Director General
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Prof. R Gudauskas holds a graduate Diploma in Library and Information Sciences from the Faculty of History, University of Vilnius. He has also defended a doctoral dissertation in social sciences in the S. Petersburg Institute of Culture. Since 1985, the Professor has been giving lectures to bachelor/master students in the communication programme at Vilnius University. In 1996 – 1998 Prof. R Gudauskas was an Advisor for Information and Communication to the President of Lithuania; in 1998 – 2000 he was the Vice-Minister for Information and Informatics at the Ministry of Public Administration, and in 2001 – 2005, he was the Advisor to Prime Minister of Lithuania for Science, Education and Information Society Development.
In 2010, Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas became the Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, pursuing the organization's core mission: to ensure the satisfaction of the Lithuanian knowledge society needs for documentary and digital information. The most important priorities are international cooperation, cultural heritage digitization and strategic projects.
Currently, Prof. R. Gudauskas is the President of the Association Bibliotheca Baltica. His main activities are related to the cooperation of the libraries of the Baltic region, project initiation, formation of the international policy of libraries and information institutions. The professor is also a national representative of the UNESCO Information for All Programme (IFAP), the European Science Foundation, and the Expert of Science Council of Lithuania (Information Society & eGovernment), and the Chairman of the Lithuanian Library Board. Moreover, he is a member of the Lithuanian Information Resources Management Council, Lithuanian Higher Education Council and Lithuanian Research Library Council. In 2012, he was a member of the Management Committee of The European Library.