International Organizing Committee

Chairman

Yakov Shraiberg, President, International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT); President, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center (ILIAC); First Deputy Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Deputy Chairs

Evgeny Kuzmin, Head, Department of Libraries, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana Prokosheva, Head, Library and Information Networks Department, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Ekaterina Genieva, President, Open Society Institute - Russia (Soros Foundation); Director General, M.I. Rudomino All- Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia

Lester Pourciau, Vice-President, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center (ILIAC); Editor on International Librarianship, Library Hi Tech News, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Members

Marie Aho, Head of Collections, Helsinki University Library/National Library of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

Evgeny Bystritsky, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation (Soros Foundation), Kyiv, Ukraine

Boris Deich, Chairman, Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Victor Fedorov, Director General, Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Golubev, Minister of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Vladimir Golubev, Director, Belarus Agricultural Library; Director, ILIAC Belarus Office, Minsk, Belarus

Vladimir Grachev, Chairman, Committee on Ecology, State Duma of the Federal Assembley of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Tatyana Kiseleva, Rector, Moscow State University of Culture and Arts; President, Russian Universities of Culture and Arts Association, Moscow, Russia

Irina Lynden Special Projects Manager, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

Boris Marshak, Executive Director, International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT); Head, Research Division, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Nechiporenko, Deputy Head, Information Technologies Department, Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Alexei Onishchenko, Director General, V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Vladimir Podoprigora, Vice-Governor, Novgorod Region; Advisory Council Chair, International Library, Information, and Analytical Center (ILIAC), Moscow, Russia

Marat Rakhmatullayev, Executive Director, Uzbekistan Library Association, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Victoria Spain, Editor on International Librarianship, Library Hi Tech News; Bibliographic Services Expert, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Valery Soudarenkov, Vice-Speaker, PACE; Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Leonid Shremf, Mayor of Sudak, Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Richard Tucker, Deputy Director, FORCE Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands

Kama Urmurzina, Director General, Republican Library for Science and Technology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Maria Vedenyapina, Executive Director, Pushkin Library Megaproject, Open Society Institute - Russia (Soros Foundation), Moscow, Russia

Bernd Wegner, Professor, Berlin Technical University, Berlin, Germany

Andrei Zemskov, President, International Association of Research, Scientific and Technical Libraries; Director, Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia