EBLIDA Executive Committee
Term 2005 to 2007
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EBLIDA Executive CommitteeTerm 2005 to 2007
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According to modern standards of job mobility and flexibility, Jan-Ewout van der Putten is with his six year career, already a veteran on the Dutch public library scene. In reality he is fairly new to the profession, but is a fast learner not afraid to commit himself and to participate fully in the common struggle to maintain the public library as an essential ingredient of modern society. Jan-Ewout van der Putten is a lawyer by profession. He began his professional career as assistant, later on Deputy Clark to the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal). As such he assisted amongst others, committees on Education, Culture, Development Aid and Dutch Antillean and Aruba Affairs. In 1990 he was elected as a councillor to the city council of the Dutch seat of national government, The Hague. After two years he left the Senate to become alderman for the environment i.e. a member of the executive of the Council. From then on, he became a full time politician for six years. He lost his seat after the elections of 1998 and left politics. After a short break he was appointed as Secretary General by the board of the Netherlands Public Libraries Association. In this capacity, he is director of the professional staff within the organisation and because the organisation is heavily subsidised by the Dutch national government, with relations with the national authorities. With a mainly national and local focus, as a national association should have, he nevertheless regards international exchange of ideas and cooperation as an important, indispensable part of the work his association and he he must undertake himself. Therefore he served first as a EC member, now as president of EBLIDA, the European library association and is a member of IFLA’s Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS). In addition, Jan-Ewout van der Putten is President of FOBID, the Dutch umbrella organisation representing libraries, librarians and Documentalists. |
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∞∞∞∞ Jan-Ewout van der Putten was born in 1948. He is married to a fellow lawyer who works for the Dutch ministry of agriculture. In his spare time, he is an omnivorous reader and before his political career was an enthusiastic amateur actor. Last acting part: the elephant man him. He and his partner are avid art collectors, mainly young Dutch artists. He is a board member of a local theatre and a theatre company, a foundation concerned with art and gender and a local welfare organisation.
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Ms Åstrom Iko is president of the DIK Association of Sweden since December 2003. The DIK Association is a trade union and professional organisation for archivists, information professionals, librarians, museum curators - in all 21,000 members.
Ms Åstrom Iko is Archivist at The Military Archive head on one of three departments in the Military Archive. Her department is responsible for classifying military and top secret documents. Information and education to user groups is an important task for the department.
Ms Åstrom, 38 years-old, is a part-time president and has a newly born baby.
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Toby Bainton has spent most of his career in British university libraries, beginning for a short time at King's College, London, then for a dozen years at the main university library in Cambridge, and finally at the University of Reading (60 Km west of London), where he was director of the university library from 1987 to 1995. Since then Toby Bainton has been the Secretary (senior full-time official) of SCONUL, the Society of College, National and University Libraries. SCONUL has 100% membership of the national libraries and the university libraries in the UK and Ireland. Many of the third-level college libraries of the UK are also in membership. Toby's special interest is copyright and other legal matters as far as they affect libraries. He travelled several times to Brussels during the passage through the European Parliament of the Information Society Directive, lobbying members of the parliament beside the EBLIDA Secretariat.
