Lecturers' biographies and photos
Stephen Abram (module 2)
Stephen Abram, MLS, 
is the President 2008 of SLA, the past-President of the Canadian Library Association, Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix, and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute. He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers", the ’key’ people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association as well as sitting on the SLA Board of Directors as Director and Secretary. He gives over 90 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, Access, Multimedia & Internet @ Schools, and Library Journal. He is the author of ALA Editions' bestselling Out Front with Stephen Abram.
Marshall Breeding (module 2)
Marshall Breeding 
serves as the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN. He is part of the senior management team of the Library, focusing on issues related to the strategic use of technology in the library. He designs and develops digital library resources for the library. Marshall also serves as the Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a large-scale archive of digital video content. In addition to his responsibilities at Vanderbilt, Marshall frequently speaks and writes on topics of network technologies and library automation. He is the creator and editor of the Library Technology Guides (www.librarytechnology.org) web site and the lib-web-cats online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is a Contributing Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the Automated System Marketplace feature published by Library Journal for the last six years. He has authored six issues of ALA's Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored five books. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics. He is a regular presenter at Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian conferences, he is a LITA Top Technology Trends panelist at ALA conferences has been an invited speaker for many library conferences and workshops. Earlier this year Marshall gave a series of presentations in China, Singapore, and Thailand; he recently spoke in Brno in the Czech Republic, Vienna, and Zurich. More information is available from Marshall's website at: http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding/. For more details see: http://www.librarytechnology.org/resume.pl.
Guus van den Brekel (module 3a)
Guus van den Brekel 
is Coordinator Electronic Services of the Central Medical Library of a large academic teaching hospital in the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). He is a Medical Information Specialist as well as IT coordinator and responsible for Library Services Development and Innovation. He has been involved in developing and introducing the local Metalib system for the University Libraries (RUGCombine, http://tinyurl.com/2kw5q6), as well as SFX implementation (RUGLinks, http://tinyurl.com/3d5osz) and the Electronic Reference Desk. Developing and delivering library services in the users workflow is his main focus. In workshops and presentations (www.rug.nl/staff/a.j.p.van.den.brekel/projects) he delivers a strong plea for a focus-shift for librarians, a focus on the environments "where the users are", instead of expecting them to come to us. Exploration of relevant user environments, the use of new web-based technologies with Web 2.0 elements and a more structural, technical re-design of library information systems, is needed to deliver library services and resources at the place of need. In the next few years, the further development of social, educational and research networks, semantic search techniques and online personal start-page tools, will be dictating how users will look and search for information. The introduction of the Library Toolbar (http://tinyurl.com/33po8s) and his paper "Into the User Environment" (www.eahil.net/newsletter/journal_2007_vol3_n1.pdf) was well reveiced in the European Medical Librarians community and beyond. The development of -and systematically offering- of "Library widgets" to users plus a Netvibes Universe (www.netvibes.com/cmb) for educational and instructional purpose is latest project. Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), as Second Life, are interesting because of the great implications these environments will have on education, training and social life, but also on the exchange of information. In 2006 an NLM Grant-funded project "Providing Consumer Health Outreach and Library Programs to Virtual World Residents in Second Life" (http://tinyurl.com/3d696n) was started in which he and his organization partnered. In 2007 a new project followed with the purpose to create exhibits, programs, and awareness about accessibility and assistive technology (http://tinyurl.com/2arbma) and about virtual world accessibility in general for Second Life residents, but specifically for people with disabilities. More information about Guus can be found at his personal blog called DIGICMB (digicmb.blogspot.com/).
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (module 2)
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard 
is Director of Development at the State and University Library, in Aarhus, Denmark. She started her career in Theoretical Atomic Physics, where she got her Ph.D. in 1984. She left physics in '91 to focus on the development of multimedia learning application at UNI-C, the computing centre for research and education. Her work gradually changed towards developing applications running over high-speed network and towards digital libraries, and she got involved in management. The last five years at UNI-C she was head of R&D. In 2000, she took the consequence of her interest in information and generally library issues and became Head of IT Research and Development and later Director of Development at the State and University Library, in Aarhus. Her role is in participating in the strategic planning and its implementation. In the last years her interest has mainly been on the role of the library in the information economy with emphasis on digital preservation and on identifying and tailoring services to specific communities. Examples in the latter category is the use of fiels studies to identify user needs and the development of a new integrated search interface, which will become an open source product next year.
