Keynote Speakers
Dr. Carol Tenopir
Chancellor's Professor School of Information Sciences, Director of Research and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, USA
Talk title: Beyond Usage: Measuring Library Outcomes and Value
Short Biography
Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information, and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers, (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) with Donald W. King.
Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the «Online Databases» column for Library Journal. She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
Ioannis Trohopoulos
Director of Veria Central Public Library (2010 Access to Learning Award Recipient), Greece
Talk title: The story of Veria Library, creativity and innovation: providing adding value services to the citizen
Short Biography
Ioannis Trohopoulos, BA in Law, (University of Thessaloniki, 1982), MA in Public Law (University of Thessaloniki, 1985) and MLib in Library and Information Studies (University of Wales, Great Britain, 1990). He has been the director of Veria Central Public Library since 1990. From 1991 to 1996 he was also a lecturer (part-time) on Library Automation and Management at the Library school of the Technical University of Thessaloniki. In 1996, he received a scholarship from the United States Information Agency and worked for four months in the Clermont County Public Library in Ohio, U.S.A.
From 1994 to 2004 he has been the national coordinator for six EU projects, namely the MOBILE (under the Libraries program), the PLDP (under the Phare program), Publica (under Libraries program) the ISTAR project (EU funded under Directorate-General XVI), the PULMAN Project (under the FP5 program) and the CALIMERA Project (under the FP6 program). From 2004 to 2007 he coordinated the Light Project, which was funded under Interreg III C East. From 2007 to 2009 he managed the European projects ENTITLE and UNTOLD, both funded under Grudvtiq programs.
Currently he is the national coordinator of the EDLocal and AccessIT EU projects, both related with the development of digital libraries. In June 2010, he has been apointed as vice president of the National committee for Libraries, Archives and Educational Television at the ministry of Education. In August 2010 during the IFLA conference in Gothenburg, Sweden he received on behalf of Veria Central Public Library the award “Access to Knowledge 2010” by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Teresa S. Welsh, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Library & Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Talk title: Information Literacy in the Digital Age: An Evidence-Based Approach
Short Biography
Dr. Welsh is a native Mississippian who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Mississippi with a B.A. degree in anthropology and minors in social studies and classical studies. While at Southern Miss, she was a member of the Honors College as well as Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Theta Kappa, Lambda Alpha, Gamma Beta Phi, and Golden Key Honor Societies. She earned an M.L.I.S. and later a Ph.D. in communication and information from the University of Tennessee with a specialty in information sciences. She was a member of Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society and awarded the Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship from UTK as well as Best Technical Project Award and Best Doctoral Paper Award from the School of Information Sciences.
She has taught at Southern Miss since summer 2003 and has received the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Education and Psychology, was one of 12 faculty chosen for the 2007-08 Learning Enhancement Center Podcasting Pilot Project, served as an assistant director for the Katrina Research Center, and served on the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Advisory Board. In addition to being published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings, she has authored several book chapters and is currently co-authoring a book on information literacy. Teaching and research interests include historical research, bibliometric research, information literacy, information retrieval, international librarianship, museum studies and archival studies.