International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003 : Lecturers' biographies course 2

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003, Change: Making it Happen in Your Library

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers will contribute:

Graham Bulpitt:

Graham Bulpitt was appointed University Librarian at Sheffield Hallam University in 1990, and since September 1996 he has been Director of the Learning Centre (http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/). Hans Roes This new department integrates library, computing and media production provision as well as the University Learning and Teaching Institute. The city campus operation is housed in the Ł14m Adsetts Centre, an ambitious new building which was completed in 1996. In September 2003, Graham will move to Kingston University in south-west London to take up the post of Director of Library Services. He has been Chair of the Library Association University College and Research Group and is Secretary of the SCONUL (Standing Committee of National and University Libraries) Advisory Committee on Buildings. He is a specialist advisor to the Open University's Validation Services (previously CNAA) and the European Commission and carries out consultancy work, particularly on the development of academic services, personnel and training matters. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Libraries, which advises the Secretary of State, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, on public library provision. He is a member of the editorial boards of the New review of libraries and lifelong learning and the New review of academic librarianship. Graham holds degrees from the Open University and the University of London; he is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher. He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Mary, and Alexander, who is 13. They have two older children: Richard (28) works for a software house in London, and Katy (25) is employed by a film production company in New York. His interests include work for TOFS: a national charity for children born unable to swallow. Graham is now a director of the charity. He is also a governor of Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire.

Andrew Green:

Andrew Green has been Librarian of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth since October 1998. The National Library is a legal deposit library and is the de facto central archive repository for Wales. It also holds important collections of manuscripts, maps, pictures and photographs, and houses the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. Up to 1998 his entire career was spent in British university libraries: University College of Wales Aberystwyth (1973-74), University College Cardiff (1975-89), University of Sheffield (1989-92), University of Wales Swansea (1992-98) - the last as Director of Library and Information Services, responsible for IT services and networking. Andrew is an officer or member of numerous bodies in the area of library and information work, including the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) (Chair 2002-2004), the Standing Committee on Legal Deposit (Chair), the Library and Information Services Council (Wales), the Consortium of Welsh Library and Information Services (CWLIS) (Secretary), the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Wales (President), the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) (Chair), the People's Network in Wales Group (Chair), and the Welsh Committee of the British Council. He was a member of the steering bodies of the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) and the Research Support Libraries Group (RSLG). His professional interests include the application of information and communications technologies to library and information services, online developments in cultural bodies, staff training and development, and strategic planning. General interests include running (and other futile sports), improving his Welsh, archaeological history, music and art.

Lucy Jeynes:

Lucy is a founder director of Larch Consulting, an independent consultancy practice specialising in change management. She has worked with a wide variety of client organisations in the education, public and commercial sectors including BBC, Greater London Authority, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency and Mars Confectionery. Lucy studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge and began her career in marketing. She moved on to work in the City and trained as an investment manager before entering consultancy. She set up Larch Consulting with Michael Cant in 1995, and her success in growing the business was marked by achieving the Midlands Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2000. She chairs her local Woman in Business network and sits on a number of steering groups and committees.

Dr. Alice Keller:

Alice Keller is Head of Collection at the ETH Library Zurich, Switzerland. Lucy Jeynes The ETH Library is the main library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. With a total of 5.7 million items it is the largest library of the nation and acts as significant document supplier for the academia, research and industry in Switzerland and abroad. The main interests of Alice Keller lie in the field of electronic publishing resources. She was responsible for building an extensive collection of electronic journals at the ETH Zurich. Beside that she was involved in setting up the Swiss National Library Consortium. Her studies on the future development of electronic journals were part of her PhD thesis in Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University Berlin. The ETH Library is now concentrating on building up a document server in order to offer scholars alternative non-commercial publication outlets (ETH E-Collection). Alice Keller holds a life sciences degree from the ETH Zurich, a PhD title from the Humboldt University Berlin, and is Associate Professor in Librarianship of the University "Babes-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She regularly holds lectures in Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Romania.

Eugenie Prime:

From the Internet’s foray into Corporate America to a major company split, Eugenie Prime has led Hewlett-Packard’s Corporate Libraries through a sea of change for more than a decade now. It should be noted though that the employees of Hewlett-Packard aren’t the only population who have benefited from her leadership. The first recipient of the Dow Jones Leadership award, Prime is a much sought after speaker. She has been an invited lecturer and presenter at conferences that include Online, ASIS, ASIDIC, and SLA. She has traveled across North America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa speaking extensively in the areas of Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management. Noted for her slightly outrageous sense of humor, Prime has an ability to express substantive issues and ideas with simplicity and wit. These character traits aren’t bound to the space behind a speaker’s podium either. Prime’s work in creating a system for labeling and cataloging information online took her in front of the camera as the feature of a Hewlett-Packard advertisement stating, "What the Internet Needs is an Old Fashioned Librarian," Prime is anything but. Prime is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, the Library Advisory Board of John Wiley (Publisher) and the Advisory Board of Consumer Webwatch. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, she headed a large hospital library while simultaneously serving as president of CINAHL Corporation, database producers and publishers of the Nursing and Allied Health Index. She has a B.A. in world history and sociology from the University of the West Indies; her master’s in history from Andrews University, and M.S. from Drexel University; and an M.B.A. from UCLA.

