Contact details

Prof. Dr. Ursula Georgy
Room 390

+49 221-8275-3922

ursula.georgy@th-koeln.de






Georgy, Ursula (Prof

 

 

Education

1983-1986

Doctor of Natural Sciences
University of Cologne

Doctoral thesis in chemistry

1983-1986

Studies in Economics (minor)

1977-1983

Studies in Chemistry
University of Cologne

 

 

 

Professional Experience

2001-present

Guest Lecturer
Austria (Graz, Krems, Vienna), Italy (Parma), Malaysia (Shah Alam), and Switzerland (Chur, Geneva, Zurich)

2000-present

Professor (Information Marketing)
TH Köln - Technology, Arts, Sciences (formerly Cologne University of Applied Sciences), Institute of Information Science

1999-2000

Visiting Professor (Information Marketing)
Cologne University of Applied Sciences

1996-2000

Associate Professor (Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Information)
Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

1987-2000

Managing Director and Shareholder, Wissenschaftlicher Informationsdienst - WIND GmbH (Scientific Information Service), Cologne

 

 

 

Research and Teaching Profile

 

Customer Relationship Management, Quality Management, Innovation Management (Open Innovation), Online Marketing, Branding and Profile management

Seminars and workshops on: competitive intelligence, strategic intellectual property management, innovation management, open innovation, crowdsourcing, complaint management, online marketing, public relations, quality management in services as a marketing strategy for libraries and image analysis for university libraries.

Invited lectures and speeches about studies in Library and Information Science in Germany and foreign countries, the Bologna-process, etc. (e.g. in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, GB, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, USA)

 

 

 

University Committee and Administrative Responsibilities (Selection)

since 2011

Head of the ZBIW - Zentrum für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaftliche Weiterbildung (Center of Training and Education for Library and Information Science)
TH Köln - Technology, Arts, Sciences

2011-2017

International Officer of the Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies
Cologne University of Applied Sciences

2006-2009

Vice President for Academic Studies and Teaching
Cologne University of Applied Sciences

2001-2006

Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies
Cologne University of Applied Sciences

 

 

 

Board and Committee Work (Selection)

2014-2018

Member of the Board of Foundation of ZB MED - Leibniz Information Centre for Life Science

2014-2018

 

2011-2013

Member of the Commission "Customer-oriented Concepts and Services" of the dbv (German Library Association)

Member of the Board of Trustees of the ZB MED - German National Library of Medicine

2007-2014

Member and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board "Information und Bibliothek" (Information and Library) of the Goethe Institute

2004-2013

President of KIBA - Konferenz der informations- und bibliothekswissenschaftlichen Ausbildungs- und Studiengänge (Association of Library and Information Science Education and Academic Studies)

 

 

 

Reviewing Responsibilities (Selection)

 

Member of the Program Commission of various symposia

Reviewer for the German Wissenschaftsrat (Science Council) for concept reviewing of non-governmental universities

Reviewer for AQ Austria (Agency for Quality Assurance an Accreditation Austria) for international accreditation of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty

Member of the Board for evaluating the vhb - Virtual University of Bavaria

 

Reviewer for AQAS (Association for Quality Assurance in Accreditation of Study Programmes) and AQUIN (The Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute)

 

Reviewer for the Leibniz-Association (umbrella organisation for more than 85 institutions conducting research or providing scientific infrastructure in Germany) http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/

 

 

 

Professional Associations

 

ASIS & T - Association for Information Science & Technology

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und

Informationspraxis (DGI) (until 2016)

 

Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft (HI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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