Participants' biographies and pictures
	The following is a list of participants of all five modules.
	Kasper Abcouwer (module 5) My name is Kasper Abcouwer and I am 33 years old. I have recently been appointed as an information specialist for physics, chemistry and physical geography at the university of Amsterdam. Prior to taking up my present post, I worked for almost two years in Ecuador followed by a post as a information specialist at Pierson Révész Library of the University of Amsterdam. My interest include travel, reading and hiking.
	Els van Adrichem (module 2,3) In 1988 I graduated from the Library and Documentation Acadamy in Tilburg, The Netherlands. I have been working for 15 years as head of the library at NHTV University of Professional Education Breda The Netherlands. Since a couple of months I am working also at SURFdiensten as a Licence Manager. In september this year I will be working at SURFdiensten fulltime. SURFdiensten is an organisation that negotiates software licences, also for polytechnics and universities in the Netherlands. Since a couple of years SURFdiensten also negotiates information databases. There are two consortia in the Netherlands in the field of higher education; one of polytechnics and one of universities. These two consortia give their input to the Licence Managers at SURFdiensten, so they now in which databases the libraries are interested in. The world of consortia is new to me. So I am interested in what is going on in this field. But also the technological developments have my interest.
	Gohar Ashoughian (module 1,2,3,4) Gohar Ashoughian is the University of Guelph-Humber Librarian and the Manager of Learning Commons. Gohar holds Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Library and Information Science (CLIS) degrees from Louisiana State University. Prior to joining Guelph-Humber, Gohar was the founding Managing Director, Information Resources and Digital Library, Technical University of British Columbia - TechBC (now merged with Simon Fraser University in British Columbia). In this capacity, she was responsible for the design and development of library services for the new university, and for the overall library administration. Gohar also worked as the Electronic Resources Specialist at the Bibliocentre Consortium, with a responsibility to negotiate, license and acquire electronic resources for 25 Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology.
	Haruo Asoshina (module 4) Education: Bachelor of Arts (Osaka City University, Japan). Work: Librarian (system development, bibliographic control, IR implementation project etc.). Personal interests: Library system.
	Trix Bakker (module 5) Education: Clinical Psychology + Modern Philosophy (Drs) and a post-doctorate in Library & Information Science (ODI). Work: director Collection Management including managing e-Learning activities like developing information literacy courses at bachelor and master level (goal: integration into the curricula). Personal interests: new developments: Open Archives, Repositories, Technological developments etc.; Professionalization of information professionals, Performance measurement, E-learing etc.
	Emilija Banionyte (module 4) I am a professional librarian. I hold a position of Library Director, Vilnius Pedagogical University (14000 students, 49 library staff). Besides this I a President of Lithuanian Research Library Consortium, vice-President of Lithuanian Librarians' Association, member od the eIFL.net advisory board. My main interests: user needs satisfaction; database subscribtion; institutional repositories; digital libraries; intellectual property; library buildings and space for learning.
	Pat Barclay (module 1,2,3,4,5) I am currently Digital Resources Librarian at the University of Westminster, responsible for the development of the library e-strategy and managing access to electronic resources across the University. A very wide ranging role, it includes the development of the library portal together with the related linking software, integration of e-resources within the university learning environment, e-prints, negotiating licences and much more! Prior to this I have had various roles at the University including Deputy Library Manager in one of our Campus libraries and Serials Librarian.
	Elly Beelen-Van Horrik (module 1,2,3,4,5) Biography not available.
	Ingrid Beerens (module 4) My name is Ingrid Beerens, born in 1953 in Tilburg. Since 1979, I have worked in the Tilburg University library. I was first appointed in the Central Information and Services department and since 1989, I have been working as an information specialist for Social Sciences. After highschool I got my teaching degree and I started working as a handicraft (textile) teacher in a school for children with learning disabilities. While working at the Tilburg University library I did my library education. From January 2005 onwards I am involved in the project Keur der Wetenschap / Cream of Science, the showcase of Dutch prominent research. Since we are planning to continue this work in the Institutional Repository at Tilburg University, I am very much interested to join this special day at the Summerschool and to learn from the experiences elsewhere. My personal interests are partly related to my previous job: embroidery, patchwork, quilting and cooking.
	Marc van den Berg (module 1,2,3,4,5) Graduated in 1983 in Environmental Sciences at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. I am working in I(C)T since 1984. Started as programmer, became all-round IT-developer, researcher and network specialist. Went on to project management, departemental head. Have worked in the area of innovation and development most of the time, but headed a systems management department as well. Was head of the development department and member of the management team at the Computing Centre of the Universiteit van Amsterdam until recently. Work as head of the department of Electronic Services at the university library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam since June 1, 2005.
	Irmgard Bomers (module 1,2,3,4,5) I work for the KB, national library of the Netherlands since March 2005. As Head of User Services I'm a.o. responsible for the fysical as well as the digital library services of the KB. In this position I'm member of the Management Board of the KB. I have more than 20 years experience in marketing and service management in commercial as well as non commercial organizations. The librarian world is new for me. I studied tourism at the NHTV (Breda University of Professional Education) and various additional trainings/studies on marketing and management.
	Dennis Bongers (module 1,2,3,4,5) I am a Regional Account Manager with Endeavor Information Systems Inc Before joining Endeavor about one year ago, I studied Engineering in Delft and worked for an International IT company for 7 years.
	Jeroen Bosman (module 1,2,5) Born (1964) and educated in the Netherlands, graduated from Utrecht Unversity in 1989 (Economic Geography), currently spending much time off work for dissertation in the field of regional economics and urban geography. After some years working as university lecturer and researcher my current post is at Utrecht University Library as subject librarian for Geography and Geoscience. Editor of Geosource, a subject based web directory (www.library.uu.nl/geosource). Author of many articles in the leading Dutch information science and library journal Informatie Professional, including a recent analysis of Google Scholar content and functionality (http://www.library.uu.nl/medew/it/eric/scholar.htm). I am interested in looking at strategic library positioning based on down to earth analysis of expected changes in the way students and research staff handle information. From this perpsective I try to develop subject based information skills training and integrated 'one stop shopping' alert services. Nothing beats cycling in the mountains, however (http://www.library.uu.nl/geosource/jeroen/.
	Guus van den Brekel (module 2) As Coordinator of Electronic Services of the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands my work is often a go-between between the library, the ICT departments and the end-users. The Medical Library is working strongly together with the University Library and the other faculty libraries. The projects I am taking part in at the moment are: the electronic/virtual information desk and the development and configuration of Metalib/SFX. Other interest are: Open Access, Access Management, Web development, Search engines, ....
	Nicole Broeders-Goos (module 3) My name is Nicole Broeders-Goos and I am 39 years old. In 1988 I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Tilburg. Since 1989 I have worked at the library of Tilburg University in several different positions. Since 2002 I am the Electronic Licenses Coordinator for Tilburg University Library.
	Richard Broekman (module 2) I have been employed as an information specialist in the Digital Services department of Tilburg University since November 2004. Before that I worked as an information specialist in computer science, and also held a position at the help desk. One aspect of my current job is making sure library users can access our databases. In addition to the technical activities associated with that task, communication regarding database access is also an important element. Personal interests include human interaction in communication and collaboration, and human-computer interaction. A particular interest is the challenge of explaining complex matters in ways that make it understandable to those with no experience in those subjects.
	Linda Brouwers-ten Cate (module 5) I work as a coordinator at the Learning Centre of the Avans Hogeschool.
	Marion A.T. van Brunschot (module 1,2) I have been in my current post as Manager Technical Services within the University Library of the University of Amsterdam since December 2001 and have responsibility for the management and supervision of acquisitions, serials and cataloguing. I have worked at the University of Amsterdam since 1994 and my previous posts include Manager of the Acquisitions and Serials Department, Project Manager Special Collections (Metamorfoze) and Policy Staff Member (Benchmarking and Preservation). Prior to that I worked for an American Consultancy Agency. I graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a masters degree in Modern Asian History and a post-graduate diploma in librarianship.
	Josephine Burt (module 3,4,5) Josephine Burt, Regional Strategy Manager (Library and Learning Resources Centre), The Open University. I have a strategic role to develop activities between the Library and the 13 OU Regional Centres. This includes liaison with groups of other higher education librarians in the regions, with the regional agencies for museums, libraries and archives and with public libraries. I also manage projects for the Milton Keynes Learning Cities Libraries Network, a group of seven local libraries who aim to improve access to local libraries for all who work, study or live in Milton Keynes. Previously I have worked in further education as a Learning Resources Manager at Dunstable College, where I led on a cross-college information technology initiative and also taught an internet evening class. Other posts have included 10 years in school libraries where I enjoyed organising several book weeks with visiting authors and poets and 10 years in public libraries. More personally, I am a graduate of The Open University and Common Purpose married with 2 daughters and live in Leighton Buzzard. My interests are food, gardening, reading, walking, theatre and travel.
	Jef De Pooter (module 1,2,4,5) In 1999 I graduated from Ghent University as a Master in Eastern European Languages and Cultures. After this I studied International Relations at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. I worked as a translator, took a course in Network Administration and worked as an Analyst-Developer. Currently I am taking part in the project DoKS at the library of the Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen. This project's goal is to make the student's theses available on the Internet. We developed our own software to collect, publish and manage the theses. In the mean time I am studying Information & Library Sciences. My particular interest lies in the electronic part of the library.
	Anneke Dirkx (module 5) Since 1998 I work as manager of the library of INHOLLAND Alkmaar. My special interest is the way we can integrate our library services in education. INHOLLAND is starting a project for the development of learning centres. I'm also projectmanager of two projects of the Digital University. In these projects we try to integrate information literacy as a part of knowledge work in education.
	Alice Doek (module 5) Library School (Amsterdam): 1979-1981. Dutch language and literature (University Utrecht): 1983-1990. Courses in human resource management, law and organization (Open University): 1991-1995. I worked in public libaries for about 10 years, a.o. as head of a branch library. In 1993 I became Head of User Support (which included reference, website, library education and public relations) at the Central Library of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since September 2000 I have been working at the Library of the University of Amsterdam; first as Head of the Reference Centre, and from January 2005 on as Head of Information Services (which includes library education, digital reference, training for reference). Personal interests: tennis, music, computer games, hiking, cycling.
