Education:
- Minsk, Institute of Culture, Faculty of Library and Bibliography (Belarus, 1976-1981);
- Professional improvement course, VINITI (Moscow, Russia, 1987);
- Training course on ASFA methods (Rome, Italy, 1996);
- Training course on the modern information and library services, Renaissance Foundation project (Kiev, Ukraine, 1999)
- Training course on Marine Information Management for European Countries in Economic Transition organized by the IOC Project office for IODE and EURASLIC – participated as trainee and trainer (Oostende, Belgium, 2006)
- E-repository Training Course for the IODE ODINs – training for trainers (2007, Oostende, Belgium)

Membership:
- The European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC), full member, National representative of Ukraine and ECET (European Countries in Economic Transition) Representative;
- The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC), full member;
- FAO, ASFIS: Representative of the working group of ASFA National Centre in Ukraine;
- IOC/IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information Management from Ukraine.
- Association of Scientific and Higher Education Libraries of Sevastopol: President;
- IMPULSE Training Centre (Sevastopol): trainer in information and bibliographical services.
- ODINECET (Ocean Data and Information Network for European Countries in Economic transition) coordinator

Present position: Head of the Scientific Library

Professional Experience Record:– to present – Librarian and since 1985 – Head of Library at the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas. Scientific Library

List of all professional foreign travel:
1. 1994 Poland, Gdynia. The Firth Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC);
2. 1994 England, Plymouth. Library of Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Visit for training.
3. 1995 England, Southampton. 21st International conference of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC);
4. 1996, Italy, Rome, FAO. ASFA Advisory Board Meeting and training cource;
5. 1999 Holland, Amsterdam, Ecological seminar;
6. 2000 Scotland, Aberdeen, The Eight Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC);
7. 2001 France, Brest, IFREMER – Joint IAMSLIC and EURASLIC conference;
8. 2003 USA, New York, Stony Brook University, exchange visitor program;
9. 2003 Germany, Kiel The Nine Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC);
10. 2003 Belgium, Oostende, Black Sea Regional Library Cooperation Project Meeting;
11. 2005 Belgium, Oostende, ECET Union List of Serials Project Meeting and IODE/EURASLIC workshop on the European Countries in Economic Transition ODIN initiative
12. 2005 Republika Hrvatska, Split, The Ten Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC);
13. 2006 Belgium, Oostende, Training course on Marine Information Management for European Countries in Economic Transition organized by the IOC Project office for IODE and EURASLIC – participated as trainee and trainer.
14. 2006, USA, Portland, 29st International conference of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC).
15. 2007, Belgium, Oostende, E-repository Training Course for the IODE ODINs – training for trainers.
16. 2007, Belgium, Oostende, ODINECET MIM Training (Intermediate level).

     The activities of scientific library of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas The scientific library of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) operates as a modern information centre which provides adequate information support to current and planned investigations using its own stock, remote access to electronic resources and interlibrary subscription, and focuses primarily on diverse researches of the Black Sea.

      Head of the library is Olga A. Akimova, the IODE National Coordinator for Marine Information Management from Ukraine. The scientific library is incorporated into international library associations: since 1994 into EURASLIC and since 2006 into IAMSLIC. During 2002-2004 Olga Akimova was among the board as a Member representative of European Association of Marine Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC), since 2005 she has been in the board as the National Representative of Ukraine and as the Representative of the European Countries in Economic Transition (ЕСЕТ) group. As an active member of the association, Olga Akimova takes part in the conferences and meetings, makes reports and initiates projects some of which have been supported by IOC UNESCO, IODE, EURASLIC and IAMSLIC. For example, Black Sea Informational Cooperation project (BLICOP) - the project proposed and now coordinated by Olga Akimova, or ODINECET, the recent project to elaboration of which she directly contributed. She is also included in the Coordinating Group that deals with projects within the framework of the ODINECET initiative. From 2007 she is the ODINECET project coordinator. Two of those projects have born fruits: “ECET Union List of Serials” and the First ODINECET Training Course on Marine Information Management which was held at the IOC Project Office for IODE between 13 and 24 March 2006. In the latter Olga Akimova worked both as the organizer and the trainer for the group of librarians from ECET countries. In October 2006 she took part in the Conference of IAMSLIC in Portland, Oregon (USA), and presented a report on the ODINECET initiative project. In accord with the proposal by Olga Akimova, the next 12-th conference of EURASLIC was held in Каradag, Crimea (Ukraine) in May 2007; back-to-back to this conference there was The First Regional Regional Training Course in Marine Information Management (MIM). The Training was organized by Olga Akimova. Ten aquatic librarians from Ukraine and Russia took part in this training. The Programme of the training course included the basic knowledge on MIM. Special attention was paid to creating and management of the institutional e-repositories.

