Digital Libraries a la Carte: Choices for the Future

Course director: Hans Geleijnse

Hans Geleijnse is CIO, Director of IT Services and University Librarian at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Hans GeleijnseHe 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 chaired the course.

Course director: Hans Roes

Hans's interests are focused on the intersection of information, information technology, and learning and research. Hans RoesBoth 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. From 1 November onwards, Hans will start as the library director of the Information Research Center at the International University Bremen. More information can be found at: http://www.hroes.de/.

Programme developer: Pat Davitt Maughan

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). Pat Davitt Maughan 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 http://library.berkeley.edu/autobiography/pmaughan.

Pat developed the programme of Module 5: Libraries and Teaching and Learning.

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