Lecturers' biographies
	The following lecturers contributed:
	Dr. David Berry (lecturer module 3) Dave Berry has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and over 10 years' experience of software development management in industry, with particular expertise in compilers, runtime environments and distributed systems. In the area of Grid computing he is primarily interested in Grid architecture. He is technical lead of the IECnet knowledge transfer network. He leads the OGSA Data working group of the GGF. He has also organized the programmes of many workshops at the e- Science Institute.
	Michael L. Breaks (course director) Michael Breaks has been University Librarian of Heriot-Watt University since 1985, having previously worked in both subject and managerial roles in university libraries in England, Wales and Ireland. He was an early pioneer of digital services and Heriot-Watt has produced the Internet Resources Newsletter for over 12 years. He has been a member of a number of UK policy-making committees in the area of networked information, including the Board of Management of UKERNA (the company which runs the JANET network), was a member of the funding councils' Libraries Review (Follett) IT Committee and has been a member of some JISC Committees, including the Committee on Electronic Information and the Advisory Committee on Networking. He has also chaired the national JANET User Group. Michael is currently Chair of the JISC-funded Archives Hub Steering Committee, President of IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries), Director of EEVL: the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Information, which is part of the JISC-funded Resource Discovery Network (RDN). He is a trustee of Eduserv which provides a range of services to both higher and further education, including Athens and CHEST. He has written and spoken frequently on networked information and on Internet subject gateways, and is the editor the annual New Review of Information Networking, published by Taylor and Francis.
	Catherine H. Candee (lecturer module 3) Catherine Candee has been leading the eScholarship initiative at the California Digital Library since May 2000. The California Digital Library, or CDL, is the 11th university library of the University of California. Since its establishment, the CDL has amassed one of the largest digital library collections available anywhere. It has also adopted a unique service model: one that emphasizes service to libraries, educational establishments, and other cultural and information organizations, over individual end-user services. At CDL, Catherine Candee oversees the application of digital technologies to influence and support innovations in scholarly communication throughout its life cycle, including production and dissemination. The eScholarship program is the focal point of this effort and includes experimentation with digital repositories for dissemination of digital scholarly content, the development of supporting services and tools for repository based communication, and publication of new scholarly products, including peer-reviewed articles, books and journals, and findings in non-standard formats. Prior to working for the CDL, Candee developed and managed a publications program for the Institute for Social and Economic Studies. Inspired by the possibilities of internet-based communication, she returned to her own studies in 1992 and received an MLIS from UC Berkeley in 1994. She served as Head of UC Berkeley's Astronomy/Math/Statistics Library from 1994-1996. She spent her next 4 years at Stanford, where she was the head of the Physics Library and Program Officer for Stanford's Access to Information Committee.
	Ian Dolphin (lecturer module 1) Ian Dolphin is Head of e-Strategy at the University of Hull, where he is responsible for advising on Information & Communications Technology strategic direction, and overseeing direction of the University portal. Current activities include a range of national and international collaborations exploring the relationship between portals, learning objects and environments with the perspective of providing a seamless experience for the learner or educator. Ian has a background in teaching, having taught Special Educational Needs English and Information & Communication Technology in Secondary schools for fourteen years. Initially motivated by the power of emerging technologies to help educationally disadvantaged children, in 1993 Ian was seconded to a regional agency, where he helped establish a curriculum resource development unit. This unit worked collaboratively with teachers and business partners to produce curriculum-focused learning resources for secondary education. Outside the UK, Ian is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President of the Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) and a member of the Board of the Sakai Foundation, in addition to the Advisory Board of The Sun Global Education and Learning Community (GELC). Ian is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Integrated Information Environment Committee (JIIE), the Core Middleware Advisory Board, Virtual Research Environment Programme Advisory Board and Distributed eLearning Programme Advisory Board. He chairs the JORUM Steering Group for the JISC. He has presented and written extensively on portals, learning environments and resource discovery.
	Dr. Michael Fraser (lecturer module 3) Michael Fraser is Co-ordinator of the Research Technologies Service (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/) within the Oxford University Computing Services where he is responsible for developing a centre of expertise in technologies and standards to support academic research e-infrastructure. Within the RTS he is also Director of the Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk), a service of the national Resource Discovery Network; co-investigator of the Shibboleth-aware Portals and Information Environments, SPIE Project (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/spie/); and provides a co-ordinating role for three Virtual Research Environment projects (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue44/fraser/) within the University. Michael's interests lie in the development of strategic approaches to supporting research within a university, with a particular emphasis on identifying the commonalities as well as the differences between the working methods of different research domains. He recently co-organised a workshop and produced a report on the development of an open access research repository for Oxford University. He is also a member of the Virtual Research Communities Working Group of the Office of Science and Technology (OST) steering group on e-Infrastructure. Michael is an active contributor to Oxford University's ICT Strategy Programme (http://www.ict.ox.ac.uk/strategy/) where he is Technical Secretary and also responsible for leading a work group to devise a series of 'stories' about the potential impact of the ICT strategy on the working lives of individuals across the University. Michael came to Oxford in 1995 to work for the now-closed CTI Centre for Textual Studies before successfully obtaining funding for the Humbul Humanities Hub in 1999. He has an academic background in the humanities with a PhD in theology from Durham University. He continues his interest in humanities computing through activities such as Humbul, membership of various advisory committees, and as external examiner for UCL's Electronic Communication and Publishing MA programme (http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-ECP). Further information about these and other activities is available from his personal web page at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/.
