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Speakers will include:
Nancy Bolt has been the State Librarian for 15 years in the state of Colorado in the United States. During her tenure at the State Library, working with staff and librarians in Colorado, Bolt created the Access Colorado Library and Information Network (ACLIN) with over 200 library catalogs and numerous web sites and digitized images; expanded the State Documents Depository from print only publications to include catalogued digitized documents; acquired funds to purchase a new Library for the Blind and Print Handicapped; established the Colorado Library Card statewide, non-reimbursed, multi-type library reciprocal borrowing program; and acquired funds for the first ever State Funding for Libraries program providing funding to public, academic, and school libraries. Stella Dextre Clarke is an independent consultant specialising in the design and implementation of thesauri, classification schemes and taxonomies. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, soon to merge with the UK Library Association and become the new Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. She works with a range of public and private sector clients, among them the Office of the e-Envoy, which is responsible for developing the UK standards for interoperability and metadata. Lynda Cooper has held a variety of information posts at the Home Office, from April 2001 as ISU Resources manager. She began her career in government libraries at the Department of Trade and Industry, Monopolies Commission and Office of Fair Trading as an assistant librarian. All through her career she has been cataloguing government publications. She is also the Hon Secretary of the Circle of State Librarians António José de Pina Falcăo has been Librarian-Presidency of Republic since June 1992. He started work in libraries in 1970 and has worked for the Lisbon Public Libraries, Portuguese Post and Telecommunications, National Library, National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. He was President of BAD for 2 terms, in 1994-1995 and 1996-1998), and is currently its Vice-president of BAD and Chairman of the BAD Section on Government Libraries. He has chaired several national conferences including the 6th National Conference of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (Aveiro, May 1998) and the 1st National Conference on Documentation and Information in the Public Administration (Lisbon, January 2001), and is a member of EBLIDA Executive Committee. Clare Gibson is Information Services Manager at the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, a job she has held since 1997. She began her career as an Assistant Librarian in one of the Department's many predecessors: the Department of the Environment, in 1983. In 1998 she was Project Manager for the DETR's Information Overload Impact Review. She also manages the Secretariat for the InterDepartmental Group on Information Matters. Maria Göckeritz is Librarian, Ministry for Science, Research and Art, Thüringen, Germany. From 1978 to 1981 she was Librarian at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Thuringia), from 1982 to 1990, Librarian at the Information Service Center of the ROBOTRON Company in Erfurt (Thuringia), and since 1991 she has been a Librarian and Civil Servant at the Government of the federal state of Thuringia (Ministry of Science, Research and Art). Since 1993 she has been a member of the board of the professional working group of "Governmental and Parliamentary Libraries" in Germany and since 1991 further education deputy and vice charmain of the board of the professional working group of the "Governmental and administrative authority libraries" of Thuringia Peter
Griffiths holds a Bachelor's degree in European Studies and is a Fellow of
CILIP. He is also a member of ADBS, l'Association des
professionnels de l'information et de la documentation. As Head of the Home Office's Information Services
Group, he manages this
government department's internet, extranet and intranet services, an
internal knowledge base, and a briefing unit for its ministers as well as
its library services. He was previously at the Department of Health and the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, and began his career in public libraries. He was a
member of Council of the IIS, and, at various times, of various committees
of the IIS and the Library Association, and is now a CILIP Councillor. He was chairman of the Circle of
State Librarians from 1996 to 1999. As well as various contributions to
previous Online Information meetings since 1989, he has written or
co-written a number of books and papers including Creating a successful
e-information service (Facet Publishing, 2002).
Sharon Jones is currently Deputy Director for the Policy Resources Division in the Cabinet Office's Centre for Management and Policy Studies. The division co-ordinates joined-up briefing for cross-cutting units; supports the role of new and existing networks between the analytical and policymaking communities in and out of Central Government and co-ordinates activities to facilitate access to analytical evidence and information from the UK and around the world. This includes development of Knowledge Pools and Policy Hub - a new web-based resource to support improved policymaking and delivery. Currently on loan to the Cabinet Office, she has previously spent thirteen years as a government social researcher, commissioning and managing social policy research projects. Maija Jussilainen is Coordinator of the Valtipa Network – network of information service professionals in the ministries, Parliament and the National Archives - and Project Manager of The register on projects and legal preparatory documents of the Finnish Government. Before that, from 1997-2001 she was Project Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the Intranet of the Government, at the Prime Minister´s Office, from 1994 to 1997, Project Manager at the EU Infomation Centre, at the Parliament Library, 1990-1994, Project Manager and Information Specialist at EU Information Centre, at the University of Vaasa, and 1980-1990, Information Specialist at the Nordic Documentation Centre for Mass Communication Research (NORDICOM), at the University of Tampere Pekka Kuittinen is Senior Officer, Prime Minister's Office of the Finnish Government (www.vnk.fi) and editor in chief of the Council intranet "Senaattori". He has previously worked as an Information Specialist, Prime Minister's Office, and as an Information Specialist at the Arla Institute (www.arlainst.fi). Irja Peltonnen has been Head of Information Services, at the Finnish Ministry of Finance since 1995. Prior to that she was an Information Specialist at the Ministry of Finance from 1989-1994, Librarian, Ministry of Education from 1986-1989, Consultant, Rahapaja - Mint of Finland during 1986, Information Specialist, Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council from 1983 to 1985, and Information Specialist, Finnish Academy in 1982. Alison Raisin has held a variety of library or information posts in three different government departments. In 2001 she moved from her post as Head of the DTI Information and Library Service to take on the new role of Information Manager responsible for the local implementation and management of electronic records and document management within the DTI unit responsible for IT and information management across the department. Since 2000 she has been Chair of the cross government group supporting the recruitment, career development and training of librarians which also manages the government competency framework for librarians. Christine Wellems has been Head of the Department “Parliamentary Information Services” in the Chancellery of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany since1995. She also teaches information services, indexing/documentation at the Department of Library and Information Management, University of Applied Science, Hamburg. From 1992 to 1995 she was Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Documentation (Library, Documentation, national and international educational information networks) in the Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn. Gladysann Wells, State Librarian of Arizona, is responsible for statewide collaboration of libraries, archives, public records programs, and, under the Library Services and Technology Act, museums. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records provides direct services through six divisions, including the Braille and Talking Book Library, the Law and Research Library, and two museums. With an annual operating budget of $11.5 million and a staff of 130, the agency provides access to public information as the Federal Regional Depository and the State depository, and preserves Arizon's history through curatorial, archival, records management, and library functions. Response for several state commissions, including the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission, the Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board, the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names, and the Arizona Constitution Commemoration Committee. |
