International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001 : Lecturers' biographies course 3

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001, Electronic Publishing: Libraries as Buyers, Facilitators, or Producers

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Toby Bainton:

Toby Bainton has worked in university libraries in London, Cambridge, and most recently in Reading, where he was University Librarian from 1987 to 1995. Since then he has been the Secretary of SCONUL, a professional body for the directors of library services in universities and higher colleges in the UK and Ireland. SCONUL's members also include the directors of the national libraries of those countries. In his present position he has been an active lobbyist in copyright law reform in the UK and in the European Union, particularly in respect of the EU Copyright Directive.

Giuseppe Bertola:

Giuseppe Bertola (Ph.D., M.I.T., 1988) has been a full-time professor at the European University Institute since September 1997, on leave from University of Torino where he is Professore Ordinario di Economia Politica, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche. He previously held other teaching positions in Torino and visiting positions in various places, and in 1989-93 was Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the International Finance Section, Princeton University. He is a Managing Editor of Economic Policy, Condirettore of Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, and Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamic. His work in macroeconomics studies labor market institutions, income distribution, and official interventions in exchange rate and interest rate markets. His research is published in Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, European Economic Review, and other academic journals and books. He is the author of chapters in Handbook of Labor Economics and Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland) and co-author of a graduate textbook, Metodi dinamici e Fenomeni Macroeconomici (il Mulino). Giuseppe Bertola’s research analyzes aggregate labor market performances in light of such institutional features as the ease with which employers can shed redundant labor, and the flexibility afforded by wage-setting mechanisms in the face of labor demand shocks. His current projects in this field aim at a better understanding of labor market institutions’ distributional effects, especially as regards their interaction with the European process of economic and monetary unification. He is also working on implications of reserve requirements and central bank intervention rules for the dynamic behavior of money market interest rates, both in the United States Federal Funds market and from an international comparative perspective. More information can be found at http://www.iue.it/Personal/Bertola

Lynne J. Brindley:

Lynne J. Brindley has been Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. Previously, she was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds. She has held previous positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, Principal Consultant at KPMG Management Consulting, Director of Library & Information Services and PVC for IT at Aston University, and a variety of posts at the British Library. She was a member of the Review Committee which led to the Follett Report and continued involvement through chairing the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).

Jonathan Clark:

Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier Science in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Until May 2000 Jonathan was Publishing Director for the Mathematics and Computer Science portfolio of journals. Since then he has taken up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier Science's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.

Frederick Friend:

Fred Friend was born in war-time U.K., grew up by the sea in Dover, read most of the books in his local public library, and with the help of supportive parents went off to study history at Kings College London. He had the good fortune to enter academic libraries at a time of growth. His first post was in Manchester University Library, where his future wife was also working. Fred moved from university to university in the UK and obtained his first library director post at the University of Essex. This was followed by a move to University College London, where he was library director for 15 years before moving into his present post, exploring new developments in information services. Fred is involved in national and international initiatives through the work of organizations such as JISC and SCONUL in the UK and international groups such as ICOLC. He is a proud father and grand-father. You may contact him by e-mail at f.friend@ucl.ac.uk or via his website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarly-communication/.

Hans Geleijnse:

Programme director of the course is Hans Geleijnse, Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy since November 2000. Before that, Hans was university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. He was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national and international initiatives with respect to electronic publishing: the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles, the foundation of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on electronic publishing. He is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the board of Ticer, and of the Frankfurt Group (a consensus group of representatives of European Library organizations, publishers, rightsholders, organisations of authors and intermediaries). He was and still is 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, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing. He also was the programme director of the successful Ticer Summer School on Electronic Publishing in August 2000.

Carol Ann Hughes:

Carol Ann Hughes holds a Master's in Library Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MBA from UCLA, and a Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Michigan School of Information. Her career has included positions as an academic librarian in a variety of settings for over 25 years. In 2000, she joined Questia Media, Inc., a commercial provider of an online library containing XML encoded texts in the humanities and social sciences with tools to support the undergradute research process. As Director of Collections Management, she manages a team of professionals who oversee the collection selection and metadata processing systems and serves on enterprise-wide cross-functional teams. She came to Questia Media from the University of Iowa where she served as Director of Information and Research Services. At Iowa her duties included oversight of programs for faculty technology training, the Information Arcade facility, reference services, and user education. She was also principal investigator on the University of Iowa Libraries' contribution to the Library of Congress American Memory project. She is an invited speaker and writer on the topics of use of digital collections and the role of library-based information services in higher education.

