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TM Follow us at @RL_UK www.rluk.ac.uk RLUK Conference 2010 Edinburgh Wednesday 10th November 11:00 - 13:00 Registration Dunedin 11:00 - 11:30 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 11:30 - 13:00 Tours of The National Library of Scotland and University of Edinburgh Libraries 11:30 - 13:00 RLUK Mentoring Programme Chairs: Sheila Cannell and Anne Jarvis Invitees Only Dunedin 13:00-13:45 Lunch St Giles Suite Day One: Future Challenges – Doing More with Less Chair: Phil Sykes, Chair of RLUK Dunedin 13:45 - 14:00 Introduction: Phil Sykes, Chair of RLUK 14:00 - 14:45 Keynote: Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Vice Chancellor, University of London The future of higher education in the UK: a longer-term perspective 14:45 - 15:15 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 15:15 - 17:00 Plenary session Chair: Martyn Wade, National Library of Scotland Dunedin Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, HEFCE The future of higher education funding: Challenges and opportunities over the next decade Professor Ian Diamond, Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Aberdeen University Libraries: their contribution to their academic enterprise and future challenges Phil Sykes, University Librarian, University of Liverpool The best of times, the worst of times: guiding research libraries through a turbulent era 18:00 - 20:00 Drinks Reception – National Library of Scotland Sponsored by Taylor & Francis Board Room, National Tours of the National Library available throughout the evening Library of Scotland

Thursday 11th November Day Two: Democratisation of Knowledge 9:00 - 9:30 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 9:30 - 10:45 Plenary Session Chair: David Prosser, RLUK Dunedin Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist, Science and Technology Facilities Council It’s not information overload and it’s not filter failure: It’s a discovery Peter Murray-Rust Open Bibliography - a practical JISC-OKF experience in Democratisation 10:45 - 11:15 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 11:15 - 12:30 Plenary Session Dunedin Chris Rusbridge, Chris Rusbridge Consulting Cautious Optimism: cultivate your garden Professor Hector McQueen, Professor of Private Law, The University of Edinburgh Copyright in the democratization of knowledge 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch St Giles Suite 14:00 - 15:30 Innovation in our Libraries - Pecha Kucha Session Dunedin Chair: Janet Peters, Cardiff University 1. Making the most of repositories - Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Centre Dataplaces: what and where? Bo Middleton, University of Leeds RePosit - positing a new kind of deposit Robbie Ireland and Toby Hanning, Enlighten Team, University of Glasgow Repositories are like cakes... Enlighten: How to Bake an Embedded Institutional Repository rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk

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2. Attracting new users - Sarah Price, Durham University If a five year old can do it...... Jill Taylor - Roe, Newcastle University “It’s just like Narnia!” Opening up a University library to children Catrionia Fisher, University of Glasgow Glasgow Freshers See Red: Branding Library Services for New Users 3. Making the most of our information - Linda Davies, Cardiff University smartBlades: RFID enabled shelves at Cardiff University Simon Bains, The University of Edinburgh Increasing the value of the LMS: the EnCLaVE project Jo Lambert, Mimas Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP): a simpler way to measure use and impact 15:30-16:00 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions Sheila Cannell, The University of Edinburgh Dunedin The context for making cuts: a framework for decision-making and benchmarking Antony Brewerton, The University of Warwick Holyrood The Six Million Dollar Subject Librarian: we have the technology - let’s build the ideal research support librarian Lorriane Estelle and Paul Harwood, JISC Collections Great Socts Hall Negotiating our way out of trouble? RLUK and JISC Collections in an age of austerity Colleen F. Hyslop, Michigan State University Libraries Andrew McGregor, Innovation Information Environment Mike Mertens, RLUK Sailsbury Resource Discovery: The New Mantra ‘’Data In, Data Out’’ Adam Rusbridge and Peter Burnhill, EDINA Netherbow Community action to ensure and afford continuity of access to journal and related scholarly content 19:00 Drinks Reception and Dinner - The Hub Restaurant

Friday 12th November Day Three: Moving Forward - The Future 9:00 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 9:30 – 11:00 Plenary Session Chair: Sheila Cannell, The University of Edinburgh Dunedin Jim Michalko, Vice President, OCLC Research Research Libraries – a global system, a shared future Martyn Wade, National Librarian, The National Library of Scotland Thriving or Surviving: national libraries in the future Dr Geoff Curtis, Curtis and Cartwright Academic Libraries of the Future - overview, update and next steps 11:00 - 11:30 Tea and Coffee St Giles Suite 11: 30 - 13:00 Plenary Session Chair: Phil Sykes Dunedin Dr David Prosser, Executive Director, RLUK The shape of things to come: The role of RLUK Keynote: Dr Dan Greenstein, Vice Provost for Academic Information & Strategic Services, University of California Next generation library solutions: shared services and beyond 13:00 - 13:15 Closing remarks – Phil Sykes 13:30 – 14: 30 Tours of The National Library of Scotland and University of