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Adam Blackwood (lecturer module 2) Adam Blackwood works for the JISC Regional Support Centre, South East in England. |
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Deb deBruijn (lecturer module 3) Deb deBruijn is Executive Director of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network,, |
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Paul Duguid (lecturer module 1) An independent scholar, Paul Duguid is currently a visiting scholar in School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley |
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Hans Geleijnse (course director and lecturer module 3) Hans Geleijnse is CIO, Director of IT Services and University Librarian at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. |
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Steve Gilbert (lecturer module 5) Steve Gilbert founded the Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TLT) Group, |
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Derk Haank (lecturer module 1) Derk Haank has been Chief Executive of Springer Science+Business Media since early 2004. |
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Sandra Hirsh (lecturer module 1) Since Fall 2004, Sandra Hirsh has worked as Usability Lead at Microsoft Corporation in Mountain View, California. |
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Esther Hoorn (lecturer module 4) Esther is project leader of the project Truth or DARE that is developing best practices in the use of institutional repositories in the field of law in the Netherlands. |
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Ueli Kienholz (lecturer module 2) Ueli Kienholz received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the ETH Zürich in 1988. |
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Jenny Levine (lecturer module 2) Jenny Levine is the Internet Development Specialist at the Metropolitan Library System (http://www.mls.lib.il.us/), the consortial headquarters for more than 900 academic, public, school, and special libraries in the Chicagoland area. |
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Pat Davitt Maughan (programme developer and lecturer module 5) Since Fall 2002, Pat Maughan has facilitated a campus-wide collaboration of Academic Partners in planning associated with the annual Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship on Undergraduate Research and its attendant faculty Institute (http://library.berkeley.edu/MellonInstitute). |
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Gerry McKiernan (lecturer module 2) Gerry McKiernan currently serves as a Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University (ISU) with specialization in selected fields of Engineering. |
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Hans Roes (course director and lecturer module 5) Hans's interests are focused on the intersection of information, information technology, and learning and research. |
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Peter Suber (lecturer module 4) Peter Suber is the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington D.C. focusing on information policy. |
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Alma Swan (lecturer module 4) Alma Swan obtained a degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. |
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Carol Tenopir (lecturer module 3) Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences (http://www.sis.utk.edu/ at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (http://www.utk.edu/). |
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Elaine Urquhart (lecturer module 1) Elaine Urquhart has been Assistant Director, Library, at the University of Ulster since 2001. |
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Sylvia Van Peteghem (lecturer module 4) Sylvia has worked at the Ghent University Library since 1983 in a number of different functions. She started in the ephemera-collection of the Special Collections Department and got fascinated with the 19th Century collection of the library. Later on she became Head of the Cataloguing and Acquisition Department of the Central Library and in October 2000, she became Chief Librarian. The role of the central library within the university of Ghent (26,000 students) is fourfold: it is the centre of the library network and its reorganisation, trying to get the current number (300 +) of libraries down. It is the digital library in all its aspects, it is the repository library for cultural heritage and "passive" collections and it offers a working place in its wonderful booktower of Henry van de Velde. Thanks to the (past) presence for many years of Herbert Van de Sompel and his team, Ghent took an early start in digital libraries, SFX was born in the tower and the library became, due to a recent reorganisation, part of the research department of the university.
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Nol Verhagen (lecturer module 3) Arnold Verhagen was born in 1948; he is holding a MA degree in Dutch Language and Literature. |
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Sheila Webber (lecturer module 5) Sheila Webber is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK and coordinates the MA Librarianship programme. |
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He is responsible for helping to promote and develop the function of Information Learning Technology and Staff Development for over 80 educational institutions across the South East of England. He has worked with computing technology from before his first degrees in Biological sciences, and later through further post graduate studies at Staffordshire Polytechnic and the University College London. In computing he specialised in the epistemology of systems designs methodologies. He has been using the internet and related technologies since 1993. Since then, he has held various lecturing and management posts in Further Education and prior to JISC, was concerned with promoting and developing the e-learning provision for local small to medium businesses. He has a very keen passion for the effective use of technology to support education and presently helps deliver and advise on e-learning skills training to education establishments in the South East of England. He has teaching qualifications for Post 16 education, Adult Basic Education and also for Teaching and Learning On-Line. He has a keen interest in the increasing uses and applications of MIADs (Mobile Internet Access Devices) to support and widen participation for learning. Details of the Mobile and PDA Technologies publication he co-authored can be found through 
an initiative of Canadian universities to license electronic versions of scholarly publications for academic researchers, in order to bolster Canada's capacity for research and innovation. Prior to joining the CRKN in January 2000, Deb served as Manager of the British Columbia Electronic Library Network (a resource-sharing consortium of academic libraries) and also held several positions within the University of Calgary Library system. Deb earned a Master of Library Science degree from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Arts (English) degree from the University of Calgary. She has held positions on numerous executives and task forces of national and provincial library associations in Canada, including a term as Treasurer of the Canadian Library Association from 1993-1995. Deb is active in the work of the International Coalition of Library Consortia, and has also undertaken consulting work with library development and resource sharing projects in Indonesia and Ghana.
