Thomas Kaarsted
Univ. Library of Southern Denmark
Deputy Library Director
Originally the managing director of a publishing house, Thomas Kaarsted joined the University Library of Southern Denmark in 2008 and was appointed Deputy Library Director in 2013. He is on LIBER’s
Conference Programme Committee and is active in the
Citizen Science Working Group.
Thomas has since worked on a number of strategic community-/society-based projects on a national and international level and — together with
Anne Kathrine Overgaard, also a member of the Citizen Science Working Group — co-founded the Citizen Science Network at the university.
The network advocates on Citizen Science, aims at building strong ties between the library and the Faculties while also adopting the role as project managers on a number of Citizen Science projects in close collaboration with researchers. He is also the manager of a national Danish project that investigates the possible roles of research libraries within the field.
