Helmut Hartmann

Helmut Hartmann is the managing director of the Austrian Academic Consortium. His academic background includes studies in German Language and Literature, Anglistics, Pedagogics and Library and Information Science. After teaching in public and private institutions for more than two decades, Helmut joined Graz University Library in 1995. There he established the university’s E-Journal and E-Book Library and negotiated Austrian and international consortia for E-journals, E-Books and databases, before he took on his present position in 2008. In addition he is a visiting lecturer in Library and Information Science at some Austrian universities and the Austrian National Library’s professional training programme. Helmut serves as the Austrian representative on several Library Advisory Boards and is the national delegate to ICOLC and GASCO.