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LIBER 39th AnnuAl ConferenCe 

ConferenCe 

ProgrAmme 

RE-InvEntIng thE LIBRaRy: 

the ChAllenges of 

the new InformAtIon 

envIronment 

29 JunE to 2 JuLy 2010 

AARHUS 

AU UNIVERSITET

LIBER goLd sponsoRs: 

LIBER sILvER sponsoRs:

LIBER 

39th AnnuAl ConferenCe 

AARHUS 

AU UNIVERSITET 

ConferenCe ProgrAmme 

RE-InvEntIng thE LIBRaRy: 

the ChAllenges of the new 

InformAtIon envIronment 

29 JunE to 2 JuLy 2010

contEnt 

3 welcome from the President of lIBer 

5 welcome from Aarhus university 

and the state and university library 

6 lIBer organisation 

7 lIBer Programme Committee 

8 local host library organisation Committee 

9 Conference Programme 2010 

18 speakers‘ Profiles and Abstracts 

18 29 June 2010 

41 30 June 2010 

56 1 July 2010 

71 Aarhus Posters 

73 lIBer Awards 

74 lIBer gold sponsors 

81 lIBer silver sponsors 

82 local sponsors 

84 list of Participants 

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WELcomE fRom thE PREsIdEnt of LIBER 

As President of LIBER I am pleased to 

welcome colleagues from all over Europe 

to the 39th Annual Conference. I also 

warmly welcome guests from other 

organisations, partners and sponsors, 

who support the work of LIBER. This 

Conference is being hosted by State and 

University Library and Aarhus University. 

We are delighted to be meeting in Aarhus 

in Denmark at one of the top universities 

in Europe, a university with strong international 

links and with excellent facilities. 

The Conference Programme this year is 

markedly different from previous Conferences. 

There will be a small number of 

keynote addresses by leading experts 

in the information sector, all very much 

future oriented and linked to the theme 

of the Conference. Recent Conference 

evaluations have indicated, however, that 

delegates would like to have more time 

for discussion, more interaction and more 

diversity. The Conference organizers have 

taken this into account and have adapted 

the format of the Annual Conference to 

meet these wishes. A variety of master 

classes, open meetings of the LIBER Steering 

Committees, parallel sessions, poster 

sessions and break out groups reflect 

the Board’s ambition to benefit from the 

participation and the ‘know how’ of both 

senior and young professionals and to 

stimulate interaction during the Conference. 

The theme of the Conference is ‘Reinventing 

the Library’. We will discuss the 

role of the research library in e-science 

and e-learning, the mass digitisation and 

preservation of library collections, and 

the challenges for the management of the 

‘re-invented library’. 

LIBER represents the interests of research 

libraries in Europe, national libraries, 

university libraries and the libraries of 

important research centres. This means 

that we seek to combine our responsibility 

for heritage collections with a pro-active 

role in serving user needs in the digital 

environment and exploring new and innovative 

services for teaching, learning and 

research. The Annual Conference plays 

an important role in the Board’s professional 

activities, but LIBER is also engaged 

in many others. Since the successful Annual 

Conference in Toulouse in July 2009, 

LIBER has organised in co-operation with 

partners: 

• A successful 2nd LIBER/EBLIDA Workshop 

on Digitisation of Library Material 

in The Hague (October 2009) 

• The 15th LIBER Architecture Group 

Seminar in Madrid (April 2010) 

• The 4th Conference of the Manuscripts 

Librarians Group in Rome (May 2010) 

• The 17th Conference of the LIBER 

Groupe des Cartothécaires (June 2010) 

Meetings and conferences should lead 

to actions and initiatives. LIBER wishes to 

make a difference in a number of areas of 

professional activity and to stimulate the 

development of new and better services. 

LIBER Steering Committees are playing a 

crucial role in this and I invite you to take 

part in their activities on: 

• Scholarly Communication 

• Digitisation and Resource Discovery 

• Heritage Collections and Preservation 

• Organisation and Human Resources 

• LIBER Services 

I should like to emphasize our support 

for the development of Europeana in 

close co-operation with Museums and > 

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WELcomE 

Archives and with CENL, the organisation 

of national libraries in Europe. Our aim 

is to include the rich material from all important 

research libraries in this European 

portal. LIBER is willing and able to act as 

an aggregator for our members and to 

encourage their involvement in European 

projects in support of the creation of a 

real European Digital Library. 

LIBER’s activities in the modernization of 

the copyright position in Europe, digitization 

and preservation are closely linked 

with this European ambition. In these 

areas we can only make real progress in 

close co-operation with Europe’s national 

library associations and European organisations 

such as EBLIDA. 

Our sponsors are major contributors to 

the success of our professional activities. 

I would like to thank our Gold Sponsors 

– ProQuest Information and Learning, 

ExLibris, Preservation Technologies, OCLC 

Emea, Elsevier, Swets and EBSCO – and 

our Silver Sponsors – Springer and Belser 

Wissenschaftlicher Dienst – for all their 

support. 

Finally, I would like to thank our hosts, in 

particular Svend Larsen, Library Director 

of State and University Library, and 

Carsten Riis, Dean of Faculty of Theology, 

Aarhus University. I would also like to 

thank the dedicated staff of the library 

and university for their work in the preparation 

of this Conference. 

I wish all participants a successful, stimulating 

and enjoyable Conference. 

hans geleijnse 

President of LIBER 

May 2010 

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WELcomE fRom aaRhus unIvERsIty and 

thE statE and unIvERsIty LIBRaRy 

We are pleased to welcome participants 

in the 39th LIBER annual conference to 

Aarhus University and to the State and 

University Library. 

Aarhus University is a growing international 

university. With a budget of DKK 

5.6 billion (or 752 million Euro), a staff of 

9,200 and more than 38,000 students the 

university is a visible part of international 

higher education. Aarhus University is 

responsible for 23 % of higher education 

in Denmark. The university has 1,700 

PhD students (many from abroad), is 

responsible for 26 % of national university 

research and plays an important part in 

the national innovation system. 

For many years the university’s main academic 

areas were: arts and humanities; 

theology; social science and law; medicine; 

science. During the past few years, 

the university has worked hard and spent 

considerable resources on completing the 

mergers with the four new main academic 

areas: the Aarhus School of Business, the 

Danish School of Education, the Faculty 

of Agricultural Sciences and the National 

Environmental Institute. Many synergies 

of the mergers have already been fulfilled 

and efforts are now focussed on forms of 

new multidisciplinarity, ground-breaking 

research and attractive degree combinations. 

There are definitely challenges in 

this for library services! 

Library services to the nine main academic 

areas of Aarhus University are supplied 

by faculty and departmental libraries and 

the State and University Library. There is 

a long tradition of cooperation between 

Aarhus University libraries as well as between 

libraries nationally. The State and 

University Library has a special role in 

this, due to its unique combination of tasks 

as university library, national library and 

centre for shared services for the public 

libraries. We hope that the conference will 

give an impression of the ”Danish way” 

of reinventing the library. At the same 

time we are confident that we can learn 

from others, the conference thus being a 

source of inspiration for further development 

of library based services in support 

of education and research. 

We want to thank the exhibitors and 

sponsors: Gold and Silver LIBER sponsors 

and local sponsors and exhibitors whose 

contributions have made it possible to 

keep the high standards for LIBER conferences. 

Thanks also to DEFF, Denmark’s 

Electronic Research Library, for generous 

support. 

carsten Riis 

Dean of Faculty of Theology 

Chairman of 

Aarhus University Library Committee 

svend Larsen 

Chief Executive 

State and University Library 

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LIBER EXEcutIvE BoaRd 

PREsIdEnt 

Mr Hans Geleijnse 

hans.geleijnse@uvt.nl 

vIcE-PREsIdEnt 

Dr Paul Ayris 

p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk 

tREasuRER 

Dr Heiner Schnelling 

heiner.schnelling@bibliothek.uni-halle.de 

sEcREtaRy-gEnERaL 

Dr Ann Matheson 

a.matheson@tinyworld.co.uk 

BoaRd mEmBERs 

Professor Ulf Göranson 

ulf.goranson@ub.uu.se 

Dr Norbert Lossau 

lossau@sub.uni-goettingen.de 

stEERIng commIttEE chaIRs 

chaIR: 

schoLaRLy communIcatIon 

Drs Bas Savenije 

b.savenije@library.uu.nl 

chaIR: dIgItIsatIon and 

REsouRcE dIscovERy 

Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen 

kristiina.hormia@helsinki.fi 

(actIng) chaIR: oRganIsatIon 

and human REsouRcEs 

Mr Hans Geleijnse 

hans.geleijnse@uvt.nl 

chaIR: LIBER sERvIcEs 

Dr Márta Virágos 

marta@lib.unideb.hu 

chaIR: hERItagE coLLEctIons and 

PREsERvatIon 

Mr Graham Jefcoate 

g.jefcoate@ubn.ru.nl 

LIBER sEcREtaRIat 

EXEcutIvE dIREctoR 

Mr Wouter Schallier 

wouter.schallier@kb.nl 

assIstant to thE EXEcutIvE 

dIREctoR 

Ms Carmen Morlon 

carmen.morlon@kb.nl 

foR moRE InfoRmatIon PLEasE sEE: http://www.libereurope.eu/node/193 

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LIBER PRogRammE commIttEE: 

Dr Paul Ayris, LIBER Vice-President and Chair 

Mr Kurt de Belder, University Librarian & Director, Leiden University Libraries 

Ms Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Chair: Digitisation and Resource Discovery 

Mr Svend Larsen, Chief Executive, State and University Library 

Mr Wouter Schallier, LIBER Executive Director 

Dr Márta Virágos, Chair: LIBER Services 

aaRhus oRganIsatIon commIttEE 

statE and unIvERsIty LIBRaRy 

Svend Larsen, Chief Executive 

Lilian Madsen, Director 

Ellen V. Knudsen, Director 

Jesper B. Thestrup, Communications Officer 

Joy Jakobsen, Administrative Officer 

aaRhus unIvERsIty 

Carsten Riis, Dean, Faculty of Theology 

Tove Bang, Library/ICT Director, Aarhus School of Business 

Anne Mette E. Navntoft, Librarian, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences 

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LocaL host 

LIBRaRy oRganIsatIon commIttEE 

statE and unIvERsIty LIBRaRy 

Joy Jakobsen, Administrative Officer 

Majbritt R. Jensen, Communications Officer 

Jette G. Junge, Communications Officer 

Jesper B. Thestrup, Communications Officer 

Karen Williams, Project Manager 

aaRhus unIvERsIty 

Susanne Dalsgaard Krag, Library Manager, Library of Social Sciences 

Gina Bay, Librarian, Library of Social Sciences 

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LIBER 

39th AnnuAl ConferenCe 

AARHUS 

AU UNIVERSITET 

ConferenCe ProgrAmme 

29 JunE to 2 JuLy 2010 

9

tuEsday 29 JunE 2010 

08.00-09.30 REgIstRatIon 

09.30-10.30 mastER cLassEs and mEEtIngs 

master class 1 

Chris Pressler (University of Nottingham, UK) 

and Andy McGregor (JISC, UK): 

the Library of Babel just needed a communication strategy 

how to market universal knowledge 


Paul Ayris, Martin Moyle (University College London, UK), 

Susan Copeland (Robert Gordon University, UK), 

Miguel Codina, Anna Rovira (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain), 

Iva Horova (Academy of Performing Arts, Czech Republic), 

Rachel Hill (Dublin City University, Ireland): 

managing electronic theses: a DART Europe Master Class 


Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark), 

and Kurt de Belder (Leiden University, The Netherlands): 

the transition of the library 

sPaRc-Europe annual meeting 

Wim van der Stelt (Springer, The Netherlands), 

Johan Bollen (Indiana University School of Informatics 

and Computing, USA): 

a strategy for sPaRc-Europe 

LIBER yep! 

Eric den Heijer (Eric den Heijer, The Netherlands): 

yep!? Starting a network for Young European Professionals in libraries 

Steering Committee on scholarly communication 

Steering Committee on digitisation and Resource discovery 

Steering Committee on heritage collections and Preservation 

Steering Committee on organisation and human Resources 

Steering Committee on LIBER services 

10

10.30-11.00 coffEE / tEa BREak 

11.00-12.30 mastER cLassEs and mEEtIngs contInuEd 

12.30-13.30 Lunch 

13.30-14.00 oPEnIng cEREmony 

Hans Geleijnse (LIBER President) 

Carsten Riis (Dean, Faculty of Theology at Aarhus University) 

Mai Buch (Managing Director, DEFF): 

Re-inventing the library - the danish way 

14.00-15.00 PLEnaRy sEssIon 1 

Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information, USA): 

the future arrives: scholarly practice, scholarly communication 

and the roles of libraries 

15.00-15.30 coffEE / tEa BREak + vIsIts to PostERs/EXhIBItIon 


Heather Morrison (Simon Fraser University, Canada): 

the role of the research library in an emerging global public sphere 

16.30-16.35 oPEnIng of mEEtIng of PaRtIcIPants 

16.35-16.45 LIBER aWaRds 

Presented by Paul Ayris (Vice President of LIBER and Chair of the Programme 

Committee) and Rafael Sidi (Vice President of Product Development at Elsevier) 

16.45-17.15 PaRaLLEL sEssIons 1.1 to 4.1 

Ps 1.1 

Michael Jubb (Research Information Network, UK): 

challenges for libraries in difficult economic times > 

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Ps 2.1 

Marcel Ras, Hilde van Wijngaarden 

(National Library of the Netherlands): 

digital preservation from niche to core 

Ps 3.1 

Maria Hvid Stenalt (State and University Library, Denmark): 

online access to advertising films and tv commercials 

Ps 4.1 

Tamara Pianos (National Library of Economics, Germany): 

EconBiz - meeting user needs with new technology 


Ps 1.2 

Christy Henshaw (Wellcome Library, UK): 

a digital library feasibility study 

Ps 2.2 

Sara Aubry (National Library of France): 

Introducing web archives as a new library service: 

the experience of the National Library of France 

Ps 3.2 

Marianne Alenius, Niels Stern (Museum Tusculanum Press, Denmark): 

open access monographs 

Ps 4.2 

Ellen Simons (Avans University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands): 

from a vision on learning and teaching towards an integrated 

learning-environment ... 

19.30-... confEREncE dInnER at Varna Mansion 

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Ps 1.3 

John MacColl (RLG - OCLC Research, UK): 

Library roles in university research assessment 

Ps 2.3 

Maria Cassella (Maria Cassella, University of Turin, Italy): 

Institutional repositories: an internal and external perspective 

of the value of IRs for the researchers’ communities 

Ps 3.3 

Clemens Neudecker, Asaf Tzadok (Impact Project, The Netherlands): 

user collaboration for improving access to historical texts 

Ps 4.3 

Serina Patterson, Devon Stokes-Bennett, James Nahachewsky, 

Ray Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): 

Enacting change: a case study of the implementation of e-readers and an 

online library in two Canadian high school classrooms 


Ps 1.4 

Juan Gorraiz, Christian Gumpenberger (University of Vienna, Austria): 

going beyond citations - sERum: a new tool provided by library network 

Ps 2.4 

Giuseppina Vullo (University of Glasgow, UK): 

a global approach to digital library evaluation 

Ps 3.4 

Martin Moyle (University College London, UK): 

crowdsourcing manuscript transcription 

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Ps 4.4 

Ana van Meegen Silva, Imke Limpens (Free University Amsterdam, The 

Netherlands): 

how serious do we need to be? Improving information literacy skills 

through gaming and interactive elements 



Jon Orwant (Google, USA): 

deriving the library from first principles 

12.00-12.30 PREsEntatIon By ouR sPonsoR 

Rafael Sidi (Elsevier, USA): 

Leveraging technology to transform the scientific landscape 

12.30-13.30 Lunch + vIsIts to PostERs/EXhIBItIon 


Tamar Sadeh (Ex Libris, UK): 

More is different: mega-aggregation of scholarly materials and its impact 

on the search experience 


Lee Dirks (Microsoft, USA): 

the next generation scholarly communication ecosystem: 

implications for librarians 


15.30-16.30 PREsEntatIon of PostERs (2 min. per poster) 

16.30-17.30 BREak out gRouPs 1 to 8 

... 

19.00-20.00 REcEPtIon at thE cIty haLL 

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Ps 1.5 

Panos Georgiou, Giannis Tsakonas (University of Patras, Greece): 

digital scholarly publishing and archiving services by academic 

libraries - The case study of University of Patras 

Ps 2.5 

J. Max Wilkinson, Adam Farquhar (British Library, UK): 

British Library dataset Programme: supporting research in the library of 

the 21st century 

Ps 3.5 

Sally Chambers (The European Library, The Netherlands), 

Wouter Schallier (LIBER, The Netherlands): 

Bringing research libraries into Europeana: 

establishing a library-domain aggregator 

Ps 4.5 

Graham Stone (University of Huddersfield, UK): 

searching life, the universe and everything? 

The implementation of Summon at the University of Huddersfield 


Ps 1.6 

Ronald M. Schmidt (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes 

Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany): 

aggregation of library statistics and performance indicators on a 

European level - what is already there and what has to be done 

Ps 2.6 

Raymond Bérard (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education, France): 

free library data? 

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Ps 3.6 

Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen (National Library of Finland, Finland): 

Libraries, archives and museums working together! 

Making the collection and services of libraries, archives and museums 

digitally available 

Ps 4.6 

Jens Hofman Hansen (State and University Library, Denmark): 

the open library system - re-invented, implemented and working 


11.00-12.00 PREsEntatIon of EXhIBItIon (2 min. per exhibitor) 


Jakob Harnesk (EBSCO, Sweden): 

Building the library of the future 

12.30-13.30 Lunch + vIsIts to PostERs/EXhIBItIon 


Douwe Drijfhout (National Library, South Africa): 

Bookkeeper installation in south africa 


Brian Lavoie (OCLC, USA): 

sustainable Economics for a digital Planet: 

Ensuring Long-term access to digital Information 

15.00-15.30 REPoRtIng Back fRom BREak out sEssIons 


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16.00-17.30 mEEtIng of PaRtIcIPants 

... 

Conclusions & closing ceremony + photo session 

17.30-... BuffEt at statE and unIvERsIty LIBRaRy 

fRIday 2 JuLy 2010 

09.00-16.00 conference excursion 

09.00-10.00 Bus picks up people at hotels and state and university Library 

10.10-12.00 guided tour in ‘the old town’ 

12.00-13.00 Lunch (in the old town) 

13.00 departure to moesgaard museum, passing marselisborg Palace and 

the marselisborg memorial Park 

13.30-15.30 guided tour at moesgaard museum 

15.00-16.00 Bus transport back to hotels 

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mastER cLass 1 

29 JunE 2010 

chRIs PREssLER (unIvERsIty of 

nottIngham, uk) and andy 

mcgREgoR (JIsc, uk): 

thE LIBRaRy of BaBEL Just nEEdEd 

a communIcatIon stRatEgy 

- hoW to maRkEt unIvERsaL 

knoWLEdgE 

This session will focus on using communication 

tools and techniques to reach, 

influence and listen to the full range of 

stakeholders for an academic library. 

