By StuartM | April 12, 2016
The IASSIST Fellows Committee are pleased to announce that we will be awarding an IASSIST Fellowship award for the 2016 conference to the following recipients:
Marijana Glavica - Systems Librarian, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
‘As a systems librarian I work with bibliographic data and manage library automation systems. I am also involved in designing library policies and procedures. As a subject specialist I provide information services to psychology professors and students, and I teach a course about information resources in psychology. In the last few years I started to work towards establishment of data archive and services for the social sciences in Croatia, an effort supported by SERSCIDA project in the past and currently by two ongoing projects - SEEDS and CESSDA-SaW.’
Dr Bhojaraju Gunjal - Head of Central Library, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
‘I am serving as Head, Central Library (Deputy Librarian) of our institute library since August, 2014. In this capacity, I am responsible for management of the Biju Patnaik Central Library of this institute which employs 33 people including library staff, trainees, support staff and has an annual budget of over Rs. 6 Crores.
Our library manages institutional repositories using the DSpace and e-Prints tools with a number of new initiatives under progress such as integrating ORCID with all our repositories, research data management, etc. In this regard, programs like IASSIST will definitely help in managing our data repositories in much more effective way.
The library also provides special services by implementing state-of-the-art technologies in various initiatives such as Research data management, Liaison Program, Migration of library software to Open Source tools, Integration of Bio-metric with RFID, Mobile Apps including SMS/email alerts, QR Code, Knowledge Management aspects, Discovery Services, etc. for our library.
I will use this acquired knowledge through the Fellows program for the development of our library data repositories in developing, supporting and managing data infrastructures for our users and help other fellow colleagues in implementing the same in other libraries of India.’
Shima Moradisomehsaraei - Lecturer, Tehran Medical University & Azad University, Iran
‘I teach information science and Information technology related courses to library , Medical Information system and Medical bioinformatic students. This means I teach students on how to use softwares to manage,correct and analysis data and how to design models and graphs. Teaching on the “indexing and retrieving” course we work on big data and linked data issues. I also teach on another related course “medical information systems” which I discusses big data and how it influences medical data of the whole society.’
Ya-Chi Lin, Data Specialist, Survey Research Data Archive, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
‘Our institution, Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA) is an electronic library of the largest collection of digital data in social sciences in Taiwan. Part of my work entails is to promote SRDA and help SRDA members to use data to conduct secondary data analysis. I go to the campus and launch webinars to introduce the academic survey data and government survey data, and the enquiry service of SRDA to potential users.’
We would like to welcome our fellows into the IASSIST community and we’re sure that they’ll be made to feel at home by all IASSIST members at our forthcoming conference in Bergen, Norway.
Stuart Macdonald & Florio Arguillas (Chairs of IASSIST Fellows Committee)