Corrado Pettenati
From January 2006 onwards, Group Leader of the
Administrative Support
in the Directorate Services Unit.
From February 1995
to December 2005, Head Librarian at CERN
Geneva.
Group leader of Scientific
Information Service - DSU Unit. Responsible
for Central
Library and Historical
Archives.
The
main areas of work have been:
- reorganization of the group,
- extension of the users' services,
- modernization of the Library,
- improvement in
communication with users' representatives,
- expanding use of electronic literature and services,
- creation of a special training program for librarians
- preparation of new guidelines for CERN publication and archiving,
- enhancement of interrelationship with Swiss and French library schools.
ETT deputy division leader from June 2000 to
June 2004.
From 1976 to January 1995 at the European University Institute
-Florence.
from 1976 to 1984, systems librarian as library
staff; in this period we developed one of the first European in-house library
automation systems, fully integrated,
from 1985 to 1995, Head of EUI
Computer Center always personally in charge of the Library automation support;
during this period we acquired, installed and tuned two generations of turn-key
library automation systems (GEAC 8000 and Innopac), connected the Library system
to Internet, started the use of Internet resources to librarians. A CD-ROM LAN
was also selected and acquired for library use.
Graduated in 1969 from
the Polytechnic in Milan, Italy with a degree (laurea) in Electrical
Engineering.
Publications