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Key note speakers
Jonathan Eldredge, MLS, PhD, AHIP
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Library Knowledge Consultant, Learning Design Center, Health Sciences Library and Informatics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
We are happy to include as one of our keynote speakers Jonathan Eldredge, long considered to be a leader in the international Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) movement. Dr. Eldredge has published 23 articles and 5 book chapters on EBLIP. The articles have been published in leading library science/informatics journals such as Journal of the Medical Library Association, Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana; BMC, Health Information and Libraries Journal, Hypothesis, Journal of Library and Information Science, Library Hi Tech, and Medical Reference Services Quarterly.
Dr. Eldredge created the Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education course on EBLIP in 1998 and has taught this course a total of 21 times in Europe, Canada, and across the four time zones of the continental United States. He created a 42 hour web-based mentored version of this course during 2006 for MLA. He also has been the principal investigator in four randomized controlled trials. He also has conducted a number of observational and qualitative research studies.
Dr. Eldredge is Associate Professor for the School of Medicine and the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center at the University of New Mexico where he has an active research program and regularly teaches his medical, clinical research, and public health students.
Dr. Anita Mirijamdotter
Professor and Chair of Informatics, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University, Sweden
Anita Mirijamdotter is Professor and Head of Research of Informatics at the School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University, Sweden. In this position she leads the subject’s research, economy, graduate and undergraduate teaching, plans the research education and supervise research students. She also serves as chair of the Växjö University Computer Science research board. In addition to own research she develops research projects, builds up external funding and research collaboration with business, industry and central authorities.
Sue McKnight
Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University
Professor Sue McKnight is Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University. Sue is responsible for library services across NTU’s three campuses and for leading the University’s strategic developments in e-learning and knowledge management.
Her major research interest is ‘customer value discovery’, especially as this relates to libraries and eLearning. Sue has published demonstrating the applied nature of her research, and the improvement in customer satisfaction when strategies to deliver the defined values are implemented.
She is an active member of IFLA and currently chairs its Academic and Research Libraries Section. She is a Fellow of both CILIP and the Australian Institute of Management. Sue was named a National Teaching Fellow in June 2008 by the Higher Education Academy (UK) and was named Manager of the Year by the Australian Library & Information Association in 1999.
She currently chairs the JISC eBooks Working Party and is Vice-Chair of the JISC National eBooks Observatory Project. Sue is also a member of the Pearson Education Strategic Advisory Board.
Birgitta Olander
Birgitta Olander is Senior University Lecturer and Head of the Department of Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. She has a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto, Canada; the title of her PhD thesis being Personal information management in Computer Science research (1992).
Her research interests include knowledge organization, library development and librarianship as a profession, as well as information behavior and scientific communication; areas in which she has been active over the last 25 years.
Recently, Dr Olander has returned to the subject of her PhD thesis and since 2006, she has been coordinator of the project Science in interaction. This longitudinal study over a period of nearly 20 years involved collecting data about the information behavior of researchers in Computer Science at two time periods (1987-88 and 2006) . The results from the study have been presented at international conferences (2007 and 2008), and have also been published in the journal, Information Research (Olander 2007).
Longitudinal studies on information behavior are rare in the field of Library and Information Science and because of this, the study has gained a wide audience of interest from the international research community in.
Ola Pilerot
Ola Pilerot is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), University College of Borås and Gothenburg University, where he teaches within the field of information seeking, needs and use. Before joining SSLIS Pilerot was deputy library director at Skövde University College. His main area of research interest is information literacy, a subject on which he has published several conference papers, articles and book chapters."
