Country Representatives Profiles

 

Birgit RabitzBirgit Rabitz
Birgit was Library Manager at Haldor Topsøe A/S, an international company with 1,300 employees with headquarters in Lyngby, Denmark.

In 1994 Birgit passed a degree as Research Librarian & Documentalist, and in 1999 a degree as Master of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.Sc.), at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen Denmark. Her main interests are developing the Library and Knowledge Management. Birgit has been a member of SLA from 2000, and from 2005 she has been the SLA representative in Denmark. She is also a member of the Danish Association for Information and Documentation (DFID) and member of the Danish Research Library Association.

She is the mother of two grown up daughters and she lives in a house close to the sea. In her spare time she works in the garden, reads biographies, writes, listens to opera and loves walking on the beach with her three dogs.

 

Eilat Navon
Born in Israel and brought up world wide, I claim both Hebrew and English as mother tongues (and my Italian as basic). I have worked in the information industry since 1990, both in business information research, at corporations traded on the stock exchange and later on social information research. I have a Bachelors degree in Political Science and International Relations and an MLIS in Information Science.

Since setting up my own business in 1998, I have worked extensively with clients from outside Israel on obtaining Israeli business and legal information, and with Israeli clients on research from foreign sources, content for websites and consultation. I lecture on research techniques, both for business and non-profit organizations, setting up information centres, and information auditing. I edit 'Information & Librarianship' the magazine for libraries and information
professionals in Israel.

I live in Jerusalem but work mostly in Tel-Aviv, I have no free time and cannot remember if I ever had any hobbies, I do however have a husband, two sons and a daughter.

 

Stan KalkusStan Kalkus
I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and left with my parents and brother after the Communist coup. We moved to the USA and settled in Chicago. There I attended and graduated from the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School. Afterwards I worked for the City of Chicago, Board of Education.

In the sixties I was a base librarian in Morocco and Germany with the US Air Force. From 1968 to 1969 I was Slavic bibliographer and lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I moved north to Rhode Island and accepted the position of Librarian with the US Navy in Newport at the Naval Underwater Systems Centre.

In 1977 I became Director of the Navy Department library and coordinator of naval libraries. I became the first librarian in the Navy having responsibility for Navy library programs (in other words I became a bureaucrat). After my retirement from federal service I accepted a teaching position with the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech republic). Since 2000 I have been teaching part time and take care of our exchange program with University of North Carolina.