Speakers
Researcher at the Department of Modern Literature and Cultures of the Sapienza University of Rome, he deals with the history and historiography of libraries between the modern and contemporary ages with particular attention to the history of readers and the use of libraries. Moreover, he is the author of the book Storiografia delle biblioteche: genesi, stabilità e fratture di una tradizione di studi (Historiography of libraries: genesis, stability and fractures of a tradition of studies, Pesaro, Metauro, 2020). He is a member of the scientific committee of the journal «Bibliothecae.it», of the Doctoral College in Documentary, Linguistic and Literary Sciences (Sapienza) and of the scientific college of the University Laboratory of Documentation and Information (LUDI) of the University of Bologna. He coordinates the website L&L Lives and Libraries: readers and libraries in contemporary Italy.
Raj Kumar Bhardwaj (MCA, MLIS e M.Phil, PhD) is the recipient of the UNESCO fellowship for Information Management and the prestigious Commonwealth Professional Fellowship. Presently working as Chief Librarian at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (India). He worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at the Central University of Punjab, India and played a vital role in the curriculum design for the Masters and PhD programme and introduced four new courses. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Librarian at Nalanda University and Judges Library, High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh. He has authored books, research papers, contributions to various international conferences (IFLA WLIC, DELNET-NACLIN etc.). Several of his lectures were also telecasted on television DTH channels. Further, he trained librarians of more than 500 Government Schools in Delhi in the last 10 years through In-Service Training programmes. He has completed three major research projects and working on several international projects. He is the reviewer for 10 international and 3 national journals in information studies. He is also the Information Coordinator and Standing Committee member of the IFLA (Hague, Netherlands) IM Section. He is the founder of startup ISVI. His areas of interest are Research Data Management, institutional repositories, evaluation of information systems, legal information systems, open access, legal and legislative metadata, e-learning, social media analytics, text mining, scientometrics, semantic web and digital library development. E-mail: raajchd@gmail.com.
Carlo Bianchini is Associate Professor in LIS at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University of Pavia (2010- ). He edited the Italian edition of Ranganathan's Il servizio di reference (2009) and published I fondamenti della biblioteconomia. Attualità del pensiero di S.R. Ranganathan (2015) and the only Italian work in with an introductory chapter, examples and exercises on Colon Classification (Teorie e tecniche della catalogazione e delle classificazioni, 2018). He has published numerous articles on Ranganathan’s thought in national and international journals, and he is frequently an invited speaker at professional conferences. He is serving on the editorial boards of JLIS.it and AIB Studi and served in the editorial board of Bibliotheca. Rivista di studi bibliografici (2003-2007). Member of the Cataloguing Commission of Italian Library Association (2005-2011 and 2021- ), he is an active member of Italian chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) and founding member of SISBB (Società Italiana di Scienze Bibliografiche e Biblioteconomiche). Formerly, he worked as librarian at Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo (1991-1998) and at Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine (2000-2010), where, under his management, Ranganathan’s Colon Classification was used to organize library collections. His current main research interests deal with KO and faceted classifications, cataloguing, application of LOD and use of Wikidata in GLAM, and information literacy and user studies.
Giulia Crippa is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna. She was Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Campus, in the course of Information and Documentation Sciences. She is an accredited doctoral and master professor of the postgraduate program in Information Sciences at ECA-USP. From 2012 to present she composes the Board of Directors of the Italian Memory House (CMI) in Ribeirão Preto. She is head of the research group of the CNPq Directory BIBLIOTHECA DISCIPLINATA dedicated to the studies of historical bibliography. She is a researcher in the research group of the CNPq PRACTIC - Group of studies on cultural practices and information and communication technologies. She had a post-doctoral internship at CSAC - Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (University of Parma, Italy). Since 2017, she has been the editor-in-chief of the journal InCID.
Teacher-researcher of the National University of Misiones (Argentina). She has a degree in Library Science and Documentation and she is finishing a Master’s degree in Epistemology and History of Sciences. It performed professionally in different kinds of libraries: popular, university and special library.
Nowadays, she is a full-time professor in the areas of the “Theoretical basis of Library and Information Science” and “Organization and treatment of information”.
Ignacio Mancini is graduate in Library and Information Science at the University of Buenos Aires. Professor of "Foundations of Library and Information Science" and "Professional Development in Library and Information Science" at the Course of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires.
Researcher at Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas (INIBI-FFyL-UBA).
Documentalist at Gino Germani Research Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA) and Librarian at Sociedad Argentina de Psicoanálisis.
