IFLA 2016 PRESIDENT'S MEETING
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      • Dr. Guy Bertiaume, National Librarian and Archivist, Canada
      • Don Tapscott, C.M.
      • Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, Toronto Public Library
      • Michael Crandall, Principal Research Scientist, The Information School, University of Washington
      • M.J. D'Elia, University of Guelph
      • Honorable Janice R. Lachance, JD, FASAE
      • Patricia Martin, principal, LitLamp Communications,
      • Sue Considine, Executive Director, Fayetteville Free Library
      • Dr. Claudia Lux, Project Director, Qatar National Library
      • Wendy Newman, iSchool/CULC Public Library Leadership Fellows Program
      • Robert Newlen, Chief of Staff, Library of Congress
      • Michael Peter Edson, Associate Director/Head of Digital, UN Live Museum for Humanity; Presidential Distinguished Fellow at CLIR; OpenGLAM advisory board at @OKFN.
      • Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, IFLA Africa Regional Office, & Executive Director, Library Services, University of South Africa, Unisa
      • John Szabo, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
      • Victoria Owen, Chief Librarian, Library, University of Toronto Scarborough
      • Jennefer Nicholson, Secretary General, IFLA
      • Sandra Hirsh, Professor and Director, School of Information, San Jose State University
      • Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, John Hopkins University
      • Seamus Ross, Dean, Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto
      • Stuart Hamilton, Deputy Secretary General / Director, Policy & Advocacy, IFLA
      • James Neal, University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University
      • Gerald Leitner, Secretary General, Austria Library Association, Secretary General, IFLA
      • Christopher Cutler, Advisor to the Mayor of Hamilton
      • Kristina Virtanen, Project Manager, City of Helsinki Library
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  • Location: Hotel & Travel
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  • About
  • Donna Scheeder, President, IFLA

Seamus Ross, Interim Director of the Coach House Institute, Past Dean, Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto
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Seamus Ross, Professor and Interim Director of the Coach House Institute, Past Dean, Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto and Visiting Professor 2016, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens.

Seamus Ross is Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, also known as U of T’s iSchool. He served as Dean for seven years (2009-2015). Before joining Toronto, he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) at the University of Glasgow (1997-2009) where he continues to hold the rank of Professor.
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Dr. Ross served as Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre in the U.K. (2004-2009) and was Principal Director of ERPANET (2001-2004) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) (2006-2009). He was a co-principal investigator on such projects as the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence (2004-2007), Planets (2006-2010), and Digicult Forum (2002-2004). Dr. Ross was Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) at the British Academy in London (1990-1997). He contributes to the work of professional associations and advisory boards such as the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI).
Dr. Ross’s scholarly research has focused on digital humanities, digital preservation, digitization, digital repositories , emulation, digital archaeology, semantic extraction and genre classification , and cultural heritage informatics . See for instance his co-authored studies of “Digital Archaeology” and forensic storage formats , his examination of digital preservation and archival science , and his introduction to digital preservation, Changing Trains at Wigan . He also promotes broadening access to scholarship and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Series by DigitalPreservationEurope (e.g., 2009 video Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation )

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  • Home
  • Program
    • Speakers >
      • Dr. Guy Bertiaume, National Librarian and Archivist, Canada
      • Don Tapscott, C.M.
      • Vickery Bowles, City Librarian, Toronto Public Library
      • Michael Crandall, Principal Research Scientist, The Information School, University of Washington
      • M.J. D'Elia, University of Guelph
      • Honorable Janice R. Lachance, JD, FASAE
      • Patricia Martin, principal, LitLamp Communications,
      • Sue Considine, Executive Director, Fayetteville Free Library
      • Dr. Claudia Lux, Project Director, Qatar National Library
      • Wendy Newman, iSchool/CULC Public Library Leadership Fellows Program
      • Robert Newlen, Chief of Staff, Library of Congress
      • Michael Peter Edson, Associate Director/Head of Digital, UN Live Museum for Humanity; Presidential Distinguished Fellow at CLIR; OpenGLAM advisory board at @OKFN.
      • Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, IFLA Africa Regional Office, & Executive Director, Library Services, University of South Africa, Unisa
      • John Szabo, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
      • Victoria Owen, Chief Librarian, Library, University of Toronto Scarborough
      • Jennefer Nicholson, Secretary General, IFLA
      • Sandra Hirsh, Professor and Director, School of Information, San Jose State University
      • Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, John Hopkins University
      • Seamus Ross, Dean, Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto
      • Stuart Hamilton, Deputy Secretary General / Director, Policy & Advocacy, IFLA
      • James Neal, University Librarian Emeritus, Columbia University
      • Gerald Leitner, Secretary General, Austria Library Association, Secretary General, IFLA
      • Christopher Cutler, Advisor to the Mayor of Hamilton
      • Kristina Virtanen, Project Manager, City of Helsinki Library
  • Registration
  • Fees
  • Sponsors
  • Location: Hotel & Travel
  • Contacts
  • About
  • Donna Scheeder, President, IFLA