EDUCATION

1979 B.Sc. in Physics
Four years undergraduate program
(final exam paper: Environmental protection from a routine radioactive effluents from a nuclear power plant)
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

1997 M. A. in Information Sciences
(master thesis: Virtual libraries: the example of Croatian Sciences Information System) in Croatian language
Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb

1998 B. A. in Library and Information Sciences

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Sep 1979 - Dec 1995. Librarian - subject specialist (for physics, chemistry and mathematics)

responsibilities: cataloguing, indexing, circulation, serials, reference

Jan 1996. Library Director (position description )

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001/2007 Faculty of Education, University of Osijek (Digital Libraries course)

WORKSHOPS / TUTORIALS

Evaluation of web resources (for librarians, part of the continuous education)

Building digital libraries (for librarians, part of the continuous education)

Online databases retrieval (regular workshops for scientists, teachers, students and librarians)

Web search engines (tutorials for users and librarians)

Information resources for different subjects

Committee and group memberships

Organization of the conferences and meetings

SKILLS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

working knowledge of:

General microcomputer software applications including word processing, spreadsheets, relational databases, and presentation graphics;

Various image editing programs.

Web Page Building (HTML and Web-Page Editors)

Proficiency with Scanner and Digital Cameras

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/2000/NT, UNIX (HP-UX, Sun), Linux, MS-DOS

Databases: mSQL, PostgreSQL, MSAccess

Online searching, including bibliographic databases (Ovid Technologies, Institute for Information Sciences, SilverPlatter, UMI, xxx.lanl.gov, etc.), and the Web;

ANALYTICAL AND RESEARCH SKILLS

• analyses of user satisfaction with different kind of services
• analytical methods for different kind of research and studies
• statistical methods.

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

• Coordinating activities in library (15 librarians, library assistants and assistant librarians), maintaining good interpersonal relations and friendships;
• Working successfully in many project groups with different kind of experts and specialist from other fields;
• Teaching colleagues/librarians, users, students
• Presented my papers and projects in various conferences and meetings.

CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL IMPACT

• Ran completely new information services using newest ICT (design, creation and maintenance), gained academic community recognition.
• Active role in all national projects dealing with information technologies implementation giving own visions and ideas, and providing impact on Croatian libraries development in a new network environment.
  

PROJECT GRANTS

2007 Ministry of Science, Education and Sports project "Pair of compasses: scientific equipment in Croatia"

2006- present Ministry of Science, Education and Sports project "Croatian Scientific Portal", project leader, in cooperation with CARNet

2001- present Ministry of Science and Technology project "Who's who in science in Croatia", project leader

2001-2002 Open Society Institute project Center for Continuing Education of Librarians, member of the board

1997-2002 Ministry of Science and Technology project Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) project leader - was initiated to bring together the entire scientific production on research programs and projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, using web technologies. The work includes design and maintenance of the bibliographic database about scientific and professional papers; system design and maintenance, database structure, web interface design. CROSBI collects information about all scientific papers published as a result of the research on projects and pogroms financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the database is publicly available. CROSBI is created in collaboration with physicist Ivo Batistic from the Institute of Physics, Zagreb.

1996-1999 Croatian coordinator of the international project "Kooperation zwischen deutschen wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken und wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken in Mittel- und Osteuropa", German Library Institute, Berlin, Germany (partner-libraries are Universitätsbibliothek, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library)

1996-present project "Center for Online Databases" (http://baze.irb.hr) - project leader, in cooperation with CARNet. The main goal of the project is to provide an access to the commercial and noncommercial bibliographic and full-text databases for the academic community in Croatia. At the present the center is offering access to the following databases: Current Contents, Medline, Core Biomedical Collection, INSPEC, Evidence based medicine reviews, ERIC, Agricola, PsycInfo and Web of Science. This Centre serves 3600 members of the academic and research community in Croatia. The Canter organizes continuing education and support to all users.

1995-2004 Ministry of Science and Technology project "Croatian Sciences Information System" project leader (involving 26 special and academic libraries)

PAPERS

The list of my papers from Croatian Scientific Bibliography CROSBI

AWARDS

2001 American Society for Information Science and Technology (for the paper "Croatian Scientific Bibliography - a four years experience"

2000 Croatian Information Technology Society (for the project Croatian Scientific Information System)

MEMBERSHIPS

Croatian Physical Society ˇ

Croatian Library Association ˇ

Croatian Information and Documentation Society

American Special Library Association

EURASLIC

LANGUAGES

Croatian: Mother tongue

English: Fluent

German, Italian: Good knowledge

RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Ontologies and semantics;
• Digital libraries;
• Scholarly communication;
• Information systems in science;
• Libraries on the Web (contents, structure, design) ;
• Knowledge organization and information retrieval;
• Library organization and management
• Library automation (integrated online library systems)
• Web services in the library

PERSONAL INTERESTS / FAMILY (not updated)

mountaineering, sport (volleyball, table tennis, tennis), music, raveling, photography, kites, dancing, reading, handcraft (with my kids and friends)

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