Library staff

Library service desk

To contact staff members of the University Library service desk, please consult contact & opening hours.

Information specialists

Within your faculty, the Information Specialists are the first contact point for library-related matters, such as searching for literature, publishing, copyright & referencing and visibility & impact of your research. The Information Specialists are responsible for education in Information Literacy within your faculty.

Data stewards 

Within your faculty, Data Stewards are the first contact point for Research Data Management related matters, such as handling your data in day-to-day practice, writing a data policy for a group or filling in a data management plan for a research proposal. Watch this video to find out how your faculty's data steward can help you.

Other specialists

The information specialists and data stewards work closely together with the subject specialists below. You can contact them for questions about open-access publishing, FAIR data, open-source software, and open science in general. Please contact the information specialist or data steward of your faculty for discipline- or faculty-specific questions.

Content management

For questions about processes taking place in the back office of the library, such as facilitating access to literature and more info on existing licences,  maintaining our (research) repositories Pure and UT Student Theses, ISBN and DOI requests, Image Gallery and the library website, you can contact staff members of Content Management via librarybackoffice@utwente.nl. For discipline or organization specific questions contact an Information Specialist.

Business information MANAGEMENT

For questions related to University Library systems, please contact Business Information Management staff via functioneelbeheer-oils@utwente.nl.