	Hans van den Dool (module 2) Hans van den Dool is a librarian by education. He started working at Tilburg University library in 1989 as an information specialist for computer science, but soon he became more and more involved in library automation and digital library projects. Since 1992, he has worked at the Tilburg University library automation unit as a software specialist. Currently, his main task is the further development of the iPort (http://oclcpica.org/?id=106&ln=uk) portal software which was originally developed during an EU-project called Decomate II, but which is marketed by OCLC|Pica. iPort provides web-based access to multiple information resources, dynamic linking to full text, concurrent searching, deduplication, current awareness services, and a connection to the OCLC|Pica circulation system. Hans is especially involved in the new functionality of the software and is mainly interested in the user interface side of the iPort system.
	Marjolein Drent (module 5) In 1997, I finished my study in Educational Science and Technology at the University of Twente. Then, I worked as junior researcher at the Educational research centre of the University of Twente. In 2001 I started to work as information specialist for the faculty of Educational science and technology, now I work as information specialist for the faculty of Behavioural Sciences. In the last year I have finished my PhD. research; regarding the use of ICT in teacher education. Currently, I also work on a project of the Digital University, in which among other things we are researching an instrument which assesses the information literacy skills of students in higher education.
	Cas Egelie (module 2,5) Currently ICTO-coordinator at the Tilburg University and team manager Academic Support within the department IT Services, also at Tilburg University. Both positions are focused on the development of usage of ICT within the learning process, the first position based on the development of policies and the second one based on support of faculty members. Prior to that 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 both business and educational market. These strategies where always based on blended learning solutions.
	Marc Francey (module 1,2,3,4) I am the e-librarian of the "Canton- and University's Library of Fribourg", in Switzerland. I have a background of Web development and I am now in charge of developing, managing and promoting electronic resources in our IT department. Current projects are mainly: - e-documents management and publication on OAI institutional repository (http://doc.rero.ch), such as e-prints, e-thesis, e-books, etc. - scanning and OCR related projects (e-books) - specific web tools development (ex: e-newspaper navigation too, e-book navigation tool)
	Hans Froon (module 4) I am educated and trained as a scientific librarian and information specialist in the field of medical sciences. I am currently active in the training of students and medical staff.
	Maria Romana Garruccio (module 1,2,3,4) I currently work at the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), based in Rome, Italy. I’m responsible for the Library and Information Services. My responsibilities include reference services, current awareness services, acquisitions, document delivery, bibliographic searching, maintaining the library web pages and liaising with other international agricultural libraries. I have worked in public, school and university libraries but the majority of my working experience has been associated with special libraries i.e. agricultural libraries. Prior to IPGRI, I worked for several years in the serials department and the reference unit at The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Library. During this last year my focus has been on electronic document management, content management, virtual libraries and XML.
	Mikel Goedhoop (module 1,2) I have a university grade in communications and I have been employed as a press officer and spokesman and as a communication advisor for a couple of decades. My current job is information advisor and my main task is strategic development of the Information centre in the context of the organisation. Right now I have completed my first draft of the strategic plan for the information centre.
	Joyce Gozo (module1,2,4,5) I have been working in academic libraries for the past twenty three years. I have been working as a Director of Library and Information Services for the last four years at the Vaal University of Technology in South Africa. I am also the current chairperson of CHELSA ( Committe for Higher Education Librarians of South Africa). I am interested in utilising technology to improve service delivery. I am also interested in quality management and continuos improvement in libraries. My qualifications are Bachelor of Science (Soc)(1979); Higher Diploma in Library and Information Science ( 1982) Honours degree in Library and Information Science (1994); Masters degree in Business Adminstration (2000)
	Annuska Graver (module 5) I am working in one or more libraries at the INHOLLAND University. Special interest in e-learning and librarianship. I am doing a project concerning the development of a Learning Centre.
	Jill Gravestock (module 1,2) Jill is Electronic Services Development Officer with The Open University Library, and responsible for implementing and maintaining a range of library systems. The post is located in the Library's Strategic and Service Development Group which as a whole is responsible for learning skills development, learning resources and electronic services development, and research activities. Jill maintains the Voyager library management system (Voyager), the library's federated search system(Encompass) and OpenURL resolver, and website maintenance.
	Ebru Gürbüz (module 1,2,3,4,5) I am a Deputy Director at the METU (Middle East Technical University) Library in Ankara, Turkey since 2003. I am a PhD student in Department of Information Management at the Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. I received my graduate degrees in management and business administration studies from the Yeditepe University (MBA), and in library and information studies from the Hacettepe University. I’m a Steering Committee Member of the Turkish Librarians’ Association; I am in charge of scholar publishing and open access working group in the Association. I have role in ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium) as a ANKOS Coordinator who organize annual meetings, prepare a executive report after Steering Committee and annual meetings, communicate with all members one by one in order to issues such as contracts, bidding law procedure. I organized the 24th IATUL Conference at the Middle East Technical University on June 2-5, 2003. I also delivered a paper entitled "Management and re-organization of an academic library in continuously changing environment" for the IATUL Proceedings Vol. 14 (New Series) 2004 "Library Management in Changing Environment" at the 25th IATUL Conference in Krakow, Poland. Previous professional experiences: I worked at Sabanci University as a head of acquisitions from 1998 to 2002, at Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center as a librarian from 1994 to 1995.