Rick Johnson:

Rick Johnson directs SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international library alliance that is creating a more effective and competitive scientific communication marketplace. Through its publisher partnerships, SPARC fosters creation of high-quality, economical alternatives to high-priced journals. Since becoming SPARC's first staff member in 1998, Rick has developed a variety of publishing collaborations and has led public communication and advocacy programs that carry the message of change across college and university campuses. Before joining SPARC, Rick was with Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America, divisions of LEXIS-NEXIS that serve the academic market. As Vice President of Marketing, and later as Senior Vice President of CIS/UPA, Rick sponsored the creation of CIS's first web-based products, including Congressional Universe, and built UPA's successful international marketing program.

David Kohl:

David Kohl is Dean and University Librarian at the University of Cincinnati where he has served for eight years. In addition, he serves as Director of the University of Cincinnati Digital Press -- which he founded in 1995. He has served in various library capacities at the University of Colorado (Boulder), University of Illinois (Urbana) and Washington State University. Among other activities he represented OhioLINK (a state-wide consortium of all Ohio academic libraries) during the (three year) Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) organzied by the U.S. government, is the Association of Research Libraries delegate to IFLA's Document Delivery and Interlending Section, past chair of OhioLINK's Library Administrative Council, and active in the International Consortium of Library Consortia. He has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in Divinity and Library Science.

Teun Nijssen:

Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust.

Thomas Place:

Thomas Wessel Place (1950) graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship with the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, he became a lecturer in the Methodology and Philosophy of Science with the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University (1975 until 1987). From 1988 until 1993 he was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 he has been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg University. Since 1989, he has been involved in library automation projects. He was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). Currently, he is project manager of the European project Decomate II that aims at creating a pan-European Digital Library for Economics with mutual access to the heterogeneous, distributed and pooled digital resources of the consortium members in the field of Economics.

Hans Roes:

After studying Monetary Economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University and the Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg. In 1990 he started working as librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He was manager of the Online Contents project at the library and initiator of a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993 he has worked as deputy librarian at Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999 Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://www.ejcl.org/). In recent years, Hans has been involved in projects to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes, a project aimed at enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff, and the introduction of digital learning environments. Also, he and his staff are investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing these. At this moment, Hans also co-manages the ARNO project (http://www.uba.uva.nl/en/projects/arno/, which aims to develop and implement university document servers to make available the scientific output of participating institutions. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as consultant for Ticer, he was involved in developing a new strategic plan for the libraries of the Amsterdam University for Professional Education, which resulted in a realignment of the libraries’ strategy with educational innovation. More information and a list of publications can be found at http://www.hroes.de/.

Hans Roosendaal:

At present, dr. Hans E. Roosendaal is member of the Executive Board and Director of Scientific Information at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In his position of Director of Scientific Information he has overall responsibility for all aspects of scientific information,including educational information, and is director of the DINKEL (Development Institute for Knowledge, Education and Learning) Institute of the University. The DINKEL institute is a unique merger of education and information disciplines geared at innovating education as well as research by creating a digital, integrated learning and information environment. Educated as physicist, Hans joined the University of Bielefeld (Germany) as faculty staff in 1974. Between 1983 and 1998 he served Elsevier Science in various management positions as a publisher and in corporate strategy and acquisitions. Hans authored about 50 articles and co-authored a book in surface physics and he authored a number of articles on scientific information (in particular on strategic aspects of the transformation from a paper to an electronic environment).

