Maj-Lis Aaltonen:
My main responsibilities are the management of the main library of the Agricultural Research Centre of Finland (MTT) and the development of the current research information system (MAATTI) of MTT. The library provides information service as well as document delivery for about 250 researchers of MTT. For the clients of MTT we provide information service on MTT's research projects and publications. I have worked as an information specialist at MTT since 1990 and before that, four years as a researcher with a degree of M.Sc. in Food Science and one year as an information specialist at the Agricultural Library of the University of Helsinki. Since 1996 I have been in charge of a core team which develops the databases of reseach projects, experts, publication references and library's catalogues. Databases are accessible for clients in the Internet at http://www.mtt.fi.
Henk van Asten:
Henk W. van Asten (1947) studied history and library sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1973 he is working in different positions in the Library of the Faculty of arts and the University library in Amsterdam. Among his main responsibilities are the implementation of the library applications throughout the twelve locations of the Faculty library and the technical and professional support of the library staff and the library users
Lothar Becker:
In 1982 I started at the Scientific Library of the Hoechst AG, Frankfurt, Germany as a librarian. Since 1994 I manage this library. The mission of the library is to make available Information for anyone within the Hoechst Group at Frankfurt. This will change in 1998 when the library will become a profit center. We will provide our services worldwide to internal or external customers. My opportunity is to create and realize a strategic concept, that the customers will accept.
Maybelle Botha:
Maybelle Botha is the Director of Library Services at the Technikon Northern Transvaal in South Africa. She gained experience in public provincial and school libraries before joining the State Library in Pretoria. The State Library as one of two National Libraries is responsible for the S.A. National Bibliography and for the organization of interlending services and joint catalogues for the country. Since joining the Technikon four years ago the library has been expanded to serve over 9000 students on three campuses. She has degrees in Library Science and Management and a diploma in Education. The library looks forward to entering the era of the electronic library and is a member of a newly established Library consortium with 10 other tertiary educational institutions in the region.
Tore Brattli:
My name is Tore Brattli and I am working as an academic librarian at the University Library of Tromsø where I am responsible the subjects mathematics, statistics and computer science. I am actually a mathematician with a masters degree. My job at the library is to buy books and journals, classify them and help students and researchers find the literature they want. I am also very interested in all the new possibilities the Internet gives the libraries to bring information to the users. I made my first Web-pages in June 1994 and I have made several Web-based databases (e.g. new books, journals) for the library. The University of Tromsø is the northernmost university in the world and smallest in Norway with 6000 students. The university library has 70 employees. When I am not working I like climbing, skiing, jogging and travelling.
Marion van Brunschot:
Marion van Brunschot holds a graduate masters degree in Modern Asian History and a post graduate degree in Scientific Librarianship both of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 1985 until 1988 she worked for the "Stichting VNC-Reizen" in Utrecht, specialized in Asia tours. In 1988 she joined Kearney Executive Search, a division of A.T. Kearney Inc., an international management consultancy firm, in Amsterdam. She held several positions including that of Manager Marketing Services and Information Systems. Since 1994 she has been Head of the Acquisitions and Serials Department of the University Library of the University of Amsterdam.
Heeyoon Choi:
I am working at the POSCO Research Institute (POSRI) sponsored by POSCO (Pohang Iron & Steel Company) which is the largest steel company in Korea. Under the vision of becoming leading management consulting company, POSRI is providing following services: 1. Managment consulting: analysis and investigation of management issues 2. Steel industry studies: research of steel industry and related industries 3. Management Training: development and operation of training programs 4. Knowledge management and information services: knowledge bank and provider. I am in charge of the Information Resources Team, managing two Information Centers in POSRI and POSCO Center. Our main jobs is managing the business information of POSCO Group and research information of POSRI. For this, we are collecting valuable information resources, constructing the inhouse databases and linking foreign and domestic databases to our system for mazimizing the value of information services.