Librarians have a lot to communicate, 

they have to help people navigate a 

vast collection of information, they have 

to listen to their users and adapt their 

services to suit their needs and they need 

to prove the value of their service to 

senior managers. A good communication 

strategy and a willingness to experiment 

and adapt are the essential tools in effective 

communication. This session will 

use a mixture of presentation, discussion 

and demonstration to arm delegates with 

practical advice on developing strategy, 

communicating to different audiences and 

useful websites and tools. 

christopher Pressler is Director of 

Research and Learning Resources at the 

University of Nottingham. He is responsible 

for the University’s libraries, historic 

collections and e-learning programmes 

at Nottingham’s seven campuses in the 

United Kingdom, Malaysia and China. He 

also leads on the University’s project management 

programmes for the Research 

Excellence Framework, institutional data 

management, communications technologies, 

global collection management and 

technology-enabled learning. Additionally, 

he is a member of the Executive 

Board of Nottingham University Press. 

He is a Director of the Centre for Research 

Communications at Nottingham and plays 

a national role in the development of 

scholarly communications and publishing 

as Chair of the RLUK/SCONUL Research 

Communications Group and as an advisor 

on a number of national and international 

boards. He is Co-Founder of the 

DART-Europe E-Theses Portal, which now 

provides access to theses from over 200 

universities in 16 countries. Christopher 

also plays a key role in the Open Learning 

Courseware community as co-founder 

of the BERLiN project and in developing 

links with OER Africa, Google and Apple. 

Christopher holds degrees from Queen’s 

University Belfast, Nottingham Trent 

University and the University of Sheffield. 

Previous posts have been held at UCL, 

JISC, Dartington and the University of 

London. He was elected a Fellow of the 

Royal Society of Arts in 2004. 

andy mcgregor is a programme 

manager for the Joint Information 

Systems Committee (JISC). The role of a 

programme manager is to plan and distribute 

funding to universities for projects 

to use technology to improve learning 

and research in Higher Education and 

then to oversee the projects that are 

funded. Andy is currently working with 

projects that involve repositories, resource 

discovery and software development communities. 

Andy is a keen user of web tools 

to aid the communication necessary for a 

successful programme of projects and for 

disseminating the knowledge produced 

by projects to the wider community. 

Prior to joining JISC Andy worked as an 

electronic resources librarian. 

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PauL ayRIs (unIvERsIty coLLEgE 

London, uk), mIquEL codIna 

(tEchnIcaL unIvERsIty of 

cataLonIa, sPaIn), susan 

coPELand (RoBERt goRdon 

unIvERsIty, uk), RachEL hILL 

(duBLIn cIty unIvERsIty, 

IRELand), Iva hoRova (acadEmy 

of PERfoRmIng aRts, czEch 

REPuBLIc), maRtIn moyLE 

(unIvERsIty coLLEgE London, 

uk), anna RovIRa (tEchnIcaL 

unIvERsIty of cataLonIa, sPaIn): 

managIng ELEctRonIc thEsEs: a 

daRt-EuRoPE mastER cLass 

DART-Europe (Digital Access to Research 

Theses – Europe) is a partnership 

of European research organisations who 

work together to improve the management 

and dissemination of Europe’s open access 

electronic research theses. DART-Europe 

is a networking organisation; it also maintains 

a discovery service for Europe’s open 

access research theses, the DART-Europe 

E-theses Portal (http://www.dart-europe. 

eu). 

The DART-Europe Master Class will 

introduce the work of DART-Europe, and 

provide an overview of electronic theses 

in the global context. Additionally, case 

studies will be presented covering three 

special topics: consortial approaches 

to the management of electronic theses; 

electronic theses in the performing arts; 

and e-theses and impact. The session will 

provide plenty of opportunity for discussion 

throughout. 

Paul ayris has been Director of UCL 

Library Services since 1997. He is also 

the UCL Copyright Officer. Dr Ayris is 

the Vice-President of LIBER (Association 

of European Research Libraries). He is a 

member of the LIBER and SPARC Europe 

Boards and chairs the LIBER Conference 

Programme Committee for their Annual 

General Conferences. He also chairs the 

OAI Organizing Committee for the Cern 

Workshops on Scholarly Communication. 

He is a member of the DRIVER Advisory 

Board, of the JISC’s Journals Working 

Group and the JISC’s Publishers Action 

Group, of the SCONUL/CILIP Health 

Strategy Group for the NHS-HE Forum, 

the RLUK/SCONUL Joint Scholarly Communications 

Group, and the RIN’s Research 

Communications Group. He is also 

a member of the NSF-funded Blue Ribbon 

Task Force on economically-sustainable 

digital preservation. 

He has a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History 

and publishes on English Reformation 

Studies. 

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miquel codina is a Graduate in Librarianship 

and History of Art, and is at present 

Head of the Gabriel Ferraté Library < 

http://bibliotecnica.upc.es/bib160/ > 

in the North Campus of the Technical 

University of Catalonia – Barcelona Tech 

(UPC). Since 1983 he has been working 

at the UPC libraries and has been head of 

4 different libraries within that university. 

He is one of the representatives of the 

Catalan Academic Libraries Consortium 

(CBUC) in the DART-Europe Board and he 

also has worked in international projects 

for the improvement of academic libraries 

within underdeveloped countries. His main 

interests are related to OA repositories, 

technology-based services and library 

management and he has published several 

papers on these topics. 

susan copeland is the Senior Information 

Adviser (Research) at Robert Gordon 

University in Aberdeen, Scotland. She 

is a member of the NDLTD Board of 

Directors and a member of the Board of 

DART-Europe. She has given presentations 

at annual NDLTD ETD conferences 

since 2003 and she chaired the 11th 

International Symposium on Electronic 

Theses and Dissertations in 2008. Between 

2002 and 2009 she played a key role in 

the JISC funded e-theses projects in the 

UK which led to the creation of the British 

Library Electronic Theses Online Service 

(EThOS). 

Rachel hill is Manager of DORAS - the 

Institutional Repository at Dublin City 

University. She has been heavily involved 

in the RIAN initiative - a 3 year Irish Universities 

Association project (2007-2010) 

that established IRs in Irish universities and 

a national portal of Irish Open Access 

research publications and theses. She is a 

member of the DART-Europe Board. 

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Iva horova graduated at the Conservatory 

in Teplice 1980 (piano playing). In 

1984 she received her PhD from the 

Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University 

Prague - Department of Music Science. 

In 1999 she finished study in Library 

and Information Science in the National 

Library in Prague, bachelor level. 

In 1990-1993 she took part in the 

development of an automation system in 

the Music Information Centre, which was 

focused on the documentation of Czech 

contemporary music. 

Since 1994 she has been Director of the 

Library of Academy of Performing Arts in 

Prague, with particular interests in library 

management and implementation of new 

technology in information and library 

services, leading a number of projects in 

this field. 

In 2000-2001 she was an external 

teacher at the Institute of Information Studies 

and Librarianship and at the Institute 

of Musicology at the Philosophical Faculty 

of Charles University in Prague. Main 

topics of interests: methodology of describing 

special types of documents, data 

conversation, methodology of document 

digitization, music librarianship. 

From 2004 to 2008 she was Chair of 

the Electronic Theses and Dissertations 

Working Group of Association of Libraries 

of Czech Universities (ALCU), now 

Member of Executive Board of ALCU. Also 

Member of: Czech Cataloguing Policy 

Board, Working Group on Cataloguing 

of Non-Book Materials and Printed Music, 

Member of Advisory Board of Czech 

professional Journal “Knihovna” (Engl. 

“Library”). 

martin moyle is Digital Curation Manager 

at UCL (University College London), with 

responsibilities for services and projects in 

the areas of digital repositories and digital 

preservation. Current projects include 

text mining for open access repositories 

(the JISC MERLIN project), metadata aggregation 

(the EuropeanaTravel project), 

a repository of primary audio-visual 

research data (the JISC CAVA project) and 

crowdsourced manuscript transcription 

(the AHRC Bentham Transcription Initiative). 

anna Rovira is a Graduate in Librarianship 

and History, and is at present the 

Director of Libraries at Universitat Politècnica 

de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech. She 

worked in the Universitat de Barcelona 

as an associate professor (2000-2009). 

She is one of the representatives of the 

Catalan Academic Libraries Consortium 

(CBUC) in the DART-Europe Board and is 

also involved in the Communia European 

Project. 

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BIRgER LaRsEn (RoyaL schooL 

of LIBRaRy and InfoRmatIon 

scIEncE, dEnmaRk), and kuRt dE 

BELdER (LEIdEn unIvERsIty, thE 

nEthERLands): 

thE tRansItIon of thE LIBRaRy 

Birger Larsen: Research assessment and 

the role of the librarian in it 

University and government administration 

increasingly wish to base their policy 

decisions on measurable data. This spans 

from monitoring research production to 

actual bibliometric research assessments 

based on advanced publication and citation 

analysis. Based on the experiences 

in carrying out research evaluation for 

clients this talk gives an introduction to 

some of the most used methods for bibliometric 

research evaluation, discusses their 

pros, cons and pitfalls and the dilemma of 

taking part in such exercises as librarians. 

Kurt De Belder: In this master class we will 

focus on major transitions facing academic 

libraries. Such changes include the use 

of library space, the virtual library, the 

rise of Google searching, and the move 

toward digital content. How are changes 

to the university’s role affecting academic 

libraries. Which future demands will we 

face as libraries and librarians and which 

roles and functions do we expect to take 

on and which will be dropped? Furthermore, 

some existing functions could/ 

should be outsourced. How do we start 

preparing for these changes and what is 

the impact on the library organisation? 

The new roles and functions will also put 

new demands on the required skills, competencies 

and behaviors of staff. How do 

we manage these changes? What type of 

organisation will we need to be in 5 to 10 

years? 

Birger Larsen is Associate Professor and 

member of the research program on 

Information Interaction and Information 

Architecture at the Royal School of Library 

and Information Science, in Copenhagen, 

Denmark. 

His main research interests include 

Information Retrieval (IR), Informetrics/ 

Bibliometrics, citation analysis and 

research evaluation. He teaches these 

subjects on all levels from Bachelor to PhD 

and on continuing education courses. 

Together with Professor Peter Ingwersen 

and Associate Professor Jesper W. 

Schneider he frequently acts as consultant 

and carries out bibliometric studies and 

research evaluations for various clients. 

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His publications include journal articles, 

conference and workshop papers, book 

chapters and research reports, published 

both internationally and nationally and 

often co-authored with collaborators from 

a widespread network of researchers. He 

is broadly engaged in program committees 

and reviewing in main journals and 

conferences within the areas covered by 

his research interests. He was international 

co-program chair of the ISSI 2009 

conference of the International Society for 

Scientometrics and Informetrics. 

kurt de Belder is since 2005 University 

Librarian at Leiden University, the oldest 

university in the Netherlands founded 

in 1575. Kurt’s responsibilities include 

university-wide strategic planning and 

policy making in the area of scientific 

information provision and the integral 

management of Leiden University Libraries 

and Leiden University Press. 

Kurt enjoys a broad and international library 

experience and worked at Stanford 

University, the University of California 

at Berkeley, New York University and 

the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has 

gained solid experience with regard to 

the implementation, improvement and 

innovation of work processes and services 

in research libraries. His main area of 

expertise is digital libraries, scholarly 

communication, e-publishing and e- 

learning. 

He has served as keynote speaker and 

has presented papers at conferences in 

the United States, Europe and Africa on 

topics relating to digital libraries, innovation, 

changing libraries and e-publishing. 

Kurt has also contributed to the library 

profession by serving on a variety of 

professional committees in the United 

States and the Netherlands. Currently, he 

is a member of the Board of Directors of 

the bibliotheek.nl Foundation (developing 

a national digital library infrastructure for 

public libraries), the Supervisory Board 

of DEN (Digital Heritage Netherlands), 

Chair of the External Stakeholders Group 

of OAPEN (Open Access Publishing 

in European Networks, an EU funded 

project), and member of the Policy Group 

Innovation Knowledge Infrastructure, 

SURFfoundation. He is course director 

for the 2010 Ticer summer course Digital 

Libraries à la carte at Tilburg University. 

Kurt De Belder studied Germanic Philology 

at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 

Belgium and specialized in Comparative 

Literature and in Library and Information 

Studies at the University of California, 

Berkeley. 

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sPaRc EuRoPE annuaL mEEtIng 

WIm van dER stELt (sPRIngER, 

nEthERLands), Johan BoLLEn 

(IndIana unIvERsIty schooL of 

InfoRmatIcs and comPutIng, 

usa): a stRatEgy foR sPaRc- 

EuRoPE 

Wim van der Stelt: Springer Open Choice 

The presentation is about Springer’s vision 

on Open Access and the role of Springer 

Open Choice on the road to Open 

Access. In particular Wim will address 

the pilots that are taking place in the 

Netherlands, the University of Goettingen 

and the University of California and the 

University of Hong Kong. 

Johan Bollen: New ways to determine the 

impact of research publications. 

Electronic publishing provides new possibilities 

to measure the usage of publications. 

The presentation will provide insight 

in the MESUR project as an example of 

new ways how the impact of scholarly 

publications can be determined. 

Wim van der stelt started his professional 

carreer in 1987 at Wolters Kluwer Academic 

Book Shops in The Netherlands. 

From 1991 until 1996 he had several 

marketing positions at multiple publishing 

houses in The Netherlands. In 2001 Wim 

moved to Kluwer Academic Publishers 

where he became Global Marketing 

Director and Vice President Commercial 

Operations at Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

In 2004 Kluwer merged with 

Springer Verlag. He now is Executive 

Vice President Business Development at 

Springer. In that capacity he is responsible 

for Springer’s Open Access policies and 

strategy. 

Johan Bollen is an Associate Professor 

at the Indiana University School of 

Informatics and Computing. He was a 

Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National 

Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an 

Assistant Professor at the Department of 

Computer Science of Old Dominion University 

from 2002 to 2005. He obtained 

his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from 

the University of Brussels in 2001 on the 

subject of cognitive models of human hypertext 

navigation. He has taught courses 

on Data Mining, Information Retrieval 

and Digital Libraries. His research has 

been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon 

Foundation, National Science Foundation, 

Library of Congress, National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration and the Los 

Alamos National Laboratory. His present 

research interests are usage data mining, 

complex networks, computational 

sociometrics, informetrics, and digital 

libraries. He has extensively published on 

these subjects as well as matters relating 

to adaptive information systems. He is 

presently the Principal Investigator of the 

MESUR project (http://www.mesur.org). 

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LIBER yEP! 

ERIc dEn hEIJER (ERIc dEn hEIJER): 

yEP!? staRtIng a nEtWoRk foR 

young EuRoPEan PRofEssIonaLs 

In LIBRaRIEs 

LIBER YEP! aims to connect young 

information professionals and develop 

their talents to contribute to a dynamic, 

stimulating and open European library 

community. 

This YEP! Master Class is the kick-off 

meeting to international collaboration. 

Meet the European colleagues of your 

generation. Find out what moves them 

and what connects you. Build a network 

together that will shape the future library. 

Inspiring, interactive and interesting… but 

above all: fun! Don’t miss the start of the 

YEP! network this summer in Aarhus. 

Eric den heijer, owner of a Training, 

coaching and consulting Company, works 

for a broad and diverse group of clients, 

both profit and non-profit. He works on 

topics related to (personal) leadership and 

management. 

Core values for him are: pro-activity, 

responsibility, integrity and working with 

passion and fun. 

People he worked with describe his style 

of work as direct and ‘to the point’, confrontational, 

always on a base of mutual 

respect. 

One of his clients said about him: “Eric is 

a social change agent, knowing how to 

get people on the move and to realise the 

best of themselves.” 

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oPEnIng cEREmony 

maI Buch (dEff, dEnmaRk): 

RE-InvEntIng thE LIBRaRy 

– thE danIsh Way 

Denmark’s Electronic Research Library 

(DEFF in Danish) is a co-operative 

organisation for Danish research and 

education libraries. DEFF was launched in 

1998 and after a 5-year project period, 

DEFF became a permanent item on the 

Danish Finance Act - its funding shared 

by three ministries; the Ministry of Culture, 

the Ministry of Education and the Ministry 

of Science, Technology and Innovation 

respectively. 

During this 12-year period DEFF has been 

the framework for the digital development 

of the participating libraries. DEFF activities 

include, but are not limited to, acquisition 

of licensed electronic resources, development 

of search and delivery systems, 

implementation of institutional repositories 

and international co-operation. 

From January 1st 2009 DEFF serves the 

libraries in the upper secondary schools, 

adult education centres, social and health 

schools, university colleges and universities 

as well. This means that most of the 

future Danish workforce will grow up with 

access to digital knowledge and will develop 

skills to handle that knowledge. This 

is unique and provides exceptional conditions 

for the support of Danish economic 

growth after the end of the recession. The 

new Government Bill is named “Denmark 

2020, Knowledge > Growth > Prosperity 

> Welfare”, and DEFF intends to support 

this goal with a new strategic framework. 

mai Buch is chairman of the steering 

committee of Denmark’s Electronic 

Research Library. She is CEO and founder 

of Competencehouse - an IT-company 

developing web-tools supporting human 

resource processes. Mai is educated as 

an operational researcher at the Technical 

University of Denmark and started her 

career as an associate professor here. 

Later on she became CFO at The Royal 

Danish Theatre and Director at Ministry of 

Science, Technology and Innovation. Mai 

is also Chairman of the board at The IT- 

Incubator 5th and chairman of the board 

at House of Contemporary Dance. 

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PLEnaRy sEssIon 1 

cLIffoRd Lynch (coaLItIon foR 

nEtWoRkEd InfoRmatIon, usa): 

thE futuRE aRRIvEs: 

schoLaRLy PRactIcE, schoLaRLy 

communIcatIon and thE RoLEs 

of LIBRaRIEs 

We are seeing enormous changes in 

scholarly practice in all disciplines. This 

includes an expansion of the kinds of 

evidence that scholars use, the ways in 

which they pursue scholarly inquiry, and 

the ways in which they document and 

communicate the results of their work. 

I will survey some of these changes in 

the humanities, the social sciences, and 

the sciences, and use these as a point of 

departure in sketching ways in which research 

libraries must evolve to keep pace 

with developing practices in the scholarly 

communities. 

clifford Lynch has been the Director of 

the Coalition for Networked Information 

(CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly 

sponsored by the Association of Research 

Libraries and Educause, includes about 

200 member organisations concerned 

with the use of information technology 

and networked information to enhance 

scholarship and intellectual productivity. 

Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years 

at the University of California Office of 

the President, the last 10 as Director of 

Library Automation. Lynch, who holds 

a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the 

University of California, Berkeley, is an 

adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of 

Information. He is a past president of the 

American Society for Information Science 

and a fellow of the American Association 

for the Advancement of Science and the 

National Information Standards Organisation. 