Johan F. Steenbakkers:

Johan Steenbakkers is Director of Information Technology and Facility Management at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the national library of the Netherlands. For over twenty years he has been working in the field of library and documentation and has been involved in the organisation and automation of libraries. During this period he has carried out a wide range of management activities. Johan Steenbakkers graduated in 1969 in Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. After four years of bio-molecular research, he in 1973 accepted the position of librarian of the Faculties of Biology and Chemistry in Utrecht. In 1987, Johan F. Steenbakkers joined the board of directors of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. As the Director of Information Technology and Facility Management he is responsible for the ICT- policy and -management and for the innovative projects in this area. He is chairman of the Taskgroup of CoBRA+ concerned with examining issues in the area of electronic publications and digital resources. The Taskgroup recommends actions to the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). During 1998-2001 he has been the project co-ordinator of NEDLIB, an EC-financed international project with focus on the functional and technical aspects of the handling and the preservation of electronic publications. Johan is in actually responsible for the development and implementation of a large-scale deposit system for the Deposit for Netherlands Electronic Publications (DNEP). For this purpose the KB has signed a strategic contract with IBM that includes research and development of functionality for long term preservation.

David Stern:

David Stern has been the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University since 1995. He has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He has worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and serves as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services. His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focussed primarily upon scholars workstations. He is currently involved in the development of end-user search systems for both local and remote hosts, including a web-based expert systems librarian emulator. He is also working on the development of standards and cost models for seamless full-text search and retrieval systems. His publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, and he recently edited a special issue of Science and Technology Libraries entitled Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios. He also is the author of "Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences" (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000). See for more information http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/dirstuff.html.

Herbert Van de Sompel:

Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). Currently, Herbert is Visiting Professor in Computer Science, Digital Library Research Group, Cornell University. Starting on 1 September 2001, Herbert will become Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library.

Alicia Wise:

Alicia Wise is Assistant Director, Collections and Communications for the Joint Information Systems Committee. In this role she is responsible for the content in the UK's Distributed National Electronic Resource. She co-ordinates national negotiations for electronic books, discovery tools, geospatial resources, journals, images, learning materials, moving pictures, sound, and primary research data. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropological Archaeology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Her research background is in resistance to the Roman invasion of Scotland, human historical ecology, digital archiving, computer applications in the humanities, and electronic collections management.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Toby Bainton: Toby Bainton has worked in university libraries in London, Cambridge, and most recently in Reading, where he was University Librarian from 1987 to 1995. Since then he has been the Secretary of SCONUL, a professional body for the directors of library services in universities and higher colleges in the UK and Ireland. SCONUL's members also include the directors of the national libraries of those countries. In his present position he has been an active lobbyist in copyright law reform in the UK and in the European Union, particularly in respect of the EU Copyright Directive.
	Giuseppe Bertola: Giuseppe Bertola (Ph.D., M.I.T., 1988) has been a full-time professor at the European University Institute since September 1997, on leave from University of Torino where he is Professore Ordinario di Economia Politica, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche. He previously held other teaching positions in Torino and visiting positions in various places, and in 1989-93 was Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the International Finance Section, Princeton University. He is a Managing Editor of Economic Policy, Condirettore of Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, and Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamic. His work in macroeconomics studies labor market institutions, income distribution, and official interventions in exchange rate and interest rate markets. His research is published in Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, European Economic Review, and other academic journals and books. He is the author of chapters in Handbook of Labor Economics and Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland) and co-author of a graduate textbook, Metodi dinamici e Fenomeni Macroeconomici (il Mulino). Giuseppe Bertola’s research analyzes aggregate labor market performances in light of such institutional features as the ease with which employers can shed redundant labor, and the flexibility afforded by wage-setting mechanisms in the face of labor demand shocks. His current projects in this field aim at a better understanding of labor market institutions’ distributional effects, especially as regards their interaction with the European process of economic and monetary unification. He is also working on implications of reserve requirements and central bank intervention rules for the dynamic behavior of money market interest rates, both in the United States Federal Funds market and from an international comparative perspective. More information can be found at http://www.iue.it/Personal/Bertola
	Lynne J. Brindley: Lynne J. Brindley has been Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000. Previously, she was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Communications and IT and University Librarian at the University of Leeds. She has held previous positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, Principal Consultant at KPMG Management Consulting, Director of Library & Information Services and PVC for IT at Aston University, and a variety of posts at the British Library. She was a member of the Review Committee which led to the Follett Report and continued involvement through chairing the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
	Jonathan Clark: Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier Science in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Until May 2000 Jonathan was Publishing Director for the Mathematics and Computer Science portfolio of journals. Since then he has taken up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier Science's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.
	Frederick Friend: Fred Friend was born in war-time U.K., grew up by the sea in Dover, read most of the books in his local public library, and with the help of supportive parents went off to study history at Kings College London. He had the good fortune to enter academic libraries at a time of growth. His first post was in Manchester University Library, where his future wife was also working. Fred moved from university to university in the UK and obtained his first library director post at the University of Essex. This was followed by a move to University College London, where he was library director for 15 years before moving into his present post, exploring new developments in information services. Fred is involved in national and international initiatives through the work of organizations such as JISC and SCONUL in the UK and international groups such as ICOLC. He is a proud father and grand-father. You may contact him by e-mail at f.friend@ucl.ac.uk or via his website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarly-communication/.
	Hans Geleijnse: Programme director of the course is Hans Geleijnse, Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy since November 2000. Before that, Hans was university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. He was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national and international initiatives with respect to electronic publishing: the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles, the foundation of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on electronic publishing. He is a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, of the board of Ticer, and of the Frankfurt Group (a consensus group of representatives of European Library organizations, publishers, rightsholders, organisations of authors and intermediaries). He was and still is 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, the relationship between libraries and publishers, and licensing. He also was the programme director of the successful Ticer Summer School on Electronic Publishing in August 2000.
	Carol Ann Hughes: Carol Ann Hughes holds a Master's in Library Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MBA from UCLA, and a Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Michigan School of Information. Her career has included positions as an academic librarian in a variety of settings for over 25 years. In 2000, she joined Questia Media, Inc., a commercial provider of an online library containing XML encoded texts in the humanities and social sciences with tools to support the undergradute research process. As Director of Collections Management, she manages a team of professionals who oversee the collection selection and metadata processing systems and serves on enterprise-wide cross-functional teams. She came to Questia Media from the University of Iowa where she served as Director of Information and Research Services. At Iowa her duties included oversight of programs for faculty technology training, the Information Arcade facility, reference services, and user education. She was also principal investigator on the University of Iowa Libraries' contribution to the Library of Congress American Memory project. She is an invited speaker and writer on the topics of use of digital collections and the role of library-based information services in higher education.
	Rick Johnson: Rick Johnson directs SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an international library alliance that is creating a more effective and competitive scientific communication marketplace. Through its publisher partnerships, SPARC fosters creation of high-quality, economical alternatives to high-priced journals. Since becoming SPARC's first staff member in 1998, Rick has developed a variety of publishing collaborations and has led public communication and advocacy programs that carry the message of change across college and university campuses. Before joining SPARC, Rick was with Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America, divisions of LEXIS-NEXIS that serve the academic market. As Vice President of Marketing, and later as Senior Vice President of CIS/UPA, Rick sponsored the creation of CIS's first web-based products, including Congressional Universe, and built UPA's successful international marketing program.
