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Tomàs Baiget (Site in construction. New design coming soon) CURRENT ACTIVITIES Last update: October 2006 Working at Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya (Idescat) --Statistical Institute of Catalonia- managing Idescat's Statistics Enquiry Service (SAD-TED). Professor of the Master Online de Documentació Digital , of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2001-) Member of the Advisory Committee (1982-1994) and Chairman of the Sesión Española (Spanish Forum) of the Online Information Meeting , London (1985 -) . Idescat's Contact person (PER) in RedIRIS , the Spanish academic and research network (1992 -) . Founder and director of the journal El profesional de la información (EPI) (1992 -) , addressed to librarians, information scientists and information experts. The former name of the journal was Information World en Español (IWE). Since January 2005 EPI is entirely published in Spain by EPI SCP, and since January 2006 EPI is indexed by Thomson’s ISI Social Science Citation Index. Founder and coordinator of the think tank " Grupo de Análisis sobre Estrategia y Prospectiva de la Información" ( Think epi ): http://www.thinkepi.net Co-founder of the Directorio de Expertos en el Tratamiento de la Información ( ex i t ) http://www.directorioexit.info Founder and co -owner (administrator and manager) of the electronic list IweTel (1993 -) . Founder of DirIWE , a directory of librarians and information professionals (1994 -) . Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Revista Española de Documentación Científica (REDC) (1993 -) . Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Puzzle, Revista Hispana de la Inteligencia Competitiva (2003 -) . Member of the Scientific Committe of the Spanish Library & Documentation Conference, 10th Fesabid, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-11 May 2007 http://www.fesabid.org/santiago2007/ Occasional evaluator / reviewer of proposals / projects concerning libraries, information systems and technological innovation for the European Commission / DGXIII, Information Society Technologies . Author of the macro for automatic translation from Spanish into Catalan "CasCat", for Word documents dealing with librarianship, information science and statistics. FORMER AND OTHER ACTIVITIES Director 1984-2004 of the advanced degree course Organització dels Sistemes de Documentació a l'Empresa (Enterprise Documentation Systems) of the Institut Català de Tecnologia (ICT) , (diploma awarded by the Polytechnical University of Catalonia, UPC ). In the same course, teaches the subjects of "Online searching strategies" and "Information systems projects". Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Item (1995-2002).