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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Rafael Ball studied biology, Slavonic studies and philosophy at the universities of Mainz,
Warsaw and Moscow . He took his doctorate in biology and has worked in the library sector
since 1994, first in the library ofthe University of Freiburg, Germany, and then as the head of
the Central Library ofResearch Centre Jiilich.
Since 2002 he is Teaching professor at the Institute ofLibrary and Information Science at the
Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and at the Department of Information Studies of
the University of Applied Sciences in Chur, Switzerland . The major priorities of his practical
and theoretical work are library management and the development of the digital library
services.