	David Kohl: David Kohl is Dean and University Librarian at the University of Cincinnati where he has served for eight years. In addition, he serves as Director of the University of Cincinnati Digital Press -- which he founded in 1995. He has served in various library capacities at the University of Colorado (Boulder), University of Illinois (Urbana) and Washington State University. Among other activities he represented OhioLINK (a state-wide consortium of all Ohio academic libraries) during the (three year) Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) organzied by the U.S. government, is the Association of Research Libraries delegate to IFLA's Document Delivery and Interlending Section, past chair of OhioLINK's Library Administrative Council, and active in the International Consortium of Library Consortia. He has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago in Divinity and Library Science.
	Teun Nijssen: Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust.
	Thomas Place: Thomas Wessel Place (1950) graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship with the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, he became a lecturer in the Methodology and Philosophy of Science with the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University (1975 until 1987). From 1988 until 1993 he was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. Since 1993 he has been Deputy Librarian for Library Systems and Development at Tilburg University. Since 1989, he has been involved in library automation projects. He was leader of several projects (KUBguide, networking CD-ROMs, selection of a full text retrieval system, implementing Z39.50, WWW access to library databases). Currently, he is project manager of the European project Decomate II that aims at creating a pan-European Digital Library for Economics with mutual access to the heterogeneous, distributed and pooled digital resources of the consortium members in the field of Economics.
	Hans Roes: After studying Monetary Economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University and the Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg. In 1990 he started working as librarian for Economics and Computer Science at the Tilburg University Library. He was manager of the Online Contents project at the library and initiator of a project for electronic document delivery. Since 1993 he has worked as deputy librarian at Tilburg University Library. In 1998 and 1999 Hans managed the IWI project Electronic Journal of Comparative Law (http://www.ejcl.org/). In recent years, Hans has been involved in projects to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes, a project aimed at enhancing ICT skills of teaching staff, and the introduction of digital learning environments. Also, he and his staff are investigating the use of digital learning environments for library instruction and have started implementing these. At this moment, Hans also co-manages the ARNO project (http://www.uba.uva.nl/en/projects/arno/, which aims to develop and implement university document servers to make available the scientific output of participating institutions. In 1999, Hans worked as a consultant for the Dutch Open University in reorganising its library facilities for distance education. In 2000, again as consultant for Ticer, he was involved in developing a new strategic plan for the libraries of the Amsterdam University for Professional Education, which resulted in a realignment of the libraries’ strategy with educational innovation. More information and a list of publications can be found at http://www.hroes.de/.
	Hans Roosendaal: At present, dr. Hans E. Roosendaal is member of the Executive Board and Director of Scientific Information at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In his position of Director of Scientific Information he has overall responsibility for all aspects of scientific information,including educational information, and is director of the DINKEL (Development Institute for Knowledge, Education and Learning) Institute of the University. The DINKEL institute is a unique merger of education and information disciplines geared at innovating education as well as research by creating a digital, integrated learning and information environment. Educated as physicist, Hans joined the University of Bielefeld (Germany) as faculty staff in 1974. Between 1983 and 1998 he served Elsevier Science in various management positions as a publisher and in corporate strategy and acquisitions. Hans authored about 50 articles and co-authored a book in surface physics and he authored a number of articles on scientific information (in particular on strategic aspects of the transformation from a paper to an electronic environment).
	Johan F. Steenbakkers: Johan Steenbakkers is Director of Information Technology and Facility Management at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the national library of the Netherlands. For over twenty years he has been working in the field of library and documentation and has been involved in the organisation and automation of libraries. During this period he has carried out a wide range of management activities. Johan Steenbakkers graduated in 1969 in Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. After four years of bio-molecular research, he in 1973 accepted the position of librarian of the Faculties of Biology and Chemistry in Utrecht. In 1987, Johan F. Steenbakkers joined the board of directors of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. As the Director of Information Technology and Facility Management he is responsible for the ICT- policy and -management and for the innovative projects in this area. He is chairman of the Taskgroup of CoBRA+ concerned with examining issues in the area of electronic publications and digital resources. The Taskgroup recommends actions to the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). During 1998-2001 he has been the project co-ordinator of NEDLIB, an EC-financed international project with focus on the functional and technical aspects of the handling and the preservation of electronic publications. Johan is in actually responsible for the development and implementation of a large-scale deposit system for the Deposit for Netherlands Electronic Publications (DNEP). For this purpose the KB has signed a strategic contract with IBM that includes research and development of functionality for long term preservation.
	David Stern: David Stern has been the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University since 1995. He has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He has worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and serves as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services. His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focussed primarily upon scholars workstations. He is currently involved in the development of end-user search systems for both local and remote hosts, including a web-based expert systems librarian emulator. He is also working on the development of standards and cost models for seamless full-text search and retrieval systems. His publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, and he recently edited a special issue of Science and Technology Libraries entitled Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios. He also is the author of "Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences" (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000). See for more information http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/dirstuff.html.
	Herbert Van de Sompel: Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). Currently, Herbert is Visiting Professor in Computer Science, Digital Library Research Group, Cornell University. Starting on 1 September 2001, Herbert will become Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library.
	Alicia Wise: Alicia Wise is Assistant Director, Collections and Communications for the Joint Information Systems Committee. In this role she is responsible for the content in the UK's Distributed National Electronic Resource. She co-ordinates national negotiations for electronic books, discovery tools, geospatial resources, journals, images, learning materials, moving pictures, sound, and primary research data. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropological Archaeology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Her research background is in resistance to the Roman invasion of Scotland, human historical ecology, digital archiving, computer applications in the humanities, and electronic collections management.