Luisa Marquardt (M.Ed .; M.LIS; M.e-L) teaches Library and Information Science at “Roma Tre” University, Department of Education and Department of Humanities. She specializes in both pedagogical and librarianship fields. She worked as county librarian for over twenty years and a librarians’ trainer. Since the end of the 1970s, she has been professionally dealing in a particular (but not exclusive) way with school libraries and the cognitive, metacognitive and relational effects of their use, as well as training and professional development in this area. She is actively involved in library associations (AIB, IFLA, IASL, CNBA etc.), which promote and support the library profession in different contexts, and in various cultural associations (Forum del Libro, OPAM etc.) which promote reading and literacy. She takes part in work and research groups. She translated the IFLA-UNESCO School Library Manifesto into Italian; contributed to the revision of the IFLA School Library Guidelines, coordinated by Prof. Dianne Oberg and Barbara Schultz-Jones; edited the Italian edition of the IFLA Guidelines for school libraries (1995, 1998, 2004, 2015). Among her most recent works, Marquardt, L., & Cantatore, A. (Eds.). Una, cento, mille biblioteche nelle scuole […]. Roma: AIB, 2015; Marquardt, L. Viel Licht und Schatten: Italienische Bibliotheken. In N. Werr & R. Musser, Das Bibliothekswesen in der Romania. Berlin: DeGruyter-Saur, 2019; Marquardt, L. Il confine permeabile dell’alfabetismo. Il Manifesto (2019, agosto); Venuda, F., Roncaglia, G., Marquardt, L. Piccole e povere ma innovative, i lavori in corso delle biblioteche scolastiche. In Associazione italiana biblioteche, Rapporto sulle biblioteche italiane 2015-2017 (p. 146-148). Roma: AIB, 2019; Marquardt, L., & Anagnostopoulos, E. (Cur.). (2020). Competenze, orientamento, empowerment per l’inclusione: trasversalità e trasferibilità di skills, strumenti e pratiche […]. Milano: Ledizioni; Marquardt, L., Moretti, G., & Morini, A.L. (Cur.). (2021). La biblioteca scolastica e le sue figure professionali: concetti in trasformazione […]. Milano: Ledizioni. She is the Director of Statuario Library, Rome, and member of several associations (e.g., AIB, AIDA, IASL, IFLA, LAG Schulbibliotheken) and groups (e.g., ENSIL). Director Europe for the IASL (2009-2016); in IFLA: Elected Member of the School Library Section (2017-2021); SLS Secretary (2021-2023) and Division E Deputy Chair (2021-2023); Chair of the National Commission on School Libraries of AIB - the Italian Library Association (2020-2023).
Elsa Margarita Ramírez Leyva is doctor in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She is researcher at the Library and Information Research Institute (IIBI) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the area of research Reading, and coordinates the Reading Research Seminar. President of the Reading and Literacy Section (LEA) of Mexican Library Association (AMBAC). Currently, General Director of Libraries and Digital Information Services (DGBSDI) of the UNAM
Associate Prof. President of Master degree in Library and Archives Sciences (University of Bologna). Director of 'Bibliothecae.it' and of the Summer School 'Linked data per i beni culturali’. President of the SC of the Ravenna Campus Library; member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the SBA-UNIBO. Scientific Director of LUDI Center. Principal works: Angelo Maria Bandini in viaggio a Roma (1780-1781), FUP, 2019; Viaggi tra i libri, Serra, 2018; La Bibliotheca universalis di Conrad Gesner, monumento della cultura europea, Bulzoni, 2012; Indice degli autori dei manoscritti in scrittura Latina della Biblioteca Angelica di Roma, PZS, 2009; Profilo di Storia della Bibliografia, con Alfredo Serrai, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2005. International Congresses organized: ‘Noetica versus informatica’ (2013); ‘Periodici bibliografici tra passato e futuro’ (2018); ‘Patrimonio culturale condiviso: viaggiatori prima e dopo il Grand Tour’ (2018); ‘Il privilegio della parola scritta: gestione, conservazione, e valorizzazione di carte e libri di persona’ (2019); 'Dalla pandemia dei libri alla bibliografia' (2021).
Gustavo Saldanha holds Bachelor of Library Science from the School of Information Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); Master in Information Science by the Graduate Program in Information Science at UFMG; specialist in Medieval Philosophy (Faculdade São Bento - Rio de Janeiro); PhD in Information Science from PPGCI IBICT UFRJ. He held a postdoctoral internship at Université Toulouse III-France between 2017-2018. He is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), coordinator of the Teaching and Research, Science and Information Technology (COEPE) unit of IBICT and permanent professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science under the IBICT agreement - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); adjunct professor at the School of Library Science at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Library Science (UNIRIO).
She is a researcher at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna - Ravenna Campus. After graduating in Conservation of Cultural Heritage with full marks, she obtained a PhD in Bibliographic Sciences. Since 2003 she has been lecturer at the University of Florence and at the University of Bologna. She provides training for professional bodies and associations on library science and specifically on cataloguing. She has worked and still works as a consultant in the library field for Italian and foreign institutions and is also a member of national and international committees as well as professional associations and scientific societies in the library field, including the Società italiana di Scienze Bibliografiche e Biblioteconomiche - Italian Society of Bibliographic and Library Science). Her teaching activity is complemented by study and research in the field of cataloguing, digital libraries, and knowledge organisation.
She is a member of the scientific committee of the journals JLIS.it, Bibliothecae.it, AIB Studi and of the series "Biblioteche e bibliotecari = Libraries and librarians" of Firenze University Press (FUP).
She is the coordinator of the AIB Study Group on Cataloguing, Indexing, Linked Open Data and Semantic Web (CILW). She participated and was a member of the organising and scientific committees of numerous national and international conferences. She published articles and monographs on cataloguing, digital libraries, personal collections, professional training and ethical issues. The book La catalogazione. storia, tendenze e problemi aperti is one of her scientific monographs.