Lecturers' biographies and photos
Micah Altman (module 6)
Micah Altman 
(Ph.D. California Institute of Technology) is Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, and Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive. Dr. Altman conducts research in social science informatics, social science research methodology, and American politics, focusing on the intersection of information, technology, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, and reliability of scientific knowledge. His current research interests include survey quality; computationally reliable and efficient statistical methods; the collection, sharing, citation and preservation of research data; the creation and analysis of networks of scientific knowledge; and computational methods of redistricting. Dr. Altman's work has been recognized by the Supreme Court, Forbes and by Who's Who in America. His extensively-reviewed book, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, corrects common computational errors made across the range of social sciences. And his over thirty-five publications and five open-source software packages span informatics, statistics, computer science, political science, and other social-science disciplines. See also http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/.
Irmgard Bomers (module 1)
Irmgard Bomers 
works as Head of the KB User Services Division. She joined the KB, the national library of the Netherlands in March 2005, having spent her career in both private and public sector organizations. At present she is responsible for the on-site and online services of the KB and is contributing to KB's goal to of becoming a preferred supplier for digital information services. One of her achievements is the installation of an Online Services Department with - for the KB - new responsibilities such as database marketing and channel management. Irmgard held positions in senior management, project, quality, product and marketing management in telecommunications, information services and tourism, always on the cutting edge of customer awareness, innovation and organizational change. She has worked, a.o., on the first automation project of tourist information, a one-stop-shopping concept for automobile club members, the development of a mobile customer care center, the introduction of mobile subscriptions and a number information services based on speech recognition. Prior to joining the KB she was channel manager for the consumer market at KPN, the mayor Dutch telecommunications company.
Tim Brody (module 5)
Tim Brody 
(PhD in 2006, University of Southampton) is a Researcher in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton. Tim is a core developer for EPrints.org (repository software) and has been a research assistant on a number of projects including the Open Citation Project (citation linking for open access research), Kultur (visual-arts repositories) and Valrec (research certification). Tim has developed and supports the Citebase Search (citation-ranking search engine), Registry of Open Access Repositories and Celestial (OAI-PMH caching and analysis) tools. See also www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/tdb2.
John Butler (module 7)
John T. Butler 
is the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. Previously, he served for five years as the inaugural Director of the University of Minnesota's Digital Library Development Lab, which produces systems, architecture, integrations, and tools for the online research library. His work in library information technology began in the late 1980s with innovative pre-web research workflow support systems, and accelerated in the 1990s, when he led a four-year grant-funded program to implement a comprehensive array of library services to distance and distributed learners at one of the largest research institutions in the United States. Most recently, Butler has played leadership roles in multiple virtual community development projects, involving a range of disciplines. Butler is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences and has authored several articles and chapters related to technology and information services. Butler holds a graduate degree in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (course director, and module 2)
Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard 
is Deputy Director General at the Royal Library in 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 was 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 field studies to identify user needs and the development of a new integrated search system, Summa, which became an open source product in 2008. In 2008 she moved to Copenhagen to take up a position as Deputy Director General at the Royal Library with special responsibility of developing new digital services and to foster the digitalisation activities. The Royal Library holds large collection of e.g. books, maps and photos and works towards ensuring that these collections become part of the digital cultural heritage.
Marijke Dewaerheijt (module 5)
Marijke Dewaerheijt 
is Digital Collection Manager at the national library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). After she received her MA degree in the field of Dutch Literature in the Dutch Indies, she finished the MA Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University. In 2007 she joined the KB, where she is responsible for the daily processing of digital objects into the e-Depot. Also, she is involved in various research projects on digital preservation and project member in the development of a harvester and harvest process for repositories.
Chuck Humphrey (module 6)
Chuck Humphrey 
has been the Head of the Data Library at the University of Alberta since 1992 and also assumed responsibility for the implementation and management of a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) at the University of Alberta in 2001. He has worked on several regional, national and international initiatives to increase access to data for teaching and research. For fourteen years, he has team-taught a week-long workshop offered by the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan on providing social science data services. He helped create the curriculum for and is an instructor in the DLI training program that teaches specific data service skills in regional workshops across Canada. In 2000, Mr. Humphrey received the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship recognizing his "expert knowledge of data formats, data access and preservation."
