Even Flood

• Senior Academic Librarian, NTNU Library, Library for architecture, civil engineering and product design
• Private adress: Ilevollen 3e, NO 7018 Trondheim, Norway
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• Telephone +47 73 52 53 53 /+47 95 11 58 14
  
• Email:  evflood[a]broadpark.no

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Background:

• Cand. Real from University of Oslo, Institute of Chemistry in 1971
• Assistant professor at University of Tromsø 1972 - 1978.
• Reference Librarian at University Library in Tromsø, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, from 1978 til 1987.

• I was employed in 1987 to 2003 by Riksbibliotetjenesten (RBT) and worked at Infosøk - The Department for Information and Retrieval at the NTNU Library - the University Library in Trondheim. My was position was leader of the Norsk DIANE Senter which was Norwegian national information center for users of electronic information. DIANE stands for "Direct Information Access Network for Europe". It was the Norwegian part of a EU funded project and was in Norway a coöperation between RBT and the NTNU Library.  The object of the DIANE center was to help users better utilize electronic information. We gave advice, training courses, seminars and lectures. It is mostly based of the experiences the staff at Infosøk have gained since they first started retrieving information from online databases, back in 1971. (We are talking real old timers here!!)
• Riksbibliotektjenesten was from the first of January 2003 merged with others institutions into ABM-Utvikling, the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. From that date the DIANE Center was officially ended. I now work at the NTNU Library at the branch library for architecture, civil engineering and product design.
• I also try to keep up with what is happening in the internet, especially concerning search engines and portals and also evaluating quality of web information and how to utilise the invisible web. I give seminars and talks on web searching and evaluation of web information and any other topics that interests me and people want to listen to.
  
• I am member of the Sør Trøndelag branch of the Norwegian Library Association, of the Norwegian Online Users Group (NOLUG) and of the Norwegian Association of Special Libraries (NFF).
• I am a member of some mailing lists, the most important ones are the Norwegian library lists from the National Library and the international lists Project Wombat (formerly known as  Stumpers) and Web4Lib.

Private interests:

• I am a member of The Catholic Church.
• Fond of reading, almost everything, from Donald Duck to Sigrid Undset , from Shakespeare to The Bible and from there by way of G. K. Chesterton, on to mystery and science fiction and fantasy; from there to astronomy and end up with (what else?) Calvin and Hobbes. (If I am not watching Babylon 5 on TV.)
• Also I am a film buff  and the introduction of movies on DVD has had a disturbing influence on my reading habits.
  
• And to all this reading I smoke a good pipe and nip a glass of single malt whisky.
• I live in a building built in 1905 in the jugend style, it has its own homepage