, and Senior Researcher at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. In September, 2005, he will become Professorial Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. From 2002 to 2005, he was part-time visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organisational and Industrial Sociology. In Spring, 2003, he was maitre de recherche at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. From 1989 to 2001 he was a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to that he was a member of the Institute for Research on Learning. In fall 2005, he will be co-teaching a course on the "Quality of Information" in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. The course in part explores his interests in questions of the authority, authenticity, and warranting of information. He is also working in the not unrelated field of brand and trademark history. His interest in multidisciplinary, collaborative work has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. His writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, information science, management, organization theory, and wine history. Duguid has also written for a variety of less specialized publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review. See also 
He is responsible for strategic policy development and coordination in the field of the university's information and computerization policy. Before June 2003, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for three years and before that, university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. In Italy, Hans was engaged in the development of national initiatives by the various existing library consortia. In Tilburg, he was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national, and international initiatives in the field of electronic publishing, including the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles, consortia negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on self-publishing. Hans is Vice-President of LIBER, the league of research libraries in Europe. He is also a member of the board of Ticer. He was involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II, T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, strategic planning, change management, and electronic publishing. Hans Geleijnse developed the course programme together with Hans Roes.
an independent nonprofit organization, originally affiliated with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), in January 1998. Previously he had been with EDUCOM since 1983, serving as Vice President, and then came to AAHE as Director, Technology Projects, in July 1993 where he developed the TLT Roundtable concept and the AAHESGIT Listserv. Steven is a frequent guest speaker, consultant, published author, and keynoter at campus events and conferences. Steve continues to moderate the TLT-SWG (formerly "AAHESGIT") Listserv for the discussion of issues related to education, technology, and change. He develops and leads Webcasts and other online and on site activities and collaborative projects to improve and extend academic programs and “Build Community Online and On Campus". Through the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable (TLTR) Program, he has helped more than 500 colleges and universities plan and organize for the improvement of teaching and learning through more effective use of information technology and resources. For more info, see 
Derk owns a Master degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Amsterdam. He started his career in 1978 at the Free University of Amsterdam as Scientific Assistant and Head of a research institute of the economics faculty. In 1986, he joined Elsevier Science, where he occupied several management positions, both in Oxford and London. From 1991 until 1998, he was CEO at Misset (B-to-B part of Elsevier) and B-to-B Europe. From 1998 until 2004, Derk was CEO of Elsevier Science and Executive Board Member of Reed Elsevier. In early 2004, he moved to Springer.
In this role, she helps inform and create great user experiences for a range of internet consumer products through user and usability research, including products for TVs, mobile devices, and PCs. Previously, she worked at Hewlett-Packard for 6 years where she directed the Information Research Program in the R&D research labs. In this role, she researched ways to improve how information was integrated into the R&D process. Prior to joining HP, she was a professor at the University of Arizona; she has also taught courses at the University of Washington and California State University, Fullerton. Sandra holds a Masters degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles - both in library and information science. Her research is aimed at understanding user behavior (e.g., of children, scientists, consumers), particularly in relation to technology, and can be found in a range of publications including the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Online Magazine, Library Trends, and some ACM conference proceedings.
At the recent SPARC workshop "Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage" she presented a paper on "Policy issues in planning for author commitment to use the repositories". In addition she is an active member of the DiRECt community and honorary judge at the Criminal Court of Leeuwarden. Esther finished her school education in 1979 with the diploma gymnasium B at the gymnasium Erasmianum in Rotterdam. In 1985, she took her degree in law at the Rijksuniversiteit of Leiden. From 1985 onward she has had various jobs in the legal profession. Her interest in the social working of digital environment was raised in around 1994 when she volunteered to set up a computer workplace in a
backstreet district in Leiden. In 1998, she started as a lecturer in the department of criminal law at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Being outplaced to the University of Aruba (Dutch Antilles) in the year 1999-2000, she experienced the difficulties of not having access to quality information. In 2002, she participated in the Dutch masterclass RechtenOnline, which was dedicated to ICT in legal academic education. Consequently, she started as information specialist in the library of the Law Faculty in Groningen lecturing on cyber crime. Esther was born in Lelystad (The Netherlands) on December 4, 1960. She is married and has one daughter, age 16.
He then joined the research and development unit of a large international aluminium company. At first, he worked in the area of process control, process simulation and scientific calculation. From 1994 onwards, he pioneered and promoted the application of web technology within the company. His projects brought documents, reports and databases as well as process and quality data to the desktop of management, engineers, quality and production personnel. In 2001 he joined SWITCH - the Swiss Education & Research Network. His first project was to establish an inter-organisational roaming infrastructure for the Swiss higher education system. Today, this infrastructure allows students and staff location independent access to the Internet and services provided by the universities. Since 2004, he has lead the SWITCH AAI (Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure) project, which now is in the midst of deployment to the Swiss higher education system. E-Learning management systems as well as digital library resources make use of AAI.
