Dirk van Eylen

In 1989 I obtained a university degree at K.U.Leuven. After an unsatisfactory career in education I began  The Interuniversity Special Degree 'Library and Information Science at the University of Antwerp

About the same time I started working in libraries.
My first library job was as a project leader for LIB Sprintel, a European Telematics for LIbraries project that was coordinated by C.O.B. Leuven

In 1996 I moved to IWT Vlaanderen to work as a librarian and later on also as a webmaster. Among other projects I migrated the library sytem from TinLib to BIBIS.

In 2001 I traded in Flemish civil service for federal (Belgian) civil service. I started out on a librarian job at the Federal Training Insitute. I migrated the library catalogue from an in house Access development to the LIBIS platform.
After a year I moved to the knowledge management department of the mother organisation. Most of my time is now devoted to projects that involve libraries in other federal agencies.

Some library related publications:

• Ranking of search results using AltaVista based on a paper I did for a course of the interuniversity Special Degree
• With Jan Van Vaerenbergh I co-authored the Belgian part of the European study : Public Libraries in the Information society
  Published in 1997, ISBN 92-828-0505-8
• "Sprintel, digitaal antwoordapparaat voor bibliotheken", an article I did on SPRINTEL for "Bibliotheek en Archiefgids", the periodical of the VVBAD