> Monika Segbert-Elbert MBE FLA provides advice and management expertise to multi-national projects in the cultural heritage sector. She currently works with the eIFL.net Foundation to manage a multi-country consortium of library consortia in 50 developing and transition countries www.eifl.net. Her on-going collaboration with CENL – the Conference of European National Librarians, for whom she conducted an organizational review - has led to a series of EU funded projects: TEL-ME-MOR, EDLproject, EDLnet, TELplus, EFG, EuropeanaTravel and EuropeanaConnect. Monika also works with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Libraries Program in assessing the impact of public access computing provided by public libraries. She is quality reviewing a TEMPUS project developing master courses for Library and Information Studies in Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan and leading a Mellon Foundation funded project on strategic planning for the National Library of Mongolia.

In recent years Monika was the project director of 'Russian Literary Heritage online', a project funded by the Mellon Foundation to provide access to resources by and about Leo Tolstoy held on his Estate and in the Russian State Library; she has led a series of library automation and retroconversion projects with Russian Libraries funded by the Mellon Foundation and the European Union and was involved with a number of EU funded projects in the cultural heritage sector, as project manager, reviewer and evaluator. Amongst her partners are and were the EU Digital Cultural Heritage Programme in Luxembourg, the World Bank Global Knowledge Partnership, the British Council and the Goethe Institute, the Conference of European Research Libraries, the Association of European Cinémathèques ACE. Monika Segbert-Elbert is a member of the Management Board of eIFL.net www.eifl.net and the director of Eremo srl www.eremo.net. She is also a founding and board member of Vivo www.vivo.org. Monika has a diploma in librarianship and rich practical experience from many years of working in academic and public libraries in different countries; she received an MBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II, and an honorary FLA from the UK Library Association.