In this role, one of her main goals is to educate member librarians about new technologies and how they can improve services to their patrons. During her eight years at MLS, Jenny has helped implement a variety of statewide projects, including a virtual catalog, a group purchase of MP3 audiobooks (
The fellowship and institute represent important steps toward transforming the UC Berkeley undergraduate curriculum by working with faculty to design research assignments and learning experiences for students that foster independent discovery through use of Library print and digital resources. Pat is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara (B.A. - Comparative Literature) and Pratt Institute (M.L.I.S.). She received a certificate in languages from L'Universite de Paris IV - Sorbonne. Her early career was devoted to science librarianship. Formerly Head of the Science Libraries, she now concurrently serves as the User Research Coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a consultant to the California Digital Library in Oakland. Her current areas of interest include information literacy, assessment of student learning, and program evaluation. She has published the results of her research in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, College & Research Libraries, and Library Trends. She has taught library research skills to thousands of students on the Berkeley campus and has lectured at the University's School of Information Management and Systems, the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Bogota, Columbia, and the University of Helsinki. Additional information and publications can be found at 
Before joining ISU in April 1987, Gerry served as the Museum Librarian of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as an Assistant Librarian with the Library of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York, his hometown. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library Science (1975). Gerry is a member of the editorial board and columnist for Science and Technology Libraries (Haworth) and a contributing editor for Library Hi Tech News (Emerald) and the Journal of Internet Cataloging (Haworth). He has been a member of the editorial board of The Serials Librarian (Haworth) since Fall 2002. Gerry is the compiler of several Web registries and clearinghouses, which include All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources, LiveRef(sm): A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services, and most recently RSS(sm): Rich Site Services, "a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML, Atom, or other types of Web feeds," and WikiBibliography, a bibliography devoted to key works relating to the application and use of Wiki technologies. His current research interests include scholar-based innovations in publishing, alternative peer review practices and philosophies, the application of Web feeds for enhanced library services, and wikis, reader-editable Web sites. A bibliography of his recent publications and presentations is available at 
Both on a strategic and operational level he is and has been involved in projects in the area of digital libraries, electronic publishing, e- learning and digital rights. He publishes regularly on these subjects and is frequently invited to give talks. At the moment Hans is working on several projects for Tilburg University as well as for the Dutch SURF foundation, the higher education and research partnership organisation for network services and information and communications technology. He also works as a senior consultant for Ticer, advising academic and special libraries on strategic and organisational matters. More information can be found at: 
He's also a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and editor of the Open Access News weblog. He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Advisory Board of American Library Association Information Commons, and the Board of Governors of the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publishing. Lingua Franca magazine named him one of "Academia's 20 Most Wired Faculty" in 1999. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. For more details, see his home page, 
After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996, she jointly founded Key Perspectives, a consultancy serving the scholarly publishing industry. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, she retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology.
Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians. She is the author of five books, including Communication Patterns of Engineers (John Wiley for IEEE Press, 2004) with Donald W. King. Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the Online Databases column for Library Journal. She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. See also her personal homepage at 
In this position she heads up the library service within the Department of Information Services, managing a resources budget of £2,400,000. Electronic resources are a vital and substantial part of the budget with over 10,000 full text journals provided to users as well as a growing collection of electronic books. She has played an active role in the creation of two new Learning Resource Centres and is actively engaged in planning the design and delivery of a third. Previously, Elaine occupied various posts within the University, including User Services Librarian and Faculty Support Librarian. Before coming to the University of Ulster she worked for some years as an Assistant Librarian in University College Dublin. She is active on various committees including the Library Information Services Council Northern Ireland (LISC) Executive Committee. She has a keen interest in collaboration schemes and chairs a local Northern Ireland group of libraries and museums working to improve access to resources for all learners. She holds a primary degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Library and Information Studies Postgraduate Diploma from University College Dublin and a master's degree in Information Studies from Queens University Belfast.
He was a secondary-school-teacher from 1973 till 1979, when he got a management position at Tilburg University. His last job there was managing director and co-founding father of Tias Business School. In 1990, he went to Amsterdam to become director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, one of the largest faculties in the Netherlands. In 1997, he became librarian of that university. The university's library is the biggest library in the country and one of the richest university libraries in Europe. It consists of a general main library (with a fine collection of rare and precious books) and a wide range of large and small semi-independent faculty libraries, spread all over the city of Amsterdam. The university's librarian is head of the general library, and has a coordinating responsibility with respect to the faculty libraries, that, nevertheless, do not belong to his 'jurisdiction'. Nol also holds the chair of the UKB, the Dutch Association of the thirteen University Libraries, the Royal Library and the Library of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science. The UKB is active in licensing, e-publishing, collection management, e-learning, integration and linking, benchmarking, and interlibrary loan.
Her key areas of teaching and research are information literacy and business information. Together with Bill Johnston and Stuart Boon she is investigating UK faculty's conceptions of pedagogy for information literacy and co-maintains the Information Literacy weblog