Annu Jauhiainen (module 1)
Annu Jauhiainen 
is the Deputy Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland. She has been involved with integrated library systems since early 90's, first at the University Library of Joensuu and since 1997 at the National Library. She is the Head of Database Services, a unit which maintains and develops national and union catalogue databases and coordinates and supports a nation-wide library system consortium, consisting of 21 universities plus several large special libraries. She has been very active in collaboration both in national and international level. Over the years she has been chairing various national committees, working groups and conferences. On the international side, she has been active in ILS User Groups, first VTLS and then Endeavor/Ex Libris. She was an Endeavor User Group Executive Board member from 2002-2004 and was the first non-North American representative on that group. In Europe she set up the European Endeavor Users Group, chairing and sitting on its steering group for many years. She was also one of the founders of NLEAB, The National Libraries Endeavor Advisory Board. She has been lecturing and presenting in several conferences and meetings both in Europe and North America.
Lucy Jeynes (course facilitator module 2 and 3)
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.
Heather Joseph (module 5)
Heather Joseph 
serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a library-based organization that support open access to the results of scholarly and scientific research through enabling open access publishing and archiving channels, programs, and advocacy for local, national and international open access policies. Ms. Joseph is also the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, A coalition of libraries, universities, patients advocacy groups, consumer groups, and student organizations who work to ensure that results of publicly funded research are openly accessible to the public. The group has been a leading voice on U.S. open access legislation, including landmark policy issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She spent 15 years as a scientific journal publisher for both commercial and not-for-profit publishing organizations. While at the American Society for CellBiology, she managed Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC) the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH's open access PubMed Central repository, and subsequently served on the National Advisory Committee for the project. Ms. Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations, and recently completed a term as the elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She is a frequent speaker and writer on scholarly communications, and on open access in particular. See also www.arl.org/sparc/about/staff/joseph.shtml.
Amos Lakos (module 1)
Amos A Lakos 
retired in 2007 after a varied 30 year career in academic libraries. At the University of Waterloo (Canada), he held a variety of positions from 1977 through 2002. In the early 1990s he established and managed one of the first Management Information Services (MIS) in academic libraries. He finished his career at UCLA where he held positions in Reference and the Business Library. While at Waterloo, he formulated his ideas on the importance of a culture of assessment to library performance. Amos, with Shelley Phipps (University of Arizona), developed the "Creating a Culture of Assessment" workshops for ARL and presented them at a number of libraries and conferences. In 2004, Amos and Shelley co-authored the seminal article on culture of assessment "Creating a Culture of Assessment: A Organizational Catalyst for Change" in portal: Libraries and the Academy. Amos's concern with the role of leadership in organizational culture and performance resulted in his latest article, published in 2007, "Evidence-Based Library Management: The Leadership Challenge" (portal: Libraries and the Academy), for which he received the 2008 Best Article Award from the Johns Hopkins University Press. Shelley and Amos were honored with the first Library Assessment Career Achievement Awards at the August 2008 Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, WA. Amos was also interested in the potential of portal services in libraries and as chair of the LITA Internet Portals Interest Group, he organized a full day Symposium on Portals in Libraries at the 2004 annual ALA Conference in Orlando. Amos continues his interest in library assessment in doing research on applying assessment and organizational change to collections management in academic libraries.
David Lindahl (module 4)
David Lindahl 
is currently a principal investigator for the eXtensible Catalog Project hosted at the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. He earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo and an MS in Computer Science from RIT. David began his career at the Xerox Palo-Alto Research Center where he gained extensive experience working with collaborative technology projects such as media spaces, video conferencing and CSCW applications. At Xerox PARC, David learned to practice a product design methodology that incorporated ethnographic techniques to uncover unmet user needs. His experience included the application of collaborative design to involve end users, designers, computer scientists and anthropologists in the conceptualization and development of new software applications. David has extensive experience in library-related digital research and design projects. Areas of interest include user-centered design, work practice study, next generation catalogs, and open-source software. Recently, David was a principal investigator on an IMLS-funded study of graduate student work practices. This project led to the development of a next
generation open-source institutional repository with authoring capabilities called irplus.
Jørgen Madsen (module 4)
With a background 
in library and information science Jørgen Madsen began working at The Royal Library of Denmark in 2003. Initially working as a systems librarian for The Royal Library itself plus its roughly 100 hosted libraries, he moved on to become the project manager for Primo in 2006 when The Royal Library entered negotiations with Ex Libris to become one of the four first development partners for Primo. The Royal Library launched its first beta version of Primo in September 2007 and is continuously working on improving the system. Focus areas in the development partnership have been scalability of very large data sets plus developing what is today known as the 'deep search' protocol in Primo. Currently, The Royal Library is consolidating all Copenhagen University institute and faculty libraries into its Primo installation and thus creating a true library consortium encompassing what was previously 40+ individual libraries.