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BVÖ, Büchereiverband Österreichs (Austrian Library Association)
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Education |
Librarian's Certificate Study of German Language and Literature and Study of History at the University of Vienna, Mag. Phil. |
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Professional Experience
Practical Studies
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Since 2004, Head of the Executive Committee of Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung, Wien (Austrian Society for Political Education, Vienna) Since 1998, Secretary General of Büchereiverband Österreichs Since 1997, Lecturer at College for Information and Knowledge Management, Eisenstadt 1992-1998, Head of the Educational Department at Büchereiverband Österreichs, managing the field of Educational and Vocational Training for Librarians of Public Libraries 1990-1991, Chief Editor of Neue Wiener Büchereibriefe, Educational Employee of Büchereiverband Österreichs 1979-1989, Freelance work for daily newspapers and cultural magazines
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Publications |
Numerous publications in specialist journals and independent publications of books, please find a selection underneath: |
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| Prizes |
1999, Österreichischer Staatspreis für Erwachsenenbildung (The Austrian Award For Education And Vocational Training For Adults) 2000, Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das Politische Buch (Bruno-Kreisky-Award For The Political Book) |
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| Languages | German and English | |
BID, Bibliothek & Information Deutschland
barbara.lison@stadtbibliothek.bremen.de
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Barbara Lison, born in 1956, is a graduate in Slavonic Studies, History, Educational Theory as well as Teacher Training. |
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Library career |
Traineeship in librarianship (1983 – 1985) Information Services Manager at Federal Institute for Industrial Health and Safety Standards, Dortmund (1986- 1987) Director of the Public Library Oldenburg (1987-1992) Director of Public Library Bremen since 1992. Manager of the newly founded public enterprise "Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Eigenbetrieb der Stadtgemeinde Bremen since 1999 |
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Innovations in Bremen Public Library System |
Introduction of Total quality management Introduction of teamwork Introduction of customer relationship management Customer oriented collection work Self-Service-units for 85 % self services New central library |
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Participation in projects |
Participation in PULMAN EU-funded project (May 2001 – May 2003) Member of the International Network of Public Libraries – Bertelsmann Foundation (2001 – 2003) Member of the Advisory Council of the "School and Public Library" project, Bertelsmann Foundation Member of the Expert Group of the "Library 2007" project, Bertelsmann Foundation (October 2002 – September 2003)
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Other |
Member of EBLIDA Executive Committee (May 1997 – May 2001) and EBLIDA Executive Committee Substitute (May 2001 – May 2003) Member of the Board for libraries and information at Goethe Institute Expertise for different library topics for branches of the Goethe Institutes in Europe, in particular Eastern- Europe) and overseas Member of the DBV (Union of German Libraries) Executive Committee Deputy Chair of the ekz-company Board (Germany’s biggest library supplier)
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CILIP (Chartered Institute
of Library and Information Scientists)
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Jill Martin's career had included periods in a range of UK libraries - public,
academic and commercial. She also spent a total of 11 years with the British Council, managing library and information services in Hong Kong, Lisbon and
Moscow. Jill joined the Library Association (one of the CILIP's predecessor bodies) in 1995 as International Coordinator. Since then she has
occupied a number of posts and since 2004 has been Director, Knowledge & Information, one of the management team leading the Institute through some
difficult times.
Her responsibilities include information and advice services to members, central ICT services, the CILIP website and (happily still) international activities. Jill is a weekly commuter from a small village in a beautiful part of the UK's West Country, she has three grown-up children - a teacher, a research chemist and a museum curator and is a grandmother. Her greatest professional interest is in networking of all types, national and international, face-to face and electronic. |
BAD (Association of Portuguese Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists)
Helena M Patrício is a Portuguese native speaker but also speaks English, French and Latin. She is a member of the National Executive Committee of BAD, the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists. She is training library technicians (2004-2005) and has published a paper entitled "Evaluating the quality of the relational model and the RDF: a comparative study”, in the IADIS International Conference Applied Computing Proceedings (2005).