Lynch serves on the National Digital 

Preservation Strategy Advisory Board 

of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s 

Technical Computing Science Advisory 

Board, the board of the New Media Consorium, 

and the Task Force on Sustainable 

Digital Preservation and Access; he was a 

member of the National Research Council 

committees that published The Digital 

Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the 

Information Infrastructure and Broadband: 

Bringing Home the Bits. 

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hEathER moRRIson (sImon 

fRasER unIvERsIty, canada): 

thE RoLE of thE REsEaRch 

LIBRaRy In an EmERgIng gLoBaL 

PuBLIc sPhERE 

Almost every aspect of our lives – business 

to pollution – now extends beyond 

national borders. Many of the really big 

issues of our times, engaging many people 

around the world, including scholars, 

are global in scope, such as figuring out 

how to resolve global warming, or finding 

new approaches to economics that will 

bring us not only prosperity, but also 

sustainability and stability. This session 

will argue that we are beginning to see 

signs of a much-needed emerging global 

public sphere, and explore the key role 

of the research library, working locally at 

each organisation and globally through 

networks such as LIBER, SPARC, and OAI, 

in founding and supporting a global 

public sphere of knowledge that is freely 

accessible to all – and some practical tips 

on how to get from here to there. 

heather morrison is a well-known open 

access advocate, Project Coordinator at 

BC Electronic Library Network, author of 

Scholarly Communication for Librarians 

and the scholarly blog, The Imaginary 

Journal of Poetic Economics, and a PhD 

Student at Simon Fraser University School 

of Communication. 

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PaRaLLEL sEssIons 1.1 to 4.1 

sEssIon 1.1 

mIchaEL JuBB (REsEaRch 

InfoRmatIon nEtWoRk, uk): 

chaLLEngEs foR LIBRaRIEs In 

dIffIcuLt EconomIc tImEs 

There has been much discussion over the 

past 18 months about the financial difficulties 

that academic libraries are facing, and expect 

to face in the next few years. A number 

of bodies including the American Library 

Association, UKSG, and JISC in the UK have 

begun to gather evidence on these issues. But 

there has been little in the way of attempts 

to consolidate and analyse this evidence 

systematically to draw an accurate picture of 

the actual experience of libraries from across 

the sector, or their plans for dealing with the 

prospect of cuts in their budgets. 

This presentation draws on the work referred 

to above, as well as evidence from an 

international survey from the Charleston Observatory; 

from detailed analyses of library 

statistics from the UK, the US and Europe; 

and from a series of interviews and focus 

groups undertaken by the RIN and the CIBER 

team at UCL where the available evidence 

was considered in depth by a wide range 

of library directors and senior university 

managers in the UK, as well as with senior 

representatives of the publishing community. 

In the UK we are moving from a decade 

in which library budgets rose significantly 

– though not as fast as university budgets 

overall – to one where libraries are being 

asked to model cuts of 5-10% a year over 

the next three years. Such cuts cannot be 

made simply by seeking efficiency savings, 

important as those might be. Many directors 

are thus looking radically at the nature as 

well as the levels of service they can provide 

in support of their universities’ teaching, 

learning and research missions. 

The presentation thus presents evidence on 

trends and prospects for the future in such 

areas as 

- efficiency savings, what has been and 

what might be achieved, both by individual 

libraries and in partnerships with other 

libraries 

- the balance between content provision, 

staffing and services 

- the provision of books and journals, in both 

print and digital form, and the costs of that 

provision, 

- staffing levels, structures, and re-structuring 

- service provision including areas such as 

opening hours as well as newer areas of 

activity such as support for open access initiatives, 

and data curation and preservation 

- income generation to support library 

services. 

Many library directors are seeking ways of 

dong things differently, and see budget cuts 

as an opportunity to rethink what the library 

does and what it means. But there are as yet 

few concrete proposals that will transform 

services or yield large-scale savings. The 

presentation will thus also review, in the light 

of the current financial climate, the various 

steps that are being taken to develop a closer 

understanding of the relationships between 

expenditure on library activities and services 

on the one hand, and learning and research 

outcomes on the other. 

michael Jubb is Director of the Research 

Information Network (RIN). He has held 

a variety of posts, as an academic; an 

archivist; a civil servant; Deputy Secretary 

of the British Academy; and as Deputy 

Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities 

Research Board (AHRB), which he led 

through its transition to full Research Council 

status. In 2005 he took up the Directorship of 

the RIN, which has been set up to investigate 

how to improve the information resources 

and services available to and used by UK 

researchers across all disciplines, in science, 

technology and medicine as well as the arts 

and humanities. 

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29 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 2.1 

maRcEL Ras, hILdE van 

WIJngaaRdEn (natIonaL LIBRaRy 

of thE nEthERLands): 

dIgItaL PREsERvatIon fRom nIchE 

to coRE 

In 2003 the first digital archiving system, 

the e-Depot, of the National Library of 

The Netherlands (KB) became operational. 

This system was developed together 

with IBM and at the time of implementation 

it was the first long term preservation 

system running globally. Today, seven 

years later, the system has processed and 

stored over 15 million digital objects, 

mainly e-journal articles. 

At the time the e-Depot was developed, 

it was not common knowledge at all that 

long-term preservation of digital publications 

was a challenging issue. Although 

the general public still does not realise the 

risks, today, most library professionals 

are aware of the vulnerability of digital 

publications. 

New soft- and hardware technologies 

supersede each other with ever growing 

speed, leaving older formats unreadable. 

Research and development has focussed 

on how to ensure permanent access 

to digital objects and digital archiving 

systems like the e-Depot have been implemented 

at several libraries and archives. 

At KB, seven years after the implementation 

of the e-Depot system, we have 

started projects to build a new system 

with new requirements. Apart from the 

fact that our contract with IBM runs out in 

2012, several changes call for a new system 

and a new approach. These changes 

are not specific for KB, but are a general 

development in libraries’ digital collection 

management and are a consequence of 

digital library developments. In short, 

these changes are: 

- scale: digital publishing, web archiving 

and digitisation has lead to- enormous 

growth of digital collections 

- requirements for digital collection 

management: while preservation was 

first focussed on special parts of our 

collections, with the growth of digital 

collections, preservation has become a 

core requirement of libraries collection 

management 

- progress in digital preservation R&D: 

new tools have become available that 

allow us to better process and manage 

digital collections (e.g. Tools for identification, 

characterisation, migration and 

emulation) 

- diversity of digital collections: digital 

publications (including websites) have 

become container formats with all types of 

multimedia components embedded. These 

formats are a challenge for permanent 

access. 

At KB, we have set requirements for a 

next generation e-Depot that reflect these 

changes. Our paper will present the 

set-up of the new system, including new 

policies for collection management that 

will be developed. 

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The development of the next generation 

e-Depot system is organized as a group 

of projects. These projects focus on: 

- workflow for ingest and quality control 

- data modelling and metadata 

- storage 

- migration from 1st to 2nd generation 

system 

The projects are now in full speed and will 

deliver a new e-Depot infrastructure in 

2011. This new system will be a modular 

system and a combination of different 

“off-the-shelf” and tailor made system 

components. The operational experience 

gained in the past seven years and the 

knowledge out of the R&D activities are 

put into the requirements for the new 

system. 

The new e-Depot will process and store all 

digital collections on different preservation 

levels, based on a digital collection 

management plan. For all digital collections, 

a level will be set at time of selection. 

This level will determine the way the 

collection is processed (with all possible 

checks or with basic processing), the way 

the collection is described (top-level description 

like national bibliography entries 

with manual checks or automatic generation 

and processing of minimal metadata) 

and preservation actions to be developed 

and applied (format migration and/or 

emulation). This approach is based on the 

realisation that not all digital collections 

require the same investment and top-level 

care for millions of objects comes with 

enormous, unaffordable, costs. 

KB is currently in the process of laying 

down this preservation level policy. The 

policy is also one of the basic principles 

for our current requirements setting and 

tender procedure for a next-generation 

LTP system. 

marcel Ras is Head of the e-Depot 

Department of the national library of The 

Netherlands (KB). 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. 

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29 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 3.1 

maRIa hvId stEnaLt (statE and 

unIvERsIty LIBRaRy, dEnmaRk): 

onLInE accEss to advERtIsIng 

fILms and tv commERcIaLs 

This presentation intends to describe 

how the Danish’ State Media Archive’s 

collection of Danish advertising films was 

made available online to students and 

researchers. The presentation will describe 

why the collection of audiovisual material 

is of such importance, how the project 

overcame copyright issues and the overall 

technical solution for making the collection 

available on the State and University 

Library’s website. Finally the article will 

describe future equivalent projects of Danish 

media collections that will be made 

available online. 

The State Media Archive at the State 

and University Library in Denmark holds 

among others the Danish collection of 

advertising films. The collection consists 

of almost every advertising film shown 

in Danish cinemas from the 1950’ies to 

1995 and every TV commercial aired 

on the Danish television channel TV2 

since the station started broadcasting in 

October 1998 until 2006. This adds up to 

approximately 28,000 advertising films. 

The material is of cultural and historical 

importance as it is a testimonial of the 

current gender issues, cultural norms, and 

among others illustrates the aesthetic and 

technological development at the time. For 

researchers and university students the 

archive is a valuable source for research 

and education. 

With support from the Research Council 

for Culture and Communication and the 

Ministry of Culture a project was funded 

to digitize the collection, resolve copyright 

issues and solve the infrastructure. The 

project was initiated in 2007 together 

with the Department of Information and 

Media Studies at Aarhus University. The 

main objective was to allow researchers 

and students to access the collection of 

advertising films via the internet. Locating 

the material on the internet accessible 

through the library’s online search function 

and database makes it easier and 

more effective for the group of users to 

view and browse the many different films, 

compare the comprehensive material and 

access the material just in time and when 

needed. One of the challenging tasks in 

the project was to enter into a new agreement 

with the collecting society handling 

copyright issues in Denmark (Copydan AV 

Copies) as it would be almost impossible 

to collect permission from everyone involved 

in the production of the advertising 

films. 

maria hvid stenalt is academic employee 

at The State and University Library in 

Denmark. She has a Master’s degree 

in IT, specialized in media, design and 

communication. Maria works in the areas 

of media communication and research, 

digital cultural heritage, education and 

educational technology. She has a keen 

interest in use of media in research and 

teaching in Higher Education and has 

published several articles on the subject. 

Prior to working at the library she was 

ICT-educational coordinator at the E- 

learning Unit at Aarhus University. 

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sEssIon 4.1 

tamaRa PIanos (natIonaL 

LIBRaRy of EconomIcs, 

gERmany): EconBIz – mEEtIng 

usER nEEds WIth nEW 

tEchnoLogy 

Virtual Libraries try to combine traditional 

library services with new document types 

and services. Restrictions like copyright 

laws, technical limitations and the like often 

make it difficult to meet user requirements. A 

number of studies documented these needs: 

An easy-to-use, comprehensive yet focussed 

search and easy access to print and online 

documents, subject specific, yet not too 

restricted to specific areas. 

The new EconBiz-portal (econbiz.de), relaunched 

in August 2010, has a disciplinary 

focus on business and economics and related 

subjects. It includes about 6 million records 

from different databases. Based on searchengine 

technology Lucene/SOLR, combined 

with a metadata framework developed by 

the ZBW (zbw.eu), it allows fast, convenient 

and complex searches. The integration of the 

Standard-Thesaurus-for Economics supports 

researchers by suggesting keywords and 

related terms. Information on the availability 

of the documents is also included. Documents 

can either be accessed online, or ways to 

material that is available in print only are 

shown. Journals Online & Print, a service 

developed by the German Electronic Journals 

Library (EZB) and the German Union 

Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) is included to 

provide easy access to all forms of journals. 

In addition, services like an event calendar, 

a tutorial on how to find information and 

an online-reference desk help to cater to the 

user’s complex needs. 

The new EconBiz-portal was developed 

by the ZBW in close cooperation with the 

USB Cologne (ub.uni-koeln.de). Major 

parts of the search engine framework were 

developed by a company specialized in 

information technology. 

This paper will elaborate on the extraction of 

the users’ requirements from different studies, 

the deduction of functional requirements, 

and finally, the implementation of the portal 

with all its ups and downs. 

tamara Pianos studied English Philology 

and Geography at the University of Kiel. 

After finishing her dissertation in Canadian 

Studies, she started her traineeship in 

Osnabrueck and Cologne to become an 

academic librarian. 2002-2005 she worked 

as a co-ordinator of www.vascoda.de at the 

National Library of Science and Technology 

(TIB) in Hanover. In 2005 she started working 

for the ZBW – the German National 

Library of Economics Leibniz Information 

Centre for Economics in Kiel. She currently 

works as the project manager of the EconBiz 

portal. 

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sEssIon 1.2 

chRIsty hEnshaW (WELLcomE 

LIBRaRy, uk): a dIgItaL LIBRaRy 

fEasIBILIty study 

Over the next 5 years the Wellcome Library 

plans to transform itself into a groundbreaking 

digital library, with rich, dynamic 

content being made available around a 

series of strategic themes. The first of these 

themes is “Modern Genetics and its Foundations.” 

The Library’s draft digitisation strategy is 

highly ambitious, not only in its scale – to 

digitise over 30 million pages in five years – 

but also in its vision for how these items will 

be accessed and displayed. Specifically, the 

aim is to create a single repository, which 

will hold images, full-text material, archives, 

videos, audio files, born digital archival 

materials, with a presentation layer for users 

that is rich and engaging, and one that embraces 

Web 2.0 functionality. The creation 

of this will be underpinned by a workflow 

system that efficiently manages content in 

the Digital Library from digitisation and the 

creation of METS files. 

This presentation discusses the outcome 

of a Feasibility Study centred around the 

implementation of a Digital Library at the 

Wellcome Library. In particular, the Study 

looks at the interoperability and integration 

between systems including a back-end 

digital asset management system (Tessella’s 

Safety Deposit Box) with attached storage, 

a front-end delivery system, the use of METS 

to manage delivery of content, a full-text 

database with search engine, a workflow 

management system, and the Library 

catalogues (Calm and Millennium). 

A proof-of-concept was commissioned to 

practically demonstrate the feasibility of 

the system architecture, while the primary 

output – a comprehensive report - sets out a 

clear set of requirements these systems will 

need to support to ensure that they can fully 

interoperate with each other, and can effectively 

manage the digital content created 

by the digitisation programme. 

The systems or aspects of the Digital Library 

addressed by the Feasibility Study are as 

follows: 

1. DAM: To evaluate and test the use 

of Safety Deposit Box, which is currently 

configured to manage born digital 

content and preserve it against format 

obsolescence, for managing the digitised 

content and to determine what customisation 

may be required. 

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2. Full text indexing and search engine: To 

look at options for storing and searching 

full-text data, and understand how the 

database fits into the wider infrastructure 

of the Digital Library. 

3. Use of METS files: To develop a working 

model of a METS file to meet the purpose 

of the Digital Library, and to explore 

options for creation and management 

of METS files. Sample METS files were 

created as part of the Delivery system 

proof-of-concept (see 5, below). 

4. Workflow system: To determine what 

requirements should be considered for the 

workflow system, and how it will be used 

as part of the digitisation workflow and to 

create and administer METS files. 

5. Delivery system: To test provision of online 

access to digitised content via the DAM 

and METS files. A proof-of-concept was 

developed to test the basic functions of 

interoperability. 

As a result of this Study, the Library has a 

clear idea of how its digitisation activity, the 

long-term management of digital content, 

and its dissemination can be seamlessly 

integrated to provide greater access to, and 

use of, its digitised holdings. 

christy henshaw has managed the 

Wellcome Library’s digitisation programme 

since 2007. Current challenges include the 

move to large-scale digitisation - starting 

with a project to digitise half a million pages 

of archival material, helping establish the 

Wellcome’s Digital Library infrastructure, 

copyright clearance and sensitivity issues, 

and the Wellcome’s move to JPEG 2000 

as a long-term master image format. Prior 

to the Wellcome, Christy spent six years 

working on a number of library and archive 

projects as a digital photographer and 

project manager whilst completing her PhD 

in Archaeology. 

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sEssIon 2.2 

saRa auBRy (natIonaL LIBRaRy, 

fRancE): IntRoducIng WEB 

aRchIvEs as a nEW LIBRaRy 

sERvIcE: thE EXPERIEncE of thE 

natIonaL LIBRaRy of fRancE 

Web sites and web pages emerge and 

disappear from the World Wide Web every 

day. Like many other heritage institutions, 

the National Library of France (BnF) has 

developed a strategy to collect and keep 

track of born digital material using very 

large-scale tools such as web crawlers. 

Today, for legal deposit purposes, BnF has 

collected more than 15 billion files (web 

pages, images, animations, video and 

sound records...), which constitute more than 

160 terabytes of data and share storage 

facilities with other digital resources. 

The Web archives of the French national 

domain stopped being the sole interest and 

the study object of the BnF web archiving 

team, and a dedicated and trained group 

of librarians in charge of acquisition, when 

this new collection was opened to the public 

in April 2008, developed as a new service 

and released as a new application. 

Developing the service was first a technical 

challenge: how to install and adapt open 

source tools (the Wayback Machine and 

Nutch) when the IT staff was used to developing 

applications on its own internally? 

How to integrate these tools into a secured 

and internet proof “public computer” along 

with other digital resources (catalogs, 

digitized collections, e-journals and databases…) 

which have been historically piled 

up one after the other? How to keep this 

collection safe? 

But introducing Web archives was also 

an organisational and human challenge: 

how to involve, explain and pass on to colleagues 

content and collection development 

policy, ways of working and not working for 

a contemporary and disruptive media type? 

In particular, to those who authorize and 

orientate researchers in the reading rooms 

and answer their questions at the help desk. 

Web archives are artefacts, incomplete 

documents, which are more common to 

archivists than to librarians. 

A new icon on a screen is not enough to 

reach and retain a public. BnF has created 

information and communication tools to 

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encourage readers to use this new service. 

After almost two years, there is still not a 

very large public (about 80 visits a month), 

but it exists here and now, and gives us 

feedback. 

Beyond traditional researchers, who may 

search and browse Web archives content 

for scientific, academic or even personal 

purposes, “Web researchers”, studying the 

media itself, have to face quantity, temporality 

and time consistency issues. They also 

have to deal with gaps and noise at a scale 

of which the live Web only gives a small 

sample. But because the Web has many 

authors, many Web archives users and 

usages are still unknown. 

This paper will discuss: 

- Web archives as a new and challenging 

collection for the library end user, 

- BnF marketing and service strategies to 

introduce and promote the web archives, 

- current usage surveys and counts, and 

lessons learnt and to share, 

- plans for future developments. 

sara aubry is a digital curator and a 

computer analyst. She has been working 

at the National Libray of France (BnF) since 

2002. She is part of the project team which 

introduced web archiving into the Library 

missions. She also ran the “Access to Web 

Archives” project. 

Sara has a master degree in Languages, 

Civilizations and Computer Science. She 

previously taught information sciences at the 

University of Caen and was between 1998 

and 2009 the moderator of biblio-fr, the 

main french mailing list for librarians and 

information science professionals, which 

had about 18,000 subscribers. 