	Wilko Haast (module 2) After graduating at the Library and Documentation Academy in Tilburg I took up the position of information specialist for computer science at the Tilburg University library where I gradually became involved in the design, development and implementation of library systems. Since the early 1990's I'm a fulltime library systems developer and administrator and until now I have participated in numerous projects related to the digital library. My current focus is on the Tilburg University institutional repository and related projects (ARNO, DARE, Nereus, Economists Online).
	Henriette Hazen (module 1,5) In 1981 I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Sittard as a school librarian. Since then I have been working at the Maastricht University Library. At first at the loan department, but later on as an information officer in the field of Medicine, Health Sciences and Psychology. At this moment I am team leader of a group of information officers. The prevailing education system of the Maastricht University is Program Based Learning (PBL). The activities of the University Library are based upon this education system. In relation to this I have been involved in several projects and working groups such as the development of the University Library website, hands-on instructions and web-based (self-instructional) tutorials , virtual reference desk, etc.
	Jacob Heeren (module 3,4) I finished library school in 1984. From 1985 till 1999 I worked in the management of the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Since 1999 my job is coordinator of the Library of INHOLLAND University Amsterdam/Diemen. I am responsible for the license management for digital content. In september 2005 I will start a masters course at the University of Amsterdam for a degree in Library Science (Documentaire Informatiewetenschappen).
	Emmeken van der Heijden (module 5) In september 2005 I will start in the position as a team manager at the Library of Tilburg University. I got my PhD in linguistics from the University of Nijmegen in 1999. Since 1990 I have been working in research and teaching positions at the University of Debrecen (Hungary), Bonn (Germany), Nijmegen and Tilburg (Netherlands). Since 1993 I am project manager at the Faculty of Arts (Tilburg University).
	Peter van Heusden (module 2,3) I have been working at the Central Medical Library of Groningen since 2002. At this moment I'm studying IDM to become a information specialist. In previous years I studied medicine for some years and I became teacher in economics/geography.
	Wilma Hoedemakers (module 5) After graduating in History in 1979, I have worked a few years at a secondary school in Curacao ( the Netherlands Antilles). Since 1985 I have been working in different kinds of libraries. I worked in a Public Library untill 2001 and now I am working in the Learning Centre of the Avans Hogeschool in 's-Hertogenboch as a coordinator.
	Anja van Hoof-Goverde (module 5) Library school. Worked for the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Medical Library. Currently information specialist at NHTV.
	Joep Hutschemakers (module 1) 7 years working experience in marketing & sales and strategy with Philips, A.T. Kearney and Reed Elsevier. MBA in International General Management from Rotterdam School of Management. Business Economics degree from Maastricht University. Author of "Cuba Without Prejudice", first European business guide on Cuba.
	Perla Innocenti (module 1,2) Perla Innocenti is a digital librarian of the Library University System of Politecnico di Milano, where she's currently coordinator of the Digital Library Working Group and Project Manager for Metalib implementation. Perla holds a degree in History of Modern Art, a Master in Cultural Heritage Management and Communication, and a university research grant on information systems design and development. Past and ongoing collaborations with public and private organization are focused in particular on digital library and digitization projects. She’s author of some publications in journals, books and international proceedings regarding knowledge-based systems, quality-controlled subject gateway, digitization issues, content-based information retrieval and museology.
	Silvia de Jong (module 1,2,3,4) I studied librarianship from 1974 until 1977 at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Germany. After my studies I worked 25 years for the Public library in Leipzig. Since I moved to The Neterlands in January 2002 I work for the Institute of Atomic- and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. It is a research institute. Due to our budget we would like to have good contracts with publishers, could use Open Access Journals and build library consortia. Because of the limited space in the library we are interested in e books and e journals.
	Gerdien de Jonge (module 3,4,5) My current position is Biomedical Information Specialist at the Medical Library of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. I am responsible for the translation of the customers wishes into an adequate collection and right format of books and journals and optimal services. So communication with the users is a very important part of my job. I have about 20 years working experience in several university libraries and special libraries, most in exact sciences. Before that I did some teaching and research in Biology. I graduated Biology at the Wageningen University and got my postdoc degree in Document Information Science at the University of Amsterdam. Guess how old I am...
	Grace Joseph (module 1,2,3,4) Education: graduate as an information specislist at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Current work: 4 years as an information specialist at a research institute for physics (www.amolf.nl). Providing library services to the scientist (e-journals, ILL etc.), also busy joining library consortia, managing publications on the internet.
	Chris Keene (module 2,4) I am the Technical Development Manager at the University of Sussex Library. My main areas of responsibility include furthering the use of technology and electronic resources within the Library, and developing web based resources and services. I role also includes developing in house systems and applications to improve services for users and back office workflows. My current work includes developing an instructional repository for the university. I have previously worked in the Systems Office of the University of Sussex, and prior to that, the University of Kent, maintaining and developing the various systems (including the library management system), servers and network. I graduated from the University of Kent in Computer Science (BSc) in 1999.
