Speakers
Prof. Dr. Christian Benne
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Christian Benne is Professor of European Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Copenhagen and edits both Orbis Litterarum and the Athenäum.
Galadriel Chilton
Director of Collections Initiatives, Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation
As the Director of Collections Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, Galadriel collaborates with the partnership’s Collection Development Group and serves as the principal planner, project manager, and negotiator for initiatives related to the development, management, and use of collections in all formats.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Berea College, and holds a Master of Library Science from Indiana University, and master of arts in educational technology and instructional design from San Diego State University. Additionally, she has taught e-resource management and licensing classes for University of Wisconsin iSchool. Presently, she is working with Ivy Plus Libraries to explore the narrative behind library collection use and how libraries apply collection analysis to user-centered and data-informed collections management.
Dr. Bernhard Fetz
Director of the Literature Archive and Literature Museum, Austrian National Library
Dr. Bernhard Fetz studied German studies, journalism and Romance studies at the University of Vienna. In 1986, he founded and edited the journal Zeitschrift für studentische Forschung (Böhlau Verlag). Furthermore, he was a freelancer for Österreichischer Rundfunk (literature and feature). In 1992, he obtained his doctorate. He was a lecturer at the Institute of German Studies at Charles University in Prague and taught intercultural seminars on German and foreign language literature of the 20th century at the universities of Lviv, Prague, Olomouc, Brno, Budapest and Antwerp, as well as advanced training seminars for Austrian high school teachers. In 1993, he designed the festival and exhibition Literatur und Medien im öffentlichen (Stadt)Raum (with the participation of Elfriede Jelinek, Ferdinand Schmatz, Werner Kofler, Bodo Hell, Andreas Okopenko, Heimo Zobernig and others). From 1994 to 2001, he co-organised the annual international literature festival Literatur im März in Vienna. From 1996 on, he regularly taught courses at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna and wrote literary criticism and essays for Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Presse/Spectrum, Falter, Der Standard, Volltext, Österreichischer Rundfunk and others. In 1996, he became research fellow at the Austrian Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library. He designed and organized various literary exhibitions including Kunsthalle Wien 1998, Swiss National Library, Bern 2002, German Literature Archive, Marbach 2003, Austrian National Library, Vienna 2004, Wien Museum 2010, permanent exhibition, 2015, and special exhibitions Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library, finally: Stefan Zweig. World Author, 2021/2022.
He was awarded his habilitation in Modern German Literature in 2004.
Bernhard Fetz is member of various juries: ORF-Bestenliste, Österreichische Staatsstipendien für Literatur 2002/2008, Adalbert Stifter-Stipendien des Landes Oberösterreich 2004, Förderungspreis für Österreichische Literatur 2004, Literaturwettbewerb Wartholz 2008/2009/2010/2011, Österreichischer Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur 2013, Günther Anders-Preis für kritisches Denken, 2018, Österreichischer Kunstpreis 2022. He is a reviewer for various journals and was a member of the international Advisory Board of MAL (Modern Austrian Literature). He was co-founder and deputy director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Bernhard Fetz is editor of the Austrian Library Österreichs Eigensinn. Eine Bibliothek (Jung und Jung Verlag, 2012 ff). He published numerous monographs and articles mainly on literature and cultural history of the 20th century.
In 2009, he became director of the Literature Archive of the Austrian National Library.
Since 2013, Bernhard Fetz is director of the collection of planned languages as well as the museum of Esperanto and since 2015 he is also director of the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library.
Kristian Jensen
British Library/Chair of the Consortium of European Research Libraries, CERL, Great Britain
Kristian Jensen is Head of Collections and Curation at the British Library, with responsibility for the Library’s collections with a wide chronological and geographical coverage, ranging from the earliest items in the collection, some 3000 years old, to current web archiving. A classicist by formation, with his first degree from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, he has worked with libraries and collections since 1985 when he joined the Bodleian Library in Oxford. He moved to the British Library in 1999. With wide ranging responsibilities he takes a special interest in the management of cultural property, collection security and collection development.
He is a Director of the Consortium of European Research Libraries and Chair of the Consortium’s Collection Security Working Group. He represents the British Library on the working group on spoliation of the National Museum Directors’ Conference and is Senior Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society.
Eve Neiger
Lead Archivist at Boston Public Library, USA
After earning a Master of Science in Information degree from the University of Michigan School of Information, Eve Neiger worked as a Processing Archivist at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her archival work focused on processing and cataloging photographs, artists papers, and visual materials collections, including the Saul Steinberg Papers, among others. She also served as co-chair of the Yale Archival Systems Management Committee and helped lead the management and development of Yale Library’s ArchivesSpace system—a web-based database software for archival description, collection management, and search and discovery. Since September 2020, Eve has served as the Lead Archivist at Boston Public Library (BPL), where she is building a new archives department to manage the library's archival collections. The BPL archives team stewards BPL’s archival collections through preservation, arrangement, and description, enabling open and equitable public access to the stories held in the collections. Eve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in German Language and Literature from Brandeis University.
Dr. André Schüller-Zwierlein
Director of Regensburg University Library
André Schüller-Zwierlein has authored various books and articles on topics such as cultural heritage, reading skills, information literacy and the ethics of the information society. His latest publication is Die Fragilität des Zugangs: Eine Kritik der Informationsgesellschaft (de Gruyter, 2021).
Prof. Dr. Ernst Seidl
Museum of the University of Tuebingen, Germany
Since 2008, Ernst Seidl (*1961) is director of the Museum of the University of Tuebingen (MUT) and since 2016, he is also chair holder at the Institute of Art History. He studied art history, ethnology and Romance studies in Regensburg, Frankfurt a. M. and Hamburg. After receiving his doctorate in 1994, he worked as a scientific assistant in Tuebingen, and habilitated in 2004. Before becoming managing director of the Association of German Art Historians in Munich, he gained experience in Rome, Paris, Heidelberg and Stuttgart. He is a founding and board member of the Society for University Collections in Berlin. In January 2015, he turned down a position as director of Collection & Research at the German Historical Museum DHM in Berlin, as well as a position as director of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt a. M. in 2019. He is a member of the board of trustees of the „Invited Artists“ program newly developed in 2017, and he co-founded the PhD network Theorie der Balance – Formen und Figuren des Gleichgewichts in Medien-, Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft at the University of Tuebingen. In 2016, he was appointed to the expert council Kulturgutschutzgesetz of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg and was elected to the honorary commission of the University of Tuebingen in 2019.
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