Edinburgh Libraries RLUK Conference 2010 Edinburgh RLUK Speaker Biographies Jalandhar, India, and honorary fellowships by the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow), the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the Professor Geoffrey Crossick Institute of Actuaries and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance. Professor Geoffrey Crossick became Vice-Chancellor of the Professor Ian Diamond was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor University of London in September 2010, moving to the post after five on 1 April 2010. He was previously Chief Executive of the Economic years as Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. He had been and Social Research Council (a position he continued to hold and Chief Executive of the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Board between devote 20% of his time to until 30 June 2010). He was also Chair of the 2002 and 2005, taking it through to establishment as a full research Research Councils UK Executive Group (2004-2009) the umbrella council alongside those in the sciences and social sciences. body that represents all seven UK Research Councils. Before joining the ESRC Professor Diamond was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Professor Crossick is prominent in national higher education University of Southampton. policy making and debate in the UK, and is a member of the Board of Universities UK and its Research Policy Committee, as well as being appointed to the Enterprise & Skills Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England with whom he also works Professor Ian Diamond closely on research policy issues. He is Chair of the university sector’s Professor Diamond graduated in1975 with a BSc (Econ) Honours from Financial Sustainability Strategy Group. His essay The future is more the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) followed than just tomorrow: higher education, the economy and the longer in 1976 with an MSc Statistics also from the LSE. He then received his term was recently published by Universities UK. PhD in Statistics from the University of St Andrews in 1981. He began He is active in debates about the importance of the arts and his academic career at Heriot Watt University in 1979 before joining humanities, including relations between universities and the creative the University of Southampton in 1980 where he was a lecturer, industries. He has published an influential lecture given in 2006 to senior lecturer and Professor before being appointed Dean of Social the Royal Society of Arts on Knowledge transfer without widgets: the Sciences in 1997 and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2001. challenge of the creative economy. A social statistician, Professor Diamond’s work has crossed He is a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, a member of the many disciplinary boundaries, most notably working in the area Governing Board of the Courtauld Institute of Art and a member of population but also in health, both in the developed and less of the British Library Advisory Council. He is Chair of the Trinity developed world, in environmental noise and with local authorities. Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities research centre of Trinity His research has involved collaboration with many government College Dublin. A Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the departments including the Office for National Statistics, the Royal Society of Arts, he was in 2004 elected an Honorary Fellow of Department for International Development, the Department of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Transport and the Department for Work and Pensions. A social historian specialising in the urban social history of 19th and Professor Diamond is Chair of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England 20th century Britain and continental Europe (particularly France and Wales and a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund UK. He is a member of where he spent a year teaching at the University of Lyon 2), Professor the Universities UK Research Policy Committee, Chair of the Universities Crossick has published and/or edited seven books and over 40 UK Group on Efficiency, a member of the Scottish Science Advisory articles in journals and edited collections. Council and a Board Member of the British Universities and Colleges Sport organisation. Professor Diamond was elected to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 1999, is a Fellow of the British Academy (2005), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009) and holds honorary Sir Alan Langlands degrees from the universities of Cardiff and Glasgow. Alan Langlands is the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England responsible for promoting and funding high quality education and research in universities and colleges with higher Phil Sykes education programmes. Phil is University Librarian at the University of Liverpool, but prior to He was formerly the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University this spent most of his career in new university libraries, where he twice of Dundee (2000-2009) and Chief Executive of the NHS in England had the experience of merging computing and library services. He has (1994-2000). He also has a particular interest in the scientific basis been professionally active throughout his career. He served on the of health services and he chairs the boards of UK Biobank – a major executive of SCONUL twice and on a variety of its subcommittees; genetic epidemiology study