Pierre Cuendet:
Pierre Cuendet (1943) graduated in physics, a long time ago, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, followed by a Ph.D in biology at the Lausanne University. After 8 years as research assistant and a growing attraction for information science, he finally felt into it and began online searching at the main library of the ecole polytechnique. After a further training as science librarian, he is now the head of a new chemistry library founded 3 years ago by the University and the Ecole polytechnique, and is lecturer at the Ecole superieure d'information documentaire at Geneva in database searching.
Marga Dolk:
Marga Dolk (1945) is Head of the Library of Hoogovens Staal in IJmuiden. This is the Dutch Steel and Aluminium Concern with more than 2000 library-users of the 11500 employees. She works with a team of 14 employees. Together with the Documentation Department and the Archive Department, is the Library Department responsible for the corporate documentary information services. In the eighties, Marga Dolk has worked on the automation of the Hoogovens catalogue and of the other library processes. In those years she also was a member of the working group on library automation of the Dutch Association of Librarians. She has been secretary of the section special libraries of the Dutch Association of Librarians and until 1996 member of the Committee of the Serials Group of the same association. She lives in Amsterdam.
David Elder:
No biography available.
Max Furrer:
No biography available.
Helen Furu:
I am the head of the Serials Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences Library at the University of Oslo. The library has a staff of about 40, and is the main library for almost 7000 students and scientific employees at the Faculty of Social Sciences. We use the library automation system BIBSYS, shared by most higher educational and research libraries in Norway. The library also offers access to the WWW, on-line databases and a growing number of net based CD-ROM databases. At the moment we are testing electronic journals in full text. The periodicals department handles about 2300 journal subscriptions in print. In my daily work I use Microsoft Windows 95 and Internet. I have extensive experience in searching in CD-ROM and on-line databases. We are now planning for a new university library in Oslo. Four faculty libraries will be moving together in new buildings, hopefully this will happen at the end of 1998. The Faculty of Social Sciences Libraries homepage is located at: http://www.ub.uio.no/usv/.
Steven Gheyselinck:
Originating from the Low Countries, trained as an architect at the ETH in Zürich and by way of Brazil, cabinet-making and passion for languages, has become head of the subject cataloguing depart-ment at the main library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (http://www.epfl.ch/) in Lausanne (there, because of Swiss wives and children). Recently he was named head of the periodi-cals department as well, hence his interest in on-line information management and subsequently the development of the Digital Library.
Hachim Haddouti:
Hachim Haddouti is research assistant and Ph.D student at Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge- Based Systems (FORWISS). FORWISS is one of the leading German research organizations for intelligent and innovative solutions in information and communication technology. His research areas include Multimedia Database Systems, Information Retrieval, Hyper media and Digital Library. He is involved in the long-term digital library project of Germany - VD17: http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~vd17. More details about Hachim Haddouti are available at http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~haddouti.
Kristiina Hildén:
I am head of the collections and services department at the Helsinki University Library, which is the oldiest and largest research library in Finland (founded 1640) and also the National Library. We have a rather new organisation whith only two departments (instead of the former 7): 1. Collections and services, which also includes the national library collection and a conservation and microfilming center 2. Department for national network services (includes deveopment of the electronic library. "My" department has about 80 permanent and 15-20 non-permanent posts and activities at three locations in Finland.
Trijnie Horlings:
Trijnie Horlings finished library school in 1971. From 1971 until 1975 she worked four years in a public library. From 1975 until 1982 she studied psychology at State University Groningen. After graduation she started working as an information specialist Social Sciences at the Tilburg University Library. She attended also a postgraduate course for literature researcher. Now she is responsible for collection building and cataloguing. She maintains contact with the Department of Social Sciences about library matters and takes care of library instructions for students and staff members.
