Book Contributors

François Renaville (1976) studied linguistics, literature, and translation. After a two-year experience as a teacher in Finland, he joined the University of Liège Library as a subject librarian. He has been working on library systems since 2005. Since 2022, he has been member of the IGeLU (International Group of Ex Libris Users) Steering Committee and has been coordinating the “Systems & Data” unit at ULiège Library. He is interested in discoverability, integrations, delivery and user services. On a private level, he is a great coffee, chocolate and penguin lover.

Reyes Albo (1965) is library director at the School of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and coordinator of the University libraries that belong to the TIC Area. She has experience in budget management, human resources and coordination of working groups at University level, library infrastructure management, collection management, electronic resources, and experience in digital content management for digital environment. She is an expert in advanced training in information resources for librarians, academics and students on topics such as bibliographic reference management, information literacy, plagiarism and teaching students how to create academic works for their curricula.

Joris Baeyens (1969) obtained an associate degree in Information Management: Library and Archives. He started working in 2012 at Faculty Library of Arts & Philosophy as acquisitions librarian and joined the library’s ILL team in 2018.

Tina Baich is the Senior Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication & Content Strategies at IUPUI University Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Before becoming a library administrator, she led the library’s resource sharing efforts for 12 years. Tina is currently SPARC’s Visiting Program Officer for the U.S. Repository Network and Chair of IFLA’s Document Delivery & Resource Sharing Section Standing Committee.

Léa Bouillet (1989) has a master’s degree in book history and passed the competitive examination to become a library curator in 2011. After one and a half years of training at the National School of Library and Information Technology (ENSSIB) in Lyon (France), she began her career in 2013 as head of public services at the University Health Library of the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France). After 4 years, she was appointed director of public services in the libraries of the University Jean Jaurès in Toulouse. She is primarily responsible for the public services policy, projects related to handicaps, training in information skills and ILL. In parallel, she provides training in preparation for library examinations with the Occitanie library careers training centre (Mediad’Oc).

Karin Byström (1973) is a librarian at Uppsala University Library in Sweden where she works as a coordinator at the Media division. She has extensive experience of working with many parts of collection development – cataloguing and acquisition, e-resources and open access, digitization and shared print. Karin has an interest in library collaboration and she has been involved in many Swedish library collaboration projects. She is currently the project manager of the collaboration for Digitization of Swedish print and part of the working group for the Swedish shared print initiative. Since 2019 Karin has been a member of the standing committee of the IFLA Acquisition and Collection Development section, where she currently holds the position as secretary.

After studying history at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Camille Carette (1994) trained in the use of digital technologies in heritage and research. Since 2019, she has worked at the library of the École nationale des chartes, first exclusively on the digitization of the theses of archivists-paleographers, then as library systems manager from 2020. Among other things, she is in charge of the ILS, the discovery tool and the digital library. In 2023, she joined the organizers of AUFO, the association of French-speaking users of Omeka.

Marion Favre (1990) is an e-resources librarian, working mainly with ebooks. She oversees Alma for her team and also manages the library’s video game collection. Marion also likes to dig in COUNTER reports and to create analyses with Analytics.

Karolina Forma (1990) started her work in AGH University of Science and Technology Main Library in 2018, joining the Branch Libraries and Inventory Control Division. She takes an active part in ongoing financial and quantitative inventories of various collections. In 2019, she became a co-manager of the library’s social media and took a creative role in the library’s marketing team. Since 2021, she has been expanding her ILL knowledge by helping in the Interlibrary Loans Office. Her work interests include 20th century illustrations, history of advertisement, and social media.

Veronica Fors (1976) has a master’s degree in library and information science and is currently librarian at Örebro University Library at the unit Library Acquisitions and Scholarly Publishing. She is responsible for the library’s interlibrary loans. She also works with the library’s publication database DiVA.

Elisabetta Guerra (1972) graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures at Verona University and has been librarian at Verona University Libraries since 2006. Since the beginning of her activity, Elisabetta has been working in the interlibrary loan and document delivery services. She is also engaged in information literacy programs for library users. Since 2022, she has been the User Services Manager for the Libraries of the Medicine, Science and Technology Campus. She works in the central library “Egidio Meneghetti”, where she manages the loan and consultation services.

Martina Kassler is a current interlibrary loan librarian at Karlstad University Library. After completing a bachelor in economics and a master in ethnology and sociology and another one in library and information science, she took up a position as an interlibrary loan librarian. She is also interested in the topic of interculture.

