Standing Committee

Chair

Kirsi Ylänne
Accessibility Specialist
Celia Library
Finland
Email: kirsi.ylanne@celia.fi
1^st Term: 2015-2019
2^nd Term: 2019-2023

Secretary

Mike L. Marlin
Director
Braille and Talking Book Library, California State Library
United States
Email: mike.marlin@library.ca.gov
1^st Term: 2013-2017
2^nd Term: 2017-2021

Information Coordinator

Christiane Felsmann
Head of Library and Customer Services
German Centre for Accessible Reading / dzb lesen
Germany
Email: c.felsmann@dzblesen.de
1^st Term: 2015-2019
2^nd Term: 2019-2023

Members

Ingvild Aanensen
Special Librarian
Norsk lyd- og blindeskriftbibliotek / Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille
Norway
Email: ingvild.aanensen@nlb.no
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Kazuhiro Ando
Assistant Director, Library Support Division, Kansai-kan
National Diet Library
Japan
Email: kazuhiro@ndl.go.jp
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Saskia Boets
Head of Communications, Operational Manager
Luisterpunt Bibliotheek (Flemish Library for Audiobooks and Braille)
Belgium
Email: saskia.boets@luisterpuntbibliotheek.be
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Galina Elfimova
Deputy Director
Russian State Library for the Blind
Russian Federation
Email: redactor@rgbs.ru
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Hiroshi Kawamura
Vice President
Assistive Technology Development Organization
Japan
Email: hkawa@atdo.jp
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Karen Keninger
Director
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
United States
Email: kken@loc.gov
1^st Term: 2015-2019
2^nd Term: 2019-2023

Koen Krikhaar
Senior Account Specialist
Dedicon
Netherlands
Email: koenkrikhaar@dedicon.nl
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Jelena Lesaja
Director
Croatian Library for the Blind
Croatia
Email: jlesaja@gmail.com
1^st Term: 2015-2019
2^nd Term: 2019-2023

Nedeljka Lozajic
Librarian at Department for Services for the blind and Visually Impaired Users
Narodna biblioteka Srbije / National Library of Serbia
Republic of Serbia
Email: nedeljka.lozajic@nb.rs
1^st Term: 2013-2017
2^nd Term: 2017-2021

Dipendra Manocha
Director Developing countries Program
DAISY Consortium
India
Email: dmanocha@daisy.org
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Yasmine Mohamed Youssef
Digital Talking Books Production Specialist
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Egypt
Email: yasmine.youssef@bibalex.org
1^st Term: 2015-2019
2^nd Term: 2019-2023

Irmgard Reijntjes
Director
Bibliotheekservice Passend Lezen
Netherlands
Email: I.Reijntjes@passendlezen.nl
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Virginia Inés Simón
Project Manager
Red Iberoamericana de Expertos sobre la Convención de los Derechos de las PCD
Argentina
Email: redcdpd@gmail.com
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Mónica Urzúa Cerpa
Bibliotecaria Documentalista, Magister en Tecnologías de Información y Gestión
Biblioteca Corte Suprema
Chile
Email: murzua@pjud.cl
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Milan Vasiljevic
Manager of Electronic Resources and Licensing Department
Qatar National Library
Qatar
Email: mvasiljevic@qnl.qa
1^st Term: 2019-2023

Lisa Wadors Verne
Senior Program Manager: Education, Research and Partnerships
Booshare by Benetech
United States
Email: lisaw@benetech.org
1^st Term: 2017-2021

Corresponding Members

Dalia Balčytytė
Head of Information Resources Management Center
Lithuanian Library for the Blind
Lithuania
Email: d.balcytyte@labiblioteka.lt
1^st Term: 2019-2021

James Bartlett
RNIB Library Manager
Royal National Institute of Blind People
United Kingdom
Email: james.bartlett@rnib.org.uk
1^st Term: 2019-2021

Victoria Owen
Information Policy Scholar-Practitioner
University of Toronto at Scarborough
Canada
Email: victoria.owen@utoronto.ca
1^st Term: 2019-2021

Laurette Uzan
Responsable de la Médiathèque Valentin Haüy
Association Valentin Haüy
France
Email: l.uzan@avh.asso.fr
1^st Term: 2015-2017
2^nd Term: 2019-2021

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