proposal part b - The Bernstein Project

CIP-ICT PSP Call 4 30
Pilot B
[Imperialle]
medical science as well as at providing knowledge and services for society. Thus, it has set a partnership with
local libraries, museums and archives aiming at preserving, researching and promoting our mutual heritage of
manuscripts, old books, maps, art objects. UTBV Library organizes the International Conference on Library
and Information Science, whose special section of History of Book gathers valuable national and international
expertise in the field. Our specialists from the Faculty of Library and Information Science work to investigate
and to make widely available (for instance through Manuscriptorium and Europeana) the valuable objects
spread in the rich local collections of old books and manuscripts.
Homepage: http://www.unitbv.ro/
Key personnel
Emilian Corneanu
• Study of Bibliology and Museology (Licensed as librarian and museologist) at the Transilvania
University of Brasov;
• Master in European Aspects of Management;
• Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, teaching History of Writing,
Books and Libraries and Bibliography;
• Expertise in paper, watermarks and 16 th c. printed book;
• Responsible in COLLIMUS research project funded by the World Bank (CNCSIS code 258, 2000-
2002);
• Secretary of the National Commission for Digitising and Old Book of ABR (Romanian Librarians
Association).
Elena Helerea
• Study of electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute of Brasov and study on the quality of electro
insulating materials – paper and plastics ageing - at Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (PhD)
• Research in Engineering and History of Science;
• Full professor, since 1999, at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science;
• Library manager since 2008, Transilvania University Library of Brasov;
o Scientific coordinator of EU-Projects (EuRoCEP, CONEET, Electro-Virtual-Lab,
COMPLETE, etc.).
Expertise: material ageing, e-learning, project management.
Vasile Oltean
• PhD in Philology and PhD in Theology;
• Head of First Romanian School Museum, managing one of the most valuable collection of old
manuscripts and books from Romania;
• Associate Professor at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, teaching Greek, Latin and
Cyrillic Paleography;
Expertise in history of printing, manuscripts` research, Cyrillic Paleography, Slavonic and Romanian
religious old books.
Gabriela Mailat
• Study of mathematics and computer science at Transilvania University of Brasov;
• coordination of IT in the following projects:
o CNCSIS – A / cod 991/2003/2004: Research regarding modern methods for conserving the
collections with managerial applications – digital library,
o CNCSIS A / cod 406/2006/2007: Instructive, educational and research model; generating on
line bibliographies ;
• coordination of Library IT service.
Expertise: database administration, image processing, design of software products and services.