Georges Iffland:
The Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, http://www.epfl.ch/, is primarily concerned with training engineers and architects capable of maintaining a high degree of excellence in industry, trade and culture. There are 4500 students and 12 fields of teaching and research at the EPFL: civil engineering, rural engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineeering (incl. electronics), physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, materials science, architecture, micro-engineering and communication systems. After studies in physics and a dissertation in mathematics, I switched to the Central Library of the EPFL, where I am head of the Information retrieval service. My job includes retrieval on online or local databases, enduser support for CD-ROM and other electronic sources, development of a digital library. Subjects of interest: the role of the library in a intranet; cooperation between library and computer centre; organizing the dissemination of information at the site level; strategic planning; long-term storage of electronic documents; general interest in case studies: good and bad experiences.
Jaana Kersalo:
I am librarian in the Helsinki University of Technology Library, which is the central technical library in Finland. The library constitutes of the main library and about 25 smaller departmental and laboratory libraries. I am editor-in-chief of the newsletter for our customers "TietäNet", which is published in paper and in html-format. Also I am responsible for serials-cataloguing, holdings and checking in. So in that sense I work as a supervisor. I have took part in developing WWW-pages of our library and so on. I have worked in different departments of our library during these 10 years.
Wil Koffeman:
I am graduated in medical sociology with special subjects social psychology and administration. At this moment I am working in the library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. This library is the largest among the small university libraries in The Netherlands. It was founded in 1880. Our organization structure is changing, because we are planning the implementation of the digital library in our so called "classic" library. I am working as staff member. In our organization staff members coordinate subjects as collection building, bibliographic description of documents, bibliographic classification, and so on. My subject is coordination of electronic information services.
Lee Pui Lee:
I have recently joined Elsevier Science (Singapore) Pte Ltd as Account Manager. As the Account Manager at Elsevier Science, I am responsible for the account management and sales and marketing of ES journals and books programme in Asia concentrating in countries such as Taiwan and China. I have three and a half years of marketing and promotions experience in the publishing industry in Asia. Prior to joining ES, I was the Product Manager for the STM division at John Wiley, responsible for the Asia region. I hold an Honours degree in Business majoring in Marketing and I am currently pursing a Masters degree in International Business at Curtin University of Australia. My current interests include Internet marketing and electronic publishing.
Leif Longva:
I am born 5th May 1958. I have a Master of Fishery science from University of Tromsø (1985), and a Master of Art, economics from Simon Fraser Univ. in Burnaby, Canada (1992). I am a subject librarian at the University library of Tromsø, responsible for the economics-subjects. The library serves the University's app. 800 professors, researchers and lecturers and app. 7000 students. The library has 16 subject librarians covering the different subjects. The subject librarians are responsible for the library's literature holdings and the search tools and databases, and for teaching the students and the staff how to make best use of the library resources. I am editing web-pages where I present news from the library within the economics area. I also try to use the web as a tool for making the library's resources available for the staff's and student's at their desktops, through databases available on the web.
Monika Mosberger:
I have studied German and English literature and Philosophy at the University of Zurich. After graduation I started to work as a librarian and documentalist at the information centre of the Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich. During my four years in this Company I successfully completed the training as a scientific librarian which is organised by the Swiss Association of Libraries and Librarians. In 1995 I started to work at the Swiss National Library as the head of the information centre Helvetica. In this function I am responsible for 20 employees and three different services: Swiss Union Catalogue, User services and Swiss Information Centre. Currently I am especially concerned with the digitalisation of the Swiss Union Catalogue and the improvement and modernization of our user services.
Eva Müller:
Eva Müller studied 1982-1987 at Charles University in Prague at the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship. After coming to Sweden she has worked at the library of the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, and the last five years at the Library at the Centre for language and social studies. This library is one of many branch libraries of Uppsala University Library specializing in economics and economic history. Eva Müller has during the last months worked with our library's home page.