	Pierre Gorissen (lecturer module 4) Pierre Gorissen is a Learning Technologist at the Fontys University of Professional Education in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His work focuses on new technology for learning, reuse of content, specifications and standards for learning technology. He is the Coordinator of SURF SiX (http://e-learning.surf.nl/six/english) a Special Interest Group of the SURF Foundation that focusses on the use of standards and specifications for learning technology in the Netherlands. His weblog (http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre) covers a wide range of technological developments in the context of education. His weekly podcast (http://www.edukast.nl/) is both a proof of concept as a way to get more people involved in the use of podcasts, weblogs, videoblogs, social software and any other technology that has educational uses. Note: both weblog and podcast are in Dutch.
	Peter van de Graaf (lecturer module 1) Peter van de Graaf will replace Guofu Zhou and Alex Henzen for iRex. He received his M.Sc. in Industrial Design at the University of Delft in 1989. Since then he has been working as a product developer, first for 3M company, and later as director of his own company, Kiva. Since then he has been working for a variety of customers, amongst them Lucent, ABB and again 3M. His work has led to a quantity of products, from medical to automotive and ventilation products, and acquired 7 patents overall. He got involved in libraries by performing market research for RFID applications in libraries in 4 countries. This research led to new self-issue designs and safety gates for libraries. Kiva has been working with iRex, using their new product expertise, as well as their network within libraries, to investigate applications of e-paper in the library environment.
	Carl Grant (lecturer module 1) Carl Grant is a librarian who has worked in libraries, or companies automating libraries, for the last 35 years. Starting as a shelver at the St. Louis County Library as a teenager, he held a variety of increasing responsibilities, ending his career as an Assistant to the Director. He then joined the ILS vendor, DRA where he worked for 14 years in a variety of roles, most recently as the Vice President of International Business. He moved to Innovative Interfaces as their Vice President of Sales and Marketing and then joined Ameritech Library Services where he was Vice President of Marketing, Product Management and International Business. He joined Ex Libris (USA) as President in December of 1998 and in a period of four years spearheaded a number of initiatives that led to Ex Libris becoming a leading vendor of academic systems in North America. He joined VTLS as President and COO in April 2003. Mr. Grant holds an MLS from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is active in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), is a member of ALA. He is currently the Chair of the Board of National Information Standards Organization (NISO). His most recent publication was an article published in Library Journal entitled The Dis-integrating World of Library Automation (http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA606392.html).
	John Kirriemuir (lecturer module 4) John Kirriemuirs' research career began with nine years research for various digital library services and initiatives within UK academia. Following this, he became an independent researcher and consultant in the use of computer and video games in learning and teaching. In this role, he conducted analysis and consultancy work for education and ICT bodies in the UK and Europe, and was an invited speaker and presenter at many national and international conferences. He has advised education/IT bodies such as the JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk), BECTA (www.becta.org.uk) and the DfES (www.dfes.gov.uk) on the relevance of contemporary digital games to education, teaching and learning, and has advised a number of digital library organisations on the relevance of gaming technologies to their work. John's core interest is the use of Internet-based technologies to ultimately provide access to all information, for anyone, from any location. He lives on the island of Berneray (population 129) in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. He spends much of his time teleworking, and experimenting with new information technologies, from some of Europe's remotest beaches.
	Jenny Levine (lecturer module 2) From 1 August 2006 onwards, Jenny will be Internet Development Specialist and Strategy Guide at the American Library Association (http://ala.org/), where she has helped teach an online course on Library 2.0 (http://library2.0.alablog.org/) in the past months. Until June 2006, Jenny Levine was the Strategy Guide 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. In this role, one of her main goals was to educate member librarians about new technologies and how they can improve services to their patrons. In her nine years at MLS, Jenny helped implement a variety of statewide projects, including a virtual catalog, a group purchase of MP3 audiobooks (http://www.ListenIllinois.org/), and a site to host online teaching modules for both the public and librarians (http://LibraryU.org/). She also taught numerous classes and given dozens of presentations across North America about a variety of topics. For the past four years, she has become a strong advocate for the use of blogging and RSS in libraries. Jenny is also the author of The Shifted Librarian blog (http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/), a site that helps librarians understand the coming impact of ubiquitous, always-on internet (and hence ubiquitous, always-on information) on our profession. It is based on the theory that users no longer go somewhere to get information. Instead, it's always coming at us, and to meet the new expectations of these users, librarians need to 'shift" our services into their worlds, going where they are, rather than sitting at a desk waiting for them to come to us.