     As a cooperating centre of Aquatic Sciences and Fishery Information System (ASFIS) on preparation of analytical and bibliographic data from aquatic sciences for the World Data Bank of the ASFA monthly journal and a participant of a number of consortia (INTAS, AGORA, EBSCO) providing for access to full-text electronic resources, the scientific library of IBSS satisfies the interest of researchers in many detailed aspects of the most recent advances made in their disciplines.

Selected publications:
1. Akimova O.A., Klimentova O.V. (1996) Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas and its Scientific Library: 125 years of Tradition and Progress. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC), held at Valletta, Malta, 25-26th Apr.,: - pp. 105-106. (in English)
2. Akimova O. A. (1996) Marine and Aquatic Libraries of Ukraine – Today. In: Information Across the Waves: The World as a Multimedia Experience: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of IAMSLIC held 8-12 Oct., 1995 at Southampton, England: pp. 45-47 (in English)
3. Akimova, O. (1998). Continuing professional development in the Ukraine. People and Technology: Sharing Knowledge and Shaping the Future of Aquatic Information in Europe: Proceedings of the 7th biennial meeting of EURASLIC 6-8 May 1998, Athina, Greece: pp. 113-115. (in English)
4. Akimova, O.A. (2001). Ukraine: step by step towards what? in: Heath, S.P. et al. (Ed.) (2001). New Skills for the Millennium: Proceedings of the 8th Meeting of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres, held at Norwood Hall, Aberdeen, Scotland, 3-5 May 2000. EURASLIC Proceedings, 8: pp. 130-132. (in English)
5. Akimova O.A. Information Centre in the Special Library. In: Bibliotechnij visnik, 2001, no. 3, pp. 33-34 (in Ukrainian)
6. Akimova O.A. Scientific Library of IBSS: the Present and the Prospects. In: Marine Ecology, 2001, no. 57, pp. 109-114. (in Russian) http://www.ibss.iuf.net/
7. Akimova, O., Kalenchits, M., Goradze, I. (2002) Euraslic ECET Group: People, objectives, projects. In: Proc. of 28th annual IAMSLIC conference, Mazatlan, Mexico, 6-11 October, 2002. – P. 79-84 (in English)
8. Akimova O.A. (2002) International Information Systems of Aquatic and Sea Studies. In: Electronic Resources and Social Role of Libraries in the Future: Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Crimea 2002" held in Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine June 08-16, 2002: vol. 1, pp. 89-92. (in Russian) http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2002/trud/sec910/Doc7.html
9. Akimova, O. et al.(2003). Black Sea Regional Library Cooperation Project: a survey of the literature resources relating to the Black Sea, in: Bacheva, S. et al. Smooth sailing: crossing the boundaries in Aquatic Sciences Information Management: proceedings of the 10th Biennial meeting of the EURASLIC, 7-9th May 2003, Institut fuer Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany. pp. 57-62. (in English)
10. Akimova O., Klimentova O. (2005) Model of evolution of systems of scientific communication in marine libraries of Ukraine and problem of Open Access Initiative In:: Open Waters - Open Sources: Proceedings of the11th Biennial Conference of the EURASLIC, 4-6th May 2005, Split, Croatia 2005, pp. 57-61. (in English)
11. Akimova O. Ukrainian Country Report. (2005) In: Open Waters - Open Sources: Proceedings of the11th Biennial Conference of the EURASLIC, 4-6th May 2005, Split, Croatia 2005, pp. 149-151. (in English)
12. Akimova O. Marine information networks. (2005) In.: Proceedings of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. 2005, is. 14, pp. 310-317 (in Ukrainian)
13. Kalenchits M., Akimova O. Current Activities of the European Countries in Economic Transition Group (2006) In.: Proc. of 32nd annual IAMSLIC conference, USA, Portland 8-12 Oct., 2006. – P. 55-59 (in English)