IIT - 2013

Since January 2011, Regina has been Director of the National Centre for Digitisation and Virtual Electronic Heritage System at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

Regina Varnienė-Janssen is the author of more than 80 scientific and methodological publications on digitisation, bibliographic control, cataloguing, publishing standards and creation of information systems in the Lithuanian and international professional press. She also is author and co-author of projects for five national information systems.

Regina Varnienė-Janssen took active participation in the activities of various national and international organisations. She was chair of the Technical Commmittee 47 “Information and documentation” of the Lithuanian Standards Board (1998-2007), a member of the IFLA Permanent UNIMARC Committee (1999-2005) and the Governing Board of the ISSN International Centre (2000-2007). At present she is a member of the Digitisation Board at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, the Standing Committee of the IFLA Bibliography Section (since 2003), the Scientific Board of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (since 1992) and the Governing Board of the Lithuanian Integrated Library Information System (LIBIS) (since 1996).

She is an Associated Professor at the Institute of Library and Information Sciences of Vilnius University’s Faculty of Communication. She teaches courses “Information Processing and Retrieval” and “Management of Cultural Heritage Projects”.