Programme

Miroslav Bartošek has been a member of the MU Department of Computer Technology since 1981. He started his career as a system programmer and since 1991 he has been involved in IT support of MU libraries. He founded and for more than a quarter of a century headed Library Information Centre - a methodological and system centre for library support. He is currently involved in the coordination of the purchase of EIR for science, research and teaching at MU, cooperates in the implementation of open science at MU and is also the main expert guarantor of the national CARDS project aimed at the acquisition and deployment of the next-generation Library Platform for a consortium of academic and research libraries in the Czech Republic.

Marika Hrubá is an Open Science Manager at Masaryk University, where she coordinates Open Science activities at the institutional level. She leads the university’s Open Science Implementation Group and oversees project support related to Open Science. Her responsibilities include managing Open Science support and related infrastructure. She has long-standing experience in research support within the university environment, a background in academic libraries, and expertise in science education and training.

Marcela is a librarian at the Central Library of the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University. Her main responsibilities include providing library services to the university’s students, academic staff, and the general public, digitalization of books for the Digital Library, and more recent publications to the E-loans services platform. Marcela also takes care of the library’s social media accounts and organizes various educational courses and social events.

Marian Nevrlý works as a data analyst and AI consultant at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University. His work focuses primarily on descriptive data analysis and data visualisation. He graduated with a master’s degree in teacher education, specialising in English linguistics and literature, along with the social sciences. His interest in languages eventually led him to natural language processing and Python. At the conference, he will present two contributions: Library System Data Visualisation and AI in Libraries. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, studying Standard Chinese, and exploring the applications of artificial intelligence in education and language.

Jiří Poláček is a graduate in mathematics, computer science, and pedagogy, but he has been working in a library for over twenty years, currently as its head. He is interested in data analytics, information literacy, support in the field of open science, and, most recently, in the strategic development of library services at Masaryk University.

Studied Czech Language, Literature and Intercultural Communication at MUNI, where he looked into credibility in communication. Currently studies at the Department of Information and Library Studies at MUNI and works at the Central Library of the Faculty of Science. He teaches Digital Competencies & Tools, Information Literacy in higher education environments and he is interesterd in service design.