Ján Kováčik graduated at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius university in Bratislava. He has worked for the Slovak National Library since 2004 (with a break between 2011 and 2012) as a copyright lawyer specialising in the area of of making printed cultural heritage available in the digital environment and as a project manager in the area of EU Structural Funds (national project Creating an information network of research, academic and special libraries including their modernisation) and EC framework programmes (projects connected with The European Library – TEL and Europeana). Currently, he is the chief project manager of the national project Digital Library and Digital Archives).