Ken Miller (module 6)
Ken Miller 
is Associate Director - Head of Information Development, Programming and e-Social Science at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. Kenneth leads information development and programming teams, which includes information systems, metadata and interoperability standards, resource discovery and thesauri development. He is responsible for leading the UKDA's contribution to the work of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) in developing e-infrastructures, grid-enabling data, and text mining and metadata initiatives. Ken is a representative on the DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) Alliance, Technical implementation Committee and is Chair of the DDI Controlled Vocabulary Group. Current UK project: Survey Resource Network (Question Bank). Current European project: CESSDA-ppp (ESFRI Roadmap). Kenneth has over twenty years experience in the field of social science data archiving, resulting in a vast knowledge of the UK archiving community. His involvement in preparing and managing EU projects along with participation and contributions to international workshops and conferences over the same period has extended that knowledge to the wider international community.
Aldo de Moor (module 7)
Aldo de Moor 
is owner of the CommunitySense research consultancy company. The firm's mission is to link academic researchers and practitioners in the rapidly advancing field of community informatics, and to translate state-of-the-art insights into practical solutions for clients. Aldo earned his PhD in information management in 1999, from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. From 1999-2004, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Information Systems and Management at Tilburg University. From 2005-2006, he was a senior researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Aldo's research interests include the evolution of virtual communities, communicative workflow modeling, argumentation support technologies, language/action theory, conceptual graph theory, and socio-technical systems design. Aldo served as visiting researcher at the University of Guelph in Canada and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Aldo was program co-chair of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, the Language/Action Perspective Working Conference on Communication Modeling, and the Pragmatic Web Conference. Key publications have appeared in journals like Communications of the ACM, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiation, Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, and Information Systems Journal.
Gary M. Olson (module 7)
Gary M. Olson 
is Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He joined the Department of Informatics at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in July of 2008. Previously he was Paul M. Fitts Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Information and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He received his B.A. (1967) in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and an M.A. (1968) and Ph.D.(1970) in Psychology from Stanford University. In 1996 he became a charter faculty member of the new School of Information at the University of Michigan, where he has also served as Associate Dean for Research. He served as Interim Dean of the School from September of 1998 to December 1999. He was Director of the Cognitive Science and Machine Intelligence Laboratory from 1986 to 1994, and Director of the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic work from 1994 to 1997. For more than two decades he has conducted research in the areas of human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Of late the focus of his work has been on how to support small groups of people working on difficult intellectual tasks, particularly when the members of the group are geographically distributed. This research has involved both field studies of groups attempting to do such work and lab studies that evaluate specific technologies. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Army Research Institute, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John Evans Foundation, the Pritzker Foundation, the Ameritech Foundation, and a variety of corporate sponsors. He has published more than a hundred and twenty articles and chapters, and has edited four books, most recently Scientific Research on the Internet appearing shortly from MIT Press. In 2003 he was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and in 2006 shared the SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award with Judy Olson. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the ACM.
John Palfrey (module 1)
John Palfrey 
is Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" (Basic Books, 2008) and "Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of Internet Filtering" (MIT Press, 2008). His research and teaching is focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and international law. He practiced intellectual property and corporate law at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. He is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Outside of Harvard Law School, he is a Venture Executive at Highland Capital Partners and serves on the board of several technology companies and non-profits. John served as a special assistant at the US EPA during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. He writes a blog at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/.
Benoît Pauwels (module 4)
Benoît Pauwels 
has been Head of Library Automation in the Libraries of Université Libre de Bruxelles since 1991. He has been involved in several regional, national and European projects where he was generally in charge of the technical IT implementation. At this moment he is responsible for the design and implementation of the technical infrastructure of the Economists Online portal, a product of the EU-eContentPlus NEEO project. His field of expertise include: institutional repositories, Belgian virtual union catalogue, portals, open linking systems, image databases, electronic PhD theses, electronic publishing, inter-library loan systems.
Stephen Pinfield (module 6)
Stephen Pinfield 
is Chief Information Officer at the University of Nottingham, having responsibility for a converged library and IT service. He is also Co-Director of SHERPA, a cluster of projects focusing on research and development activities for open-access institutional repositories and e-publishing. He has a particular interest in scholarly communication, open access and digital library management, and publishes and speaks widely on these topics.