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| December 2000 - | Librarian (Ministry of Culture) responsible for the coordination of the Documentation Centre, conceptual modeling of a database about cultural legislation, classification and indexing of bibliographic and legislative data about cultural policy as well as retrieval of international and EU law |
| January 1998 – December 2000 | Law librarian (Library of the Portuguese Bar Association) responsible for coordination and production of the library site on the Internet, indexing and classification of the library documents, retrieval of international and EU law |
| December 1996 – December 1997 | Librarian (Law Documentation Centre of the Lusíada University) responsible for indexing and classifying library documents |
| Education and Training | |
| 22-25 February 2005 | ADIS International Conference, Applied Computing 2005 |
| 11-12 November 2004 | First National Meeting of Law Libraries, BAD |
| 12-14 May 2004 | BAD National Conference |
| 20 May 2003 | Law databases, BAD |
| 25 October 2002 | Metadata and libraries |
| December 2000 – September 2004 |
Master on Information Studies and Digital Libraries, ISCTE, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação Thesis title: “Comparative analysis of the relational model and the RDF applied to the conceptual modeling of legislative information” |
| October 1996 – July 1998 | Post-Graduate Course in Library and Information Science, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras |
| October 1991 – July 1996 | Law graduate,
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa), Faculdade de Direito |
sotgiu@librari.beniculturali.it
Ms Maria Carla Sotgiu Cavagnis is currently Director OPIB (Osservatorio programmi internazionale archivi e biblioteche), Dipartimento archivi e biblioteche - Ministero beni culturali e ambientali. She is graduated in Political Science, Rome University “La Sapienza” and has a Post Graduate course in Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London
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1968 |
Librarian at Biblioteca Universitaria , Sassari |
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1971 - 1981 |
Dean Librarian at Biblioteca Universitaria , Sassari |
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1981 |
Head of department at Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico responsible for the technical coordination of the Italian Libraries Network (SBN), Rome |
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1990-2002 |
Director - Discoteca di Stato, Rome |
| 1990 | Responsible for the Italian section of the Lib2 study on library automation for DGXIII |
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Responsible for Discoteca di Stato of the
European Project JUKEBOX, Paragon, Harmonica, Phonomedia Traditio, Opendrama |
| 1982-1986 | AIB Vice-President |
| 1999-2002 | IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) Vice-President |
| 1999 - | Member of the Italian national Committee of UNESCO |
| 2002 - | Member of the Italian committee of the European project MINERVA |
NVB (Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals)
http://www.library.uu.nl/staff/savenije
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Bas Savenije (1947) graduated in Philosophy in 1977. Since then, he has held a rang of positions at Utrecht University, among which he has been Director of Strategic Planning, Director of Budgeting and Control, Acting Director of the Faculty of Arts as well as of the Utrecht Media Institute. Since 1994 he is University Librarian at Utrecht University, managing the comprehensive university library. He has initiated a pervasive innovation programme for the library aimed at implementing and continuously improving electronic services. One of the results is a programme for electronic publishing and archiving services at the Utrecht University Library. He has also been leading a complex reorganisation process of the library in which the traditional decentralised structure of the library was replaced by a more efficient structure based on the concept of shared services. Bas is President of the Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals (NVB) and a member of the FOBID Board, the Dutch Federation of Organisations in the Field of Libraries, Information and Documentation. |
He is an advocate of open and unfiltered access to information. He is a well known spokesman of the movement for Open Access of scientific information, amongst others in his capacity of chairman of the SPARC Europe Board and member of the steering committee of the worldwide SPARC organisation.
He is also an advocate of intellectual freedom and he strongly opposes expansion of national authorities to gain access to records about the information behaviour of citizens. The US Patriot Act is the most famous example of this development, but also a number of European countries are implementing legislation in this direction. Another of his priorities are information literacy programmes and the strengthening of the role of libraries in these programmes.
Bas has also wide experience in governing bodies outside the library and information sector, including member of the Board of Trustees of a housing corporation and treasurer of the Dutch National Badminton Federation. He has written publications, amongst others on university management, library innovation, library management, academic publishing and open access for scientific information.
| University Degree | Master of Social Sciences (Librarianship) at Åbo Akademi University, Åbo (Turku), 1993 |
| Professional Career |
Exchanges Librarian, Åbo Akademi University Library, 1996-2000 Library Department, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University Library, Deputy 1999-2000; Permanent 2000-
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| Memberships |
Treasurer of Finlands Svenska Biblioteksforening (Finnish-Swedish Library Association) Executive member 2003-
Suomen tieteellinen kirjastoseura (Finnish Research Library Association) |
| Publications |
Publikationer, Åbo Akademi (Bibliography of publications of the researchers at Åbo Akademi University), yearly 1987/1988-1991
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She is a native Swedish speaker and speaks Finnish and English.
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Finn Vester has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics.
Consultant and director of education in major Danish IT-company. Responsible for several projects commissioned by the EU
President of the Danish Library Association since 2002
President of the Regional Library Association of
Northern Zealand
Member of the local Town Council (Frederikssund)
Chairman of the local committee for planning and
environmental affairs
Former chairman of the local committee for cultural affairs
Created: 31 January 2002
Last updated: 13 October 2006
