Emilija Banionyte is a professional librarian. Since 1984, after having graduated LIS at Vilnius University, she started working at Vilnius Pedagogical University Library as Head of the Acquisitions Department, since 1987 holds posiion of Library Director. Emilija is interested in all aspects of academic library activity.  She is active in professional librarianship not only in Lithuania, but also internationally: President of the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium, former President of the Lithuanian Librarians‘ Association, member of the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Board of Lithuania, member of the eIFL.net Advisory Board; member of the EBLIDA Expert Group Information Law, member of the IFLA CLM Committee. She is fond of skiing and travelling.