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29 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 3.2 

maRIannE aLEnIus, nIELs stERn 

(musEum tuscuLanum PREss, 

dEnmaRk): 

oPEn accEss monogRaPhs 

The scholarly monograph is under 

increasing pressure these days. The 

crisis is clearly reflected throughout the 

research community and especially within 

the Humanities. This presentation will 

stipulate the crisis from the viewpoint of a 

scholarly press and suggest ways to keep 

monograph publishing a viable business 

for scholarly publishers. One of these 

ways could be open access publishing 

and therefore the presentation will look 

more closely at the ongoing EU-funded 

OAPEN project (Open Access Publishing 

in European Networks, www.oapen. 

org) which is devoted to open access 

monographs and of which the presenter is 

a consortium partner. 

In the field of the Humanities (and the 

Social Sciences and Theology) the 

monograph is still the most preferred 

form of research dissemination among 

the scholars. However, the scholars 

are under great pressure due to the 

implementation of bibliometric systems 

that relatively measure journal articles 

above/higher than the traditional 500+ 

pages monograph. This puts pressure on 

the monograph as genre. But humanists 

often do basic research in completely new 

fields where material has to be described, 

explained and documented for the very 

first time. This cannot be done in an 

8-pages article. 

The small and medium sized (SME) 

scholarly publishers are under pressure as 

well since they mainly publish hardcopy 

monographs. The so-called serial crisis 

has seriously affected the publishers since 

the library acquisitions have dropped 

dramatically over the last 2-3 decades 

making it an increasingly unhealthy business 

for the scholarly publisher. Will this 

be the end of the scholarly monograph? 

Will it be the end of scholarly publishers? 

Or will we see new ways of monograph 

publishing emerge? 

An increasingly - still relatively insignificant 

- number of scholarly publishers are 

experimenting with alternative ways of 

publishing monographs. Of these initiatives 

e-book publishing and open access 

publishing are the most significant. 

Museum Tusculanum Press (MTP) at the 

University of Copenhagen has - as one of 

the first scholarly publishers in the Nordic 

Countries - experimented with both of 

these alternative publishing forms. Having 

published e-books since 2004 the main 

business conclusion today is that e-books 

don not generate sufficient revenue to be 

economically viable. This of course might 

change with the up-coming and possible 

consolidation of new e-book readers. 

So far e-books are mainly sold via 

aggregators which are not a financially 

viable sales channel for the publishers. 

And libraries tend still not to buy single 

e-books from the scholarly publishers. 

Through participation in two international 

open access projects MTP has gained 

tremendous insight into open access publishing. 

As the only traditional scholarly 

publisher MTP was partner in the Nordic 

project on scientific journals and open 

access (NOAP led by Lund University 

Library from 2007-2009 www.ub.uit. 

no/wiki/noap) and now as a consortium 

partner of the OAPEN project. OAPEN is 

the first project where scholarly publishers 

across Europe work together in an attempt 

to evolve new ways of monograph 

publishing in open access and to find 

new business models for this. OAPEN is 

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also creating a network of stakeholders 

(libraries, universities, funders, scholars, 

and publishers) in scholarly publishing 

and performing serious research into 

the needs of the stakeholders - e.g. the 

just released User Needs Report (138 

pp.) available at www.oapen.org. Part 

of the OAPEN mission is also to develop 

the technical platform that will hold the 

OAPEN Collection which will contain peer 

reviewed monographs, open access in 

their original language. 

If efficient business models can be found, 

the OAPEN model might be among the 

sustainable solutions for the threatened 

monographs in Europe. Another already 

working model can be seen across 

the Atlantic where the University of 

California Press and the California Digital 

Library collaborate as service providers 

(UCPubS) for UC institutes and centres. 

Yet the American initiative does not have 

to handle 23 different (all official) EU 

languages! There are great challenges 

and opportunities ahead for the scholarly 

monograph and for the scholarly 

publishers. In the process of change the 

role of the research libraries is of great 

importance. Collaboration between libraries, 

universities and scholarly publishers is 

necessary. 

marianne alenius graduated from 

Copenhagen University in 1978 as MA in 

Latin & BA in Greek. In 1989 she became 

a PhD in Scandinavian Studies and the 

same year library consultant at the Royal 

Library Future Programme and managing 

director at Museum Tusculanum Press, 

University of Copenhagen. Board member 

of The Danish Publishers Association 

and member of the board of The Danish 

Copyright Centre (CopyDan). Former 

president of the Danish association of 

University Publishers. Together with Niels 

Stern she has been work group leader in 

the Nordic open access project NOAP - 

Aiding Scientific Journals towards Open 

Access Publishing (http://www.ub.uit.no/ 

wiki/noap, 2007-09) headed by Lund 

University Libraries and supported by 

Nordbib (Nordic Council). She is currently 

a member of the Consortium Board of 

the European Open Access project for 

scholarly publishers in the Humanities and 

Social Sciences OAPEN (Open Access 

Publishing in European Networks - www. 

oapen.org, 2008-11) under the eContentplus 

(EU) programme. 

niels stern has studied Political Science 

at the University of Aarhus and graduated 

as MA at the Department of Nordic 

Literature and Linguistics at the University 

of Copenhagen. In addition to this he 

graduated as MA from the Department 

of Communication at Goldsmiths College, 

University of London. He worked for 

several years as a media producer for 

the Danish Broadcasting Corporation 

before joining Museum Tusculanum Press 

in 2003 as an e-publishing project coordinator 

and later as Head of Marketing 

and e-Publishing. Together with Marianne 

Alenius he has been work group leader 

in the Nordic open access project NOAP 

- Aiding Scientific Journals towards Open 

Access Publishing (http://www.ub.uit.no/ 

wiki/noap, 2007-09) headed by Lund 

University Libraries and supported by 

Nordbib (Nordic Council). He is currently 

a member of the Project Management 

Team of the European Open Access 

project for scholarly publishers in the 

Humanities and Social Sciences OAPEN 

(Open Access Publishing in European 

Networks - www.oapen.org, 2008-11) 

under the eContentplus (EU) programme. 

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sEssIon 4.2 

ELLEn sImons (avans unIvERsIty 

of aPPLIEd scIEncEs, thE 

nEthERLands): fRom a vIsIon 

on LEaRnIng and tEachIng 

toWaRds an IntEgRatEd 

LEaRnIng-EnvIRonmEnt 

The presentation focuses on the changes 

in education and their implication for 

the university library. The impact of 

Avans’ strategic educational vision on the 

design and lay-out of the buildings and 

especially Xplora, the Learning-centre of 

Avans, will be described. 

The three locations of the Avans Learningcentre 

(opened in 2006 and 2007) comprise 

a total of 2,000 student workplaces. 

The traditional library has changed into 

a multimedia learning-centre and now 

resides under the Avans Learning and 

Innovation Centre. 

New buildings and a new organisational 

structure demand new working-arrangements 

with faculty staff. The transformation 

from library to Learning Centre and 

especially the consequences for library 

staff will be focused upon. All staff was 

offered a comprehensive training program. 

In addition, information specialists 

were trained to improve their acquaintance 

with educational knowledge. The 

benefits derived from the cooperation by 

library staff working with colleagues from 

other disciplines (e.g. educational consultants 

, e-learning consultants, multimedia 

staff etc.) within the Avans Learning and 

Innovation Centre will be described. The 

results of relevant student surveys will also 

be described. To wrap up, I will draw 

some conclusions based on 4 years working 

in new buildings, new educational 

models, new organisation, new working 

arrangement, etc. 

Ellen simons started her career at 

Hogeschool West-Brabant in 1990 as 

a librarian. She quickly became the 

head of the university library. At this 

moment she is deputy-director of the 

Learning and Innovation Centre at Avans 

University of Applied Sciences. Ellen is 

vice-chairperson of the SHB, the Dutch 

consortium of Libraries of Universities 

of Applied Sciences. In recent years she 

was responsible for the strategic planning 

of educational innovation at Avans 

University, aimed at the transformation 

of a traditional library to a new Learning 

Centre. She was actively involved in the 

design of the three new learning centres 

in Breda, ’s-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg. 

Her primary interest is the cooperation 

between educational and library staff. The 

new Xplora learning centre presents itself 

as partner of the schools. As part of this 

new position a large training program 

has been developed for the former library 

staff. 

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sEssIon 1.3 

John maccoLL (RLg - ocLc 

REsEaRch, uk): LIBRaRy RoLEs In 

unIvERsIty REsEaRch assEssmEnt 

This paper will present the results of a recent 

OCLC Research commissioned study: 

‘A Comparative Review of Research 

Assessment Regimes in Five Countries and 

the Role of Libraries in the Research Assessment 

Process’. It will look at research 

assessment regimes in the Netherlands, 

the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Australia, 

comparing them and considering the 

roles that research libraries play within 

them. The paper will conclude with some 

reflections upon best practice for libraries 

in supporting research assessment within 

their institutions, and in their contribution 

to cultures of research excellence. 

library journal ARIADNE in 1996, and 

has directed and participated in many 

JISC-funded projects. He has served on 

the boards of several UK research library 

task forces and working groups, and is 

currently a member of JISC’s Information 

& Resources Committee. His publications 

include articles, book chapters, reviews 

and The institutional repository (Chandos, 

2006). 

John holds an MA in English Literature 

& Language from the University of St 

Andrews; a Postgraduate Diploma in 

Librarianship & Information Studies 

(CNAA) from Robert Gordon’s Institute of 

Technology, Aberdeen; and an MEd from 

the University of Aberdeen. 

John maccoll is European Director, 

RLG Partnership, OCLC Research. He 

works specifically with the RLG European 

Partners, and also with other library and 

memory organisations across Europe. His 

research focus is in the area of research 

information management, research assessment 

and scholarly communications. 

Previously, John headed the Digital 

Library at the University of Edinburgh. 

His career has spanned higher education 

libraries, information services and 

academic IT. He founded the UK digital 

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30 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 2.3 

maRIa cassELLa (unIvERsIty 

of tuRIn, ItaLy): InstItutIonaL 

REPosItoRIEs assEssmEnt: 

an IntERnaL and EXtERnaL 

PERsPEctIvE of thE vaLuE of 

IRs foR thE REsEaRchERs’ 

communItIEs 

Institutional repositories (IRs) are one of the 

most innovative and creative components 

of digital libraries. They are a central 

service for the research communities and 

the institution they serve. They are a showcase 

of the scientific output of a research 

institution. However, due to manifold 

reasons, institutional repositories often lack 

institutional leadership commitment and 

research communities engagement. Except 

for a very few cases it is difficult to reach 

a critical mass of content and fund raising 

may also become a problem for repository 

administrators in economic crisis time. 

Up to date there are no standard performance 

indicators to assess repositories 

activity and demonstrate their value for 

the researcher communities. This article 

will examine qualitative and quantitative 

measures that should be gathered by repository 

administrators in order to design 

a successful repository. 

The idea is to present the repository 

assessment as a combination of internal 

(quantitative) and external (qualitative) 

measures where the first relate to the collections, 

total full-text items deposited, level 

of ordinary activity deposit, percentage 

of faculty participating to the deposit, 

value added services provided to the 

researchers of different disciplines by the 

repository. These measures are often, but 

not uniquely, generated from OAI harvesting 

information. 

The latter relate to faculty satisfaction 

of the repository according to the way 

repository fulfils researchers’ needs, to 

internal and external level of funding and 

to policies adopted to support the repository 

action (institutional mandates or other 

non-mandatory supporting policies). All 

these measures are based on qualitative 

surveys carried out on researchers and 

institutional leadership. 

In conclusion I argue that the intelligent 

combination of the two perspectives (internal 

and external) should help repository 

administrators to advocate the ideal profile 

of a successful economically sustainable 

repository. 

maria cassella is librarian coordinator 

of seven libraries in Humanities at the 

University of Turin. 

She is author or co-author of manifold 

papers published in Italian and in English 

on Digital libraries. 

Her current research interests are in the 

fields of Digital Libraries, Open Access, 

scholarly communication, statistics and 

evaluation, mobile applications. 

Since 2008 Maria Cassella is a component 

of the working group of the Wiki OA 

Italia, the Italian wiki on Open Access 

http://wiki.openarchives.it/index.php/ 

Pagina_principale 

Since 2009 she is member of the IFLA 

Standing Committee on Statistics and 

Evaluation. 

She is in the editorial board of the Italian 

Journal of Library and Information Science 

(JLIS) and in the editorial team of two Italian 

e-newsletters. 

All presentations held in conferences and 

some Maria Cassella’s papers are selfarchived 

in E-Lis http://eprints.rclis.org/ . 

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sEssIon 3.3 

cLEmEns nEudEckER, asaf 

tzadok (ImPact PRoJEct, 

thE nEthERLands): usER 

coLLaBoRatIon foR ImPRovIng 

accEss to hIstoRIcaL tEXts 

The paper will address how web based 

collaboration tools can engage users in the 

building of historical printed text resources 

created by mass digitisation projects. The 

drivers for developing such tools, identifying 

the benefits that can be derived for both 

the user community and cultural heritage 

institutions, will be presented. The perceived 

risks, such as new errors introduced by 

the users, and the limitations of engaging 

with users in this way will be set out with 

the lessons that can be learnt from existing 

activities, such as the National Library 

of Australia’s newspaper website which 

supports collaborative correction of Optical 

Character Recognition (OCR) output. 

The paper will present the work of the 

IMPACT (Improving Access to Text, 

http://www.impact-project.eu) project, a 

large-scale integrating project funded by 

the European Commission as part of the 

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). One 

of the aims of the project is to develop tools 

that help improve OCR results for historical 

printed texts, specifically those works published 

before the industrial production of 

books from the middle of the 19th century. 

The coordinator of the IMPACT project is 

the KB – National library of the Netherlands. 

The KB will work intensively in the 

coming years to realise a digital library 

that is accessible to everyone with an 

Internet connection. As national library the 

KB collects and maintains all publications 

that appear in the Netherlands, as well 

as a part of the international publications 

about the Netherlands. One of the large, 

labour-intensive challenges is to digitise all 

the books, periodicals and newspapers that 

have appeared in the Netherlands. The KB 

aims to have 10% of all Dutch books, newspapers 

and periodicals digitised in 2013 

(60 million pages by the KB, 13 million by 

third parties), as well as to offer the full-text 

collections in such a way that they can be 

used immediately by researchers. 

To realise this goal, technological improvements 

to image processing and OCR engine 

technology are key. However, engaging 

the user community also has an important 

role to play. Utilising the intended user 

can aid in achieving the levels of accuracy 

currently found in born digital materials. 

Improving OCR results to this level is key 

to producing resources that support better 

resource discovery and enabling greater 

performance when applying text mining 

and accessibility tools to the extracted text. 

The IMPACT project will specifically develop 

a tool that supports collaborative correction 

and validation of OCR results and a tool to 

allow user involvement in building historical 

dictionaries which can be used to validate 

word recognition. The technologies use the 

characteristics of human perception as a 

basis for error detection. 

clemens neudecker holds a M.A. in 

Philosophy, Computer Science and Political 

Science. He has been a member of the 

Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) from 

2003-2009 and has been mostly involved 

with OCR processing, authority files and 

databases. He has in depth knowledge of 

all steps of an in-house digitisation process, 

from capture approach to online publication, 

thanks to numerous responsibilities in 

almost 20 digitisation projects from 2003 

onwards. He currently works as Interoperability 

Manager for IMPACT at the KB 

National library of the Netherlands. 

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sEssIon 4.3 

Ray sIEmEns, sERIna PattERson, 

dEvon stokEs-BEnnEtt, JamEs 

nahachEWsky, (unIvERsIty of 

vIctoRIa, canada): 

EnactIng changE: a casE 

study of thE ImPLEmEntatIon 

of E-REadERs and an onLInE 

LIBRaRy In tWo canadIan hIgh 

schooL cLassRooms 

Today’s “born-digital” youth are engaged 

in an unprecedented experimentation with 

literacy, learning, and cultural practices 

on an individual and societal level. They 

inhabit a world of ubiquitous twitch-speed 

content in which they can connect to 

peers, ideas, and information almost 

instantaneously, as well as tailor their own 

online spaces that promote a sense of 

freedom and individuality. As such, these 

changes present both complex challenges 

and opportunities for institutions such as 

schools and libraries, and those “digital 

immigrants” who manage them. 

This proposed paper explores a recently 

completed case study, conducted by 

the authors, that examined the impact 

of e-reader technology on the learning 

and literacy of digital-age youth in a 

Grade nine and Grade ten classroom; 

the study was held at a community 

school on Vancouver island in western 

Canada. Emerging from an innovative 

research partnership between members 

of the WestShore Centre for Learning 

and Training, the University of Victoria’s 

Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and the 

Faculty of Education, this study required 

that we develop an online library for the 

students’ and classroom teachers’ use. As 

such, questions regarding changes to the 

students’ learning, their user behaviour, 

and the on-demand collection development 

emerged as e-books were integrated 

into their evolving online educational 

environment. 

Fundamentally grounded in theoretical 

cross-sections of information literacy 

issues, pedagogy, e-pedagogy, and computational 

modelling activities, the study 

revealed that the participants’ experiences 

specify particular requirements, challenges, 

and opportunities for digital age 

learners, educators, and librarians. This 

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study’s initial findings point to the benefits 

to students’ cognitive and affective domains 

through the personalized learning 

spaces afforded them by the e-readers 

and e-book content. But, there were also 

complications to students’ individual 

reading processes. Such benefits and 

complications called for an alert flexibility 

in developing the online library to engage 

these born-digital students – particularly 

in relation to their “Web 2.0” experiences 

that included: online reading journals; 

discussion groups; virtual “bookshelves” 

for their e-books; and security concerns. 

Throughout this study, there emerged 

the need for re-inventing reading and 

learning spaces to address the changing 

reading patterns and epistemologies of 

born digital students as they navigated 

through ideas and information from page 

to screen. Importantly, this re-invention 

can only occur through a co-authoring of 

the reading and learning spaces of born 

digital students by those very students, 

their teachers, the developer, and others 

such as experts in digital corpora. 

dr. Raymond siemens, http://web.uvic. 

ca/~siemens/, is Canada Research Chair 

in Humanities Computing and Professor of 

English at the University of Victoria with 

cross appointment in Computer Science. 

Siemens is also Visiting Senior Research 

Fellow at the Centre for Computing in 

the Humanities at King’s College London, 

Visiting Research Professor at Sheffield 

Hallam University and, in 2010, is 

Visiting Research Professor in Digital Humanities 

at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. 

Siemens’ larger research projects focus 

on human-computer interaction, interface, 

and the electronic book in the Implementing 

New Knowledge Environments (INKE) 

project, the Professional Reading Environment 

(PReE) project, initiatives associated 

with the TAPoR and Synergies groups and 

the Public Knowledge Project, and work 

on digital humanities communities and 

teams. 

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30 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 1.4 

Juan goRRaIz, chRIstIan 

gumPEnBERgER (unIvERsIty of 

vIEnna, austRIa): 

goIng BEyond cItatIons - 

sERum: a nEW tooL PRovIdEd 

By LIBRaRy nEtWoRk 

Citation metrics are well established 

(especially in Science, Technology and 

Medicine) to assess the impact of scientific 

output. With the growing availability of 

e-journals, usage metrics of digital libraries 

and repositories have become an interesting 

alternative to citation metrics and 

allow viewing scholarly communication 

from the user’s perspective. The correlation 

between both is highly dependent on 

the discipline’s publication output and has 

been well documented in several studies. 