Deborah Shorley:

Since 2000, Deborah Shorley has been the librarian at the University of Sussex library. Before that she was Assistant Director, Information Services at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (1990-2000), Sub-Librarian, Art & Design at Ulster Polytechnic (1980-1990) and Assistant Librarian at Belfast Public Libraries (1977-1980). Mrs. Shorley is an active member of CILIP (formerly the Library Association). Other professional activities include:

2002: Chair, Policy Development Committee
1998-2002: Chair, International Committee
1998-2002: Chair, ARLIS/UK & Ireland (the Art Libraries Society)
1998-2002: Chair, Northern Ireland Publications Resource (www.nibooks.org)
Mrs. Shorley has frequently represented her profession overseas: during 2002 she led a high level delegation to Havana, and gave papers at conferences in Copenhagen and Moscow. She has also undertaken professional consultancies in UK university libraries. Her latest publication was in Update (vol.2 no.3 March 2003): "Disaster planning: 'in the end you just cope'".

Jan Wilkinson:

Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and has spent fourteen years as a senior manager in eight different posts. She is currently University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where she was previously Director of Library Services. In this time, she has been responsible for the leadership and development of the University Library, with a particular emphasis on human resource management and the direction of organisational change. From 9/96 to 8/98, she was Deputy Librarian at the London School of Economics (LSE), where, as a senior manager, she was involved in strategic planning and policy making for this international research library for the social sciences. At this time, she also became a leader in the UK for library fundraising and has published in this area. Her previous senior posts were the following: 1/93 - 7/96 Sub-Librarian, LSE; 11/90 - 12/92 Sub-Librarian, University of Hertfordshire; 11/98 - 10/90 Librarian, Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) and has been involved in library developments at a national level for a number of years. She has undertaken consultancies for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Research Libraries Support programme (RSLP) of the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE), as well as for other UK universities.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers will contribute:

	Graham Bulpitt: Graham Bulpitt was appointed University Librarian at Sheffield Hallam University in 1990, and since September 1996 he has been Director of the Learning Centre (http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lc/). This new department integrates library, computing and media production provision as well as the University Learning and Teaching Institute. The city campus operation is housed in the Ł14m Adsetts Centre, an ambitious new building which was completed in 1996. In September 2003, Graham will move to Kingston University in south-west London to take up the post of Director of Library Services. He has been Chair of the Library Association University College and Research Group and is Secretary of the SCONUL (Standing Committee of National and University Libraries) Advisory Committee on Buildings. He is a specialist advisor to the Open University's Validation Services (previously CNAA) and the European Commission and carries out consultancy work, particularly on the development of academic services, personnel and training matters. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Libraries, which advises the Secretary of State, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, on public library provision. He is a member of the editorial boards of the New review of libraries and lifelong learning and the New review of academic librarianship. Graham holds degrees from the Open University and the University of London; he is a chartered librarian and qualified teacher. He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Mary, and Alexander, who is 13. They have two older children: Richard (28) works for a software house in London, and Katy (25) is employed by a film production company in New York. His interests include work for TOFS: a national charity for children born unable to swallow. Graham is now a director of the charity. He is also a governor of Mount St Mary's College in Derbyshire.
	Andrew Green: Andrew Green has been Librarian of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth since October 1998. The National Library is a legal deposit library and is the de facto central archive repository for Wales. It also holds important collections of manuscripts, maps, pictures and photographs, and houses the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales. Up to 1998 his entire career was spent in British university libraries: University College of Wales Aberystwyth (1973-74), University College Cardiff (1975-89), University of Sheffield (1989-92), University of Wales Swansea (1992-98) - the last as Director of Library and Information Services, responsible for IT services and networking. Andrew is an officer or member of numerous bodies in the area of library and information work, including the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) (Chair 2002-2004), the Standing Committee on Legal Deposit (Chair), the Library and Information Services Council (Wales), the Consortium of Welsh Library and Information Services (CWLIS) (Secretary), the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Wales (President), the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum (WHELF) (Chair), the People's Network in Wales Group (Chair), and the Welsh Committee of the British Council. He was a member of the steering bodies of the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) and the Research Support Libraries Group (RSLG). His professional interests include the application of information and communications technologies to library and information services, online developments in cultural bodies, staff training and development, and strategic planning. General interests include running (and other futile sports), improving his Welsh, archaeological history, music and art.
	Lucy Jeynes: Lucy is a founder director of Larch Consulting, an independent consultancy practice specialising in change management. She has worked with a wide variety of client organisations in the education, public and commercial sectors including BBC, Greater London Authority, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency and Mars Confectionery. Lucy studied Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge and began her career in marketing. She moved on to work in the City and trained as an investment manager before entering consultancy. She set up Larch Consulting with Michael Cant in 1995, and her success in growing the business was marked by achieving the Midlands Businesswoman of the Year Award in 2000. She chairs her local Woman in Business network and sits on a number of steering groups and committees.
	Dr. Alice Keller: Alice Keller is Head of Collection at the ETH Library Zurich, Switzerland. The ETH Library is the main library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. With a total of 5.7 million items it is the largest library of the nation and acts as significant document supplier for the academia, research and industry in Switzerland and abroad. The main interests of Alice Keller lie in the field of electronic publishing resources. She was responsible for building an extensive collection of electronic journals at the ETH Zurich. Beside that she was involved in setting up the Swiss National Library Consortium. Her studies on the future development of electronic journals were part of her PhD thesis in Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University Berlin. The ETH Library is now concentrating on building up a document server in order to offer scholars alternative non-commercial publication outlets (ETH E-Collection). Alice Keller holds a life sciences degree from the ETH Zurich, a PhD title from the Humboldt University Berlin, and is Associate Professor in Librarianship of the University "Babes-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She regularly holds lectures in Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Romania.
	Eugenie Prime: From the Internet’s foray into Corporate America to a major company split, Eugenie Prime has led Hewlett-Packard’s Corporate Libraries through a sea of change for more than a decade now. It should be noted though that the employees of Hewlett-Packard aren’t the only population who have benefited from her leadership. The first recipient of the Dow Jones Leadership award, Prime is a much sought after speaker. She has been an invited lecturer and presenter at conferences that include Online, ASIS, ASIDIC, and SLA. She has traveled across North America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa speaking extensively in the areas of Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management. Noted for her slightly outrageous sense of humor, Prime has an ability to express substantive issues and ideas with simplicity and wit. These character traits aren’t bound to the space behind a speaker’s podium either. Prime’s work in creating a system for labeling and cataloging information online took her in front of the camera as the feature of a Hewlett-Packard advertisement stating, "What the Internet Needs is an Old Fashioned Librarian," Prime is anything but. Prime is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, the Library Advisory Board of John Wiley (Publisher) and the Advisory Board of Consumer Webwatch. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, she headed a large hospital library while simultaneously serving as president of CINAHL Corporation, database producers and publishers of the Nursing and Allied Health Index. She has a B.A. in world history and sociology from the University of the West Indies; her master’s in history from Andrews University, and M.S. from Drexel University; and an M.B.A. from UCLA.
	Deborah Shorley: Since 2000, Deborah Shorley has been the librarian at the University of Sussex library. Before that she was Assistant Director, Information Services at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (1990-2000), Sub-Librarian, Art & Design at Ulster Polytechnic (1980-1990) and Assistant Librarian at Belfast Public Libraries (1977-1980). Mrs. Shorley is an active member of CILIP (formerly the Library Association). Other professional activities include: 2002: Chair, Policy Development Committee 1998-2002: Chair, International Committee 1998-2002: Chair, ARLIS/UK & Ireland (the Art Libraries Society) 1998-2002: Chair, Northern Ireland Publications Resource (www.nibooks.org) Mrs. Shorley has frequently represented her profession overseas: during 2002 she led a high level delegation to Havana, and gave papers at conferences in Copenhagen and Moscow. She has also undertaken professional consultancies in UK university libraries. Her latest publication was in Update (vol.2 no.3 March 2003): "Disaster planning: 'in the end you just cope'".
	Jan Wilkinson: Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries, and has spent fourteen years as a senior manager in eight different posts. She is currently University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where she was previously Director of Library Services. In this time, she has been responsible for the leadership and development of the University Library, with a particular emphasis on human resource management and the direction of organisational change. From 9/96 to 8/98, she was Deputy Librarian at the London School of Economics (LSE), where, as a senior manager, she was involved in strategic planning and policy making for this international research library for the social sciences. At this time, she also became a leader in the UK for library fundraising and has published in this area. Her previous senior posts were the following: 1/93 - 7/96 Sub-Librarian, LSE; 11/90 - 12/92 Sub-Librarian, University of Hertfordshire; 11/98 - 10/90 Librarian, Business School, University of Hertfordshire. Jan is a Board member of the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) and has been involved in library developments at a national level for a number of years. She has undertaken consultancies for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Research Libraries Support programme (RSLP) of the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE), as well as for other UK universities.