funded principally by The Wellcome Trust and is currently chair of Research Libraries UK. His chief current and The Medical Research Council – and the Health Foundation, a interests include library and university strategy, the management and UK-wide charity committed to improving the quality of healthcare. He motivation of library staff, use of surveys and statistical information, is also a coopted member of the Office for the Strategic Coordination and financial issues in library management. He has also written and of Health Research. lectured on legal aspects of information provision, staff development, Alan was knighted in 1998 for his services to the NHS, he is a Fellow library automation, text digitisation and “convergence” of library and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the computing services. Academy of Medical Sciences. Alan is a science graduate of the University of Glasgow and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University in October 2001. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and the National Institute of Technology rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk

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Dr Cameron Neylon Chris Rusbridge Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in Chris Rusbridge was the Director of the Digital Curation Centre from interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice February 2005 until retiring from that post in April 2010. and improved data management. He currently works as Senior The DCC was set up with funding from JISC and the e-Science Core Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Scattering Programme, to support and promote continuing improvement in the facility at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Along quality of data curation and of associated digital preservation. The with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and 3rd Phase of the DCC began in March 2010, funded by JISC. writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and That appointment followed five years as Director of Information the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially Services at Glasgow University. There his responsibilities included the designed tools in the academic research environment. He is a co- library and archives, together with IT, MIS, and A/V services. For the author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science, founding previous five years, he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Editor in Chief of Open Research Computation, and writes regularly on Libraries Programme (eLib), a major digital library R&D Programme. the social, technical, and policy issues of open research at his blog, During his tenure at JISC, one of his major interests was preservation Science in the Open. of digital materials, the subject of a set of JISC-funded studies and major international workshops in 1995, 1999 and 2005, held at Warwick. Previously he held a number of management positions in Professor Peter Murray-Rust academic and library computing in the UK and Australia. Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941. He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College, Oxford. After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new) Professor Hector McQueen University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School staff Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford since 1979, having also taken his LL.B and Ph.D at Edinburgh. Appointed to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School protein structure determination. He was Professor of Pharmacy 1999-2003, and Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College in the University of Nottingham from 1996-2000, setting up the of Humanities and Social Science in the University 2004-2008. He is Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader in Molecular on leave of absence January 2010-September 2014, having taken up an Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research appointment as a Scottish Law Commissioner. Fellow of Churchill College. Professor MacQueen has previously held visiting appointments at Cornell His interests have involved the automated analysis of data in University in the USA, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and scientific publications, creation of virtual communities e.g. The Virtual Stetson University College of Law (‘Florida’s first law school’). He has been School of Natural Sciences in the Globewide Network Academy a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1995 and was elected a and the Semantic Web. With Henry Rzepa he has extended this to Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. In October 2008 he was elected chemistry through the development of Markup languages, especially Vice-President (Humanities) of the RSE for a three-year term. Chemical Markup Language. He campaigns for Open Data, particularly Professor MacQueen’s research and teaching focus on three major in science, and is on the advisory board of the Open Knowledge areas: (1) the history of law; (2) the private law of obligations; and (3) Foundation. Together with a few other chemists he was a founder intellectual property. His work is generally centred on Scots law, but member of the Blue Obelisk movement in 2005. emphasises the significance of the comparative and especially the In 2002, Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues proposed an European context for a full understanding of the ‘mixed’ Scottish electronic repository for unpublished chemical data called the system and its future as well as its past development. It also argues WorldWide Molecular Matrix (WWMM) that ‘mixed systems’ can help us understand the likely trajectory of European private law in the future. RLUK Conference 2010 Edinburgh