	Henk Kempff (module 1,2) Henk Kempff (1952) graduated in linguistics at Nijmegen University in 1979. For several years, he worked as a researcher in psycholinguistics 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 as head of the systems and network department. In 2004 he became deputy director of IT Services. He has participated in several computer centre and library projects.
	Annalies Koelstra (module 1) I am head of the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen. I have a team of 15 people. The Central Medical Library offers services for both staff and students of the Faculty of Medicine as well as for the staff of the hospital itself. Especially the electronic resources are of great importance to our costumers. Information literacy, clinical librarianship, open access, partnerships with other hospitals and professionalism are keywords in my work.
	Biljana Kosanovic (module 4) My current job title is Head of the Department of Scientific Information, National Library of Serbia, but most of my work is for KoBSON - Serbian Library Consortium for Coordinated Acquisition. The KoBSON, and myself, are very active in eIFL, trying to make electronic resources availible to the research comunity in Serbia. I got my master degree in Information Services from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics in 1996.
	Hubert Krekels (module 1,2,4,5) Education: Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, taal- en literatuurwetenschap. Current work: projectmanager e-publishing and animal science librarian Wageningen University & Research Centre. Previous work: 1989-1999 Wolters Kluwer project manager/publisher E-publishing, 1999-2002 Icon Medialab/Lostboys project manager web development.
	Kirsten Larsen (module 2) Education: librarian and B.A. in pedagogy and rhetoric. Work: 13 years in a public library - 18 years in Danish Bibliographic Centre (a company that maintains Danish national bibliography, Union catalogues, other tools and products for libraries). I was earlier in charge of professional training and hotline - I,m today in charge of the Danish union catalogue (one for professionals and one for the public). My main focus is on user interfaces, new functionality and easier access.
	Anne Lehto (module 5) After graduating at the University of Tampere, Finland in 1991, I have worked mostly in Tampere University Library in different positions. 2001-2002 I worked as lecturer for information retrieval at the Department for information studies in the University of Tampere. Currently, I am working in the University of Helsinki as a planning officer for the national Information Literacy project of Finnish academic libraries.
	Adriaan Lemmen (module 1,2,3,4,5) Currently Account Manager Acquisitions at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) - National Library of the Netherlands - appointed in May 2004. Prior to that I was Head of the Serials Department including the Dutch ISSN Centre (1990-2004) and furthermore of a department within the (national) Deposit acquisitions division (1984-1989) at the KB. I participated in several projects and implementations concerning e-Depot (long term digital archiving) and local library (acquisitions)system, mainly from the point of view of functional requirements. I studied social geography in Amsterdam.
	Petra Leuther (module 3,4) I took my degree in Chemistry in 1985. In 1986 I started working for Bayer AG, now Bayer Business Services GmbH, as information specialist. At present my main responsibilities are license negotiations of e-contents.
	Jacqueline van der Linde (module 2) Biography not available.
	Nathalie Marcerou-Ramel (module 3) Formerly Primary school Teacher, I graduated in Modern Literature in 1991 and in Library and Information Sciences in 1993. Since then, I have been working for different kind of libraries, in different positions : University Library Lyon 2 (acquisition, user training, customer services), French National Library (Coordination of cataloguing and catalogues), Public Library of Saint-Etienne (Assistant Manager). Currently Librarian at the University Library Lyon 1, I am in charge of the purchasing coordination of the French consortium Couperin, which Purchasing Department is part of the University Library. Couperin (COnsortium Universitaire des PERIodiques Numériques) is an association gathering at present 189 members (Universities, University Level Colleges, Research Institutions). My main tasks are to coordinate the work of our 43 voluntary Designated Representatives, collect and diffuse information about the negotiations, take part to the thought about the future of our organisation.
	Kurt Mathiesen (module 2,3,4) I finished my Master of library and information science January this year, and has been working with the Danish National Library Authority since then. My main area of work is consortia licensing within Denmark’s Electronic Research Library. Most of my working time I spend administering running licenses, and preparing new ones. In addition to this I’m involved in the development of a new administrative tool for license management. This is where I start: www.littleboy.dk/start/bs.asp.
	Stig Merrild Madsen (module 1,2) Education: librarian, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, 1983. Since 2000 cataloging specialist at the Danish Bibliographic Centre. Main field of activity is registration of articles to the Danish National Bibliography. Participate in a project which deals with automatic indexing.
	Fabienne Moreau (module 4,5) Doctor in geology, I've been teaching assistant in geology during 6 years at the Catholic University of Louvain. After a brief experience as teacher in the secondary school, I'm currently working as librarian instructor at the science library of the Catholic University of Louvain. I'm also in charge of the creation of an institutional repository for our university.
