Ivan Kanič - Curriculum vitae

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.

Professional activities:

Since 2019retired
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 - 2016Head of the Central Economics Library
2005 - 2006President of the Library Board, University of Ljubljana
2005 - 2006President of the Board, Slovene national "Ask a Librarian Service"
2005 - 2016Member of the Board, Slovene national "Ask a Librarian Service"
2006 - 2016Member of the Library Board, University of Ljubljana
2006 - 2010
2014 - 2016
Member of the Board of COBISS Participants' Group
2007 - 2009President of the EBSLG Continental Group
2009 - 2011President of the Kalan Award Board, Library Association of Slovenia
2009 - 2019Member of the Committee for awarding professional titles in librarianship (2009-2016 Ministry of Culture, 2016- Nationala and University Library)
2010 - 2012Member 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.


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