Stephen has a wide range of professional interests. He is a member of the Steering Group and Project Board of the UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) feasibility study funded as part of the UK's national Shared Services initiative. He is currently a member (and was previously the Chair) of the Joint RLUK-SCONUL Scholarly Communication Group which represents all UK higher education libraries in the area of scholarly communication and publishing. He is also a member of the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Integrated Information Environment Committee and Scholarly Communication Group. For the last year, he has been a member of the advisory group working with HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) on the bibliometrics analysis component of the new Research Excellence Framework. He is also a member of the company Board of the East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network (EMMAN Ltd). He previously was a member of the European University Association working group on open access. He has also carried out a number of consultancies in a range of professional areas.Stephen Pinfield has a degree in History from the University of Cambridge and a master's degree in Library and Information Studies from University College London. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. His previous professional experience has been at the London Business School, University of Leeds and University of Birmingham. See also www.nottingham.ac.uk/~uazsjp/.
Thomas W. Place (module 4)
Since 2008, 
Thomas has been Project Manager Innovation Digital Library at Tilburg University, Library and IT Services. Before that, he was Manager Innovation and Internationalisation, Deputy Librarian, and Social Sciences Librarian at the Tilburg University Library. Since 1989, he has been involved in many local, national and international library automation projects.
Marcel Ras (module 5)
Marcel Ras 
is Head of the e-Depot Department of the national library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). He received his M.A. degree from Nijmegen University in the fields of Ancient History and Archaeology in 1992. After some of years of Archaeological field survey in different countries, he joined the Post-Graduate training on Historical Information processing at Leiden University as Head and teacher of the training school. From 1999 to 2005, he worked as a consultant for the Digital Heritage Association and was involved in many digitization- and standardisation projects in The Netherlands. As of 2005 Marcel works for the national library of the Netherlands, first as project manager Web Archiving, and since 2007 as manager of the e-Depot department. Marcel is still involved in training and teaching at Leiden University in the field of digitization and digital preservation.
Deborah Shorley (module 2)
Deborah Shorley 
is Director of Library Services at Imperial College, London and responsible for thirteen libraries across the campuses, as well as the large virtual collection of electronic resources which support the College's learning, teaching and research. Deborah took up her current post in October 2007. She came to Imperial from the University of Sussex, where she had been Librarian since 2000. Before that her entire professional career had been in Northern Ireland, latterly as Assistant Director of Information Services at the University of Ulster. See also http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.shorley. For a full list of professional activities and publications go to www.imperial.ac.uk/library/pdf/dshorley_publications.pdf.
Alma Swan (module 5)
Alma Swan 
obtained a first class honours degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George's Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996, she jointly founded Key Perspectives, a consultancy serving the scholarly publishing industry. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, she retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School's MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School's MBA programme. She is a Visiting Researcher in the School of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Associate Fellow in the Marketing and Strategic Management Group at Warwick Business School. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School, is a Member of the Institute of Biology, is an elected member of the Governing Board of Euroscience (the European Association for the Promotion of Science and Technology) and is editor of its magazine, The Euroscientist.
Mads Villadsen (module 4)
Mads Villadsen 
is an IT Developer at the State an University Library in Århus, Denmark. He is computer scientist from Århus University, and started working at the State and University Library in 2003. Here he was involved in a variety of different projects, but quickly drifted towards service-oriented architectures and search engines. By taking part in the My Library (Mit Bibliotek) project he has helped develop services and architectures in cooperation with public libraries with the purpose of trying to enhance the library catalog from the view of the user. He has also been involved with the Summa project since it's inception - a project for which he is currently the technical project lead. Summa is a fast, modular, and scalable search engine focusing on providing an integrated search service.
Jan Wilkinson (course director module 2 and 3)
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 to joining 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.
Judith Wusteman (module 7)
Judith Wusteman 
joined the staff at the School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin in September 1997 after seven years as a lecturer in computer science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Before that, she completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. Judith's research interests are Web 2.0, Virtual Research Environments, digital libraries, XML institutional repositories and text encoding for digitisation. She has been involved in various digital library projects and has provided SGML and XML consultancy for ejournal, encyclopedia and digital library systems. Judith is the Principal Investigator on the Science Foundation Ireland project "OJAX++: A Next-Generation Collaborative Research Tool". See also www.ucd.ie/wusteman/.