Johann van Reenen is the Assistant Dean for Research and Instruction Services for the University Libraries, an Associate Professor of Librarianship and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

He received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Library Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also has a Museum Studies Diploma from the University of Leicester, England and University of Capetown, South Africa. He also has an Advanced Management Certificate from Camosun College and Ministry of Advanced Education, Victoria, British Columbia.

He is familiar with science and technology information consortia through his frequent chairmanship of the Alliance for Innovation in Science & Technology Information and as Director, for nearly a decade, of the Digital Library Linkages Program of the Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium. Both these organizations have significant digital library projects and include some of the most important digital library sites in Latin America and the United States.

Before coming to New Mexico in 1996, he was head of the Life Sciences libraries Network at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Johann is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

He has published over 45 articles and chapters in books, and is the editor of a book on digital libraries and virtual work places in a Latin American context. The latter was published in 2002 by the Organization of American States. He regularly speaks at international conferences and his current interests include opportunities to support the re-invention of scholarly publishing processes and the development of electronic information products for academic libraries. Since the mid-1990’s he has taught workshops on risk taking and decision making in the electronic environment and leadership courses for librarians.