Lynne Brindley:
Lynne Brindley is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Communications and IT) and University Librarian at
the University of Leeds. Previously she was the
Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics,
where she was responsible for the British Library of Political and Economic Science,
a major research library in the social sciences, and for academic computing
services and networking. She has held previous positions as a 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.
Until recently she was a member of the HEFCs' Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) and chaired the Committee for Electronic Information which is responsible for
national developments in digital information and digital library developments. She
was a member of the Review Committee which led to the Follett Report and
continued involvement through chairing the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib).
She is a member of the ESRC Research Resources Board and a Commissioner of the
DCMS's (Department of Culture, MEdia and Sport) Library & Information Commission.
She has published extensively particularly on
the electronic campus, and information management topics.
John Dowd:
John has been with OCLC for five years starting as a Product Specialist for
OCLC's Reference Service. In this support role he was responsible for the
developing the growth of OCLC's end-user reference services in Europe. For the
past year John has moved into a sales role as Sales Executive for Southern
Europe, the Middle East and Africa, working and liasing with OCLC's distributors
in the individual countries and territories in promoting and marketing OCLC
services. Prior to OCLC, John worked for a software house initially as a
Technical Librarian, moving on to a marketing role within the company. John has
held other posts in an information/librarian capacity for a charity and public
library. John received his B.A. (Hons) degree at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, is a
member of the Library Association and Institute of Information Scientists. He is
currently on the academic review board for the University of Central England's
Information/Library Management Faculty. He is currently in the process of
supporting the HEAL Link, the Greek library consortium, in the implementation of OCLC's FirstSearch Service.
Hans Geleijnse:
Hans Geleijnse (1947) graduated in Dutch Law from the Nijmegen University in
1972. He attended several courses and seminars on journalism, personnel
management and academic librarianship. In 1972 he became secretary of the
University Council at Tilburg University and in 1983 he was appointed deputy
librarian at the Tilburg University Library, combining this job with the
chairmanship of the University Council for three years. Since 1989 he has worked
as university librarian. Currently he holds the chair of the Programme Management Digital
Library Tilburg University. He is a member of the Steering Group of
Dutch Innovation Projects SURF, of the Bibliotheksausschuss der
Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and of the Board of Ticer.
He was and is involved in various European project (Telephassa, Elise
I, Elise II, Decomate I, T-ECUP). Currently he is the programme
director of the EC funded project Decomate II.
Emanuella Giavarra:
Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and
English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer.
From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests
of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was
appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation
Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of
the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a
partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and
a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII).
Diogenes Kalogeridis:
Diogenes Kalogeridis (1964) graduated in Greek Law in 1987 from the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He continued his studies in
International Law and Law of International Organizations at the European
Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Since 1995 he has been working
as a Sales Manager at Swets & Zeitlinger for the Subscription Service and
covers Greece and Cyprus. He attended several language and computer
courses.
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.
Pedja Pavlicic:
After studying Cybernetics at the University of Belgrade Pedja joined in
1989 Info Technology Supply LTD where during period of eight years he
occupied positions of Information Specialist, Technical Support manager,
Regional manager and Senior Product Manager, being responsible for design
and management of several information products on the territory of UK,
Spain, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Pedja joined
SilverPlatter Information in October 1997 as Technology Marketing Manager
and in May 1998 assumed responsibilities of Regional Manager for
Mediterranean and South Asia.
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.
Jola Prinsen:
Jola G.B. Prinsen finished the library school in 1985. She started
working with Excerpta Informatica (the computer science documentation centre at
Tilburg University Library) as a documentalist. Since then she has had jobs in the Tilburg
University library as head of Excerpta Informatica, and as head of the fee-based information services.
In December 1997 she became responsible for the library's public relations and its Web site.
Since October 1995, she has also worked with Ticer B.V. At Ticer Jola is responsible for marketing, account
management and the organisation of the Summer School. Jola attended several
computer and marketing courses as well as a course on Academic Library
Management.
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.
Occasionally, he does some consultancy work. Currently, he is working
on a project to intensify the use of the integrated desktop (Tilburg's implementation
of the scholar's workstation) in educational processes. Most of his time
is spent though managing collection development and information services
of the library. Hans' professional interests include: (networked) information
retrieval; distributed databases; SGML; current awareness services; full text
databases; electronic document delivery; electronic journals and preprints; and
collection development in a transitional period moving from printed towards
electronic information. More information can be found at
http://www.hroes.de/.
Ian Winkworth:
Ian Winkworth has been Director of Information Services at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle since 1993, and has responsibility for information strategy, libraries, administrative and central academic IT, telephones, and University corporate planning. He was previously Deputy Librarian, Librarian, and Managing Director of the University commercial agency and also worked at Bristol and Leeds University Libraries. He has been chair of the UK Council of Polytechnic Librarians (COPOL) and of the Newcastle Libraries Joint Working Party, and was founder chair of Information North, a transformed regional inter-lending agency. A member of the IT Sub-Committee of the Follett Review and then of managing committees for the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) from 1993 to 1998, he is currently Co-Director of the £560,000 HyLiFe Hybrid Library Project. He has published and lectured widely on library management, including performance indicators, library co-operation and staff management, in UK, India and Italy. He is currently Chair of the SCONUL Advisory Committee on Performance Indicators. The University of Northumbria has been operating to a University-wide Information Strategy since 1995. The Information Services Department operates using a team-based management style and was completely restructured in 1996-98 to save money and adjust to changing requirements. The Department is a joint partner in the IMPEL project which has surveyed the effects of electronic information on UK universities and how to manage change.
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