Janet Zmroczek is Head of European Studies at the British Library where she was previously Head of Slavonic and East European Collections and Curator of Polish and Baltic Collections. She plays a lead role in the British Library/Google Books Digitisation Project and is actively involved in several other digitisation initiatives. She coordinates a European Projects Community of Practice Group at the British Library and represents the British Library at meetings of The European Library and the Europeana Network. She has organised a number of seminars, public events and conference panels in the field of literary translation. Her own research is on Polish exiles and the world of books in 19th century Britain.
Her recent publications include:
- “The history of the book in Poland” The Oxford Companion to the book edited by Michael F. Suarez and H.R. Woodhuysen, Oxford: OUP, 2010, pp. 288-293;
- “National Bibliography of Georgia: past, present, future” (with Anna Chelidze) Slavonic and East European Information Review Vol. 11, nr1, Jan-Mar 2010;
- “Baltic states” Breaking the rules: the printed face of the European Avant Garde, 1900-1937 edited by Stephen Bury, London: British Library, 2007, pp. 66-70;
She regularly gives papers at international conferences, the most recent being: Rumiantsevskie Chteniia 2013 at the Russian State Library, Moscow (April 2013) - The National Library in the 21st century: the British Library’s strategy 2011-15 and 2020 vision; Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 44th Annual Convention in New Orleans (Nov.2012)- New digital resources for Slavic and East European research : Europeana, The European Library (TEL) and British Library projects and the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Studies Annual Conference (June 2012) - Europeana and The European Library (TEL): new resources for Slavonic research.
She is a long-serving Committee Members of the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services (COSEELIS), previously having held the office of Secretary.
Janet Zmroczek
Head of European Studies
British Library
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Organising comitee