Barbara Galik (module 3a)
Barbara A. Galik 
has been the Executive Director, Cullom-Davis Library, Bradley University since 1997. She has worked in libraries as both a generalist and a specialist as well as in both public and technical services. Her previous experience includes Assistant University Librarian for Information and Research Services at Miami University of Ohio; Head, Slavic and East European Division and Coordinator of Area Programs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Head, Slavic and East European Section at the University of Washington, Seattle; and Reference Librarian and Slavic Bibliographer at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She has a BA in Russian and Soviet Area Studies Certificate from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Russian Literature and MLS both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Barbara has also been President of the Alliance Library System (ALS) Board of Directors for the past 2 years. She is in her sixth and final year on the ALS Board and is serving as President once more. It was in this capacity that she first heard about and was introduced to Second Life. She joined Second Life on 10 August 2006 and is involved in many educational and business activities. She is currently Chair of the SL Advisory Council and of the ELVEN Institute Advisory Council. She is also the chair of Bradley University’s SL Task Force which is currently developing an island for the university. On 16-17 February 2008, she was an invited participant in a Mellon Foundation-sponsored summit to create a strategic vision for advancing humanities research through emerging collaboration and visualization technologies. She is a frequent speaker on Second Life and is a strong advocate for the benefits of using Second Life for educational purposes.
Hans Geleijnse (module 3b)
Hans Geleijnse is Director of Library and IT Services at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. 
Before that, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2000-2003) and University librarian at Tilburg University (1989-2000). In 2006 Library, IT and Media Services at Tilburg University were integrated
into one department under his leadership. The aim is to provide more
efficient and professional services and to provide better support in areas
such as open access, e-learning and e-research. Hans is currently also President of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, Member of the Board of SPARC Europe, Member of the Board of the European Digital Library and Project Director of the EC Project Network of European Economists Online.
Debra Gilchrist (module 5)
Debra Gilchrist 
is Dean of Libraries and Institutional Effectiveness for Pierce College, a multi-campus community college district in Lakewood and Puyallup, Washington. She has served as a faculty member for ACRL's Institute for Information Literacy Immersion program since the program's inception in 1998. Debra has given presentations and published in the areas of outcomes assessment, the teaching library mission, and faculty/librarian collaboration, process-based pedagogies, and faculty development. Her dissertation research focused on the experience of librarians and faculty collaboratively leading instructional change. She is currently facilitating the implementation of an information literacy requirement that is based on student outcomes and focused on measuring library effectiveness based on student learning. In addition to her role in the library, Debra leads her college's institutional effectiveness efforts, designing large scale instructional measures of effectiveness, as well as processes and measures for each college employee to embrace and measure their contributionsanchoredin student learning and success. She received the ACRL Instruction Section Miriam Dudley Award for contributions on a national levelto library instruction, and was co-recipient in 1997 of the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation in Instruction Award. She holds a B.S. in Recreation/Social Service from California State University, Northridge, her M.L.S. from the University of Denver, an M.S. in Geography from South Dakota State University, and a PhD from Oregon State University.
Wolfram Horstmann (module 5b)
Wolfram Horstmann 
is CIO Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University, affiliated to the Bielefeld University Library. He is a Biologist by training, has an experimental research background in Computational Neuroscience and received his PhD for work in Theory of Science. He is involved in information management developments since 1997, e.g. distributed systems for academic publishing (across science and humanities, www.dipp.nrw.de), for complex media in eLearning and electronic textbooks (educational simulations for neuroscience and neuroinformatics, www.monist.de) and for generic information management infrastructures (DRIVER: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision of European Research, www.driver-community.eu).
Lucy Jeynes (course facilitator module 3b)
Lucy 
is a founding director of Larch Consulting, and is acknowledged as an expert on service delivery and performance improvement. She has led and worked on projects across both public and private sectors for the last 15 years, and understands the culture, concerns and sensitivities of Public, Higher Education and Commercial environments. Lucy has led consultancy reviews and service improvement projects for libraries including Birmingham University, University of London, London School of Economics, University of Leeds, Kingston University, University of the Arts, British Library and the Wellcome Trust. She facilitated the TICER programme Change Management in Digital Libraries over several years, working with Jan Wilkinson. Lucy’s other clients include universities, local authorities, government departments, and a wide range of well-known organisations such as the BBC, Diageo, Barclays, ABN Amro, Mars Confectionery, Microsoft and the British Museum. Lucy won a Businesswoman of the Year award in 2000 and chaired the UK national Steering Group for Women’s Enterprise.
Dorien Kieft-Wondergem (assistant module 3a)
Dorien is Information Specialist at the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Groningen. 
After her study Psychology, she began her working life as a nurse and later as a schoolteacher. It proved to be a useful background for working in a medical library. She will assist Guus van den Brekel in his hands-on session.
Martin Lewis (module 5)
Martin Lewis 
is Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Sheffield. He is a Board Member of the Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL) and chairs its e-Research Task Force, and also sits on the British Library Advisory Council. His professional interests include the marketing of library services, library staff development, and the design of library buildings and learning spaces. Previous posts have included Deputy Director at the University of Sheffield Library; heading the Health Sciences Library at Sheffield; subject consultant for science at the University of Leeds; and a one-year exchange appointment in the MIT Libraries. Before becoming a librarian, Martin worked as civil servant his native Cardiff, with responsibilities in the area of health workforce planning. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he read biochemistry; and the University of Wales Aberystwyth, where he took a postgraduate diploma in librarianship. A key strategic focus for the University Library under Martin’s leadership has been the envisioning and commissioning of a major new learning space, the €33M Information Commons, which opened in 2007.
Dr. Norbert Lossau (module 5b)
Dr Norbert Lossau 
is the recently appointed Director of the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany, where he moved from his post as Library Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University. In his previous positions he has been the first Head of the Oxford Digital Library, University of Oxford, UK and the founding director of the Digitisation Centre at Göttingen State and University Library. As Director in Bielefeld, Norbert Lossau has been the principal organiser of the International Bielefeld Conferences, a biannual strategic forum for academic librarians in Europe. His areas of activity include advanced digital services development, new paradigms in scientific publishing and communication, university strategies for scientific information, eScience and international collaboration. He is member of various national and international steering committees and advisory boards, among others for e-Science and Grid in Germany, the Committee for Information Management at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Executive Board of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI), the Springer SBM European Library Advisory Board, the German–North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) and as chair of the German DigiZeitschriften consortium. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the European Project DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research).
Wendy P. Lougee (module 1)
Wendy Pradt Lougee 
is University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since 2002. Well known for her pioneering contributions to the design and development of digital libraries, Lougee is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues associated with publishing, digital content and tools, and the economics of information. Recently she has engaged the University of Minnesota Libraries in significant behavioral assessments to better inform the design of services and technologies. She has been recognized by the Association of College and Research Libraries with the Hugh Atkinson Award for innovation. She currently serves on the executive boards of the Council of Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, the OCLC/Research Libraries Group Program Council, and recently chaired the Association of Research Libraries’ Task Force on E-Science. Lougee holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin (library science) and Minnesota (psychology).
Paolo Manghi (module 5b)
Paolo Manghi 
currently works as Research Fellow at ISTI-CNR since February 2006. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as Research Fellow at Glasgow and Strathclyde University (UK), and then moved to the Department of Computer Science of Pisa University until the end of 2005. He is currently Software Architect for the DRIVER-II EU Project, dealing with the scientific coordination of the development of the resulting Service Open Infrastructure. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 2001. His research is currently focusing on the design, implementation, and experimentation of Open Service Architectures for Digital Libraries and on the design and implementation of Typed Distributed Repositories for Complex Objects. Other research interest and previous projects include XML P2P Databases (XPeer System, FIRB Project, in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science of Pisa), XML Query Languages (TQL and TeQuyLa language, in cooperation with Microsoft and Department of Computer Science of Pisa), Type Systems for XQuery (MicroXquery project), typed dynamic binding for semi-structured data (SNAQUE, in cooperation with Strathclyde University), and persistent languages for Web Programming (Hippo, in cooperation with Glasgow University).
Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (module 4)
Peter Murray-Rust 
is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941. After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the University of Stirling. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. He was Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Nottingham from 1996-2000, setting up the Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College. His interests involve the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, and the Semantic Web.
Dr. Roswitha Poll (module 1)
Dr. Roswitha Poll 
is chair of ISO/TC 46/SC 8 since 2003 and also chair of the German mirror committee. She has worked in IFLA sections since 1989. From 1987 to 2004, she was chief librarian of Münster University Library, and is currently working in projects of management and evaluation in information services.
Anne Poulson (module 1)
Anne Poulson 
has worked in academic libraries since 1990; firstly in a number of roles at University College London (UCL) and from 2002-2007 as Library Manager and Librarian at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London. Within the SOAS Library, Anne was responsible particularly for overall strategic planning including leadership of several new initiatives such as fundraising and marketing, expansion of the estate and collaboration and outreach. Since January 2008, Anne has been the Executive Director of Research Libraries UK formerly known as CURL where she is leading the rebranded organisation through significant strategic change. Professionally, Anne presents regularly on a number of topics including leadership, strategic planning and change management, marketing, career development and space management. Anne read History at the University of Oxford for her undergraduate degree and holds postgraduate qualifications from the Warburg Institute and University College London.
David Prosser (module 4)
David Prosser 
was appointed the first director of SPARC Europe (an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries) in October 2002. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press and Elsevier Science. During this time he was involved in all aspects of publishing from production through to editorial and financial management of journals. Before becoming a publisher he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK.
Vanessa Proudman (module 4)
Vanessa Proudman 
has been a project manager for over 10 years in local, national and international information network/service projects. Since 2003, she has been the Nereus Programme Manager: a consortium of twenty academic libraries from leading institutions in the field of economics including Oxford, LSE, EUR, and Tilburg University. From September 2007 she has been project manager to the NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) EU-project. It was in late 2004 when she led the Tilburg University Repository until early 2006. She was also involved in the DARE national repository initiative. In 2006 and 2007 she conducted an international research project on how to better stimulate the population of repositories in Europe, highlighting six good practices. This was published as a chapter in Amsterdam University Press' "ADRIVER's Guide to European Repositories". Prior to 2003, she was head of Information and IT at a UN-affiliated organisation in Vienna. Vanessa is currently particularly interested in operational challenges surrounding repositories, service-development based on repository content, advocacy and cost-effectiveness in these areas through knowledge-exchange initiatives.
Martin Reid (module 4)
Martin Reid 
has been Law Librarian at University College London (UCL) since 1995 and has been dealing with copyright issues since 1997. He assists the Director of Library Services in his capacity as Copyright Officer and regularly gives training sessions on copyright and intellectual property right to staff and graduate students at UCL. He is responsible for the intellectual property rightwork of the NEEO project. NEEO (Network of European Economists Online) is an EU-funded project whichwill address the lack of integration of academic output amongst premier European economics institutions by creating a powerful new research tool called Economists Online. It started in September 2007, will end in March 2010 and has 16 partners from 8 European countries. More info can be found at www.nereus4economics.info/neeo.
Christina Tovoté (module 5)
Christina Tovoté 
is currentlyworking as University Librarian and Pedagogic Developer at Stockholm University Library, where she is responsible for the integration of information literacy (IL) and cooperation with faculty in courses and programmes.She is the initiator of several projects in the field of IL in Sweden, in the Nordic countries and internationally. In IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – (www.ifla.org) she initiated the Section on Management and Marketing and from its start she has been Secretary and Standing Committee member of the Information Literacy Section. In 2001 she started NordINFOLIT – Nordic Information Literacy Forum (www.nordinfolit.org) in which she is Chair of the Steering Board. This Forum has several activities every year such as a pedagogical Summer School for librarians, seminars on IL, and a biannual international conference called Creating Knowledge. After the IL expert meetings in Prague 2003 and Alexandria 2005 she has acted as European Teamleader and, in October 2007, she formed EFIL – European Forum for Information Literacy (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/akb/efil/) supported by the Spanish Cultural Department.