Usage metrics can therefore be regarded 

complementary to citation metrics, reflect 

usage on a much broader scope and 

present an emerging field in bibliometric 

research. 

Usage metrics offer several advantages: 

1) automatic data recording at low cost, 

2) convenient and immediate access to 

usage data, 3) general acceptance of 

downloads as proxy for usage, and 4) 

better consideration of less publicationintensive 

fields. 

Issues to be sorted out are: 

1) restricted availability of global data, 

2) different access channels e.g. OA 

repositories versus publisher sites (mirrored 

content), and 3) risk of inflation by 

manual or automatic methods. 

This paper suggests an approach to provide 

global availability of usage metrics 

supported by libraries and repositories. 

The goal is the provision of an analytical 

tool, Standardized Electronic Resource 

Usage Metrics (SERUM) comparable to 

the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), but 

using download instead of citation data. 

Global data would be obtained from 

the publishers, assuming their willing 

contribution in order to benefit from newly 

established evaluation criteria for periodicals 

beyond the JIF and a consequential 

strengthening of their products. Single 

publishers are not in the right position to 

offer such services, as self-beneficial data 

manipulation cannot be excluded. 

Therefore the implementation of an 

international network of digital libraries 

and repositories with a sound disciplinary 

coverage will be established in order to 

obtain, manage and check the apparent 

authenticity of the data delivered by the 

publishers. It will act as a clearing centre 

operated by independent information specialists 

to guarantee data integrity as well 

as curation according to a standardised 

format. Furthermore, its internationally 

distributed members should also track 

and manage local usage data, reflect 

local trends, and relate these to the global 

publishers’ data. 

Moreover this network will be responsible 

for offering a regularly updated version of 

compiled download counts, for calculat- 

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ing the basic indicators as usage impact 

factor, immediacy index, half-life and any 

further metrics of interest, and for producing 

the according journal rankings. 

These anticipated services will be accessible 

via a cooperative website hosted 

and maintained by the Vienna University 

Library. Primarily designed for journals 

analysis they can of course be extended 

to serials and e-books. The outcome is a 

new complementary instrument for the 

evaluation of electronic resources going 

beyond citations. 

Juan gorraiz studied physics at the 

University of Madrid and at the University 

of Vienna, where he obtained his Doctor’s 

degree. He is Head of the Document Delivery 

Services of the Central Library for 

Physics and of the Bibliometrics Department 

of the Library and Archive Services, 

University of Vienna. He is working on 

bibliometric analysis and studies since 

1992 and is furthermore teaching at the 

university course „Library and Information 

Studies“. He has been organizer and 

programme chair of the „10th International 

Conference on Science & Technical 

Indicators“ 2008 in Vienna, and is steering 

committee member of esss (European 

Summer School for Scientometrics). 

christian gumpenberger has a Doctor’s 

degree in Veterinary Medicine from the 

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna 

and a Master’s degree in Library and 

Information Studies from the Danube 

University Krems. He was Head of the 

Department of Public Services and Reference 

Librarians at the University Library 

of the University of Veterinary Medicine 

Vienna, Head of the Novartis Knowledge 

Center Vienna as well as Global Project 

Manager for the Novartis Institutional 

Repository Project & Open Access Champion 

at Novartis. 

He currently runs his own information 

consultancy business focussing on project 

management in the field of new trends in 

scholarly communication, especially Open 

Access. Furthermore he is a member 

of the Bibliometrics Department of the 

Library and Archive Services, University 

of Vienna and in charge of the esss (European 

Summer School for Scientometrics) 

administration. 

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30 JunE 2010 

sEssIon 2.4 

gIusEPPIna vuLLo (unIvERsIty 

of gLasgoW, uk): 

a gLoBaL aPPRoach to dIgItaL 

LIBRaRy EvaLuatIon 

This paper will describe the key research 

advances on digital library evaluation 

models. 

Digital library evaluation has a vital 

role to play in building DLs, and in understanding 

and enhancing their role in 

society. The paper will cover the theoretical 

approach, providing an integrated 

evaluation model which overcomes the 

fragmentation of quality assessments, and 

propose some examples of DL evaluation 

methodologies, undertaking a comparative 

analysis of them. 

Digital library evaluation is a growing 

interdisciplinary area. Researchers and 

practitioners have specific viewpoints 

of what DLs are, and they use different 

approaches to evaluate them. Each 

evaluation approach corresponds to 

a DL model, and there is no common 

agreement on its definition. Despite that, 

more and more efforts have been made 

to evaluate DLs. However, a methodology 

that encompasses all the approaches does 

not yet exist. There are two main reasons 

for this: 

1. digital libraries are complex entities 

which need interdisciplinary approaches 

2. digital libraries are synchronic entities: 

the speed of evolution of DLs coupled 

with their lack of historical traces makes a 

longitudinal analysis difficult if not impossible. 

Nevertheless, DLs and DL research have 

reached a level of maturity such that a 

global approach to their evaluation is 

needed. It would encourage exchange of 

qualitative data and evaluation studies, 

allowing comparisons and communication 

between research and professional communities. 

This paper will provide the research 

advances in the field and a theoretical 

framework for digital evaluation models. 

giuseppina vullo is DL.org Co-Principal 

Investigator in the EU-funded Digital 

Library Interoperability, Best Practices & 

Modelling Foundations (DL.org), where 

she coordinates the Working Group 

on Quality for Digital Libraries, and 

researcher at HATII AT THE University of 

Glasgow. She has been a DPEX fellow 

at HATII in 2008, where she worked on 

digital collections assessment, applying 

DRAMBORA and InterPARES 3. Her 

research interests range from quality to 

contextualization in digital libraries and 

enhancement of special collections within 

digital environments. Giuseppina completed 

in 2009 her Ph.D in Library Science at 

the University of Udine, Italy, focusing on 

digital libraries evaluation. Before joining 

HATII, Giuseppina has been working as 

librarian for international organisations in 

Italy and in Switzerland. 

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sEssIon 3.4 

maRtIn moyLE (unIvERsIty 

coLLEgE London, uk): 

cRoWdsouRcIng manuscRIPt 

tRanscRIPtIon 

UCL Library Services holds 60,000 folios 

of manuscripts of the philosopher and 

jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). 

A new project, the Bentham Papers 

Transcription Initiative (BPTI), is using this 

corpus to test the feasibility of outsourcing 

the work of manuscript transcription to 

members of the public. 

The BPTI will initially digitise 10,000 

folios, and create a suite of transcription 

training tools. A simple interface will be 

devised to allow registered contributors to 

take temporary ownership of manuscript 

images and to supply transcription text 

for final approval by UCL experts. If 

approved, the transcripts will be stored 

as TEI-encoded documents, alongside the 

manuscript images, in UCL’s public Digital 

Collections repository. The repository will 

feed into an over-arching Bentham Project 

‘hub’ site, which, in addition to housing 

the transcription interface, will offer open 

access to the images, transcripts and a 

Bentham-based ‘Ideas Bank’. 

The BPTI project makes innovative use 

of traditional material. It will stimulate 

public engagement with UCL’s scholarly 

archive collections and the challenges of 

manuscript transcription; it will raise the 

profile of the work and thought of Jeremy 

Bentham; and it will make new digital 

resources available to professional researchers. 

The project is funded by the UK 

Arts and Humanities Research Council, 

led by the UCL Bentham Project, in collaboration 

with UCL Library Services and 

UCL Department of Information Studies. It 

is part of the work of the new UCL Centre 

for Digital Humanities. 

martin moyle is Digital Curation Manager 

at UCL (University College London), 

with responsibilities for services and 

projects in the areas of digital repositories 

and digital preservation. Current projects 

include text mining for open access 

repositories (the JISC MERLIN project), 

metadata aggregation (the EuropeanaTravel 

project), a repository of primary 

audio-visual research data (the JISC 

CAVA project) and crowdsourced manuscript 

transcription (the AHRC Bentham 

Transcription Initiative). 

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sEssIon 4.4 

ana van mEEgEn sILva, ImkE 

LImPEns (fREE unIvERsIty 

amstERdam, thE nEthERLands): 

hoW sERIous do WE nEEd to 

BE? ImPRovIng InfoRmatIon 

LItERacy skILLs thRough gamIng 

and IntERactIvE ELEmEnts 

Catch the attention of highly technological 

and visual based students is a challenge 

for libraries. The number of students entering 

the universities is increasing and a 

face-to-face learning setting is for the few 

subject librarians an impossible mission. 

This paper demonstrates how effective the 

use of serious game or other web based 

interactive elements can be for the teaching 

of information literacy. 

The libraries of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 

and the Institute of Social Studies 

in the Netherlands developed together a 

serious game on Information Literacy. This 

game aims to teach foreign students how 

they can find free academic information 

on the internet. This set is chosen because 

students from developing countries in 

most of the times do not have access to 

the expensive databases that Europe can 

afford. Through a quasi experimental 

research we could analyze the impact that 

the new elements brought by the game 

have on the students learning effect. In 

this research we concluded that the game 

needs to be improved to fit in the regular 

curriculum of the university but interactive 

elements is for sure a good solution for 

acquiring better learning results. 

ana van meegen studied Cultural 

Anthropology (M.Sc.) and works since 

2000 at the University library of the Vrije 

Universiteit Amsterdam. She started as a 

subject librarian for the faculty of Social 

Sciences and is now working as account 

manager/project manager. Key specialities 

are the development of new methods 

for explaining Information Literacy and 

archive, visibility and integration of content. 

She works together with the Centre 

of International Cooperation of the VU 

Amsterdam in IT-projects for libraries and 

universities in developing countries. 

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Jon oRWant (googLE, usa): 

dERIvIng thE LIBRaRy fRom fIRst 

PRIncIPLEs 

Every year, people are able to access 

more information via their computers, and 

therefore from offices, homes, and cafes. 

What role does this leave for physical 

library buildings (public, university, and 

research) in the future? In this talk I’ll give 

my perspective -- as a Google engineer, 

not a librarian -- about some ways in 

which library buildings might evolve. 

Jon orwant is the Engineering Manager 

for Google Books, Magazines, and 

Patents. He’s the author or co-author of 

several books on programming, including 

the bestselling Programming Perl, and 

published an independent computer 

magazine. Before joining Google he was 

the CTO of O’Reilly & Associates and 

Director of Research for France Telecom. 

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30 JunE 2010 

LEE dIRks (mIcRosoft, usa): thE 

nEXt gEnERatIon schoLaRLy 

communIcatIon EcosystEm: 

ImPLIcatIons foR LIBRaRIans 

We are finally starting to see the early 

signs of transformation in the scholarly 

publishing. The innovations we’ve been 

expecting for years are slowly being 

adopted, but we can definitely expect the 

pace of change will pick up greater speed 

in the coming 3-5 years. Is our profession 

moving fast enough to stay ahead of the 

curve…or are we going to be struggling 

to keep up? With the advent of the data 

deluge, all XML workflows, the semantic 

web, cloud services and increasingly 

intelligent mobile devices – what are 

the implications for libraries, archivists, 

publishers, scholarly societies as well as 

individual researchers and scholars? The 

opportunities are many – but capitalizing 

on this ever-evolving landscape 

will require significant changes to our 

field, changes that we are not currently 

well-positioned to enact at present. This 

talk will map the current scholarly communication 

landscape – highlighting recent 

exciting developments, and will focus 

on the repercussions and some specific 

recommendations for the broader field of 

information management. 

Lee dirks is the Director of Education 

& Scholarly Communications (http:// 

research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/education/default.aspx) 

in 

Microsoft’s External Research division 

(http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/about/default.aspx), 

where he 

manages a variety of research programs 

related to open access to research data, 

interoperability of archives and repositories, 

preservation of digital information as 

well as the application of new technologies 

to facilitate teaching and learning in 

higher education. A 20+ year veteran 

across multiple information management 

fields, Lee holds an M.L.S. degree from 

the University of North Carolina-Chapel 

Hill as well as a post-master’s degree in 

Preservation Administration from Columbia 

University. In addition to past positions 

at Columbia and with OCLC (Preservation 

Resources), Lee has held a variety of roles 

at Microsoft since joining the company in 

1996 - namely as the corporate archivist, 

then corporate librarian, and as a senior 

manager in the corporate market research 

organisation. During his career, his team’s 

work on the http://library intranet site at 

Microsoft was recognized as a “Center 

of Excellence Award for Technology” in 

2003 by the Special Library Association’s 

(SLA) Business & Finance Division. Additionally, 

Lee was presented the 2006 

Microsoft Marketing Excellence Award by 

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer – for a marketing 

& engineering partnership around 

a breakthrough market opportunity 

analysis process which is now a standard 

operating procedure across Microsoft. In 

addition to participation on several (US) 

National Science Foundation (http:// 

www.nsf.gov/) task forces, Lee also 

teaches as adjunct faculty at the iSchool at 

the University of Washington, and serves 

on the advisory boards for the University 

of Washington Libraries (http://www. 

lib.washington.edu/), the UW iSchool’s 

Master of Science in Information Science 

(MSIM) program (http://www.ischool. 

washington.edu/informatics/informatics_board.aspx), 

and the Metadata 

Research Center (MRC) (http://ils.unc. 

edu/mrc/) at the School of Information 

and Library Science at UNC—Chapel Hill 

(http://sils.unc.edu/). 

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PREsEntatIon By ouR sPonsoR 

RafaEL sIdI (ELsEvIER, usa): 

LEvERagIng tEchnoLogy to 

tRansfoRm thE scIEntIfIc 

LandscaPE 

The open data trend allowing the proliferation 

of applications consumers use on 

a daily basis (i.e., Flixster, Urban Spoon, 

etc.) is now crossing over to the scientific 

community, creating a significant opportunity 

to enrich content and speed innovation. 

Simultaneously, the availability to 

access and connect raw data is emerging 

as a critical component to fuel scientific 

discovery as research becomes even more 

multidisciplinary and collaborative. 

Through thousands of interviews with 

researchers and industry influencers, it’s 

clear there is an opportunity to create an 

environment that empowers the scientific 

community to maximize the potential 

benefits of research-driven applications to 

search and discovery. The unprecedented 

approach would alter the relationship between 

scientific information and the way 

it is discovered, used, shared and re-used 

for scientific breakthroughs. 

As the scientific community experiments 

and builds innovative applications to 

leverage available data and deliver 

“intelligent information” through innovative 

applications, content consumption 

will be fundamentally changed. Microcommunities 

designed around information 

and applications in which users help each 

other curate will evolve and transform 

into trusted networks for researchers to 

filter and view information. As this new 

scientific knowledge ecosystem flourishes, 

it will create the building blocks that 

capture existing knowledge on any given 

subject and serve as the foundation for 

new discoveries. 

Universities, commercial and government 

institutions will be crucial in encouraging 

researchers to develop new applications. 

Within these institutions, it is the librarians 

who have the greatest opportunity 

to champion the cause as the influential 

gatekeepers of research. 

This presentation will delve into the power 

and benefit of generating tailored applications 

for scientific researchers focused 

on improving the search and discovery 

process, as well as the steps required from 

all parties – librarians, researchers, publishers 

and platform providers – involved 

to make these applications a reality. 

Rafael sidi is Vice President, Product 

Management at ScienceDirect at Elsevier. 

Currently he is in charge of online product 

development for ScienceDirect platform 

and new initiatives related to knowledge 

discovery. He has been with Elsevier since 

2001, and he has been instrumental 

in developing Engineering Village and 

launching illumin8. He was also the 

publisher for the Compendex database. 

Before joining Elsevier Rafael was Director 

of e-commerce operations at Bolt, a teenage 

social networking portal. Rafael holds 

an MA from Brandeis University and a 

BS in electrical engineering from Bogazici 

University in Istanbul, Turkey. 

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tamaR sadEh, (EX LIBRIs, uk): 

moRE Is dIffEREnt: mEgaaggREgatIon 

of schoLaRLy 

matERIaLs and Its ImPact on thE 

sEaRch EXPERIEncE 

With the advances in scholarly communication 

in recent years, the academic 

research world is becoming more global 

and collaborative. E-Science, for example, 

has introduced scientific projects on a 

whole new scale in terms of collaborative 

effort, the dissemination of information, 

technical infrastructure, and the amount 

of data that is generated. In this global 

environment, scholars’ quest for information 

transcends borders; indeed, every 

research document, no matter where it 

was created, can be accessed globally 

and its impact can be felt widely. 

Continuing to fulfill their role, information 

providers publish the growing quantity of 

quality materials and disseminate them to 

institutions around the world. Institutions, 

for their part, strive to offer their users as 

many relevant information resources as 

can feasibly be provided, given budgetary 

constraints, and to facilitate searching 

in these resources. 

The availability of the Internet as a vehicle 

for publishing scholarly materials, on the 

one hand, and for locating such materials, 

on the other, offers the academic information 

community several approaches 

to searching in heterogeneous information 

resources: a networked approach, a centralized 

approach, or a combination of 

the two. The networked approach adheres 

to the fundamental concept of the Internet 

whereby information items are linked to 

each other regardless of physical location 

and can hence be organized into one 

conceptual entity by a software system or 

a user. A centralized approach—adopted 

by search engines such as Google—relies 

on indexing of the Internet; a user who 

seeks information searches the index. 

Whereas the former approach eliminates 

the duplication of data and the need for 

preprocessing, the latter approach generates 

very quick responses to queries and 

excellent relevance ranking. 

The scholarly environment follows the 

trends of the consumer market for global 

information. Over the last decade, we 

have witnessed the rise of metasearch 

systems that follow the networked approach. 

Such systems gather relevant 

information from diverse information 

resources as a response to a researcher’s 

query and use centralized configuration 

information as a basis for the interaction 

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with these resources. The much-awaited 

semantic Web is expected to facilitate this 

kind of interaction between heterogeneous 

systems. 

At the same time, information providers 

invested in creating larger information repositories, 

but the rise of Google Scholar, 

which is based on the centralized model 

on a global scale, has paved the way to 

a truly centralized approach. However, 

Google Scholar also demonstrates the 

need for tools that will enable users to 

sift through information provided by very 

large aggregates of data. 

In recent years, other players have 

attempted to build mega-aggregates 

of scholarly materials. In addition, the 

perceptions of information providers, 

particularly secondary publishers, have 

been changing: whereas in the past they 

insisted on encapsulating their data and 

providing it only to those who visited their 

sites, today most of them regard megaaggregates 

of scholarly materials as 

additional entry points to their collections. 

The session will describe the centralized 

approach to addressing the quest for 

scholarly information and will focus on 

Primo Central, a mega-aggregate of 

scholarly materials that is offered by Ex 

Libris as a service in a cloud computing 

environment. 

tamar sadeh brings a computing 

background to the field of information 

services for libraries. With a degree in 

computer science and mathematics, she 

spent a number of years developing 

search engines for structured and unstructured 

data. At Ex Libris, a multinational 

company that develops high-performance 

applications for libraries and information 

centers, Tamar has taken an active role 

in the definition and marketing of the 

Ex Libris technologies and is leading 

the Company’s open-platform program. 

