This third focus on a Standing Committee’s Member, is about Heidi K. Olsen, colleague from Norway.

I am academic librarian at Vestfold University College, a small University College i the southern part of Norway. At VUC we educate nurses, teachers, preschool teachers, engineers, naval officers and social scientists. We have 9 Masters programs, and two programs for PhD-education. VUC is a Center for expertise in Micro and Nano Technology.

I have been working as at VUC since 2003. I have a Master’s degree in ‘Pedagogical texts’ (2008). In my Masters thesis, I studied the faculty staff’s use of electronic resources offered by the library.

Since 2009 I have been participating in a program for qualifying academic librarians. I have had part time off my regular librarian’s duties to conduct development work in the library. I have continued my commitment for library services for researchers, some of this work is documented in the article “Research group librarian – a cooperating partner in research?” in Liber Quarterly last year. I still have a special interest in library services for faculty staff and researchers, and hope to contribute to further development of these services.

At the moment I am finishing another article, this time in a book called “Pedagogical texts in practice”, where I am studying how the librarians facilitate its’ physical collections for the users. Before I started at VUC, I have been working in different types of libraries, as well as in ICT-related positions, since I graduated as a librarian in Oslo in 1983.

In 2013, I have been offered a new position as a teacher (Assistant professor) at the LIS-education at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science. The first term I will primary teach classification and school library subjects. I started immediately after IFLA in Singapore.

Thanks to Heidi K. Olsen, and see you soon for some other focus on Standing Committee Members.