Herbert Van de Sompel (module 2)
Herbert Van de Sompel 
graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there.Herbert Van de Sompel 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, the SFX linking server, and info URI. He currently focuses his attention on the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-Use & Exchange effort (ORE) and on the MESUR project that researchers usage-based indicators of scholarly impact. See also his personal homepage at http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/.
Dr. Sylvia Van Peteghem (overall course director)
Sylvia Van Peteghem
has worked at Ghent University Library (www.lib.ugent.be) since 1983 in a number of different functions. She started in the ephemera-collection of the Special Collections Department and got fascinated with the 19th Century collection of the library. Later on she became Head of the Cataloguing and Acquisition Department of the Central Library and in October 2000, she became Chief Librarian. The library is part of the research department of the University of Ghent (28,000 students) and its roleis fourfold: it is the centre of the library network, it is the digital library in all its aspects, it is the repository library for cultural heritage and "passive" collections, and last but not least, it offers a working place in its wonderful booktower of Henry van de Velde. This landmark building will be restored and all available material on the building process is part of a focus on architecture in all its aspects: lectures, research, digitisation, paper restoration, picture databases, etc. Thanks to the (past) presence for many years of Herbert Van de Sompel and his team, Ghent took an early start in digital libraries, SFX was born in the tower, and in 2007 the library became a partner of the Google Book Search Program. This means 300,000 copright free books will be digitised in the coming years. Ghent is also part of the DRIVER project (www.driver-repository.eu/) trying to build a national repository network for Open Access.
Maurice Vanderfeesten (module 5b)
Maurice Vanderfeesten
(1979) studied Information Science at the Utrecht University. In 2006 he started as project assistant of the SURF Platform ICT and Research for the development of the DARenet website. As of 2007 he is project coordinator in the SURFshare programme and actively involved in the DRIVER project. Responsibilities are to initiate and keep track of knowledge infrastructure developments for the research domain. Typical infrastructural projects: Persistent Identifiers for reliable document retrieval, Digital Author Identifier, Enhanced Publications, Federated repositories, Interoperable Metadata developments, DRIVER guidelines developements, etc.
Jan Wilkinson (course director module 3b)
Jan Wilkinson 
is currently University Librarian and Director of the John Rylands University Library (JRUL), The University of Manchester. She has 20 years of experience at senior management level, in nine different posts, including the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics. Jan joined the JRUL on 1st January 2008 and is also a member of the University’s Senior Executive. Prior tojoining the JRUL in January 2008, Jan was a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the British Library (July 2004) in a newly created role of Head of Higher Education. Prior to this she was University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds, where she was responsible for the leadership and development of the library, with a particular emphasis on the direction of organisational change. Jan has been involved in library developments at a national level for a number of years. She is currently a Board member of Research Libraries UK, and an Advisory Board member of the Research Information Network (RIN), and the UK Research Reserve. Jan has undertaken a large number of board and consultancy roles and has also worked on projects and committees for JISC and HEFCE. She is currently an assessor for the Wolfson Foundation and Chair of the Wellcome Library Advisory Committee. Jan has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
Alex Wright (module 1)
Alex Wright 
is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, he worked as VP of User Experience for Phoenix Pop, Senior Manager of User Experience at IBM, and as an electronic resources librarian at Harvard University. As a consultant, Alex has led information architecture engagements for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, Harvard Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, The Believer, and other publications. He has previously given lectures at UC-Berkeley, Pratt Institute, The Institute of Design-Chicago, The University of Richmond, Gartner Group, The Long Now Foundation, and at numerous technology industry conferences. Alex holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University. He writes regularly about technology and design at www.alexwright.org.