Dr. Tommaso Giordano

Mr Tommaso Giordano, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB), Italy

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Tommaso Giordano (Deputy Director, Library, European University Institute, Italy).Dr. Giordano began his career as a librarian in 1972.He has served as Deputy Director of the Library at the EUI since 1983.He is widely experienced in library cooperation and networking issues, and has had numerous consulting commissions as an international library expert . He contributed to the development of the Italian Library Network (SBN) and to others cooperative projects in Europe, Asia and Latin America.He has been President of The Italian Library Association and a member of the executive committee and Honorary Treasurer of EBLIDA (European Bureau of library , Information and Documentation Associations).Giordano is also currently External Professor in Library Management at the Univerity of Venice and is the author of many publications; his recent work deals with copyright and licenses, digital libraries, and electronic resource sharing.In the last years he has been particularly active in library consortium development.He currently serves as President of INFER (the Italian consortium forum for electronic resources).Contact Information: Mail: Library, European University Institute, Via dei Roccettini 9, 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.Telephone: +39-055-4685393 Fax: +39-055-4685283 E-mail: tommaso.giordano at iue.it