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Lourense Das
Your School Library
Lourense Das
Associate Member
Lourense H. Das (1956) graduated in library sciences (BA) in 1976. Since then, she has worked in various schools and educational libraries. In 1996, she founded Meles Meles School Library Service, a private consultancy company for school libraries and school librarians.
Lourense has worked as executive officer for the Dutch Organisation for School librarians in Secondary Schools (LWSVO) and the Dutch Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals (NVB).
In 2009, Lourense won the NOT (National Education Fair and Conference) 2009 Innovation Award for her concept and product FacTotem 2.0 and was nominated for the SME Limburg Innovation Award.
Her international work includes secretary of the School libraries and Resource Centres Section of IFLA (2005-2007), coordinator and chair of Stichting ENSIL (European Network for School Libraries and Information Literacy) (since 2003) and Director Europe for IASL (2003-2009).
Email: info@meles.nl