• Name: Alexandros Koulouris
• Father's name: Nikolaos
• Date of birth: January 1, 1973
• Marital status: Married, two daughters
• Work address: Agiou Spyridonos Str., GR-12210 Egaleo, Greece
• Work telephone: 0030 210 5385203
• Work fax: 0030 210 5385254
• www: http://users.teiath.gr/akoul/
• email: akoul@teiath.gr, koulouris.a@gmail.com

• October 2007
  Ph.D. in Library and Information Science (LIS), Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Archive and Library Sciences Department, Ionian University.
  Title: "Access and availability policies of libraries' digital content".
  Supervisor: Sarantos Kapidakis.
• March 2001
  B.Sc. in International and European Studies, Department of International and European Studies, Panteion University of Sociological and Political Sciences.
• July 1997
  B.Sc. in Library Science, Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Faculty of Management and Economics, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens.

• November 2002 - December 2007
  Ph.D. Scholarship "Irakleitos" from the Operational Program for Educational and Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II) and the European Social Fund (ESF).
• 1999 - 2000
  Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation for the academic year 1999 - 2000 (during the third year of studies in Panteion University).

• June 2010 - present
  Lecturer, Department of Library Science and Information Systems, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens.
• May 2009 - June 2010
  Librarian, Ministry of Finance, Hellenic Republic.
• March 2008 - June 2010
  Research Fellow, Department of Library Science and Information Systems, TEI of Athens.
• March 2008 - present
  Seminar Lecturer of the ABEKT 5.5 integrated library system; registered at the National Documentation Centre of Greece lecturers' record.
• November 2006 - March 2009
  Librarian, Central Library, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
  Project manager, developer and administrator of NTUA Central Library's digital library (DL) and institutional repository (IR).
• October 2006 - present
  Seminar Lecturer, National Accreditation Centre for Continuing Vocational Training.
• September 2006 - present
  Seminar Lecturer, Institute of Training / National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government.
• December 2004 - present
  Workshop Lecturer, Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists.
• November 2002 - July 2005
  Research assistant (while awarded the Ph.D. Scholarship "Irakleitos"), Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Archive and Library Sciences Department, Ionian University.
• March 1998 - September 2002
  Head librarian, Special Collections Department (ex Deposit Library), Science and Technology Library, National Documentation Centre (EKT) of Greece.

• Program committe member, Harvesting metadata: practices and challenges, workshop, 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 29-October 2, 2009.
• Member, Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Archive and Library Sciences Department, Ionian University.
• Member, Association of Greek Librarians and Information Scientists.

• Electronic services development and administration in information organizations.
• Digital libraries and institutional repositories development and administration.
• Expert in implementation and administration of libraries' digital content policies (acquisition, copyright, access and reproduction).
• Websites development and administration (e.g. Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing).
• Administration of serial and book union catalogues.
• Metadata administration (excellent knowledge of Dublin Core and UNIMARC).

• Electronic services in information organizations
• Digital libraries
• Digital library - content policies
• acquisition
• intellectual property - copyright ownership
• access
• availability (reproduction)
• Information policy
• Institutional repositories
• Electronic publishing
• WWW applications

• September 2008 - present
  EuropeanaLocal (EDLocal) project, eConntentPlus program (European Union), colleague of Veria Central Public Library (regional content coordinator).
• September 2005 - August 2006
  DELOS (The European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries) project (i.e. Work Package 7).

Ph.D. thesis

• Koulouris, A. (2007). Access and availability policies of libraries' digital content. Ph.D. thesis. Corfu: Ionian University. [pdf]
  Also available:
  • at the Laboratory on Digtial Libraries and Electronic Puiblishing, Archive and Library Sciences Department, Ionian University, http://dlib.ionio.gr/en/lab/ptheses.htm and
  • at the National Documentation Centre (EKT) of Greece , Hellenic Ph.D. Dissertations Theses Archive, http://thesis.ekt.gr/15039

Refereed journal publications

1. Garoufallou, E., Koulouris, A., Kapidakis. S., Trohopoulos, I. (2010). Access to Greek cultural content repositories in the framework of Europeanalocal project. e-Journal of Science & Technology (e-JST), 5 (5), pp. 22-31. [html, pdf]
2. Ford, J., Zhao, Y., Ye, S., Zhang, S., Makedon, F., Le, Z., Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2010). Visualizing negotiation communications in setting library sharing policies. International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), 3 (4), pp. 404-422.
3. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Access and reproduction policies of university digital collections. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS), 37 (1), pp. 25-33. (Impact factor: 0.581) [pdf-preprint]