	Gerrit Naber (module 1,2,5) MSc Land and water development. Wageningen University, MA Library Science University of Amsterdam. From 1976 to 1978 Mr. Naber was a staff information officer at the Central Library of the Wageningen Agricultural University. From 1978 to 1987 he worked with ILRI as head of the Library of the Staring Building. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a suppletion expert at the Library of the Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. In the same period he was also coordinator Plant Soil and Water project, a ten staff member counting project for the reinforcement and development of education and research in plant-, soil- and water related disciplines at the same faculty. In 1990 he rejoined ILRI as head of the Library of the Staring Building, became project manager of the project: "ILRI contribution to IPTRID networking" and was within the Library, Documentation and Information Network of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural University Wageningen responsible for the Land , Soil and Water Information Centers. Since 1998 he is head of the libraries in the Environmental Sciences and Agro technology and Food Sciences sector of Wageningen University and Research Center.
	Balviar Notay (module 1,2,3,4,5) Balviar Notay is a Programme Manager for the Resource Discovery, Portals and Presentation Programmes at the is the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). So far the Portals Programme has developed portal projects in media, subject and community formats. (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_portals). The Presentation Programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_presentation) aims to investigate and discover how different types of resources can be presented within a variety of web environments in ways that best benefit users. A number of studies have been conducted in this area. Both of these programme areas aims to address the presentation and fusion layers of the Information Environment and the major challenge ahead will be how to offer and integrate meaningful portal services in complex user landscape. Previous to this post Balviar worked on the 5/99 Learning and Teaching Programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_learning_teaching) which made content, learning and teaching materials and tools available in the area of images, moving pictures and sound, data, museum collections, and e-books.
	Eric van Oevelen (module 2) I went to library school, years and years ago. Worked as a public librarian for some time and nowadays (for already ten years) as a librarian at Avans Hogeschool, Breda. My function is changing towards "information specialist", as a mediator between education and LIC (Learning and Innovation Centre) and webmaster for the intranet (LIC-part) of Avans Hogeschool.
	Jan van Oorschot (module 2) Biography not available.
	Marian Papavoine (module 1,2) I studied theology at the Tilburg Faculty of Theology and majored in women's studies theology. In 1996 I began working in the IIMO-library, a small theological library at the University of Utrecht. I attended several courses in the field of librarianship. Currently I am the Information Specialist for theology in the library of Tilburg University. I also am the secretary of the department of Research Libraries (WB) of The Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals (NVB).
	Sungbum Park (module 1,2,3,4,5) I'm a Senior Researcher of National Computerizaiton in Korea.(It's a government-side research organization.) Currently, I'm involved in developing digital contents distribution system which gives digitalized contents unique id and manages them effectively. In the process of doing our job, our organization is tring to apply our solution to digital-library and e-book. Hopefully, I think it's a good chance to understand cutting-edge technologies on digital-library and to come up with our new application plan..
	Thomas Place (module 1,2) Thomas Place graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, he became a lecturer for Methodology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University. From 1988 until 1993, he was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. In 1993 he became Deputy Librarian of Tilburg University Library. Since 1989, he is involved in many local, national and international library automation projects. He was the project manager of the European project Decomate II. After the project was finished successfully in 2000, he coordinated the further development of the Decomate software that is now marketed by OCLC|Pica under the name of iPort.
	Gabriel Planella Domènech (module 1,2,3,5) I had been working as a cultural promoter (Barcelona Council and several Cultural Foundations), free lance for publishing houses and journalist (El País) in my previous jobs. As of March 2004, I am working on the field of books and libraries from the Autonomous Government of Catalonia (Spain). Currently, I am the deputy-director for books and libraries. In terms of studies, I have a degree in Spanish Literature and Linguistics (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and some courses of journalism (in the same University).
	Marijke van der Ploeg (module 2,3,4) In 1985 I graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Tilburg as information specialist. Since then I have been working at the Tilburg University Library and in 2004 I started at the Digital Services department of this library. The most important task now is being a project manager of the electronic-only project: the transition from a collection of paper journals to a collection of electronic journals.
	Petra Ploeg (module 1,2,5) Biography not available.
	Agnès Ponsati (module 1,2,3,4) Agnès Ponsati, Obiols Unidad de Coordinación de Bibliotecas del CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (http://www.csic.es/cbic/cbic.htm). University degree in Spanish Philology and Linguistics and a Master degree in Librarianship for University of Barcelona (1986). Actually she’s director of Library Coordination Unit at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She worked at Technical Department of Barcelona’s University Library (1987-1990) and as automation manager at Catalonian CSIC libraries branch (1990-1993) Specialist in automated union catalogs in distributed networks and in management and coordination of library services and collections at research hybrid-digital libraries. She had published many articles devoted to those issues and also had participated in several national and european projects about application of IT to scientific libraries.
	Marcella Potthoff (module 5) Biography not available.
	Janne Ranta (module 1,2) Currently I am the head of Library and Information Services for the Finnish Broadcasting Company. I joined the company in 1991 and worked as an information specialist until 2000 and then at the current position. I studied history at the Helsinki University and then a course on information science at the Helsinki University of Technology. Before my present employer, I worked in various academic libraries. My present work includes responsibility for developing services and strategic planning. It is vital for these tasks to stay in touch with technological changes affecting the library field.
