Dr. Norbert Lossau

Dr. Norbert Lossau is the recently appointed Director of the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany, where he moved from his post as Library Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Scholarly Information at Bielefeld University. In his previous position he has been the first Head of the Oxford Digital Library, University of Oxford, UK.
He is member of various national and international steering committees and advisory boards, among others the Committee for Information Management at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the D-Grid Steering Group, the Executive Board of the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI), SPARC Europe Executive Board, and the Springer SBM European Library Advisory Board. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the European project DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) and of the German DFG project to build a national information platform on Open Access (www.open-access.net).