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Committee elected at the 17th EBLIDA Council Meeting for the term 2009-2011:

EBLIDA President
Mr Gerald Leitner, Austria
BVÖ, Büchereiverband Österreichs (Austrian Library Association)
leitner@bvoe.at

Education

Librarian's Certificate. Study of German Language and Literature and Study of History at the University of Vienna, Mag. Phil.

Professional Experience and Practical Studies

Since 2004, Head of the Executive Committee of Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung, Wien (Austrian Society for Political Education, Vienna)
Since 1998, Secretary General of Büchereiverband Österreichs
Since 1997, Lecturer at College for Information and Knowledge Management, Eisenstadt
1992-1998, Head of the Educational Department at Büchereiverband Österreichs, managing the field of Educational and Vocational Training for Librarians of Public Libraries
1990-1991, Chief Editor of Neue Wiener Büchereibriefe, Educational Employee of Büchereiverband Österreichs
1979-1989, Freelance work for daily newspapers and cultural magazines

Publications

Numerous publications in specialist journals and independent publications of books, please find a selection underneath:
Was wird das Ausland dazu sagen? Literatur und Republik in Österreich nach 1945 (What Will The Reactions From Abroad Be Like? Literature And The Republic In Austria In The Aftermath Of 1945), Vienna 1995
Öffentliche Büchereien in Österreich. Adressen. Daten. Analysen (Public Libraries In Austria. Contact Addresses, Data, Analyses), Vienna 1998
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Literature For Children And Young People), Vienna 1999
Über Österreich zu schreiben ist schwer (Writing On Austria Is Difficult), Salzburg 2000
En route: neue Aufgaben, neue Chancen für Öffentliche Bibliotheken (En Route: New Tasks, New Opportunities For Public Libraries), Vienna 2001

Prizes

1999, Österreichischer Staatspreis für Erwachsenenbildung (The Austrian Award For Education And Vocational Training For Adults)
2000, Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das Politische Buch (Bruno-Kreisky-Award For The Political Book)

Languages

German and English

EBLIDA Vice-President
Jill Martin, United Kingdom
Director, Membership Engagement & IT
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
jill.martin@cilip.org.uk

Jill Martin's career had included periods in a range of UK libraries - public, academic and commercial. She also spent a total of 11 years with the British Council, managing library and information services in Hong Kong, Lisbon and Moscow.

Jill joined the Library Association (one of the CILIP's predecessor bodies) in 1995 as International Coordinator. Since then she has occupied a number of posts and since 2004 has been Director, one of the management team leading the Institute through some difficult times.

Her responsibilities include central ICT services, the CILIP website, information and advice services to members, support to volunteer activists, careers work, and (happily still) international activities. Jill is a weekly commuter from a small village in a beautiful part of the UK's West Country, where she lives with her husband. She has three grown-up children - a teacher, a research chemist and a museum curator - and is a grandmother.

Her greatest professional interest is in networking of all types, national and international, face-to face and electronic.

EBLIDA Treasurer
Mr Klaus-Peter Böttger, Germany
Director, Stadtbibliothek ESSEN
Klaus-Peter.Boettger@stadtbibliothek.essen.de

Klaus-Peter Böttger is a typical public librarian. Böttger started as Head of a library branch moving to a central library responsibility. He is now Director of the public library Mülheim an der Ruhr and as of November 2009 of the public library Essen, the European capital of culture for 2010.

Since 1984, Böttger has been involved in various committees' affairs of library associations, among other positions, he has been the President of the association of librarians. He has been responsible as a Treasurer for the German association of librarians, his IFLA-section public libraries, IFLA world conference in Berlin, and now for EBLIDA.

His greatest professional interest is in developing customer-focused services, and at the international level, in networking and bringing awareness to the local libraries of the decision making and changes in the European policies.

Her greatest professional interest is in networking of all types, national and international, face-to face and electronic. Left in 1982 The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Aalborg.

