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Graham Bulpitt · Alan Bundy · Dan Burnstone · Berndt Dugall · Jeffrey Garrett · Ann Grafstein · Kai Halttunen · Teresa Y. Neely · Edward Owusu-Ansah · Hannelore B. Rader · Wolfgang Ratzek · Mary Schuller · Andreas Sziegoleit · Erik Jan van Kleef · Christa Womser-Hacker |
Graham
Bulpitt
He
formerly worked at Sheffield Hallam University where he was responsible
for establishing
the Learning Centre. This department
integrates
library, computing and media production provision as well as
the University's Learning and Teaching Institute. The city
campus operation
is housed in the £14m Adsetts Centre, an award-winning
new building which opened in 1996. Graham was born in Luton, Bedfordshire and holds degrees from the Open University and the University of London. He is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher. He has held senior positions in university libraries since 1978 and has also worked in colleges in the UK and in publishing in New York. |
Dr.
Alan Bundy
He has been the foundation University Librarian of the University of South Australia since 1992, and is Director of the University´s Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library. His previous experience includes senior positions in public and academic libraries in three Australian states. In 1986 he established Auslib Press, a major publisher of library science and information literacy texts, including the award winning "The Seven Faces of Information Literacy" by Christine Bruce, and has been the editor of the quarterly journal "Australian Public Libraries and Information Services" for 16 years. Dr. Bundy has twice been national president of the Australian Library and Information Association. His professional interests include public libraries, joint use libraries,publishing, information literacy and the role of libraries in promoting educational change. |
Dan
Burnstone
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Berndt
Dugall
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Jeffrey
Garrett
Since 2003, Garrett has served as the chair of the AAU-ARL German North American Resources Partnership and also as president of the Hans Christian Andersen awards jury of the International Board on Books for Young People (Basel, Switzerland). He is past chair of the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries and fellow of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. Among his academic honors are a Regents Fellowship from the University of California, a Bayerisches Staatsstipendium while at the University of Munich, and a Martinus Nijhoff International Study Grant. |
Ann
Grafstein  Place of Birth: New York CityNow living in: Long Island, New York Education: BA Bryn Mawr College (1974), MLIS The University of Western Ontario (1989), Ph.D. in Linguistics, McGill University (1984) Professional Career: I have taught linguistics both at McGill University and the University of Western Ontario. I also ran a library and instruction program in an adult education center, and I served as Education/reference librarian at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and as a reference and instruction librarian at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. I am now the Coordinator of Library Instruction at Hofstra University. Main Emphasis at Work: My current position involves coordinating, enhancing, and developing the library instruction program at Hofstra. Our program currently includes credit courses, individually-arranged assignment based workshops, and course-integrated library modules. I have both published and presented conference papers on information literacy and am currently doing work on human factors affecting information retrieval. |
Kai
Halttunen
Worked as lecturer, instructional planner, information specialist, researcher, and assistant professor. Professional interest are related to teaching and learning information retrieval, learning environments, information skills and information literacy. |
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Dr. Teresa
Y. Neely Active in national library associations, Dr. Neely currently serves as a member of the American Library Association (ALA) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gendered Round Table Stonewall Book Award jury for nonfiction and literature, and co-chaired the ALA Office for Diversity's first Diversity Leadership Institute. Her research and scholarly interests include diversity, information literacy, instruction, staff training and development, reference services, and management issues, and she has published and edited several books and articles. Her most recent publication, Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Information Literacy in Higher Education, is based on her dissertation. Additional accomplishments in information literacy include spearheading an information literacy collaborative composed of six universities in Maryland; and chairing the UMBC Information Literacy Task Force which recently developed and implemented an information literacy survey and subsequent programming based on the ACRL Standards. Dr. Neely is also currently completing a book for ALA Editions titled Information Literacy Assessment: Standards-Based Tools, Surveys, and Best Practices. |
Dr.
Edward Owusu-Ansah  Edward Owusu-Ansah, born in Ghana, now resides in New York City.
He is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Information Literacy
and Library Instruction at the College of Staten Island, City University
of New York (CUNY). Dr. Owusu-Ansah holds an MLS from CUNY's Queens
College and a Ph.D. in sociology from Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, Hungary. His current research focus is in
the theory and practice of library instruction and information literacy.
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| Dr.