Tamar is a PhD student at the School of 

Informatics of City University, London, and 

the author of several papers on various 

subjects related to information sciences. 

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1 JuLy 2010 

sEssIon 1.5 

gIannIs tsakonas, Panos 

gEoRgIou, (unIvERsIty of 

PatRas, gREEcE): dIgItaL 

schoLaRLy PuBLIshIng and 

aRchIvIng sERvIcEs By acadEmIc 

LIBRaRIEs – thE casE study of 

unIvERsIty of PatRas 

During the last years, the dramatic changes 

in electronic publishing landscape 

have created new roles and changed 

the traditional ones. Libraries nowadays 

have capitalized their experience and 

knowledge in information technology 

and electronic publishing to undertake 

such activities, while they spearhead the 

campaign for Open Access spreading 

within academic communities. 

The Library & Information Center (LIC) of 

the University of Patras (UoP), Greece, 

has been playing an active role in 

promoting Open Access in Greece the last 

years. Since 2007, LIC has been experimenting 

with OA publishing practices and 

tools within the framework of various R&D 

projects. Two out of the major results of 

these efforts are: 

- the “Pasithee” e-publishing platform 

(xantho.lis.upatras.gr/pasithee/) 

- the “Dexameni” digital archive for 

Greek scholarly journals (xantho.lis. 

upatras.gr/dexameni/) 

Both platforms are based on OJS-Open 

Journal Systems e-publishing software. 

The two installations are appropriately 

modified to meet LIC’s publishing and 

archiving requirements respectively. 

Currently two journals are being hosted 

in each platform, all four belonging in the 

Humanities, while LIC is in negotiations 

with more publishers and editorial teams 

to host their journals in LIC’s services 

accordingly. 

In this presentation we focus on the: 

- technical and managerial key issues of 

the development and operation phases, 

- services and procedures, 

- adopted business model of the services, 

- interesting technological, procedural 

and legal issues and problems that were 

raised from working together with publishers, 

editors and authors, and 

- future plans for improving and upgrading 

our e-publishing services in an 

integrated institutional platform to cover 

all kinds of publications and data types 

(monographs, conference proceedings, 

teaching material, bulletins, magazines 

etc.) 

The paper concludes with a succinct presentation 

of the Directory of Greek Digital 

Resources (www.lis.upatras.gr/Libworld/ 

collections/search.php) a pilot infrastructure 

developed by LIC, which indexes 

and presents digital publishing initiatives 

in Greece and aims to become a formal 

registry for Greek scientific resources in 

digital format. 

giannis tsakonas holds a BSc in 

librarianship and a PhD in information 

science from the Department of Archives 

and Library Sciences, Ionian University, 

Corfu, Greece. He is member of the User 

Support Department of the Library & 

Information Center, University of Patras, 

Greece, while he has been member of 

the development team of LIC’s digital 

library services. His tasks in the team 

have provided him an opportunity for 

research into the role of the digital 

library as information infrastructure in 

the academic environment. He has been 

actively involved in many national and 

European digital library projects, while 

he is national editor in Greece for E-LIS, 

the international subject repository on 

librarianship and information science. 

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sEssIon 2.5 

adam faRquhaR, J maX 

WILkInson (BRItIsh LIBRaRy, uk): 

BRItIsh LIBRaRy datasEt 

PRogRammE: 

suPPoRtIng REsEaRch In thE 

LIBRaRy of thE 21st cEntuRy 

Advances in computational science and 

its application have reshaped the social 

landscape and the practice of research. 

Researchers are increasingly exploiting 

technology for collaborative, experimental 

and observational research in all 

disciplines. Digital data and datasets are 

the fuel that drives these trends; increasingly 

datasets are being recognised as a 

national asset that require preservation 

and access in much the same way as 

text based communication. In response, 

UK research councils, funding bodies, 

institutions and publishers are mandating 

data management plans or accepting 

supplementary data alongside articles. To 

date, research libraries have been largely 

absent from the discussion. 

The British Library is in a unique position 

to enhance UK and international research 

by extending it’s presence from the 

physical collection to the digital dataset 

domain. To meet this challenge and be 

a responsible steward of the scholarly 

record, the Library has defined a programme 

of activity to support the data that 

underlie modern research and promote 

them as a national asset. 

Awareness of the impact of the digital 

data age on research is growing. The 

British Library’s Chief Executive, Dame 

Lynne Brindley DBE, observed that the 

biggest challenge facing the British Library 

is presented by “the data deluge and the 

increasing need to integrate datasets that 

underlie published research with the more 

traditional formats and preserve these digital 

formats into the long term”. This view 

is supported by three studies conducted by 

the Library in 2007 and 2008. 

In considering the expectations of the 

researcher in a digital environment, i.e. 

to locate and access data regardless of 

physical location, the scope of our activity 

is to facilitate and streamline appropriate 

access to datasets by addressing the scholarly 

record as a whole and promoting 

a joined-up infrastructure between other 

libraries, data providers and those that 

consume data. 

The Library already contains many 

datasets. Artefacts from ‘on-demand’ or 

mass digitisation programmes are datasets 

based on specific requests or operational 

needs. Externally, national data centres 

provide for the preservation and persistence 

of data generated by UK funded 

research and government departments. 

To begin we are designing a mixed model 

of activity where specific, service level 

projects with clear goals will provide 

support for collaborative work that aims 

to reveal and clarify issues related to 

datasets. For example, there is a clear 

community need for stable, scalable and 

agreed data citation mechanisms. To address 

this, the British Library is a founding 

member of DataCite, the International 

Data Citation Initiative. In addition, we 

are actively partnering with a number 

of external stakeholders aimed at investigating 

value-added services in dataset 

attribution and impact, further supporting 

the persistence of datasets of international 

importance (e.g. the datasets of environmental 

observation and measurement that 

will underpin the IPCC report in 2013). 

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The British Library datasets programme 

will guide activities across the Library and 

stakeholder communities to address the 

challenge of integrating datasets into its 

researcher services and ensuring the integrity 

of the scholarly record remain intact, 

useable and vital for future generations. 

dr. adam farquhar is Head of Digital 

Library Technology at the BL, where he 

was a lead architect on the BL’s Digital 

Library System, co-founded the Digital 

Preservation Team, and initiated the BL’s 

Dataset Programme. He is Co-ordinator 

and Scientific Director of the EU co-funded 

Planets project and founder of the Open 

Planets Foundation. He is President of 

DataCite , the global data citation initiative 

and serves on the board of the Digital 

Preservation Coalition. Prior to joining 

the Library, Adam was the principle 

knowledge management architect for 

Schlumberger (1998-2003) and research 

scientist at the Stanford Knowledge 

Systems Laboratory (1993-1998). He 

completed his PhD in Computer Sciences 

at the University of Texas at Austin (1993). 

Over the past twenty years, his work has 

focused on improving the ways in which 

people can represent, find, share, use, 

exploit, and preserve digitally encoded 

knowledge. 

dr max Wilkinson is the Programme 

Manager for the British Library’s dataset 

programme. Prior to joining the Library, 

he was the scientific analyst with the 

National Cancer Research Institute’s 

Informatics Initiative, where he delivered 

a comprehensive training review of informatics 

in the UK, designed and managed 

a project aimed at incorporating semantic 

technology and change management in 

the cancer biomedical domain. For the last 

4 years he focused on bridging the divide 

between individuals involved in building 

informatics technology solutions with those 

that ‘use’ such technology in the research 

and clinical environments. Max received 

his PhD from University College London in 

2004, for his thesis on molecular nephopathologies. 

For the previous twenty years 

he has been a research scientist in diverse 

disciplines, from cyanogenic bacteria 

through viruses, immunity and transplantation. 

Throughout his career he has been 

concerned with application of technology 

in understanding the chemistry of biology. 

At the British Library he is building a 

programme of work that will define the 

Library’s roles in the dataset domain. 

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sEssIon 3.5 

saLLy chamBERs (thE EuRoPEan 

LIBRaRy, thE nEthERLands), 

WoutER schaLLIER (LIBER, thE 

nEthERLands): 

BRIngIng REsEaRch LIBRaRIEs 

Into EuRoPEana: EstaBLIshIng 

a LIBRaRy-domaIn aggREgatoR 

The mission of Europeana is to enable 

people to explore the digital resources 

of Europe’s museums, libraries, archives 

and audio-visual collections. By Summer 

2010, Europeana will be launched as an 

operational service, which aims to give 

access to 10 million items of Europe’s 

cultural and scientific heritage through Europeana.eu. 

Europe’s national, research 

and public libraries have a significant role 

to play in the realisation of the Europeana 

vision. 

As outlined in Europeana’s content strategy, 

there are thousands of cultural and 

scientific institutions in Europe with content 

and collections that are of interest for 

Europeana. However, it is not sustainable 

for Europeana to work with all of these 

institutions directly. A content aggregation 

model is therefore of crucial importance 

in enabling Europeana to reach its objectives. 

Europeana’s future strategy requires 

a domain-level aggregator of library 

content, positioned alongside other domain 

aggregators for museums, archives 

and audio-visual collections. To enable 

this, LIBER (Association of European 

Research Libraries), CENL (Conference 

of European National Librarians) and 

CERL (Consortium of European Research 

Libraries) have joined forces to submit the 

“Europeana Libraries” project proposal to 

the European Commission in the context 

of the CIP-ICT PSP-2010-4 “Digital 

Libraries” programme in early Summer 

2010. This paper outlines the vision of the 

“Europeana Libraries” project, which will 

turn The European Library into a domainlevel 

aggregator of library content into 

Europeana. 

The “Europeana Libraries” project will 

aggregate high quality content primarily 

from research libraries in countries such 

as Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, 

Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, 

Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Serbia, 

Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. that 

are currently under-represented or even 

absent in Europeana. The content selected 

will be existing digital cultural content of 

interest to a broad public. The outcome of 

this project, if accepted, will be that both 

content and metadata will be retrievable 

and accessible for the first time through 

Europeana. 

Aggregation of content will happen 

through The European Library. Launched 

as an operational service in March 

2005, The European Library currently 

aggregates the digital and bibliographic 

collections from the 48 national libraries 

of Europe. If accepted, the “Europeana 

Libraries” project will enable The European 

Library to scale its aggregation 

infrastructure up to become the domainlevel 

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Within the project, work will be undertaken 

in the areas of content ingestion, 

aggregation and the development of 

sustainable business and organisation 

models. The aim of the content ingestion 

work package will be to ingest the 

existing high-quality digital content as 

efficiently as possible into Europeana in 

compliance with the relevant Europeana 

content standards. Only content free from 

IPR issues will be taken into consideration 

in order to guarantee wide dissemination 

and use of the content. The aggregation 

work package will turn The European 

Library into a domain-level aggregator 

of library content into Europeana. This 

will be made possible by scaling up the 

existing infrastructure to manage the 

large-scale aggregation and ingestion of 

content and improving interoperability by 

creating a single workflow for the ingestion 

of content from libraries into The European 

Library and Europeana. To ensure 

that the library-domain aggregator for 

Europeana can operate in a sustainable 

and cost effective way beyond the lifetime 

of project, sustainable business and 

organisational models will be developed. 

sally chambers is Collections Manager 

for The European Library, based at the 

National Library of the Netherlands, 

where she has been working since 

2005. Prior to joining The European 

Library, she worked as Electronic Library 

Projects Coordinator at the University of 

London Library, where she led several 

digital library projects including the 

Virtual Research Environment project, 

which developed and tested a web-based 

environment to support the needs of the e- 

researcher, the development of an online 

library for distance learning students and 

a project to develop a Library Research 

Skills Tutorial. Sally has been working 

in the library profession since 1994, 

primarily in academic libraries in the UK. 

Since 2000, she has focussed solely on 

digital libraries. 

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sEssIon 4.5 

gRaham stonE (unIvERsIty of 

huddERsfIELd, uk): sEaRchIng 

LIfE, thE unIvERsE and 

EvERythIng? thE ImPLEmEntatIon 

of summon at thE unIvERsIty of 

huddERsfIELd 

“Why is Google so easy and the library 

so hard?” A review of the recent literature 

suggests that users prefer simple search 

interfaces such as Google. The implication 

here is that libraries often fail to make 

their resources discoverable and that this 

may in turn affect the perceived value of 

the library. 

Against the background of the ongoing 

national debate about user expectations, 

a project group at the University of Huddersfield 

was asked to investigate the current 

provision for electronic resources and 

to look at a solution which would ‘provide 

ease of searching and access for the user, 

whilst reducing the workload for systems 

and technical services and remaining 

within current budget levels’ 

As a direct result of this review, the 

University of Huddersfield was the first UK 

commercial adopter of Summon in the 

summer of 2009. The Summon web-scale 

discovery service from Serials Solutions 

provides a simple single-search box to the 

breadth of the library’s collection, swiftly 

delivering simultaneous information and 

results from the local catalogue and 

remote electronic resources offering a real 

alternative to the traditional federated 

search. 

This paper will provide a case study of the 

implementation, evaluation and launch 

of this radical new service to users at the 

University of Huddersfield, by detailing 

the approaches used and lessons learned 

throughout the implementation period 

and making recommendations for future 

enhancements. 

Summon will be soft launched at the 

beginning of February 2010, to enable a 

period of user-testing alongside the existing 

federated search service, MetaLib, 

before a full launch in July 2010 and 

subsequent roll out for the academic year 

2010/11. 

The key aims of this paper are: 

- To describe the rationale behind the 

e-resources review and the subsequent 

decision to move away from federated 

search. 

- To report on the objectives for implementation, 

challenges encountered and 

any issues raised during the technical 

implementation of Summon, including 

MARC mapping from the library catalogues, 

population of full text resources 

via Serials Solutions and the University 

Repository and inclusion of locally held 

collections, such as lectures via streaming 

video. 

- To discuss the feedback received from a 

representative range of users after the 

initial ‘soft launch’ of the service in order 

to refine and approve the system for a 

full launch in July 2010. 

- The very nature of Summon will completely 

change the way user education is 

approached at Huddersfield. The paper 

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the changes that will be made to the 

information literacy strategy as a result 

of the adoption of Summon. 

- Finally the paper will discuss any future 

enhancements that may be necessary to 

improve the system and to share lessons 

learned from the project. 

Problems with ‘federated search’ rank 

alongside lack of library text books as the 

perennial favourite in students’ comments 

about the library, this paper will consider 

whether we really can meet students 

expectations by providing Google-like 

interfaces with Google-like results. 

graham stone has been working with 

e-resources for over 15 years. He is 

Library Electronic Resources Manager 

at the University of Huddersfield and is 

responsible for the management of the 

Library Electronic Resources Team and 

University Repository. A member of the 

UKSG Committee since 2001, Graham 

is UKSG Secretary and a member of the 

Serials and Journal of Electronic Resource 

Librarianship editorial boards. He is 

editor-in-chief of E-Resources Management 

Handbook and has recently written 

a chapter on resource discovery for the 

new Facet publication Digital Information: 

Order or anarchy? 

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sEssIon 1.6 

RonaLd m. schmIdt 

(hochschuLBIBLIothEkszEntRum 

dEs LandEs noRdRhEIn- 

WEstfaLEn, gERmany): 

aggREgatIon of LIBRaRy 

statIstIcs and PERfoRmancE 

IndIcatoRs on a EuRoPEan LEvEL 

- What Is aLREady thERE and 

What has to BE donE 

This paper reports on national library 

statistics in the countries of LIBER membership 

that are already accessible by open 

access and provides an overview on tasks 

to create an aggregation to make these 

data comparable: crosswalk of definitions, 

standardisation, performance indicators. 

It will also glance at a network of 

collaborators to be established to provide 

LIBER members with as much outcome of 

the project they are expecting. A stepwise 

solution is suggested. 

Since 2007, Ronald m. schmidt is Head 

of the German Library Statistics based at 

the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (hbz, 

Academic Library Center) of the State 

of North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne, 

Germany. Since 1990 he was responsible 

at hbz for library services, the union 

catalogue, and local library systems. 

After his studies in German languages 

and literature and in pedagogy he 

graduated to a Ph.D. with a thesis on 

late medieval German Minnereden. His 

training as an academic librarian in Bonn 

and Cologne was followed by a couple of 

posts at university libraries in Bonn and 

Heidelberg (Nachlass librarian, public 

relations, library systems coordinator). 

He was involved in many projects of 

library IT over the years and presented on 

many library conventions nationally and 

internationally. 

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1 JuLy 2010 

sEssIon 2.6 

Raymond BERaRd (BIBLIogRaPhIc 

agEncy foR hIghER EducatIon, 

fRancE): fREE LIBRaRy data? 

The issue of library records has long 

been restricted to the circles of librarians. 

Nowadays this issue is going far beyond 

librarians: at the last Berlin 7 conference 

in Paris, data produced by libraries were 

placed on the same level as scientific 

papers themselves, in a leap of the open 

access movement to library catalogs. 

Several initiatives have led the way: Open 

Library, Biblios.net etc… the latest being 

the CERN Library announcing that it 

publishes its book catalog as Open Data, 

allowing any library to freely download 

its catalog, the records being provided 

under the Public Domain Data License. 

It is a hot topic: OCLC is now working 

on the draft of a new record policy after 

withdrawing the new controversial policy 

it had published in 2008. OCLC has set 

up a working group to produce a draft 

policy that will be submitted to its members 

councils this Spring. 

As library materials are catalogued by 

public organisations and librarians are 

active promoters of the principles of Open 

Access, one would expect library data to 

be freely available to all. Yet this is not the 

case. Why then do so few libraries make 

their data free? One reason is that many 

libraries download records from data providers 

such as OCLC, national libraries 

or other organisations that impose their 

own, often diverging policies, some being 

very restrictive. What are the restrictions? 

What are the interests (commercial and 

strategic) at stake? 

How to make the date freely available to 

public, not for profit organisations without 

putting at risk the collective networks built 

by libraries over the years? 

This paper will present a panorama of the 

current situation, the actors and interests 

involved. It will address the legal aspects, 

the obstacles and show how it is possible 

to make data produced by libraries freely 

available to other knowledge organisations 

while retaining and developing the 

collective organisations and services built 

by library networks over the years. The 

aim of the “free the data movement” is to 

share and reuse bibliographic data in a 

new ecosystem where all the actors are 

involved, both users and providers, not 

only librarians. 

Raymond Bérard is currently Director 

of the Bibliographic Agency for Higher 

Education (ABES), which is in charge of 

the union catalog for French academic 

libraries. ABES is also involved in e-theses 

and develops new services to meet the 

expectations and information research 

practices of its users. He previously held 

the positions of Director of the French 

academic repository library, Marne-La- 

Vallée (2004-2005) and Dean of studies 

at the French National library school 

(ENSSIB, 2001-2004). Among his professional 

activities, Raymond Bérard chairs 

the IFLA’s Management and Marketing 

Section and the Information section of the 

French Standards authority (AFNOR). 

