Next Library® is pleased to announce the formation of our new Next Library® Advisory Board.

This board will strengthening international perspectives and inspire to rethinking Next Library as an incubator of emerging library ideas.
 
Members

Brian Bannon
Commissioner
Chicago Public Library
Missouri, USA

Buhle Mbambo-Thata
Resource  Development Director
AFLIA the African Library and Information Association and Institutions 
Pretoria
South Africa
 
Chris Coward
co-founder, Principal Research Scientist, and Director
Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington Information School
Washington, USA

Deborah Jacobs
Director
Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington, USA
 
Faith Chao
CEO, Evergreen Education Foundation Organization
California, USA

Gerald Leitner
Secretary General, Austria Library Association, Secretary General, IFLA
Austria

Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
President of the Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentalists and Museology (FESABID) and the Elected president of IFLA
Diputació de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
 
John S. Bracken
Vice President
Knight Foundation, Media Innovation
Florida, USA

Ngian Lek Choh
Chairman, Cybrarian Ventures Private Limited and Consultant, National Library Board
Singapore

Ramune Petuchovaite
Public Library Innovation Programme Manager
EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries 
Lithuania

Trine Nielsen
Director, Danish School of Media and Journalism, Education and Knowledge
Denmark

Vincent Bonnet
Director, EBLIDA - European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations
The Netherlands
 
Volker Heller
Chairman / Management director,
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin
Germany