Hannelore B. Rader
Dean Rader has more than 30 years of library, administrative and teaching experience in higher education in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Kentucky. Her background includes prominent leadership in international, national and regional user instruction and information literacy activities. She has served on national and international committees dealing with information literacy and academic library issues. She has presented many workshops nationally and internationally and has more than 100 publications related to information literacy and library administrative issues. As part of her administrative responsibilities Dean Rader has been involved in various marketing and recruitment efforts throughout the past twenty years. Recently she participated in the "train the trainer" workshop sponsored by the ACRL "@your library" campaign. She is currently co-chairing the ACRL/ARL Task Force on Recruitment. Ms Rader has a teaching certificate, a graduate degree in library science and in German literature from the University of Michigan as well as a specialist degree in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University. She has taught library and information skills in undergraduate and graduate settings as well as in schools of library and information science. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science. She
has received numerous honors, among them are Distinguished Alumni
of the University of Michigan School of Information Walter H.
Kaiser Memorial Award from the Michigan Library Association ACRL/EBSS
Distinguished
Education and Behavioral Sciences Award ACRL - Mimi Dudley Award
for Bibliographic Instruction ARCL Academic and Research Librarian
of the Year in 1999 Literati Award for Best Article from MCB
Press, London, April, 2000 |
Prof.
Dr. Wolfgang Ratzek |
Mary
Schuller |
Prof.
Dr. Andreas Sziegoleit 
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Erik
Jan van Kleef 
As the Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe Mr. Van Kleef has been working for Ovid Technologies for 3 years now. He is responsible for the German-speaking countries and Eastern Europe. In general, he brings 20 years of experience in the information industry with him after having worked with different companies in different positions. |
Prof. Dr. Christa Womser-Hacker
Christa Womser-Hacker has published a number of articles, two books, and conference proceedings related to the field of Information Science. She has been a reviewer for several scientific journals and a member of program boards of workshops and conferences. Currently, she is a member of the strategic advisory committee for Multimedia in Lower Saxony and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe. She also participates in the management boards of the German Association for Information Science and of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the German Computer Society. Her main research focus is in cross-lingual information retrieval, user-friendly, intercultural human-computer interaction for information and learning systems, and digital libraries. |
Graham
was appointed Director of Library Services at Kingston University
in
south-west London in September 2003 where he is responsible for
the the development of Learning Resource Centres on four campuses
as part of a major University estates project.
Dr.
Alan Bundy (BA, DipEd, MLitt, PhD, FALIA) was born in the UK
in 1943 and has lived in Australia since 1963.
Jeffrey Garrett (MA in Germanistic Linguistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Munich 1983, MLIS in Library and Information Science, University
of California Berkeley, 1989) is Assistant University Librarian
for Collection Management at Northwestern University Library and
Bibliographer for Classics. His research interests include German
library history and international children s literature. Among
his publications are "The Legacy of the Baroque in Virtual
Representations of Library Space" (Library Quarterly, 2004,
on the debt of contemporary website design to principles of Baroque
library architecture); Memory Loss in Iraq (American Libraries,
2003, on the destruction of Iraqi libraries); "That Difficult
Austrian: Christine Nöstlinger's schwerer Stand in den USA" (Weil
die Kinder nicht ernstgenommen werden, Vienna, 2003, on the lack
of resonance in the US to the work of this great Austrian children
s writer); Library Research as a Transgressive Activity (College & Research
Libraries News, 2000, on the importance of library research against
the grain of classification systems); and Redefining Order in the
German Library, 1775-1825 (Eighteenth Century Studies, 1999, on
the impact of Kant on cataloging theory in early 19th century Germany).
Born
in Ähtäri 1964 and now living in Tampere, Finland.
M.Soc.Sci. 1993, Ph.D. 2004.
Dr. Neely was born in York, SC, and now resides
in Baltimore, MD. She holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting
from South
Carolina State College (now University), and received her M.L.S.
and Ph.D. degrees (LIS) from the School of Information Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her current position, she was
an assistant professor and reference librarian at Colorado State
University Libraries (CSU), where she held several administrative
positions.
Hannelore
B. Rader has been Dean of University Libraries at the University
of Louisville in Kentucky since January 1997.
Wolfgang Ratzek was born in Berlin (West). He served his apprecticeship
(journeyman toolmaker) in Norway. He holds a M.A. (master´s
degree) in Information Science and Scandinavistic and earned a
degree of Doctor of Philosophy (both from Freie Universität
of Berlin). He gained his professional experience from management
cosultancy,
Newplacement (Top Management, skilled personell), guest lecturer
(Marketing, general & personnel) management). He has approximately
250 publication related to marketing, information society, (personell
) management. Since winter term 2001: Professor of Library and
Media Management at HdM in Stuttgart, where he is responsible for
marketing,
controlling, (personnel) management.
Christa Womser-Hacker is professor of Information Science at the
University of Hildesheim, Dean of the faculty of Information and
Communication Sciences and a member of the university's Foundation
Board.
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