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kRIstIIna hoRmIa-PoutanEn 

(natIonaL LIBRaRy of fInLand, 

fInLand): LIBRaRIEs, aRchIvEs 

and musEums WoRkIng 

togEthER! LEaRnIng By doIng! 

makIng thE coLLEctIons and 

sERvIcEs of LIBRaRIEs, aRchIvEs 

and musEums dIgItaLLy avaILaBLE 

The Finnish Digital Library project aims 

at promoting the online availability and 

usability of the essential information resources 

of libraries, archives and museums 

and at developing long-term preservation 

solutions for digital cultural heritage 

materials. The project has been launched 

by the Ministry of Education for the period 

2008_2011 (http://www.kdk2011.fi/ 

fi/english-intro) and the total budget for 

2008-2011 is ca M16EUR. 

The National Library of Finland is 

responsible for the development of the 

National user interface during the period 

2008-2011. The system will be operable 

in 2011. This paper has its focus on the 

development and implementation of the 

National user interface in collaboration 

with archives, libraries and museums, 

describing the major challenges and risks 

of the project and how these have been 

worked on. 

The network of archives, museums and 

libraries in Finland consists of ca 500 

-600 organisations. There are many expectations 

related to the functionality of the 

system within these organisations as well 

as among the end users. The organisations 

are also interested in the added value the 

Public interface will bring them. 

The challenges of the project are diverse 

ranging from political to detailed technical 

issues and many of them are more political 

or legal in nature or related to human 

issues than technical. Some of the major 

challenges and risks which have been 

identified and worked on are: 

- shared vision of the functionalities and 

benefits of the public interface 

- added value gained through the system 

- meeting the user needs 

- adaption of rapidly changing technology 

- funding and resourcing 

- copyright 

- needed expertise 

- communication 

Many methods have been used in the collaboration 

between archives, libraries and 

museums. To mention a couple: sharing 

knowledge of the systems and services of 

libraries, archives and museums, project 

staff of national library visiting frequently 

memory organisations, taking advantage 

of social media for example in drafting 

the functional requirements of the system, 

communication plan covering the whole 

project. 

A couple of slogans describe the philosophy 

and atmosphere of the project : 

Libraries, archives and museums working 

together! Learning by doing! 

kristiina hormia-Poutanen is the deputy 

national librarian of the National Library 

of Finland and the director of Library 

Network Services department. The department 

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of national library infrastructure services 

for the Finnish libraries. The national infrastructure 

services include library system 

and national portal management and 

development, national licensing, development 

of library statistics and coordination 

of consortia activities. 

Coordination of national infrastructure 

services for the libraries network is a new 

task for the library. 

Hormia-Poutanen is a member of the 

LIBER board and chair of the LIBER 

Digitisation and Resource Discovery 

section since 2010. She is a member of 

the IFLA National libraries section. She is 

the chair of the availability section of the 

Finnish Digital Library project since 2008. 

She was member of University libraries’ 

structural development project during 

2008-2009, the project group was nominated 

by the Ministry of Education. She is 

member of several steering groups related 

to the development of library services in 

Finland. She has been a member of the 

management board of National Library 

since 2000. 

Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen is active in 

various national and international initiatives. 

To mention some of the international 

activities IFLA, ICOLC, LIBER, eIFL can be 

mentioned. Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen 

participates actively in international 

co-operation especially with questions 

related to digital library infrastructures, 

cross-domain cooperation, consortia 

development issues, licensing and licensing 

models, open access questions and 

development of easy access methods to 

electronic resources. 

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sEssIon 4.6 

JEns hofman hansEn (statE and 

unIvERsIty LIBRaRy, dEnmaRk): 

thE oPEn LIBRaRy systEm - RE- 

InvEntEd, ImPLEmEntEd and 

WoRkIng 

In the Google age library users want a single 

interface with discovery tools to access 

all collections whether they are physical 

or digital, including subscription journal 

articles, e-books, images, or collections 

unique to each institution. 

The software world is moving in the 

direction of modular open systems, often 

even based on open source. So is library 

system software. Proprietary solutions still 

prevail, but we see a growing number of 

open interfaces to them, such as Ex Libris 

X-server and the Ex Libris Unified Resource 

Management. 

At the State and University Library and 

the University of Aarhus Libraries we have 

moved far into open systems. In January 

2010 we changed our library system from 

SirsiDynix Horizon to Ex Libris Aleph. At 

the same time the role of the traditional 

library system part was reduced to the handling 

of physical material, the acquisition, 

the cataloging and the lending processes. 

At the front of the system we are using the 

Summa integrated search system build 

purely on open source. By faceted search 

Summa supports discovery browsing in 

all material whether physical or electronic. 

Summa which has been designed with 

scale in mind can handle hundreds of 

millions of items with response times in the 

milliseconds. 

To organize our rich collection of the National 

Library resources, which include radio/TV, 

film, newspapers, and the National 

Music Collection, we have build the DOMS 

(Digital Object Management System) based 

on the open source of Fedora Commons. 

The integration of the 3 main components, 

Aleph, Summa and DOMS is carried 

out in a service-oriented architecture. In 

addition a number of workflow systems 

have been developed for the handling of all 

processes not supported within the Aleph 

or Fedora frameworks. These workflow 

systems include a system for on demand 

digitization of material still in analogue 

form and a generic workflow system for 

mass-digitization within Fedora. 

The strategic reasoning behind the architecture 

will be presented along with some 

general and detailed characteristics of each 

of the building blocks: Aleph interfaces, 

Summa, DOMS, and the workflow systems. 

There will be a demonstration part showing 

the key concepts in action, seen from 

the end users as well as from the library 

personnel. 

Jens hofman hansen, MA in Information 

Science, University of Aarhus, 2005. Since 

1999 self-employed usability consultant. 

Since 2005 usability expert at the State 

and University Library. Participator in the 

founding steps of the open source search 

technology Summa, including early user 

studies and prototyping. 2007 to May 

2010, senior user experience consultant at 

Denmark’s leading digital agency, Creuna. 

Leader of user-centred commercial focused 

redesigns of several digital products 

including 14 online banks. Today, back at 

the State and University Library as special 

consultant, focusing on commercializing 

and bringing the library’s technology to the 

world surrounding us. Author of the book 

“Motiverende design” (Persuasive design), 

2006. Educator and speaker at several 

occasions, conferences and events inside 

and outside the library world. 

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JakoB haRnEsk (EBsco, sWEdEn): 

BuILdIng thE LIBRaRy of thE 

futuRE 

EBSCO is the only organisation in the 

world that is able to offer a complete 

range of services based upon four major 

pillars of the information services industry: 

- E-journal, e-package, e-book and print 

subscription management service 

- E-resource access solutions 

- Content aggregation via full-text and 

secondary databases 

- Targeted sales representation and dedicated 

services for publishers 

Supporting all types of libraries, research 

organisations and corporations in over 

200 countries from 31 offices worldwide, 

we are strategically positioned to explore 

the actual and forthcoming trends of the 

information industry. 

From our key point of view, during the 

last 10 years, we’ve witnessed a deep 

change within the role of the librarians 

who have had to reposition themselves 

in order to survive in their ever changing 

environment. Today, they have to provide 

support, training and add value for users, 

who are increasingly “Google savvy” and 

are able to independently carry out their 

own research, without fully realising the 

unlimited value of a library collection. 

Most recently, in addition to carrying out 

their main role and providing invaluable 

support and training, librarians also have 

to become contract/licence managers 

and marketing executives. It is here that 

EBSCO is available to assist them in this 

new approach, by providing them with 

consultative services and new generation 

library solutions. 

Jakob harnesk is the Nordic Sales Manager 

for EBSCO Information Services. 

Before joining EBSCO in 2008, Jakob 

held several qualified positions in research 

libraries and with various vendors. 

He has most notably been working for the 

Royal Library in Sweden, at the national 

coordinating body BIBSAM, and at the 

Karolinska Institute University Library, 

where he was Head of Customer Services. 

Jakob has been active in several national 

and international organisations, including 

Swedish Associations for Information 

Specialists, Swedish Library Association, 

IFLA and ISO. 

During his 25-year career, he has authored 

a large number of articles, reports 

and analyses on topics such as E-resource 

Access, Performance Indicators, and Legal 

Deposit of Online Publications. A frequent 

speaker at library conferences, he is 

currently a member of the editorial board 

of the peer-reviewed “Journal of Access 

Services”. 

Jakob Harnesk holds a degree in Library 

Information System. 

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douWE dRIJfhout (natIonaL 

LIBRaRy, south afRIca): 

BookkEEPER InstaLLatIon In 

south afRIca 

For nearly 200 years the NLSA has been 

collecting and preserving a complete set 

of South African published books, newspapers, 

journals and magazines, maps, 

acts and other government publications. 

Due to embrittlement of paper more than 

60% of heritage collections kept at the 

National Library of South Africa are in 

danger of loss. The new building at the 

National Library’s Pretoria campus makes 

provision for a mass de-acidification facility. 

The Bookkeeper mass de-acidification 

system is probably the best system in 

terms of requirements and best practice. 

The Bookkeeper system was purchased 

in 2008 and has been operational since 

September 2009. The system has a 

capacity of processing more than 30,000 

books per year. It can treat both books 

and archival non-book material. Being the 

only system in Southern Africa, the NLSA 

is planning to service other libraries and 

cultural institutions in the region as well. 

douwe drijfhout presently manages the 

Preservation Services programme at the 

National Library of South Africa. He 

joined the NLSA (then State Library) in 

Pretoria in 1993 as Programme Manager 

of Information Services and later as 

Assistant Director responsible for Administrative 

Services. Before his transfer to the 

Cape Town in 2001 he acted as director 

of the Pretoria campus. He completed his 

Masters in Library and Information Science 

at the University of Pretoria in 1997. 

He is a board member of the Foundation 

for Library and Information Service 

Development. Other activities included 

membership of Elsevier Science’s library 

advisory board and the Joint IFLA/ICA 

Committee on Preservation in Africa. 

He is a member of the IFLA Preservation 

and Conservation Section, the Library 

and Information Association of South 

Africa (LIASA) and the South African 

Preservation and Conservation Group 

(SAPCON). He was previously employed 

by the University of South Africa library, 

the South African Bibliographic Network 

(SABINET) and the Information Service 

of the Council for Scientific and Industrial 

Research (CSIR). 

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BRIan LavoIE (ocLc, usa): 

sustaInaBLE EconomIcs foR a 

dIgItaL PLanEt: 

EnsuRIng Long-tERm accEss 

to dIgItaL InfoRmatIon 

In this presentation, OCLC research 

scientist Brian Lavoie will talk about the 

economic challenges of long-term digital 

preservation, based on the work of the 

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable 

Digital Preservation and Access, which he 

co-chaired. Brian will discuss the findings 

and conclusions from the Task Force’s final 

report Sustainable Economics for a Digital 

Planet, and offer some perspective on 

what European libraries can do in both 

the short-term and long-term to implement 

the report’s recommendations. 

Brian Lavoie is a Research Scientist in the 

Research Division at OCLC. Since joining 

OCLC in 1996, Brian has worked in a 

variety of areas, including bibliographic 

control, analysis of library collections, 

models and frameworks for library service 

provision, digital preservation, and 

analysis of the structure and content of the 

Web. Brian is a co-founder of the awardwinning 

PREMIS preservation metadata 

working group, and currently serves on 

the PREMIS Editorial Committee. He also 

co-chaired the Blue Ribbon Task Force on 

Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. 

He holds a doctorate in agricultural 

economics. 

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PostERs 

1. Robin Adams (Trinity College Library Dublin, Ireland), Arlene Healy (Trinity College 

Library Dublin, Ireland), Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin, School of 

History & Humanities, Ireland), Vikas Sahni (Softedge Systems Ltd), Alex Wade 

(Microsoft Research): A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities 

2. Peter Ahlroos (Educational technologist, Finland): Eyetracking and handling 

analysis of the Tritonia web services 

3. Natalia Bergau (Göttingen University, Germany): “Where are we? Where are 

we going?” Report on digital preservation practice and plans amongst LIBER 

members 

4. Johnni Brobak Nielsen, Anne Catharine Andersen (Aarhus School of Business, 

Denmark): YouTube - edumedia - ASBCAST: Business broadcasted online 

5. J.R.Corney, N. Acur (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), Graeme Forbes 

(National Library of Scotland, UK): Cataloguing using internet crowdsourcing 

6. Iveta Fürstová; Petra Pejšová (National Technical Library, Czech Republic): 

National Repository of Grey Literature in the Czech Republic 

7. Silvia Gstrein (University and Regional Library of Tyrol, Austria): EOD - eBooks 

on Demand 

8. Ellen Collins (Research Information Network, UK): Academic Libraries for the 

Future: Initial Findings from Horizon-Scanning 

9. Michael Jubb, Branwen Hide (Research Information Network, UK): How 

Researchers Create, Use and Disseminate Information: and the Implications for 

Libraries 

10. Max Kaiser, Veronika Prändl-Zika, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramírez Gaviria (Austrian 

National Library): EuropeanaConnect: Enhancing Access to European Digital 

Cultural Heritage 

11. Patricia Killiard (Cambridge University, UK): arcadia@cambridge: rethinking the 

role of the research library in a digital age 

12. Kate-Riin Kont (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia): Electronic Scientific 

Information in Technical University Libraries: A Comparative Analysis Based 

on the Example of the Helsinki University of Technology Library and the Tallinn 

University of Technology Library 

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PostERs 

13. Muhtesem Hakki Onder (Özyeğin University, Turkey): Expanded Learning 

Environments: Course Management System and Information Literacy Integration 

at Özyeğin University 

14. Agnes Ponsati (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): Institutional 

investment in the library: What’s the return in the grants process? A case 

study at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC, Spain) 

15. Aleksandra Popovic; Stela Filipi-Matutinovic (Belgrade University, Serbia): User 

education in Belgrade University Library – history and new trends 

16. Annikki Roos (Helsinki University, Finland): The Knot-project. Preparing the way 

to new partnership between research groups and the library 

17. Jani Sassali (Oulu University, Finland): ToR - Toolbox of Research: information 

literacy guidance in the wiki environment for doctoral students and researchers 

18. Frank Scholze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany): Karlsruhe Institute of 

Technology (KIT) Library Services – An institutional merger in progress 

19. Olaf Siegert (German National Library of Economics, Germany): Managing 

Grey Literature in Economics with a subject-based repository – EconStor as an 

example from Germany 

20. Nicolaj Veje Pedersen; Lars Lund-Thomsen (Aarhus School of Business, Denmark): 

Measuring scientific quality: The use and misuse of bibliometric indicators 

– practice and malpractice 

21. Cilie Veje Rasmussen (Aarhus School of Business, Denmark): Library resources as 

part of the virtual learning environment 

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LIBER aWaRds 

Thanks to the generous support of Elsevier, 

the Programme Committee is able 

to award the three abstracts which best 

describe an achievement in the overall 

theme of the LIBER Annual Conference 

“Re-inventing the Library: Challenges in 

the new Information Environment”. 

The LIBER Award for Library Leadership 

consists of the opportunity to present 

the selected paper at the LIBER Annual 

Conference 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark, 

free registration, plus travelling expenses 

and accommodation - with a maximum 

of 1,000 Euros per submission, based on 

economy class travel and accommodation 

for up to 4 nights in a hotel from the list of 

recommended hotels on the Conference 

website. 

The following abstracts have been 

awarded: 

PaPERs 

• Ana van Meegen Silva & Imke Limpens: 

How serious do we need to be? Improving 

information literacy skills through 

gaming and interactive elements 

• Graham Stone: Searching life, the 

universe and everything? The implementation 

of Summon at the University 

of Huddersfield 

PostER 

• Jani Sassali: TOR - Toolbox of Research 

Information Literacy guidance 

Congratulations to our winners! 

The awards will be presented on 

29 June 2010 at 16.35. 

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LIst of PaRtIcIPants 

namE tItLE InstItutIon/comPany countRy 

Christian Gumpenberger Dr. Vienna University Library Austria 

Eva Bertha Technische Universität Graz Austria 

Juan Gorraiz Dr. Vienna University Library Austria 

Michaela Rossini Dr. Vienna University of Austria 

Economy and Business 

Silvia Gstrein University of Innsbruck Austria 

Veronika Praendl-Zika Austrian National Library Austria 

Alberic Regent Secr. Gen ADLUG Belgium 

Bart Vancoppenolle Commercial 

Director Benelux 

Christian Brouwer Director of the 

Humanities 

Libraries 

Swets Information Services nv 

Universite Libre de Bruxelles 

– Libraries 

Belgium 

Belgium 

Dominique Coene Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 

Eva Wuyts coördinator Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek Belgium 

Sylvia van Peteghem Dr. Ghent university Belgium 

Veerle van Conkelberge Ghent university Belgium 

Antoaneta Dimitrova Technical university Bulgaria 

Kristina Varbanova- 

Dencheva 

Heather Morrison 

Professor SULSIT Bulgaria 

Project 

Coordinator 

Simon Fraser University 

Canada 

Ray Siemens University of Victoria Canada 

Richard Dumont 

Directeur Université de Montréal Canada 

général/Director 

of Libraries 

Mikica Mastrovic Mrs National and University Croatia 

Library 

Tihomil Mastrovic Professor dr. National and University Croatia 

Library 

Louis Prokopiou 

Library - Project University of Cyprus Cyprus 

Manager 

Stefanos Stavridis University of Cyprus Cyprus 

Daniela Tkacikova Mrs Association of Libraries of Czech Republic 

Czech Universities 

Iva Horová PhDr. Academy of Performing Arts Czech Republic 

in Prague 

Iveta Fürstová Mgr. National Technical Library Czech Republic 

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Ludmila Slezáková PhDr. Library of Palacky University Czech Republic 

in Olomouc 

Martin Lhotak 

Library of the Academy of Czech Republic 

Sciences 

Martin Svoboda National Technical Library Czech Republic 

Pavla Rygelova Ms. VSB - Technical University of Czech Republic 

Ostrava 

Pavla Svástová Moravian Library Czech Republic 

Petr Zabicka Moravian Library Czech Republic 

Zdenek Uhlír 

Anders Toftgaard 

Research 

Librarian 

National Library of the Czech 

Republic 

The Royal Library 

Czech Republic 

Denmark 

Anne C. Andersen Librarian Aarhus School of Business Denmark 

Anne Mette Navntoft Librarian Aarhus University, Faculty of Denmark 

Agricultural Sciences 

Arne Sørensen IT-Director Statsbiblioteket Denmark 

Birger Larsen 

Associate 

Professor 

Royal School of Library and 

Information Science 

Denmark 

Birgit Pedersen Librarian IT Library Katrinebjerg Denmark 

Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard The Royal Library Denmark 

Cilie Veje Rasmussen Librarian Aarhus School of Business Denmark 

Claus Vesterager Pedersen Deputy Director Roskilde University Library Denmark 

Edith Clausen 

Bo Mønsted Librarian Aarhus Universitets Biblioteker 

Denmark 

Bo Öhrström Deputy Director Danish Agency for Libraries Denmark 

and Media 

Carsten Riis Dean Aarhus University Denmark 

Forskningsbibliotekar 

Århus Sygehus, Århus 

Universitetshospital 

Denmark 

Ellen Knudsen Director The State and University Denmark 

Library 

Erland Kolding Nielsen Director The Royal Library, Denmark Denmark 

General 

Erling Hansen 

Aarhus Univsersitets Biblioteker 

Denmark 

Eva Fønss-Jørgensen Head of State and University Library Denmark 

Department 

Gertrud S. Thomsen Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

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Gina Bay Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

Hanne Munch Kristiansen Chief librarian Psychiatric Research Library Denmark 

Harald von Hielmcrone 

Senior 

Consultant 

State & University Library 

Aarhus 

Denmark 

Helle Lauridsen serialssolutions , ProQuest Denmark 

Henriette Fog Royal Library / CULIS Denmark 

Ivan Boserup 

Keeper of Det Kongelige Bibliotek Denmark 

Manuscripts and 

Rare Books 

Janne Lytoft Simonsen Research Aarhus University 

Denmark 

librarian 

Jens Hofman Hansen Statsbiblioteket Denmark 

Jesper Boserup Thestrup 

Communications 

Officer 

The State and University 

Library 

Denmark 

Jette Bohn Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

Jette G. Junge 

Johnni Brobak Nielsen 

Joy Jakobsen 

Communication 

Officer 

Development 

Consultant 

Administrative 

Officer 


Library 

Aarhus School of Business, 

Aarhus University 


Library 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Karen Williams Project Manager The State and University Denmark 

Library 

Kristian Wallin Ex Libris Denmark 

Lilian Madsen Director The State and University Denmark 

Library 

Lisbeth Raahauge Karlsson Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

Lise Arnfred 

Aarhus School of Business, Denmark 


Lone Gyldendal Stefansen Head of Section The Royal Library Denmark Denmark 

Lone Jensen 

Project consultant 


Denmark 

/ librarian 

Mai Buch 

Chairman Steering 

DEFF 

Denmark 

Committee 

Maria Hvid Stenalt State and University Library Denmark 

Marianne Hermansen Head of Dansk Bibliotekscenter as Denmark 

communications 

Mats Hernvall Dansk Bibliotekscenter as Denmark 

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Michael Cotta-Schønberg Deputy Director 

General 

The Royal Library 

Michael Qvotrup Librarian Aarhus Universitets Biblioteker 

Mikael K. Elbæk 

Systems 

librarian 

Technical University of 

Denmark/DTU Library 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Nels Rune Jensen Swets Denmark 

Nicolaj Veje Pedersen 

Cand.scient. 

bibl. 

