Marina Encheva
Chief Assistant Professor, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT), Bulgaria
Marina Encheva graduated in Library and Information Sciences (MA programme) at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ in 2000. She also holds a qualification of English Teacher from the same university (2002). In 2006 Encheva was awarded a PhD degree in Information Retrieval Systems. Her doctoral thesis is entitled ‘Ädaptability of the Models for Distance Learning in Library and Information Sciences through the Internet’. She has been a part-time Assistant professor in Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ since 2007 and a full-time Assistant professor in the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies since 2009 giving lectures and seminars to BA and MA students in E-Learning; E-Resources and Metadata; Business Information Systems; Cataloguing of E-Resources, etc. Encheva has had experience as a librarian at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia and as an expert at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. She has worked on a number of projects co-financed by the EU (as a team member and a coordinator) amongst which: ‘Distance learning in Library and Information Sciences and Print Communications’ (2012-2014), ‘Introduction of electronic management of administrative and information services in recognition of higher education diplomas’ (2009-2011), etc. Since 2004 Marina Encheva is a member of the European Distance and E-Learning Network.