	Alexis Rivier (module 1,2) I'm currently curator at the City and University Library of Geneva, in charge of computing and new technologies from 1995. This Library has the missions of a "national library" for the canton of Geneva. In particular I'm involved with the collections' digitization and electronic access. I teach a postgraduate class on Computer and Information Science at the University of Geneva. I'm also co-author of a book about Digital Libraries. A new completely revised version is forthcoming. With these activities I keep myself informed about the continuous developments in this domain, and I feel concerned with the future of the libraries and their role in the society. I graduated with a Master's degree in Philosophy at Lausanne and a post-graduate diploma in Library and Information Science by the ENSSIB in Lyon.
	Willem Rodenhuis (module 4) Willem Rodenhuis (*Amsterdam 1952). Initially educated as a drama-teacher, I studied history at Utrecht University, focussing on cultural history and aesthetics. I took my MA in theatre studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 1986 I was appointed as a part-time librarian for theater studies, combining my job with freelance jobs in the field of script editing, counseling, and writing. 2000 I took the full-time position of reference librarian for the performing arts (theatre studies, musicology and mediastudies). Legal issues, coming along with my fields of acquisition, as innovative projects are of a special inspiration to me.
	Jacqueline de Ruiter (module 3) At present I am a policy advisor at the Hogeschool van Utrecht on areas varying from information management through education for the third age to access to education for the disabled. Previously I was employed as headlibrarian in the office of the Nationale ombudsman in The Netherlands. For insight in my personal interests, including a list of publications, I refer to http://www.bookmark.demon.nl
	Maarten van Schie (module 1,2) In 2003 I received my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence with a specialisation in Knowledge Technology. After working some time at an ICT department at the Government, I started my current job as a Specialist Functional Management and Development at the National Library of the Netherlands. My job consists of bridging the gap between the users of the library systems and the technical people. I also keep an eye on future developments and give advice on technical decisions that have to be taken. I'm involved in a number of projects: Migration to a new local library system; Developing a technical infrastructure to store full content and metadata; Streamlining the cataloguing process. I'm very interested in new technologies like the semantic web and I spend most of my money on gadgets. I play timba in a samba band making Brazilian carnival music.
	Lex Sijtsma (module 2) Biography not available.
	Wietske M. Sijtsma (module 2,4,5) After obtaining my degree in Linguistics (Leiden University and University College of North Wales), I worked as a researcher for several years at the Faculty of Arts at Tilburg University. Since 1995 I have been employed by the library of Tilburg University. For the library I have been involved in various European projects. At the moment I am the head of Digital Services department.
	Ellen Simons (module 4) Biography not available.
	René Smulders (module 2,4) Biography not available.
	Birgitte Sønderkær (module 2,3) My name is Birgitte Sønderkær. I work at the library of the Aarhus School of Business as deputy librarian. I represent LASB in several committees and projects after delegation from the Library Director. I am responsible for the acquisitions budget and for coordinating the aquisitions in print and electronic form. Currently I am working on improved visibiliy of e-resources in the library portal which includes the installation of a federated search system for e-journals and the integration of e-resources in the ASB web.
	Pat Spoor (module 1,2,3,4,5) After 20 years in a variety of information roles, mainly in HE libaries, I am currently Faculty Team Leader (Health) at the University of Leeds and Manager of Leeds Medical Information (LMI), a self-financing unit that produces current awareness information for clinicians and researchers in the biomedical field. I'm involved in purchasing e-resources for the Faculty Of Medicine and Health and, managing the delivery of IL training to their students. A history graduate I completed my MA in Librarianship in 1992.
	Johan Stapel (module 1,2) In 1991 I got my Bc Library Science at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. From 1991-1997 I worked at OCLC PICA, Leiden. From 1998-2001 I did Project management and consultancy. From 2001 onwards, I have had a job at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag, since July 2005 as manager of the e-Depot.
	Jill Taylor-Roe (module 4,5) My educational qualifications include a BA in English Literature and an MA in Librarianship. I have over 20 yrs experience as a Library Manager. Professionally my interests lie primarily in the purchasing of library resources, and I have experience of negotiating contracts at both a regional and national level for the supply of books, and journals, in both print and eformats. My current research interests focus on emetrics - especially with regard to ejournals and how we can achieve and demonstrate best value for money. As Head of Liaison and Academic Services my job focuses on interpreting, evaluating and prioritising the expressed information needs of our academic community and finding ways to deploy our resources budget in the most effective way to meet these needs.
	Susanne Thorborg (module 1,2) Education: Librarian, graduated from The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark in 1977. Since 1983 I have been working in the Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC). One of the Danish Bibliographic Centre’s most important tasks is developing and running the Danish Union catalogue, DanBib - the common bibliographic and IT infrastructure for public, school and research libraries in Denmark. I am working in DBC's Netdivision as Database Consultant, and my primary fields of work are development and implementation of standards for registation, accessing and exchanging of bibliographic data.
	Peter van Tilburg (module 2) My present position is Information Specialist at the department Digitale Diensten (Digital Services) of Tilburg University Library. I’m involved in the coordination of library instruction for students. After ten years experience as a teacher at an elementary school I took a professional study Educational Sciences and I attended a postgraduate course for literature researcher. I participated in several projects concerning library instruction, e-learning and information literacy.
