International Summer School 2011:
Lecturers
Peter Becker was educated as music librarian and has worked in the library of a school for higher education in music for ten years.
Since 2007 Peter Becker has been lecturer at the Hague University of applied Sciences (Haagse Hogeschool). His main domains are the organization of information (storage), document management and digital libraries. For two years, he has been organizing courses about the so called 'New way of working': the impact of web 2.0 tools on the organization of labor and management styles.
Denise Baumgart has been working at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main since 2007. She started at the Office for Library Standards and since 2009 she has been working at the IT department. She is primarily concerned with long-term preservation, particularly in the SHAMAN project.
Gillian Hallam is Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology. She is currently Project Leader for a national research initiative to investigate ePortfolio practice in higher education in Australia, funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
Her teaching experience encompasses the areas of information retrieval, reference and information services, collection and access management, special library management, legal research, and professional practice. She is one of the leaders in the Evidence Based Librarianship (EBL) movement, which aims to move the profession forward through research and to advance the skill and knowledge of LIS professionals.
Hallam served as president of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in the term 2005 and was made a Fellow of ALIA in 2008. She has won five Queensland University of Technology (QUT) teaching awards, and in 2005 was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Research Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).
Elena Maceviciute is Professor at the University of Borås and at Vilnius University. Her main research subjects are information in organizations and evaluation of digital resources.
Joseph J. Mika is Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Mika has been an Assistant Director in academic libraries at Ohio State University and Johnson State College (Vermont), and Assistant Dean in the School of Library Service at the University of Southern Mississippi before becoming Director of the Library Science Program at Wayne State University. At Wayne State University he was Director from 1986 – 1994 and 2002 – 2007, and has served as Professor since. With his spouse he is also co-principal in Hartzell-Mika Consulting that facilitates libraries in strategic planning, director searches, building assessments, and board and staff training.
His degrees are from the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania): BA in English Literature, Master’s in Library Science, and PhD in Library Administration.
Mika has been active in the American Library Association serving on its Council and holding committee chairs, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education serving and chairing various committees, and as editor of its Journal of Education for Library and Information Science for ten years.
Tom Wilson is Professor at the University of Borås, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield. His main research subjects are information in organizations and information behaviour.
Attila Zabos is involved in research project activities at the German National Library and working on the development of new technologies for Long Term Preservation systems.