From 1985 to 1996 I worked as the Head Librarian at the School of Business and Engineering in Herning, Denmark. Then I moved to the public library sector as Deputiy Librarian. From 2003 as Library Director in Odense.

Through all the years I have been involved in different committees, boards and council concerning library matters, both established by the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media and through organisations and forums within the cultural sector. From 1996 I was involved with different committees of the Danish Library and from 2007, I am member of the executive Committee.

Within the last few years, I am a member of the Board of Directors for TV2Funen and committee of The Danish Arts Council.

Ms Saara Ihamäki, Finland
Suomen Kirjastoseura (Finnish Library Association)
saara.ihamaki@hel.fi
Born 1957 in the city of Oulu in northern Finland, but Saara spent her childhood in Namibia (former South-West Africa).

Education

MA Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (1999)
BA Information studies, University of Tampere (2001)

Currently, she works as Head Librarian at the Helsinki City Library, in charge of two branch libraries. The Helsinki City Library has several ongoing projects, where different forms of modern library services are being created. Saara takes part in three of these projects:
- Sanojen aika  (Time of Words) – database of Modern Finnish Authors http://kirjailijat.kirjastot.fi/
- iGS – Information Gas Station - reference work in the Internet http://igs.kirjastot.fi/
- Greenwell Matongo – community library project in Windhoek capital of Namibia

She has been a member of the Board of the Finnish Library Association from 2000 until the end of 2006. The last two years she has served as the vice-chairperson. She has also been a member of the Strategy Working Group and the Indicators Working Group of the Finnish Library Association and a substitute member of the EBLIDA executive committee since 2003.

She is mother of three children, the youngest of them being thirteen-years old. In her spare time she likes reading, visiting art galleries, jogging and spending time with her family.

Ms Glòria Pérez Salmerón , Spain
FESABID (Spanish Federation of Archives, Libraries, Documentation and Museum Associations)
perezsalmeron@gencat.cat

2000 - UB University of Barcelona - Information Science and Documentation Degree
1998 - UPF University Pompeu Fabra - Planning and Management of Libraries University Degree
1997 - Col.legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes de Catalunya - Total Quality in Libraries course
1994 - Diputació de Barcelona - Management of Networked Libraries training
1984 - Escola de Biblioteconomia i Documentació Jordi Rubió i Balaguer -Barcelona- Graduate in Libraries and Documentation

Professional Record

2008 - President FESABID, Federación Española de Asociaciones de Archivística, Biblioteconomía, Documentació y Museística (Professional Spanish Federation Board)
2005 - Cooperation Library Services Manager, Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalonia’s Government)
2005 - Member of the IFLA Public Libraries Standing Committee
2001-2005 - Technical Libraries Departament Manager, Diputació de Barcelona (Barcelona’s Province Council)
2000-2003 - Member of the Professional COBDC Board
1995-2001 - District libraries Network Manager, North Barcelona Libraries
1993-2004 - Member of the Public Library Workgroup, Col.legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes de Catalunya -Barcelona- (COBDC)
1992-2001 - Director, Biblioteca Central Urbana Can Casacuberta -Central Library of Badalona-
1987-1992- Director, Biblioteca Popular Sant Anastasi  -Badalona

Qualifications and Professional Education and Training

Bachelor of Arts (History), University of Lisbon, 1984
Post-graduate Course in Library and Information Science (2 years), University of Lisbon, 1986
ttended about 60 continuing professional education courses and activities
Attended 25 international (IFLA, FID, Lusophonie) and national conferences (Portugal, France, Macao, Mozambique, Spain, United States of America)

Professional Career
Librarian or Information Specialist:
- Office of the President of the Republic of Portugal (since 1992)
- Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (1991-1992)
- National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology (1989-1990)
- National Library (1988)
- Portuguese Post and Telecommunications (1986-1987)
- Library Technician - Lisbon Public Libraries (1971-1972; 1976-1985)

