Course director

In June 2003, Hans Geleijnse was appointed as Director IT Services and Chief Information Officer at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He will be mainly involved in strategic IT issues. Before that and since November 2000, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Hans was University Librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years before November 2000. 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, including the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), consortia negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on self-publishing. In Italy, he was engaged in the development of national initiatives by the various existing library consortia. Hans is Vice-President of LIBER, the League of research libraries in Europe. He is also a member of the Bibliotheksausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the board of Ticer. He was involved in various European digital library projects. He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, strategic planning, change management, and electronic publishing.

Ticer home summer school

Ticer, PO Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, The Netherlands,
telephone +31-13-466 83 10, telefax +31-13-466 83 83, e-mail ticer@uvt.nl,
last updated 6 June 2003