Lou Næraa:
I am 41 years old; graduated from library school as a public librarian in 1979, but has been employed at the State and University Library in Aarhus, Denmark since then. The library is the second legal deposit library in Denmark, it is university library for the University of Aarhus and it serves as loan center for the Danish public libraries. I have worked with MARC-cataloguing most of the time, in the University Section where we catalogue books for the institute libraries at the university. From 1987-1989 I was in charge of establishing the State Media Collection, a new department of the library. Since 1989 I have been leader of the University Section. My reason for seeking Tilburg is my new position as leader of "The Digital Faculty Library Project", a pilot project for establishing extended digital library services in close collaboration with each faculty at the university.
Lars Nondal:
Lars Nondal (1957) graduated in Economics from University of Copenhagen in 1985. Since then he has been employed at Copenhagen Business School Library. First as a Subject Specialist in varying areas such as finance, European Union, marketing, business economics etc. Later also in charge of all online searching and cd-rom databases at the library. He is currently in charge of a department called HB-Info, which is responsible for all advanced services aimed at the researchers at the Business School. HB-Info is also responsible for the library's networked services and external databases, i.e. networking of CD-rom's, traditional online databases, Internet etc. The department also provides a commercial information broker service aimed at the Danish business community.
Doreen Parker:
Doreen Parker is the University Librarian (Library Director) at the Victoria University of Technology, where she is responsible for the provision of library, media, copyright- and archive services to the university. The university has 22,000 students and has six campuses in the City of Melbourne and the western suburbs of the Melbourne metropolitan area. The library comprises 6 campus libraries, a media services branch and the university archive with a total staff of 100. Doreen Parker has qualifications in the library and information technology areas. Prior to her appointment at Victoria University, she held other management positions in academic libraries in Australia. Before that she held library positions in Australia, the UK and Iran specialising in the library systems area.
Rob Ploum:
No biography available.
Leonne Portz:
Leonne Portz finished Library School Maastricht in 1991 and became a student at the Faculty of Language and Literature at Tilburg University where she specialized in marketing and sociology of books. After her graduation she started working at Tilburg University Library in 1993 as a documentalist of the economic sciences collection. Leonne followed several courses in economic sciences. Since June 1997 she is involved in the virtual economic library project.
Oledys Ramirez:
Name: Oledys Ram¡rez Degree: Licenciada in Library Science Organization: Biblioteca Joaquin Garcia Monge, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica Function: Head of Cataloguing Center Experience: Reference services, Cataloguing process, Library Science School of the Universidad Nacional.
Simon Reinink:
No biography available.
Ank van Rens:
No biography available.
Shuichi Sato:
Senior Engineer, Information & Communication Service Dept., Networking Division, NTT Advanced Technology(NTT-AT) Corporation. NTT-AT is one of the NTT group companies and supporting research and developments of NTT(Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). Our department is developing NTT R&D Digital Library System, the SMART Library on the net. And we are seeking new information services for it. I hope this summer school can help our new information services.
Ramnauth Sookraj:
Nationality: Guyanese. Position: Lecturer, Department of Library & Information Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Courses taught: Computer Literacy, Library Automation, Audiovisual Information Work, Information Resources in Science & Technology. Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MLS, 1995); University of the West Indies (B.A., 1986). The Department of Library and Information Studies is the only professional school of library and information science in the English-speaking Caribbean. Training is offered at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Gert Staal:
No biography available.
Alta Strauss:
Organisation: State Department Library of the South African Government. Job within the organisation: Section Head of the Central Library. Supervisory as well as line functional responsibilities. Subject field: all. aspects of management (eg. human resources, organisational and supervisory management).
Alida Strydom:
Education: B degree in Library and Information Science, University of Pretoria. Organisation: State Department Library of the South African Government. Job within the organisation: Section Head of a Technology Library (a Special Library).Supervisory as well as line functional responsibilities; managing the functions of the library as well as the Information Professionals and Administrative Assistants. A part of our library is a video library. Subject fields that we are working on are mainly science and technology. We depend a lot on online services.
