Bożena Bednarek-Michalska (eng)

Bożena Bednarek-Michalska

She is employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Torun since 1982 till now. Emeritus librarian, mentor, digital  and open access specialist. Mail: b.michalska@umk.pl

Google Scholar open profile: https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=TnrjW2AAAAAJ&hl=pl. ORCID iD 0000-0002-7573-0775

Professional background: She is the author of numerous articles on scientific information (see Google Scholar, RUMAK, KPBC), Internet, evaluation of electronic resources, open access, e-learning, open data, copyright for librarians and other connected with librarian’s work, she was teaching courses on search strategies and quality of information, electronic databases, online catalogues, e-journals, digital libraries and other Internet aspects – some courses was given online and as a webinars.

She was also very often a trainer for librarians, scientists in Poland and abroad and took a part in many open education initiatives using new technology in teaching (online courses, webinars). She organizes conferences and seminars at Nicolaus Copernicus University in the framework of modern librarianship, technologies and new models of scientific communication and leads grants on the topics mentioned above. Since 2003 till 2018 (with a short break) she  was the deputy director of NCU Library responsible for innovation, grants information and international cooperation.

Until the 1998 to 2017 she was working as an Editor in Chief of Bulletin EBIB http://open.ebib.pl/ojs/ an open access journal and Electronic Library http://www.ebib.pl/ service for Polish librarians and until 2005 to 2012 was cooperated as an editor with the international E-LIS repository for librarians http://eprints.rclis.org/.  She is also an coordinator of regional project – Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library http://kpbc.umk.pl. She promotes open access among the Polish librarians societies since 2001 till now among other things by means of in EBIB, KOED (Open Education Coalition) and Uwolnij Naukę (Open Science) portals.

Some projects she takes a part in:

  • 1989-2000 Participation in the international programme and on-line course of European Union for libraries DEDICATE, concerning the e-learning; has completed the Internet course on data search for students of physics at N. Copernicus University.
  • 2000-2005 Co-operation with the Bertelsmann Foundation from Germany – participation in Polish and German experts’ group: „Bertelsmann’s Projects in Poland”, implementing model library solutions in Poland: 1. BIBWEB – Internet course for librarians (e-learning) http://www.bibweb.pl/; 2. Model libraries for young people – Wrocław and Olsztyn;
  • 2003-2017 Coordination of Regional Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library http://kpbc.umk.pl project.
  • 2005-2009 Editor in an international E-Lis repository for librarians
  • 2007-2010 The COMMUNIA Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain.
  • 2010-2012 Coordination of institutional repository for NCU RUMAK: https://repozytorium.umk.pl/.
  • 2010-2017 – Regional project eCulture; eCulture 2.0.
  • 2015-2018 DARIAH-PL project. Member of the Polish Council of Consortium.

Some voluntary activities:

  • 2001-2019 Member of Polish Librarians Association.
  • 2010-2019 Member of EBIB Association (also in a board).
  • 2001- 2019 Activists of Open Access Movement.
  • 2008-2019 Member of the Coalition for Open Education (also in a board).
  • 2004-2007 Member of the Bibliotheca Baltica Board.
  • 2012–2014 Member of the Board of SPARC EUROPE.

Other activities:

  • 2006-2009 Member of digitalization advisory group of Ministry of Culture.
  • 2008-2014 EIFL, OA Programme coordinator for Poland 
  • 2010-2013 A member of Interdisciplinary Working Group in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.
  • 2015-2016 A member of Open Access Working Group in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland.

Education:

  • 1995-2015 - library users trainings.
  • 1998-2017 - librarians trainings: new technologies, open access resources, digital libraries, copyright for librarians, open science.
  • 2001-2019 - lecturs for polish scentists and open education activists about open access models, open publications, information technologies, repositories, open data, CC licences and the others.

More information on the polish sites.

Private: She has a family, lives close Torun (center of Poland), on the village Pluskowęsy, in close proximity of a beautiful stretch of forest and lake. She is interested in jazz music, literature, political and economical issues, doe’s sports - biking and swimming and she is a total optimist.