about me

My name is Rudolf Mumenthaler. Here is some information about me and my professional and personal background. See also my profile on LinkedIn, on ORCID or in Wikipedia (German).

About my profession

1991-1997: assistant to the chair of Eastern European History at the University of Zurich. PhD with a thesis on Swiss Scholars in Tsarist Russia in 1996.
1997-2008: Head of Special Collections at ETH Library Zurich
2009-2012: Head of Innovation and Marketing at ETH Library Zurich
May 2012-July 2017: Professor for Library Science at HTW Chur
August 2017-December 2020: Director of Zentral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern
January 2021- : Director of University Library Zurich

Co-founder and member of the editorial board of the journal Informationspraxis.
Co-president of the advisory board of SLSP, starting August 2020.
Member of the board of Bibliosuisse, head of the division education, starting January 2019
Member of the Ausbildungsdelegation I&D, starting January 2019
Member of the advisory board of SLSP, starting 2018
Member of the Steering Committee of the MAS Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft at University Zurich, starting 2017
President of the association Kooperative Speicherbibliothek, starting August 2017
Member of the Library Commission St. Gallen, starting in 2014.
Co-principal investigator for the Horizon Report Library Edition (2014/2015/2017)
Co-founder and member of the Network on Libraries in Urban Space
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of ZB MED, 2014-2016.
Membre du Comité scientifique du Master HES en Information documentaire (Haute école de gestion de Genève), 2014-2017
Expert in the steering group for a library strategy, Kanton St. Gallen, 2014
Member of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Horizon Report Higher Ed Advisory Board
Leader of the Strategy Group E-Publishing (Program SUC 2013-2016 P-2 „Scientific information: Access, processing and safeguarding“), August to October 2013
Member of the Scientific Board of ZB MED (Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin, Cologne), 2012-2014.
Advisory member at Strategic Group ZB MED (Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin), 2012-2014.
Member of the board of the Swiss Librarian Association BIS (Bibliothek Information Schweiz), starting in January 2013
Member of the Board of Zukunftswerkstatt, Kultur- und Wissensvermittlung e.V. (2010-2014)

My interests: Innovation management, new technologies in libraries, digital libraries, eBooks and eBook reader, tablets, social media, mobile usage of library services.

About my education

1983-1990: Student of General History with focus on Eastern European History, Russian Language and Literature and Political Sciences at University of Zurich
1996: PhD at University of Zurich
2004-2005: Management of Nonprofit Organisations at Université de Fribourg
2009: Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians at Harvard Graduate School of Education

About myself