialist at the Information Resource Centre of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 1981, I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Deventer, and worked as a librarian for one year. Because I also had a strong interest in theatre, I attended dance classes and auditioned for the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. I got hired and stayed working there for eight years. In 1990, I returned to my professional roots and worked as a librarian for the Public Library of Amsterdam. In 1995, I switched to ABN AMRO Bank.
Olga's studies are in the areas of information systems and management.She has a degree in Software and Computer Engineering (1991) and an MSc in Management Information systems (1996), both from the University of Minho, Portugal. More recently, in 1999, she completed a certificate in management studies in the UK. During her studies and research years she worked as IT trainer and computing lecturer. In 1995, she went to England to take up a research fellowship at the University of Kent. But as research wasn't her, in 1997 she decided to make a career change towards user support, service provision and management. She joined the systems group at the library of Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK. With this job she entered the 'library world'. Since 1999, she has lived in the Netherlands working as the head of the Information Centre at Telematica Instituut, a research institute in the area of ICT. She manages a four-person team responsible for effectively support researchers and other support staff in their varied information needs.
Benita Weber Vassallo is Chief of Library Services for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Prior to taking her current position at the IDB in 1990, Ms. Vassallo held various administrative positions in academic libraries: 1988-1990, Assistant University Librarian for Collections, The George Washington University; 1987-1988, Head Librarian, Albuquerque Academy; 1984-1985, Head of Systems Development for the University Research Libraries of the University of California, Los Angeles; and 1976-1984, Head, Serials Department, University of New Mexico Libraries.
Ms. Vassallo has an extensive record of professional activities. She was been a member of the OCLC Advisory Committee for Special Libraries since 1998 and was recently elected to serve on the OCLC Members Council for a three year-term beginning in 2003. She has served as a member of the CAPCON Board of Trustees since 1993, serving as its Chair from 1997-1999, as Secretary/Treasurer from 1994 to 1996, and again as member from 2003-2006. She also held offices in the American Library Association, including elected member of the governing Council, and Treasurer of the New Mexico Library Association.
She has been an invited speaker at conferences. In addition, Ms. Vassallo has served as consultant and has been a continuing guest lecturer.
Ms. Vassallo obtained a Master of Science degree from Drexel University Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1974 and a Bachelor's degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Temple University in 1968.