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The User Advisory Board helps shaping Europe's national library portal according to expert user needs and knowledge. As such it is integrated into the creating processes and development strategy of The European Library.

ANNOUNCEMENT

The first meeting will take place May 20th 2008, The Hague.

The central theme of the meeting is ‘What is the future for library portals?’

All attendees are invited to share their views on the digital future, and specifically the future of digital library services over the next 2-3 years.

Click here to download the full report.

Members of the Board:

• Peter Suber, Senior Researcher at SPARC and Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, US
• Mathias Schindler, Student and member of the board of Wikipedia Germany
• Zinaida Manzuch, Vilnius University, Lithuania
• Margus Lääne, Librarian, Estonia
• Apurba Kundu, Associate Dean University of Bradford, UK
• Marjeta Gostincar Cerar,Librarian Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Michael Fingerhut, Director of Multimedia Library and Engineering Bureau, France
• Jela Steinerová, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
• Mel Collier, Chief Librarian Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Peter Suber is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D., both from Northwestern University. He writes the Open Access News weblog and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Publishing Working Group of Science Commons, the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, and the boards of several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. For more information, see his home page.

Mathias Schindler (born 1981) is a member of the board of Wikimedia Germany and member Wikimedia Foundation's Communications Committee. He is blogging for netzpolitik.org and blogoscoped.com about new developments in the information society. Since 2003, he has been increasingly fallen in love with old printed encyclopedias.

Dr. Zinaida Manžuch is a lecturer at the Institute of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University. She is actively involved in initiatives and research concerning digitization of cultural heritage. Since 2003 she participated in EU RTD projects CALIMERA, TEL-ME-MOR, DPE and currently participates as an expert in NUMERIC. In 2005 Zinaida Manžuch was a leader of the thematic working group on digitization of cultural heritage in the EU project LIS Education in Europe under Socrates programme. Being a part of the working group initiated by the Ministry of Culture, she contributed to the development of the National Digitization concept of the Republic of Lithuania (2005). In 2006-2007 she was representing Lithuania in the National Representatives Group, an international network of governmental bodies and experts for co-ordination of digitization in Europe. A co-author of project deliverables, she also has been publishing in research and professional journals.

Born in Nov. 28, 1963 in Tallinn.

Graduated University of Tartu, historian.

1989-1991 – The Institute of history of the Academy of Sciences of Estonia

1991-2002 – Tallinn English College, teacher of history and cultural history, librarian

Since 2002 in the State Archive of Estonia as a librarian

Dr Apurba Kundu is currently Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) in the School of Informatics at the University of Bradford, UK. His teaching and research interests include cyberspychology and cyberethics, the use of digital technology for enhancing learning, and South Asian politics and security. Dr Kundu has published articles in numerous journals, and is the author of Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus (IB Tauris). He has been the editor of Contemporary South Asia (Routledge) since 1998.

Born in Ljubljana, February 18, 1955. Studied English language and literature, art history and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Graduated from English studies and art history. Completed training for librarians and acquired the licence for library work. I live in Ljubljana and am employed at the Institute for Ethnic Studies (since 1985) as a librarian and part time translator. My main occupation as a librarian is acquisition and processing of books and documents concerning ethnic studies. I speak English and French fluently and I also translate fiction and non-fiction from English into Slovene for different publishing houses.

Michael Fingerhut, a trained mathematician and computer scientist, is the director of the Multimedia Library and Engineering Bureau of IRCAM in Paris, where he manages collection and infrastructure development. He is a specialist in the design and development of digital and hybrid libraries, metadata modelization and interoperability of heterogeneous information systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of ISMIR, a yearly international conference on music information retrieval. He is the editor of the electronic newsletter of IAML (International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres). He is consulted as expert advisor in national technological infrastructure projects.

Jela Steinerová is an associate professor in Library and Information Science at the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. Her research is concentrated on information seeking behaviour, information use and relevance. She is the author of three monographs (Information Behaviour, 2005, Theory of Information Retrieval, 1996, Development of Information Products. She was a head of several research projects, recently her research group completed the project on Information Use at Information Behaviour in Education and Science (2005-2007). She specialises in human information behaviour and organized a series of library users' surveys in Slovakia.

Her teaching activities include subjects of Information Seeking and Retrieval, Information Products, Information Behaviour, Semiotics, Knowledge Management. She lectured at many national and international conferences (e.g. Boras, Charlotte, Dubrovnik, Trondheim, Tallinn, Warsaw, Zurich, Sofia, Cologne). She managed several international conferences (2001, 2003, 2006, 2007). She won a number of international grants, conducted study stays (e.g. Oxford, Brussels, Washington), published her works abroad (JASIST, Online Information Review, Information Research).

Jela has been a member of several editorial boards ( e.g. Information Research, Mousaion) and conference committees (ECDL). She has been engaged in a number of international projects , e.g. UNESCO project on information literacy in CEE countries, EUCLID international LIS curriculum, DELOS-CEE, ICIMSS (Poland). She is a member of other professional international associations, e.g. ISKO, IOIS and lectured at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic).

Mel Collier (born 1947) is Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, (B) and Director of the University Library. Formerly he was University Library Director at Tilburg (NL) and Head of Learning Development at De Montfort (GB). He is an experienced manager of ICT and educational development in universities, and has worked as a director in the private sector. His research and consultancy work is focused on digital libraries, learning development and change management.

Since the early seventies he has been active in research into the library applications of information technology. He has written and collaborated in numerous research reports, edited works and journal articles. He has served on several national and international bodies including the Library and Information Commission, the UK Government’s advisory body for library and information matters. He was also chairman of the Library and Information Advisory Committee of the British Council. He has collaborated in and directed a number of projects within the EU frameworks since 1993, including TEL, ELISE, ELSA and MINSTREL. He is a graduate in Arabic, speaks French and Dutch and has a working knowledge of German.

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