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Ruth has been working for the National Library of the Netherlands since December 2006. She has worked as the a Salary Administrator and in the Personnel Departments of various companies. In the National Library she works in Financial Administration. Since September 2007 she has been involved in the Financial aspects of EDLnet (travel claims, EC financial procedures etc) and will be responsible for the financial reporting procedures of The European Library itself. In her spare time Ruth likes Aerobics, Photography, Walking and has a passion for Austria and Skiing!

Olaf D. Janssen (1973) is a project & account manager for The European Library (TEL) , the collaborative platform and joint webservice of the 48 national libraries of Europe. In 2004 he was asked to coordinate the technical & editorial development of the project. His previous position was at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the Royal Library of The Netherlands, where he was editor in chief for Gabriel, the precursor of TEL. He has been involved in a number of EU-funded projects to expand and improve The European Library. TEL-ME-MOR (2005-2007) brought the bibliographic catalogues and digital collections of the 10 New Member States of the EU into TEL.

EDLproject (2006-2008) integrated the national libraries of 9 more EU and EFTA Member States and was a first step in the creation of Europeana , the digital library, museum and archive of Europe.

Aubéry Escande is responsible for The European Library editorial content. He also coordinates the development of The European Library Handbook and produces The European Library Newsletter, the Internal Bulletin and the rich media content available on the site. He joined The European Library in September 2006 and previously worked as journalist for magazines and Web Editor for news portals. Aubéry also expended his editorial competences in the automotive industry (Nissan/Renault) as Technical Author. He devotes his free time to short-films and Original Soundtrack production.

Lizzy Komen was born in Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland. She joined The European Library office in August 2007. She is responsible for the coordination of WP4 task 5 in TELplus which will integrate the translation of collection descriptions into 27 languages besides English to The European Library portal. Lizzy finalised her Masters degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2007; her Master thesis subject was dedicated to Shared Cultural Heritage between The Netherlands and former Dutch colony Indonesia. Before joining The European Library, Lizzy worked as an intern at The Tropical Museum in Amsterdam, where she helped set up an exhibition dedicated to the Iranian painter Khosrow Hassanzadeh. Lizzy loves playing the guitar, photography, movies, cooking and of course travelling.

Eric van der Meulen (1968), though a native of The Netherlands, spent 20 years in Canada where he graduated from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) with a degree in English Literature. As a computer and technology enthusiast he also studied computer science and finite and discreet mathematics at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby). Books and computer science merged when in 2004 he started working for the National Library of The Netherlands and in 2005 for The European Library.

Metadata standards and interoperability, interface and help text translation coordination, mailing list management and virtual meeting moderation.