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  • Work Experience
  • Education
  • Awards
  • Conference Organization
  • Courses Taught
  • Web Sites and Databases
  • Attendance at Conferences
  • Complementary Education
  • Professional Affiliations

Work experience

Information management specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, since February 2006

Information management specialist at the Technic Gabinet of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works, Government of Catalonia, January 1999 - January 2006.

Librarian at the Public Library of Santa Maria de Palautordera, April 1996 - October 1998.

Education

PhD in Library and Information Science, Prof. Cristobal Urbano, Faculty of Information Science of the University of Barcelona, 2006-.

Degree (licenciatura) in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Information Science of the University of Barcelona, 2001.

Degree (licenciatura) in History, Faculty of History of the University of Barcelona, 1995.

Awards

ASIST EC for the paper presented at Libraries in Digital Age 2003 (Dubrovnik, Croatia).

Conference Organization

DSpace User Group Meeting 2007 (Rome, Italy) 2007.

First workshop on eprints in Library and Information Science (Geneva, Switzerland) 2005.

Courses Taught

El Movimiento Open Access: Concepto e historia at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. October, 2007.

Biblioteca Virtual en Ciencias de la Salud. Información Sanitaria en la Red. Nuevos Recursos. Nuevos Servicios, Salamanca, Spain. September, 2007.

Taller sobre Archivos Abiertos para el Desarrollo at Lima, Peru. June, 2007.

Curso de Información Digital at University of Zaragoza, Spain. July, 2006.

Bibliotecas digitales: protocolos abiertos OAI-PMH at University of Valencia, Spain. February, 2006.

Specialized information resources and new systems of scholarly communication at University of Salamanca, Spain. October, 2005.

Web sites and databases

Founder and coordinator of E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science. E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities and the archive's goal is to promote communication in LIS by the rapid dissemination of papers.

Member of DoIS, Documents in Information Science. DoIS is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in Information Science. DoIS is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. DoIS is a volunteer effort to create a free bibliographic resource of scientific texts specialized in Information Science.

Catalogue for the audio-visual materials of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona Opera House

Electronic Catalan Atlas: corporative project of the Government of Catalonia to present its georeference information.

Images Database: an internal database to catalogue the images of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia.

Janus serials: database designed to manage the journals of the library of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Government of Catalonia.

Attendance at Conferences

Open Repositories 2008 (Southampton, UK), 2008.

Berlin 5 Open Access : From Practice to Impact : Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination (Padova, Italy), 2007.

U.N. Inter-Agency Meeting on Knowledge Sharing and Information Management (Rome, Italy), 2007.

CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) (Geneva, Switzerland), 2007.

International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries (Bangalore, India) 2007.

Second Open Access Conference at Minho University (Braga, Portugal), 2006.

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council (Seoul, Republic of Korea), 2006.

DSpace User Group Meeting (Bergen, Norway), 2006.

CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4) (Geneva, Switzerland), 2005.

IX Jornadas Españolas de Documentación (Madrid, Spain), 2005.

9es Jornades Catalanes d'Informació i Documentació (Barcelona, Spain), 2004.

Second Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication (Lund, Sweden), 2004.

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI3) (Geneva, Switzerland), 2004.

LIDA'03, Libraries in the Digital Age (Dubrovnik, Croacia), 2003.

VIII Jornadas Españolas de Documentación (Barcelona, Spain), 2003.

2nd Workshop Open Archives Forum (Lisboa, Portugal), 2002.

CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI2) (Geneva, Switzerland), 2002.

CALSI'02: contenidos y aspectos legales en la sociedad de la información (Valencia, Spain), 2002.

III Jornadas Españolas de Bibliotecas Digitales (JBIDI'02) (El Escorial, Spain), 2002.

DLM-FORUM 2002 @ccess and preservation of electronic information (Barcelona, Spain), 2002.

II Jornadas Españolas de Bibliotecas Digitales (JBIDI'01) (Almagro, Ciudad Real, Spain), 2001.

Jornadas sobre la Nueva Economía Digital en Europa (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

6es. Jornades Imatge i Recerca (Girona, Spain), 2000.

I Jornadas Españolas de Bibliotecas Digitales (JBIDI'00) (Valladolid, Spain), 2000.

VII Jornadas Españolas de Documentación (Bilbao, Spain), 2000.

Complementary education

OpenURL (Rome, Italy), 2006.

Usability of web sites (Barcelona, Spain), 2002.

Copyright and information society (Barcelona, Spain), 2002.

XML (Barcelona, Spain), 2002.

Z39.50 and BookWhere (Barcelona, Spain), 2001.

Hemerotecas digitales : experiencias (Barcelona, Spain), 2001.

JavaScript course (Barcelona, Spain), 2001.

Visual Basic 6.0 course (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Loan module of the VTLS system (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Advanced Access course (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Bibliographic control of serials publications (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Cataloguing using the VTLS system (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

VTLS opac (Barcelona, Spain), 2000.

Preservation and conservation of contemporary materials (Barcelona, Spain), 1999.

Professional affiliations

Member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) since 2003.

Member of the Col.legi de Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes de Catalunya (CBDC) since 2001.


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