	Paul Miller (lecturer module 2) Paul joined Talis in September 2005 from the Common Information Environment (CIE), where as Director he was instrumental in scoping policy and attracting new members such as the BBC, National Library of Scotland and English Heritage to this group of UK public sector organisations. Previously, Paul was at UKOLN where he was active in a range of cross-domain standardisation and advocacy activities, and before that he was Collections Manager at the Archaeology Data Service. At Talis, Paul is exploring new models of collaboration and identifying further areas in which our technology or knowledge would be of value. Paul has a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.
	Dr. Bjørn Olstad (lecturer module 1) Bjørn Olstad, Ph.D., serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). Before joining the company, Dr. Olstad held key positions within General Electric Medical Systems, including Director of Research and Development for Cardiac Ultrasound. He has served as a professor in computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he was awarded the youngest professorship ever.
	Philip Payne (lecturer module 4) Philip Payne took up the post of Librarian at Birkbeck, University of London, UK in December 2004. Philip has a postgraduate diploma in social research methods from The City University and has been involved in practitioner-based research throughout his career. He was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in 2005 for his work in promoting practitioner research. Philip has been interested in measuring the impact of libraries on learning since 2000. He organised conferences on impact measurement on behalf of LIRG in 2001 and 2002. Since then, he has been co-ordinating a joint initiative between the Society of College National and University Libraries (SCONUL) and LIRG investigating the impact of higher education libraries on learning, teaching, and research. This has involved twelve higher education institutions in the UK, including his own institution, seeking to measure the difference that they make to learning and teaching. Further information is available at: http://www.sconul.ac.uk/activities/performance/impact.html. He is a member of SCONUL's Working Group on Performance Improvement and has recently joined the project management group for its Value and Impact Project (VAMP).
	Sue Roberts (lecturer module 4) Sue Roberts is Dean of Learning Services at Edge Hill University in Lancashire and the Director of SOLSTICE, a HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching with a focus on supported online learning. Learning Services encompasses learning resource centres and information provision, learning support, ICT user support for learning and teaching, e-learning development and support, media services, skills development and support for students with specific learning difficulties. Sue has extensive experience of converged learning services, having previously been Head of Information and Media Services at Edge Hill, and has worked in a variety of learning support roles within the higher education sector. Sue has also researched and published in the fields of learner support roles and teams, digital library development and e-learning, and is the co-author of Managing Information Services (Facet Publishing, 2004) and Developing the New Learning Environment (Facet Publishing, 2005). She is a member of the SCONUL Executive Board and the Chair of the SCONUL E-learning Group.
	Michael Stephens (lecturer module 2) Michael Stephens will be an Instructor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois starting in August 2006. He is the former Special Projects Librarian at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. At SJCPL, he developed the staff and public training program, managed networked resources, chaired the library's Web site redesign committee and currently works on technology related projects for the library. In 2001, he published The Library Internet Trainer's Toolkit --a series of technology training modules on CD-ROM with Neal-Schuman Inc. and in the U.K. with the British library Association in 2002. He is an associate faculty member at Indiana University (IUPUI) in the graduate program for Library and Information Science, as well as the GSLIS program at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. He has presented at library conferences locally, nationally and internationally as well as workshops for libraries and library associations, including Purdue University and the Darien Library in Darien, Connecticut. He is an IMLS funded fellow in the University of North Texas IMLS Distance Independent Information Science PhD Cohort Program to study libraries, librarians and social software. In 2005, he was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker and served as a Scholar at the Chicago Public Library's Scholar in Residence program. He has written for Library Journal, co-authors a department in Computers in Libraries and currently writes for the ALA TechSource Blog and his own blog, Tame the Web.
	Herbert Van de Sompel (lecturer module 1) Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, and the SFX linking server. Interoperability is what causes him not to sleep. See also his personal homepage at http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/.
	John Willinsky (lecturer module 3) John Willinsky is currently the Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His latest book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006), won the Blackwell's Scholarship Award from the American Library Association. Examples of the work of the Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.ubc.ca), which he directs at UBC, include open source software -- Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, and PKP Harvester -- designed to improve the access and quality of research, and are available at the project's website, along with copies of his publications.

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