William Maes

Bill Maes is the University Librarian at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management. He is the current Chair of Novanet, a Nova Scotia academic library consortium, a member of the AlouetteCanada Steering Committee and a member of the Theses Canada Steering Committee. As the last Chair of CIDL, he worked towards the successful integration of that organization with AlouetteCanada. He served as President of CARL from 2001 to 2003 and is currently Chair of its Government Policy and Legislation Committee.

From 1993 to 1998 he was the Director of Library and Information Services at the University of Regina. There, he had overall responsibility for the libraries, computing and network services, audio-visual services and RegLIN, the Regina Library Information Network. As Chair of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries from 1994 to 1997 he was a strong proponent for creating the virtual Western Canadian scholarly information resource.

While at Regina, he was appointed the University's representative on the Board of SR*Net, Saskatchewan's regional high-speed test network and was Chair of Sask*Net from 1993 to 1994, Saskatchewan's regional Internet provider. He also served on the Boards of CA*Net and C.A.N.A.R.I.E, the latter as the representative for CARL.
Mr. Maes holds a B.A. degree in philosophy from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Calgary, and an M.L.S. degree from the University of British Columbia.

Mr. Maes is the recipient of the CACUL / Miles Blackwell Outstanding Academic Librarian Award for 2007.