Course director
Norbert Lossau
Dr Norbert Lossau is the 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 a member of various national and international steering committees and advisory boards, among others:
- e-Science and Grid in Germany
- Committee for Information Management at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Executive Board of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI)
- Springer SBM European Library Advisory Board
- German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP)
- German DigiZeitschriften consortium (chair)