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.

NB: Central and Regional Library Berlin has formed its own Advisory Board for the NEXT LIBRARY® Satellite Conference in Berlin 2018

Rolf Hapel
Honorary Member of Next Library® Advisory Board
Professor of Library Practice at University of Washington
Director of Citizens' Services & Libraries, City og Aarhus, Denmark

Members

Brian Bannon
Commissioner
Chicago Public Library
Illinois, USA

Buhle Mbambo-Thata
Resource  Development Director
AFLIA the African Library and Information Association and Institutions 
Pretoria
South Africa

Camelia Crisan
Executive Director
Progress Foundation
Romania

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

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
Executive Director, DPLA, Digital Public Library of Amerika
former 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

Ton van Vlimmeren
President of EBLIDA - European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations and director of the Public Library of Utrecht
The Netherlands

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

Vicki McDonald
State Librarian and Chief Executive Officer
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Australia

Volker Heller
Chairman / Management director,
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin
Germany