Hiroya Takeuchi:
After obtaining MA in LIS from Keio University, I joined the General Library, the Univ. of Tokyo. During my 7-year service, I had been involved in ordinary library service works and some projects including library computerization, CAPCAS, and so on. For 1989-1991, I had worked for UNESCO/ PGI in Bangkok/Thailand as Associate Expert seconded by the Japanese Government. From 1996, I have the present position and give lectures to the students who likes to have the Certificate of Librarianship.
Ara Talib:
The Ministry of Information Malaysia plans and coordinates the information dissemination activities of the government. Its primary responsibility is to evaluate, monitor and regulate the electronic and broadcasting activities of the country. I am in charge of the Ministry's Resource Centre. The Centre's function is to serve the information needs of the Ministry's community, as well as the government- owned broadcasting radio and TV station.
Eila Tapio:
I am a librarian at the Oulu University Main Library. In addition to the Main Library the University Library includes three faculty libraries and several department and group libraries. The Oulu University Library is also a depositary library and European Documentation Centre. I started my library career in 1985 at the Oulu University Geoscience Library, where I worked as librarian and information specialist. Since 1989 I have worked at the Main Library, first as information specialist and since 1993 as head of the services department. In my department works 13 persons in following services: lending, inter-library lending, information service and EU-information service. I'm also a member of the executive group.
Rickey Tax:
Graduated in art history at the University of Amsterdam. Works as assistant librarian at the faculty of chemistry of the University of Amsterdam since 1991. In 1995 graduated as scientific documentalist at GO in The Hague. Tasks: apart from daily routine, he is secretary of the faculty library committee and responsible for several projects, including automatization of library services. For more information, see: http://www.chem.uva.nl/bib/index_en.html.
Anja Ukkola:
Master of Science in England in 1972 and further studies to information specialist from 1977 until 1978. Since 1991 I am director of library Lappeenranta University of technology. Previously I was librarian for University of Oulu, faculty of technology libraries (there were 4 of them) from 1989 until 1990 and also information specialist in the same place from 1982 until 1988. Before that I was working as research engineer in industry for about ten years.
Philippe Van Lint:
I am 38 years old. I graduated in German philology (specialisation in literature) from the free university of Brussels in 1981. After one year experience as a teacher, I started working at the National Bank of Belgium, where I have been active in several operational departments. In 1989 I joined the Research Department, first as translator, later as executive manager of the scientific library. The scientific library of the National Bank is specialised in economics. It provides the bank with all useful documentation with respect to the central bank's activities. It is also accessible to the general public.
Nol Verhagen:
Arnold Verhagen was born in 1948; he is holding a MA degree in Dutch Language and Literature. He was a secondary-school-teacher from 1973 till 1979, when he got a management position at Tilburg University. His last job there was managing director and co-founding father of Tilburg Institute of Advanced Studies in management (Tias), that is now co-organizing the Summer School. In 1990 he went to Amsterdam to become director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, one of the largest faculties in the Netherlands. Last year the board of the university invited him to be the next librarian of the university. The university's library is the biggest library in the country and one of the richest university libraries in Europe. It consists of a general main library (with a fine collection of rare and precious books) and a wide range of large and small semi-independent faculty libraries, spread all over the city of Amsterdam. The university's librarian is head of the general library, and has a coordinating responsibility with respect to the faculty libraries, that, nevertheless, do not belong to his 'jurisdiction'.
Margaret Zito:
Margaret Zito is presently Chief of the Collection Development and Processing Group in the David Lubin Memorial Library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), located in Rome, Italy. In this library, prior to her current position, she has been reference librarian, and serials librarian. During her permanence in Italy, she has also worked as an information consultant for the Italian Institute of Nutrition, for Italpublic, an Italian public relations firm, and for various technical Departments in the FAO. Initially, upon completion of her professional library qualifications at the University of New South Wales, she worked for several years at the University of Sydney Library in Australia. The FAO Library is a major international agricultural library, supporting FAO in its mission to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and food security.
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