Liisi Lembinen has been Development Director of the University of Tartu Library since 2009.

Between 2013 and June 2016, she worked as an Acting Director of UT Library. Previous positions in the library were e-books specialist and educational advisor. Liisi is a member of Open Science and Open Access team of the University of Tartu Library as well as a Project manager of DataCite Estonia.

Between 2015-2020, she was the Chairman of the Management Board of Consortium of Estonian Libraries Network. Since June 2016, she is the secretary of LIBER’s Digital Skills & Services Steering Committee (previously the Reshaping the Research Library Steering Committee) and a member of various working groups.

Starting from 2019 she is a PhD student in the School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research topic is strategic decision-making in academic libraries.

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