Susanne Kirchmair (1975) has an academic background in International Business & Economics from the University of Innsbruck (A), Aarhus Business School (DK), and University of Groningen (NL), as well as Library & Information Studies from the University of Vienna (A). She started her career as a librarian at the University and State Library of Tyrol. She worked in circulation, acquisition, and training in the Social and Economic Sciences faculty library. Since 2011, she has been responsible for Library Services at MCI, implementing resources, tools, and services to enhance the user experience and provide high-quality content for studying and research. She also teaches in various study programs and continuing staff education to support the academic success of students and faculty.

Carmen Lomba (1964) has a degree in History of Art (University of Valladolid). She has been working as librarian at the Library of Cantabria University since 1989 and has been responsible for the Interlibrary Loan-Document Delivery Service (ILL-DD) since 1995. She is currently part of the Working Group on ILL-DD for REBIUN (Network of Spanish University Libraries) and has been a member of the NILDE Internationalization Working Group since 2019. She participates as a volunteer in RSCVD initiatives and works in the European project “HERMES –Strengthening digital resource sharing during COVID and beyond” ERASMUS PLUS PROGRAMME, led by the Italian CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) 2021-2023. She is a member of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee (2021-2025).

After high school in Velletri, Italy, Luca Maggiore (1968) graduated in Modern History at KU Leuven (Belgium) and later he obtained a postgraduate degree in Information and library science at the University of Antwerp. He currently works at the University of Antwerp as head of the Acquisition and Metadata Department (Library). He has published in the fields of library science and the history of Italy.

Stefania Marzocchi (1969) is a librarian and project manager. Her collaboration with the Italian CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) started in 2018 and is related to the implementation of CARONTE, BRAIN@WORK, and HERMES project activities, all funded by the European Commission. She is experienced in the design, management, and evaluation of international technical assistance projects with specific reference to the field of methodological approaches to research activity.

Debora Mazza (1996) graduated in History and Oriental Studies from the University of Bologna. She has been collaborating with Dario Nobili CNR Library in Bologna since 2019. She is in charge of the library’s communication activities (graphic design, social media, website management) and she is involved in front-office, reference services, and document delivery with NILDE. She also develops the TALARIA software as part of the European HERMES Project.

Isàvena Opisso (1973) became university librarian at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2019. Prior to this position, she worked as a university librarian at the Universitat de Barcelona (2009-2018) and public library librarian in the public libraries of Olot and La Garriga (2008-2009). Her current work focuses on interlibrary loan and article processing charges.

Florian Preiß studied medieval and postmedieval archaeology in Bamberg and library sciences in Munich. Since 2016, he has been librarian and head of the reading room department at Deutsches Museum library in Munich. His main responsibilities include the interlibrary loan and document delivery activities of the Museum library.

Fabienne Prosmans (1972) studied mathematics at the University of Liège and obtained a PhD at the University of Paris Nord. Since 2005, she has been working at ULiège Library as a subject librarian in the fields of mathematics and applied sciences. She has been the fulfilment and ILL manager at ULiège Library since 2015 and is now coordinating the “User Services” unit.

François Renaville (1976) studied linguistics, literature, and translation. After a two-year experience as a teacher in Finland, he joined the University of Liège Library as a subject librarian. He has been working on library systems since 2005. Since 2022, he has been member of the IGeLU (International Group of Ex Libris Users) Steering Committee and has been coordinating the “Systems & Data” unit at ULiège Library. He is interested in discoverability, integrations, delivery and user services. On a private level, he is a great coffee, chocolate and penguin lover.

Franciszek Skalski (1995) has been employed at the University of Warsaw Library since 2020. Between 2013-2018, he studied archaeology at the University of Warsaw.

Jennifer Van den Avijle (1987) is an archaeologist and librarian by training. After three years in the public library sector, Jennifer has been working as head of user services for the Biomedical Library and Library of Exact and Applied Sciences at the University of Antwerp since 2014. She manages the user services team, optimises loan and ILL services, oversees rebuilding and refurbishment projects, looks for new ways to expand our services and functions, all while trying to dissuade the team from adopting a library cat.

Manon Velasco is a multipurpose librarian at EPFL where she is currently in charge of e-book collections. She is also involved in the EPFL’s institutional repository and she is a member of the copyright team. Her professional interests include revolutionizing the relationship with publishers, negotiating the best possible agreements with e-book providers, supporting researchers in opening their research and playful learning applied to copyright literacy education.