I was born in 1951 in Ljubljana but I attended the elementary school in Maribor and graduated from the secondary school there, as well. I studied linguistics (French and English) and passed my B.A. at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
| Since 2019 | retired | 1979 - 1985 | Documentalist in the Central Economic Library, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana | 1985 - 1992 | Head of the Central Economic Library, Faculty of Economics | 1986 - | President of the Committee for Terminology in Library Science and Librarianship within the Library Association of Slovenia | 1989 - 1998 | Lecturer of library automation at the Department for Library and Information Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana | 1987 - 1991 | President of the Ljubljana District Library Association for two mandates | 1990 - 1992 | Head and one of the founders of the European Documentation Centre in Ljubljana | 1990 - 2006 | Lecturer and examiner in the programmes of professional education and training for librarians in Slovenia, National and University Library in Ljubljana | 1991 - 1995 | President of the Library Association of Slovenia for two mandates | 1992 - 1998 | Head of the Research and Development Department for Library Sciences, National and University Library in Ljubljana | 1998 - 2004 | Head of the Information and Referral Centre at the National and University Library, Ljubljana | 1992 - 1994 | Acting Assistant Director and Acting Director of the National and University Library in Ljubljana | 1992 - 1998 | Member of the Expert Consultant Committee for Libraries, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia (three mandates) | 1992 - 1995 | President of the Professional Board of COBISS (Cooperative Bibliografic System and Services, the shared cataloguing system of Slovenia) | 1994 - 2001 | Member of the Business Advisory Board of the Oton Župančič Public Library, Ljubljana | 2004 - 2016 | Head of the Central Economics Library | 2005 - 2006 | President of the Library Board, University of Ljubljana | 2005 - 2006 | President of the Board, Slovene national "Ask a Librarian Service" | 2005 - 2016 | Member of the Board, Slovene national "Ask a Librarian Service" | 2006 - 2016 | Member of the Library Board, University of Ljubljana | 2006 - 2010 2014 - 2016 | Member of the Board of COBISS Participants' Group | 2007 - 2009 | President of the EBSLG Continental Group | 2009 - 2011 | President of the Kalan Award Board, Library Association of Slovenia | 2009 - 2019 | Member of the Committee for awarding professional titles in librarianship (2009-2016 Ministry of Culture, 2016- Nationala and University Library) | 2010 - 2012 | Member of the ABDOS Board | 2011 - 2017 | Member of the Ethics Committee, Faculty of Economics UL | 2011 - 2015 2015 - 2019 | President of the Supervisory Board, Library Association of Ljubljana | 2016 - 2019 | Head of the European Documentation Centre - EDC | 2018 - 2023 | Editor in chief, dictionary of informatics Islovar (Slovensko društvo INFORMATIKA) | 1995 | Lecturer at the International Summer School for senior librarians, Radovljica, Slovenia | 1996 | Lecturer at the school for senior librarians from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ljubljana | 1996 | UNESCO expert for libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1998 - 2002 | Project Manager of the international project Multilingual Dictionary of Library Terminology (Project discontinued) |
Author of several papers, articles, presentations and translations on library systems, library automation and terminology in Slovenian, English, German and Croatian.
Holder of the Kalan Awards of the Library Association of Slovenia for publications on LIS, three times, in 1985, 1991 and 2005.
Čop Diploma Award in 1996 (the highest award of the Library Association of Slovenia for professional achievements).
Member of several R&D teams.
Active participant at several international meetings and conferences, including IFLA.
My mother tongue is Slovene, besides I speak English, French, German and Croat/Serbian.