	Kitty van Veelen (module 2) Since July 2005 I am working at the NHTV in Breda as a librarian. Before I worked at the HAN in Nijmegen. I am graduated from the Library and Documentation Academy in Amsterdam and I studied philosophy in Nijmegen.
	Theo van Veen (module 1,2) In 1979 I graduated in physics. In 1988 I became involved in library automation. Recently I have been working on the European Library project. Currently I am involved in a project for renewing the information infrastructure of the Koninlijke Bibliotheek. My main focus is on new developments and standards in information retrieval with special attention for integration of services.
	Susan Veldsman (module 2,3,4) Susan Veldsman is the project coordinator of the South African Site Licensing Initiative (SASLI) since 2002. SASLI is the main project of the Coalition of South African Library Consortia (COSALC) which endeavours itself to enhance access to information and the sharing of resources to benefit the clients of library consortia in South Africa through national co-operation. Before joining COSALC/SASLI I was Assistant Director, Head of the Information Services and Subject Librarian at RAU library Services for 12 years. Before that I was subject Librarian at the Technikon Pretoria and Department of Agriculture. I have been heavily involved in consortia since 1996. 1) Gauteng and Environs Library Consortia (GAELIC) (Regional consortium) - Human resources committee (member) - Steering committee (member) - Strategic Management Team (member) - Joint Acquisitions committee (chairman) - Information resources Focus Area Team (chairman) the following workgroups report to chairman: document delivery, III systems, collection development, user education, cataloguing Since 1999. 2) Coalition of Library Consortia in South Africa (COSALC)(National consortia). Before the establishment of the South African Site Licensing Initiative I served on the following national consortia structures: - Steering committee (member) - Project co-ordinator: EBSCO eIFLDirect project - COSALC’s interim project coordinator
	Maaike Verbeem (module 2,4) I studied computational linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, graduated in 1996. I started working as a software developer for Ericsson Telecom, untill 2001. Then I was deployed by the library of Tilburg University as a developer.
	Marjolein Verheijen (module 4,5) I graduated in 2002, and since that time I've been working at the NHTV, university for Professional education, in Breda, in the Netherlands. This school specializes in tourism, leisure management, mobility, logistics, imagineering, urban planning and media and management. I work there in the library as an informationspecialist and I specalize in Urban Planning, Mobility and Logitics. My main interests at the moment are e-journals and training teachers and students to make better use of the information that is available.
	Fred Vos (module 2) After my study 'Food science', I worked for Unilever Meat Group at the departments 'Process Development' and 'Quality Assurance'. From 1986 to 2001 I worked at the Research Institute for Pig Husbandry in The Netherlands, first as application/database developer, later as specialist/researcher on simulation models, after completing a university study 'Food and Toxicology'. Since may 2001 I have been working as a software and database specialist at the Digital Services department of Tilburg University Library. The most important projects I've worked on are the development of Current Awareness Services for iPort and an OAI interface to our Institution Repository (for DARE, Cream of Science and Nereus).
	Corno A.M. Vromans (module 1,2) Have a look at http://drcwww.uvt.nl/~vromans.
	Grethe Waage (module 3) My working background is entirely from the medical field. I have been working as Chief Librarian and Head of Medical Library at Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway since 1992. Prior to this position, I was Deputy Head of Medical Library at National Hospital in Oslo for almost 10 years. Before my degree in librarianship, I graduated and worked as physiotherapist for some years. I also have additional education in leadership and management.
	Marjon Warmerdam (module 4) Years ago I worked as a psychiatric nurse in a hospital but ten years ago I changed my profession and got my degree for IDM (information services and management) at the Haagse Hogeschool. Since 1988 I am working at the Learning Centre of Avans Hogeschool. First as a librarian-assistent for different academies and since 2000 as a librarian for the Academy of Marketing and International School. I also coordinate the daily business at a dependance library. I participate in a workgroup about e-learning (inside Avans Hogeschool) and we are starting a workgroup about digital repositories.
	Sjoukje van der Werf (module 5) Current work: medical information specialist. My work includes education in information literacy and courses/ workshops for physicians/ researchers. Education: biology, University of Groningen.
	Betty van Wonderen (module 5) I am an information- and collection specialist at the library of the University of Amsterdam. In the last five years I have been developping and organizing many library courses and education programmes. In favour of staff and students at the faculty, but also in favour of colleagues.
	Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer (module 1) After graduating at the Library & Documentation Academy of Amsterdam in 1988, I started working as a librarian at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF). In 1991 I became head of the library, and in 1998 I was appointed head of a new department of AMOLF, the Central Information Agency. This department was responsible for the whole of the information services at the institute: library, internet, intranet and database management. In the same year, I started following AMBI courses on Information Technology. I first analysed the problems of the information services at AMOLF, then I designed, built and maintained the intranet and internet, and finally I designed databases (for an Oracle database). Since 2002 I work as a Central Information Specialist at the Netherlands Institute for Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). NIOO-KNAW has three centres in the Netherlands. Besides assisting the employees with finding and managing their information, I have reorganised the obsolete libraries to modern (electronic), uniform libraries, and now I am setting up a system to archive scientific data for the researchers.
	Dick van Zaane (module 3) Biochemist, Research Manager, Seniors Advisor, Librarian.

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