Drahomira Cupar

Drahomira Cupar, Phd, is an assistant professor at the University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences, Croatia. She obtained her PhD in Information science in 2013. She is currently working at Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zadar and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in scholarly communication and academic writing, classification and subject indexing and sociology of reading. She served as a President of the Croatian Reading Association (CroRA) (2012-2014). She is a member of professional organizations: Croatian Library Association (CLA) (president of the Committee for subject indexing and classification), CroRA, ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), IFLA (Section for subject indexing and access). She was involved in organization of several conferences and events organized by the Department (LIDA, PubMet, BOBCATSSS and summer schools) and is a co-director for the biennial international conference Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA). She is recipient of the CLA award Eva Verona which is presented to best young LIS professionals (2012). She participates in the European project OPERAS and TRIPLE.