Aarhus School of Business, 


Denmark 

Niels-Henrik Gylstorff Library Director Aalborg University Library Denmark 

Nini Jensby Nielsen Libraryan Aarhus University Denmark 

Siri Falkenstrøm Librarian KVINFO Denmark 

Steen Bille Larsen Deputy Director The Royal Library Denmark 

Susanne Dalsgaard Krag Head of Library Aarhus University Denmark 

Susanne Fjord Jensen Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

Susanne Olsen Swets Denmark 

Svend Larsen Chief Executive The State and University Denmark 

Library 

Tina Pipa 

Head of CULIS - Royal Library Denmark 

Department 

Tine Legarth Iversen Librarian Aarhus University Denmark 

Tonny Skovgård Jensen Consultant, 

business 

development 

Statsbiblioteket 

Tove Bang 

Library & ICT Aarhus University 

Director 

Zbigniew Sobkowicz Librarian Aarhus Universitets Biblioteker 

Aida Esther Montero 

Fundación Global Democracia 

y Desarrollo 

Andres Kollist 

Academic Library of Tallinn 

University 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Denmark 

Dominican 

Republic 

Estonia 

Kate-Riin Kont Tallinn University Estonia 

Kristina Pai MA Tartu University Library Estonia 

Martin Hallik Director Tartu University Library Estonia 

Mihkel Reial Mr. National Library of Estonia Estonia 

Mihkel Volt Mr National Library of Estonia Estonia 

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Cecilia af Forselles Chief Librarian Finnish Literature Society Finland 

Christel Lindfors Librarian Åbo Akademi University Finland 

Library 

Jani Sassali 

Information University of Oulu 

Finland 

specialist 

Kaisa Sinikara 

University Helsinki University Library Finland 

Librarian, 

Professor 

Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen Director National Library of Finland Finland 

Liisa Siipilehto 

Information Helsinki University Library Finland 

specialist 

Minna Kaukonen National Library of Finland Finland 

Pentti Vattulainen National Repository Library Finland 

Peter Ahlroos 

Educational Tritonia 

Finland 

Technologist 

Pia Södergård Dr. Åbo Akademi University Finland 

Library 

Veera Ristikartano Project manager Finnish Research Library Finland 

Association 

Vuokko Palonen Director The Tritonia Academic Finland 

Library, Vaasa (University of 

Vaasa) 

Albert Poirot ADBU France 

Anne Dujol Library Director Université de la Méditerranée France 

Anne Faure Deputy Director Musée du Quai Branly France 

Bruno Sagna 

Conservateur 

(head librarian) 

Bibliothèque Sainte Genevieve 

France 

Charles David Director E-Licensing France 

Chloé Martin European Archive Foundation France 

Christine Baryla 

IFLA-PAC 

Program Director 

Bibliotheque Nationale de 

France 

France 

Christine Fleury Librarian ABES France 

Christine Weil-Miko CNRS National INIST-CNRS 

France 

deals manager 

Dominique Filippi Université Paris-Sorbonne France 

Elisabeth Lemau 

Directeur du 

S.C.D. 

Universite Rennes 2 

Florence Roche Mrs. SICD2 - Bibliotheque Universitaire 

Droit Lettres 

France 

France 

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François Cavalier Library Director Sciences Po France 

Frédéric Blin 

Directeur de la 

conservation et 

du patrimoine 

Bibliothèque nationale et 

universitaire de Strasbourg 

Frederic Saby M SICD2 - Bibliotheque 

Universitaire Droit Lettres 

Isabelle Kratz 

Bibliothèque universitaire 

Pierre et Marie Curie 

Jean-François Lutz 

Couperin / Université Henri 

Poincaré - Nancy 1 

Julien Roche 

director of the 

libraries 

University of Lille - sciences 

and technologies 

France 

France 

France 

France 

France 

Marc Martinez Library Director INRP France 

Marie Dominique Heusse Director Toulouse University France 

Maryse Picard Librarian ABES France 

Monique Hulvey 

Database 

manager 

Bibliothèque municipale de 

Lyon 

France 

Nicolas Pinet Head Librarian University of Poitiers France 

Raymond Berard ABES France 

Régis F. Stauder Curator Bibliothèque natioanle de France 

France 

Sandrine Gropp Librarian Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire France 

de Montpellier 

Sara Aubry 

National Library of France France 

(BnF) 

Stéphane Lanoë Librarian Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire France 

de Montpellier 

Sylvie Deville Directrice Bibliothèque univeristaire - France 

Université de Metz 

Wolf Dominique Head Librarian Université Lyon 1 France 

Birgit Schmidt Dr. Goettingen State and University 

Germany 

Library 

Christoph Frech Ex Libris GmbH Germany 

Elmar Mittler Prof. Dr. CERL Germany 

Frank Scholze KIT Germany 

Heiner Schnelling Dr. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek 

Germany 

Sachsen-Anhalt 

Hella Klauser German Library Association Germany 

Jutta Weber Dr. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Germany 

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Markus Brantl Dr. Bavarian State Library Germany 

Natalia Bergau Mrs. Goettingen State and University 

Germany 

Library 

Norbert Lossau Dr. Goettingen State and University 

Germany 

Library (SUB) 

Olaf Siegert 

German National Library of Germany 

Economics (ZBW) 

Petra Haetscher University of Konstanz Germany 

Ronald M. Schmidt Dr. Hochschulbibliothekszentrum Germany 

des Landes Nordrhein- 

Westfalen (hbz) 

Stephen Daly Mr European Central Bank Germany 

Tamara Pianos Dr. German National Library of Germany 

Economics - ZBW 

Giannis Tsakonas 

Library & Information Center, Greece 

University of Patras 

Agnes Teglasi Dr. Library of the Hungarian Hungary 

Academy of Sciences 

Katalin Antal librarian University of Debrecen Hungary 

Marta Viragos director University of Debrecen Hungary 

Krishnendu Biswas Mr. Planman Technologies (India) India 

Pvt Ltd 

Vishal Salgotra Mr. Planman Technologies (India) India 

Pvt Ltd 

Arlene Healy Sub-Librarian Trinity College Library Dublin Ireland 

Brian Oconnell 

Assistant Trinity College Dublin Ireland 

Librarian 

Katherine McSharry Ms National Library of Ireland Ireland 

Rolf D. Schmid Dr. Belser Wissenschaftlicher Ireland 

Dienst 

Tamar Sadeh Ex Libris Israel 

Ellis Sada 

Direttore della 

biblioteca della 

sede di Milano 

Università Cattolica del Sacro 

Cuore 

Fabrizio Ducci Mr freelance Italy 

Ilaria Fava CASPUR Italy 

Italy 

Maria Cassella 

Llibrarian 

coordinator 

University of Turin 

Italy 

Paola Gargiulo 

Electronic Resource 

Specialist 

CASPUR 

Italy 

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Paolo Sirito 

Responsabile 

reference, 

catalogazione e 

qualità 

Università Cattolica del Sacro 

Cuore 

Veerle Deckmyn Director European University Institute Italy 

Iveta Gudakovska 

Director of University of Latvia 

Latvia 

Library 

Sandra Ranka Ms. University of Latvia Latvia 

Anthony Mangion MR University of Malta Library Malta 

Kevin J Ellul MR University of Malta Library Malta 

Ana van Meegen Silva Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands 

André Bouwman Dr. Leiden University Library Netherlands 

Anna Rademakers Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Astrid Van Wesenbeeck SPARC Europe Netherlands 

Bas Savenije 

Director Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

General 

Bert Lever Dr. Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie 

Netherlands 

Carmen Morlon Ms LIBER/SPARC Europe Netherlands 

Clemens Neudecker Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Cynthia Van der Brugge Leiden University Library Netherlands 

Dafne Jansen Utrecht University Library Netherlands 

Don Weijers Drs Statistics Netherlands Netherlands 

Ellen Simons Avans University Netherlands 

Els Peters drs. Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands 

Els Van Eijck Van Heslinga Dr. National Library Netherlands Netherlands 

Eric den Heijer drs Eric den Heijer - training & Netherlands 

coaching 

Graham Jefcoate 

MA FRSA Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands 

MCLIP 

Hans Geleijnse Tilburg University Netherlands 

Henk Ellermann Dr. Tilburg University Netherlands 

Ingrid van de Stadt Mrs. Elsevier Netherlands 

Italy 

John van Dorsten Mr Preservation Technologies 

B.V. 

Netherlands 

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Juffinger Andreas The European Library Netherlands 

Kurt De Belder Leiden University Library Netherlands 

Lily Knibbeler 

National Library of the Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Linda Brouwers-ten Cate Avans University Netherlands 

Louise Edwards Director The European Library Netherlands 

Marcel Ras drs National Library of The Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Marian Lefferts Drs Consortium of European Netherlands 

Research Libraries 

Marianne Pothoven Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Max Dumoulin 

Michel Wesseling 

Monique van de Kamp 

Account manager 

Licensing 

Manager 

Elsevier 

International Institute of 

Social Studies 

Springer Science + 

Business Media BV 

Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Olaf Janssen Project Manager Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Paul Soetaert Dr. Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 

Rufi Verstraaten Mrs. Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands 

Sally Chambers The European Library Netherlands 

Sandra Brocx Avans University Netherlands 

Shan Swart 

Concept 

Designer 

National Library of 

the Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Tanja De Boer Drs. Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Trudie Stoutjesdijk 

Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Netherlands 

Victor-Jan Vos Koninklijke Bibliotheek Netherlands 

Will M.M. Roestenburg Mr. TU Delft Library Netherlands 

Bente Andreassen Library director University of Oslo Norway 

Halvor Kongshavn Library Director University of Oslo Library Norway 

Harald Bøhn Head of section NTNU Library Norway 

Helge Salvesen 

Prof./Library Universitetet i Tromsø Norway 

Director 

Marit Vestlie Director National Library Norway Norway 

Randi Halveg Iversby Library director University of Oslo Library Norway 

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Randi Rønningen University of Oslo Library Norway 

Roger Josevold 

Deputy National National Library of Norway Norway 

Librarian 

Vigdis Moe Skarstein National Librarian 

National Library of Norway Norway 

Anna Wasilewska 

The National Library of Poland 

Poland 

Anna Wolodko University of Warsaw Poland 

Barbara Chmielewska Library of Warsaw University Poland 

Ewa Chrzan Deputy Director Polish Librarians Association Poland 

Katarzyna Slaska 

The National Library of Poland 

Poland 

Ignat Tiberius Mr. University of Bucharest Romania 

Ivona Olariu Dr. Central University Library Iasi Romania 

Nicoleta Rahme National Library of Romania Romania 

Liudmila Tichonova Deputy Director 

General 

Russian State Library 

Aleksandra Popovic librarian University Library " 

Svetozar Markovic" 

Stela Filipi Matutinovic Dr. University Library " 

Svetozar Markovic" 

Maria Zitnanska PhDr. Slovak Centre for Scientific 

Technical Information 

Russian 

Federation 

Serbia 

Serbia 

Slovakia 

Tomas Fiala Mgr. University Library Bratislava Slovakia 

Dunja Legat M. Sc. University of Maribor, Slovenia 

University of Maribor Library 

Mateja Komel Snoj Mrs. National and University Slovenia 

Library 

Mojca Kotar Dr. University of Ljubljana Slovenia 

Douwe Drijfhout Mr National Library of South 

Africa 

Agnes Ponsati Ms. CSIC Library Coordination 

Unit 

Anna Rovira Mrs Universitat Politècnica de 

Catalunya 

Anna Soler Mrs Universitat Politècnica de 

Catalunya 

Beatriz Ruiz Mrs Universitat Politècnica de 

Catalunya 

South Africa 

Spain 

Spain 

Spain 

Spain 

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Gemma Flaquer Mrs Universitat Politècnica de Spain 

Catalunya 

Juan Gómez Escofet Director Universitat Autònoma de Spain 

Barcelona 

Marta Cortina Mrs Universitat Politècnica de Spain 

Catalunya 

Miquel Codina Mr Universitat Politècnica de Spain 

Catalunya 

Toni Espadas Mr Universitat Oberta de Spain 

Catalunya 

Agneta Olsson Library director Gothenburg University Sweden 

Library 

Björn Dal Dr. Lund University Library Sweden 

Christina Friström Library director Lund University Library Sweden 

Helena Wedborn 

Jakob Harnesk 

Jan Hagerlid 

John Tsihlis 

Deputy Library 

Director 

Nordic Sales 

Manager 

Senior Executive 

Officer 

Regionals Sales 

Director 

Linköpings universitetsbibliotek 

EBSCO Information Services 

National Library of Sweden 

ProQuest 

Sweden 

Sweden 

Sweden 

Sweden 

Lars Björnshauge Vice-President Swedish Library Association Sweden 

Ulf Göranson Director Uppsala University Library Sweden 

David Aymonin 

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Switzerland 

de Lausanne 

Jeannette Frey Director BCU Lausanne Switzerland 

Marie-Christine Doffey Director Swiss National Library Switzerland 

Martin Good Dr. Bibliothèque cantonale et Switzerland 

universitaire Fribourg/Suisse 

Susanna Bliggenstorfer Prof.Dr. Zentralbibliothek Switzerland 

Ulrich Niederer Director Zentral- und 

Switzerland 

Hochschulbibliothek 

Asuman Akyuz Director Sabanci University Turkey 

Didar Bayir Dr. Koc University Turkey 

Ender Bilar Director Trakya Üniversity Turkey 

Ersan Dur 

Reference 

Librarian 

Koc University 

Turkey 

Muhtesem Hakki Onder 

Faculty Librarian 

Ozyegin University 

Turkey 

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Adrian Edwards 

Head, British British Library 

United Kingdom 

& Early Printed 

Collections 

Andy McGregor JISC United Kingdom 

Ann Matheson Dr. LIBER Secretary-General United Kingdom 

Ariadne Chloe Furnival Dr. University of Nottingham United Kingdom 

Branwen Hide 

Liaison and Research Information network United Kingdom 

Partnership 

Officer 

Chris Banks Mrs University of Aberdeen United Kingdom 

Christiane Roedel Mrs. SirsiDynix United Kingdom 

Christine Middleton University of Nottingham United Kingdom 

Christopher Pressler Mr University of Nottingham United Kingdom 

Christy Henshaw Dr. Wellcome Library United Kingdom 

Dan Burnstone 

VP Arts & ProQuest 


Humanties 

Publishing 

David Prosser Dr. RLUK United Kingdom 

Deborah Shorley Ms. Imperial College London United Kingdom 

Elena Sorvari 

Regional Sales EBSCO 


Manager 

Ellen Collins 

Research Information United Kingdom 

Network 

Gary Martin Mr SirsiDynix United Kingdom 

Giuseppina Vullo Dr. University of Glasgow United Kingdom 

Graeme Forbes Mr National Library of Scotland United Kingdom 

Graham Stone 

Electronic University of Huddersfield United Kingdom 

Resources Manager 

J Max Wilkinson Dr. British Library United Kingdom 

Janet Lees OCLC EMEA United Kingdom 

John MacColl 

European OCLC Research 


Director, RLG 

Partnership 

Katie Edwards Miss University of Kent United Kingdom 

Kissley Leonor Ms British Library United Kingdom 

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Maria Romano Sales Manager The Royal Society United Kingdom 

Mark Holland e-Publishing Consulting United Kingdom 

Martin Moyle UCL Library Services United Kingdom 

Martine Jagger Miss Emerald Group Publishing United Kingdom 

Limited 

Martyn Wade National Library of Scotland United Kingdom 

Michael Jubb Dr. The Research Information United Kingdom 

Network 

Nils Andenaes Mr De Gruyter United Kingdom 

Patricia Heffernan Mrs The Open University United Kingdom 

Patricia Killiard Ms Cambridge University Library United Kingdom 

Paul Ayris Dr. UCL 


(University College London) 

Sebastian Arcq Mr Mendeley United Kingdom 

Steven Hall Consultant ProQuest United Kingdom 

Susan Copeland Dr. Robert Gordon University United Kingdom 

King Karen Library Director University of Virginia United States 

Carol Mandel 

Clifford Lynch 

Dean, Division 

of Libraries 

Executive Director 

New York University 

Coalition for Networked 

Informatin 

United States 

United States 

Johan Bollen Prof. Indiana University United States 

Jon Orwant 

Engineering 

Manager 

Google 

United States 

Karen Calhoun 

VP, WorldCat 

& Metadata 

Services 

OCLC 

United States 

Lee Dirks 

Director, Education 

& Scholarly 

Communication 

Microsoft Research 

United States 

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