8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference, Canberra Australia 28-31 October 2003
 



Pentti Vattulainen
Director, National Repository Library, Finland

Pentti Vattulainen is the director of the National Repository Library in Finland, which is a shared national storage facility, a tool for national collection co-operation and an interlibrary lending centre. He has been responsible for developing the Repository Library into a nationally and internationally visible library. He holds master's degree from the University of Helsinki and a post-graduate degree from the department of Information Studies at the University of Tampere. He has held various positions in Helsinki and Vantaa city libraries. He has worked in development aid work in Tanzania. Pentti has written articles on interlibrary lending and resource sharing as well as on collection policy and co-operation. He holds various memberships in national and international library institutions, for example he is the secretary of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Section on Acquisition and Collection Development.

 

 

 
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