Professional Associations - Membership and activities

National Level
Membership, Policy and Management Activities
- Member of BAD since 1976
- President of BAD (3 terms: 1994-1995; 1996–1998; 2005-2007); reelected for the 2008-2010 term
- Vice-President of BAD (1999–2001; 2002-2004)
- Member of the National Executive Committee of BAD (2 terms: 1990-1991; 1991-1993), as the officer for professional education
- Member of the Consultative Council of BAD, as a representative of the Library Technicians (1982-1986)

Organising Activities (Chair)
- 8th National Conference of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (Ponta Delgada, Azores, March 2007)
- Conferência “Os Profissionais da Informação em Contexto Europeu: perfis, formação, mobilidade” / Conference “The Information Professionals in the European Context: professional profiles, education, mobility” (Lisbon, Sept. 2005)
- 1st National Conference on Documentation and Information on the Public Administration (Lisbon, January 2001)
- 6th National Conference of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (Aveiro, May 1998)
- 1st National Conference on Education for LIS Professionals (Braga, December 1997)
- 1st National Conference on School Libraries (Lisbon, January 1996)

International Level
Policy and Management Activities
- Member of EBLIDA Executive Committee (4 terms: 1995–1997; 1997–1999; 2001-2003; 2003-2005)
- Member of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section of Government Libraries (one term)

Organising Activities
- Member of the organizing committee of the 35th IASL Conference (Lisbon, July 2006)
- Chairman of the 3rd International Conference of Portuguese Speaking Librarians (Aveiro, May 1998) - participants of Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guiné, Macao, Mozambique, Portugal, S. Tomé
Teaching activities
- Postgraduate course of Library and Information Science, University of Lisbon (Information and Society, 1997–2007
- Cataloguing, 1986-1989)
- Training of library technicians (several courses, 1998-1994)

Bibliography
- About 30 papers presented in national or international conferences promoted by BAD or other organizations
- Co-author of the LIB-2 Report/Update (Portugal) - European Commission (1992)

Mr Aldo Pirola, Italy 
AIB (Associazione Italiana Biblioteche)
aldo.pirola@comune.milano.it

Aldo Pirola is Director of the Public Library System in Milan, which consists of 24 interconnected facilities, scattered on a territory with 1 million inhabitants. He started his career in the library of the Roman Catholic University in Milan where he used to work at the central catalogue. Classification and cataloguing were his primary activities between 1976 and 1982.The following year he was appointed Director of the Academic library of the University in Brescia, some 40 miles to the east in Milan, where subsequently he was appointed Director of the public library system at the time in which it was being reorganized through the introduction of the new electronic technologies. Eventually he was appointed in Milan in 2007.

Member of the local executive committee of the Italian Librarian Association (A.I.B.) between 1994 and 1999, President of the Association of Bibliophiles in Brescia between 1993 and 2007, advisor in Bozen for the foundation of the Academic library between 1999 and 2005 as well as advisor for the new provincial library, still in Bozen, since 2006, he has played a significant role in promoting lectures, conferences and cultural meetings in libraries both on a national and on an international level.

The next challenge will be IFLA 2009 in Milan. Aldo Pirola was awarded a special prize by the Rotary Club in Brescia for his role in promoting the activity of the local public libraries.

Erna Winters started her library career as a volunteer at the age of 8 or 9, helping the local librarian to put the books on the shelves. Ever since then she wanted to be a librarian. After she finished the library academy she had several jobs in several public libraries across the Netherlands. First as an assistant librarian, and after a few years as head or managing director of the public library.

Public Library Kennemerwaard is the merger of the public libraries of Castricum, Heerhugowaard and Alkmaar. Erna was managing director of the new organization.

Her responsibilities include networking with local provincial governments, representing the library on national meetings and making connections between other institutions with which the library can cooperate on projects. It is also her goal to make the merger of the three organizations a success for the users of the public libraries.

Erna lives in Alkmaar, nearby the 16th century city centre. Her partner lives in the southern part of the Netherlands and during the weekends they spend their time either in the woods in the south or on the beaches near Alkmaar.