Refereed conference publications

4. Koulouris, A., Garoufallou, E., Banos, E. (2010). Automated metadata harvesting among Greek repositories in the framework of EuropeanaLocal: dealing with interoperability. Proceedings of the 2^nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2010), Chania, Crete, Greece, May 25-28, 2010 (to appear).
5. Koulouris, A., Garoufallou, E. (2009). Managing cultural heritage content in the context of Europeana. Proceedings of the International Conference on Tourism Development and Management (ICTDM 2009), Kos Island, Greece, September 11-14, 2009 (to appear).
6. Koulouris, A., Kokkinos, D., Anagnostopoulos, A., Zidropoulos, S. (2008). Evaluating the NTUA institutional repository. Proceedings of the 11^th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2008), Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, June 4-7, 2008. [html, pdf, e-lis]
7. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2007). Policy decision tree for academic digital collections. Proceedings of the 11^th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), Budapest, Hungary, September 16-21, 2007, and Lectures Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4675, pp. 481-484.
8. Koulouris, A., Kokkinos, D., Anagnostopoulos, A., Tanti, M. (2007). The institutional repository of NTUA: challenges, concerns, pilot implementation and perspectives. Proceedings of the 10^th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2007), Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007. [html, pdf, pdf-poster, e-lis]
9. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Policy model for university digital collections. Proceedings of the 9^th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005, and Lectures Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 3652, pp. 356-367.
10. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Policy model for national and academic digital collections. Proceedings of the 9^th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005, and Lectures Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 3652, pp. 525-526.
11. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2004). Considerations on policies of university digital collections. Proceedings of the 6^th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2004), Pushchino, Russia, September 29-October 1, 2004, pp. 159-168. [pdf, e-lis]
12. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2003). Access and reproduction policies of the digital material of seven national libraries. Proceedings of the 5^th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL 2003), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 29-31, 2003, pp. 35-44. [pdf, e-lis]
13. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S., Zhao, Y. (2003). Collections and access policies of the digital material of ten national libraries. Proceedings of the 3^rd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), Houston, Texas, USA, May 27-31, 2003, p. 409. [pdf, pdf-poster, e-lis]
14. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2003). Three disposition policies of electronic theses and dissertations. Proceedings of the 6^th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2003), Berlin, Germany, May 21-24, 2003, pp. 84-90. [html, pdf, e-lis]

Refereed Greek conference publications

15. Koulouris, A., Garoufallou, E. (2009). Public libraries collaboration in the context of EuropeanaLocal: interoperable repositories. Proceedings of the 2^nd Hellenic Conference of Public Libraries, Maroussi, Greece, December 4-5, 2009 (to appear).
16. Koulouris, A., Kokkinos, D., Anagnostopoulos, A., Zidropoulos, S. (2008). NTUA institutional repository service evaluation. Proceedings of the 17^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Ioannina, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. [pdf, e-lis]
17. Koulouris, A., Kokkinos, D., Anagnostopoulos, A. (2007). Digital library and institutional repository development at NTUA Central Library. Proceedings of the 16^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Piraeus, Greece, October 1-3, 2007, pp. 378-392. [pdf, e-lis]
18. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Mapping and comparison between conventional and digital policies on collections of academic libraries. Proceedings of the 14^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Neo Faliro, Greece, December 1-3, 2005, pp. 227-238. [pdf, e-lis]
19. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Knowledge management policies on digital content of libraries. Proceedings of the 1^st Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies National Conference 2005 (HSSS 2005), in co-ordination with the University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece, May 12-14, 2005, pp. 394-407. [pdf, e-lis]
20. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S., Makedon, F. (2005). Applying library policies for digital content access to the commercial sector. Proceedings of the 1^st Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies National Conference 2005 (HSSS 2005), in co-ordination with the University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece, May 12-14, 2005, pp. 719-727. [pdf, e-lis]
21. Ford, J., Zhao, Y., Ye, S., Zhang, S., Makedon, F., Le, Z., Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2005). Visualizing negotiation communications in setting library sharing policies. Proceedings of the 1^st Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies National Conference 2005 (HSSS 2005), in co-ordination with the University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece, May 12-14, 2005, pp. 192-208.
22. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2004). Policies for academic digital collections. Proceedings of the 13^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Corfu, Greece, October 13-15, 2004, pp. 499-512. [pdf-source, pdf, e-lis]
23. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2003). Writing and submission specifications of electronic theses and dissertations. Proceedings of the 12^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Serres, Greece, November 12-14, 2003, pp. 321-334. [pdf, e-lis]
24. Koulouris, A., Kapidakis, S. (2002). The evolution of the bibliographic database of the Hellenic National Archive of Dissertations of the National Documentation Centre of Greece to digital library: history - problems - prospects. Proceedings of the 11^th Pan-Hellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Larissa, Greece, November 6-8, 2002, pp. 121-133. [pdf, e-lis]