Kevin Ashley Sarah Price Kevin Ashley is Director of the UK’s Digital Curation Center (http://www.dcc. Sarah has worked for Durham University Library for nearly seven years ac.uk/). The DCC, run as a partnership between the universities of Edinburgh, where she now leads the Library’s education team. This challenging (and Glasgow and Bath, was established by JISC in 2004 to provide services, wildly entertaining) role includes working with children, young people training and practical advice and guidance to research institutions on digital and adults to help them engage with and learn from the collections preservation with a special focus on research data curation. The DCC’s held by the Library and in the University Museums. A typical week could activities include the provision of online data management planning tools involve anything from running sessions for 8 year olds on Ancient Egypt (DMP Online), DC 101 training activities, the Research Data Management to talking to postgraduate researchers about how to access archive Forum (in association with RIN) and a series of regional roadshows designed resources to putting camel hoof prints round the Museum. Prior to to support institutional developments in research data management. The joining the University Sarah worked at The National Archives, joining DCC’s Data Curation Lifecycle model has been widely adopted in the field. as a 19th century records specialist before moving to the Education Kevin was formerly Head of Digital Archives Department, University of Department to project manage their online learning programme. London Computer Centre (ULCC). This group, established in 1997, worked on the preservation of digital resources on behalf of other organizations. Clients included the UK government and national libraries as well as learned societies and other universities. Services included NDAD (the Jill Taylor Roe National Digital Archive of Datasets), the digital preservation training Jill Taylor-Roe is the Head of Liaison and Academic Services at programme (DPTP) and AIM25 (http://www.aim25.ac.uk/.) He was a Newcastle University Library. She has recently been closely involved member of the RLG/NARA taskforce which developed TRAC, was chair in the development of the University’s Engagement Strategy. As well of JISC’s Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group, and was or is a as managing the team of Liaison Librarians, Jill provides leadership to member of a range of advisory bodies, including that for Erpanet and the the Library’s Special Collections and Archives section which has been UK Archives Hub. Kevin speaks frequently on matters related to digital the focus of the Library’s engagement activity with the community and preservation and management of digital content. local schools.

Bo Middleton Catriona Fisher Bo Middleton is Head of e-Strategy and Development for Leeds Catriona Fisher is Customer Services Manager at the University of University Library - leading the development and coordination of all Glasgow Library, with responsibility for frontline services including systems which underpin the work of the Library, as well as strategy Enquiries @ The Welcome Desk, Collection Services and Human related to digital content. She has responsibility for the Library Resources Support. Before coming to the University of Glasgow in 2006, Collection Management Teams, the Library Systems Team, and the Catriona was at James Watt College of Further and Higher Education for 6 Repository Team (for the LUDOS and WRRO repositories). She also years, latterly as Head of Library Services. has responsibility for the Student Portal and the VLE Service, two key University services which impact directly on the staff and student experience. Bo has extensive experience of managing large scale IT projects in addition to experience as a lecturer. She was recently Project Linda Davies Director for the JISC IncReASe project (White Rose consortium project), Linda Davies is the Science and Biomedical Sciences Librarian in Cardiff chairs the WRRO service steering group; and is currently director for the University. Linda has been a Site Librarian in Cardiff for thirteen years JISC funded LIFE-SHARE project and the JISC funded RePosit project. and was previously a Subject Librarian in the University of Glamorgan for nine years. She is currently leader of the RFID Self Service Project in Cardiff and chairs the Library Systems Steering Group. Robbie Ireland Robbie Ireland: In 2003 Robbie completed an MA in Scottish Language and Literature, before going on to obtain a PG Diploma in Information Simon Bains Technology, both from the University of Glasgow. Robbie began working at Simon Bains is Head of Digital Library, University of Edinburgh, where the University of Glasgow Library in 2005, and has worked with Enlighten, the he has responsibility for all aspects of digital library development and University’s institutional repository and publications database since 2006. service management. He manages a team which handles technical development, systems support services, electronic collection development, repository services and traditional monograph and serial cataloguing. Prior to this he was Digital Library Manager at the Toby Hanning National Library of Scotland. He serves on OCLC Global Council, the Toby Hanning: Toby completed an MA in English Literature at the RLUK Digitisation Thinktank, and the Research Information Network University of Glasgow in 2005, and began working as a Graduate Trainee Consultative Group for Librarianship and Information Science. Simon at the University of Glasgow Library in 2006. Since then he has worked has worked in research libraries for over 15 years, primarily in digital in a number of departments, and in 2009 moved to Enlighten, the library positions. University’s institutional repository and publications database. In 2010, Toby completed an MSc in Library and Information Management from Robert Gordon University. rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk

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RLUK Research Libraries UK RLUK Research Libraries UK EDINA Management Board, the chair of the ETHOS Governance Steering Committee and until recently was a member of the Royal Society of Jo Lambert Chemistry Publishing Board. Prior to joining JISC Collections she worked in the publishing industry, firstly in trade book publishing and then in the area Jo Lambert is Project Coordinator for the Journal Usage Statistics of children’s educational books and multimedia. Portal (JUSP). JUSP is being developed by a partnership of JISC Collections, Mimas at the University of Manchester, Evidence Base at Birmingham City University and Cranfield University. Paul Haywood Paul trained as a librarian but has spent most of his working life in the Sheila Cannell commercial sector in a variety of roles. Between 1995-2003 he was Managing Director of Swets in the UK and in 2003, jointly established Sheila Cannell is Director of Library and Collections, and Deputy Head Content Complete Ltd, managing the business, as Co-Director, until of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh. She is on the the sale of the Company to JISC Collections in 2009. Paul served on RLUK Board, Chair of the SCONUL Working Group on Space, and a the UKSG committee for over 10 years, the last three as Chair. Trustee of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust.

Colleen F. Hyslop Antony Brewerton Colleen Hyslop has been Senior Associate Director at the Michigan Antony Brewerton is Head of Academic Services at the University of State University (MSU) Libraries since 2005. She joined the staff Warwick. He has previously worked for Oxford Brookes University, at MSU in 1982 and has held management positions in technical Reading University Library and the University of Oxford. The services and human resources. Her earlier positions were at Academic Services division at Warwick covers the Library’s team of University Microfilms International, University of Texas at Austin, Academic Support Librarians, the Learning Grid and Teaching Grid, and Wayne State University. She served as principal author and as well as a new research support wing and the Wolfson Research project administrator of two IMLS LSTA grants totaling $800,000 for Exchange facility. His research team is currently developing its the creation of a pilot project which became the Michigan MeLCat offering to support the information needs of researchers across a statewide centralized catalog and resource-sharing system. MeLCat wide spectrum, as well as continuing to enhance services offered has grown from the original 6 libraries in 2000 to almost 400 through the Research Exchange. multitype libraries in 2010, contains more than 9.7 million items, and Antony is a chartered librarian and Fellow of CILIP. He is also a expects to handle 1 million requests in 2010. qualified marketer and a member of the Chartered Institute of Colleen has been professionally active in a number of organizations, Marketing. His professional roles have been wide and varied. Antony has been the Honorary Secretary of the CILIP Multimedia Group. He including the Michigan Library Association, which she served as was the National Academic Co-ordinator for National Libraries’ Week President in 1988-89; Program for Cooperative Cataloging; and and the featured academic librarian in the CILIP careers guide. He American Library Association. Cooperative endeavors, technical has published widely on a variety of librarianship subjects and for the services, and automation have been the focus of her publications and last ten years has been the Editor of SCONUL Focus. Antony has presentations. She was honored with the MSU Distinguished Faculty presented papers internationally on library issues and regularly runs Award in 2002, the Michigan Library Association Librarian of the Year workshops for CILIP and other professional groups. in 2000, and Phi Beta Kappa in 1969. She holds a master’s in library science from Wayne State University and an A.B. with distinction from Antony is also a member of the RLUK Workforce Think Tank. He Indiana University. has led on the RLUK project looking to develop the roles of subject librarians to support the evolving needs of researchers, drafting the original project plan and working closely with Mary Auckland as she has surveyed the existing research support environment and Andy McGregor opportunities for role development. Antony will reflect on initial findings in his session. Andy McGregor is a programme manager for the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The role of a programme manager is to fund and oversee technology projects that are designed to improve education and research in Higher Education. Andy is currently working Lorraine Estelle on a programme of projects that are designed to improve institutional services by reusing user activity data. Andy is also overseeing the Lorraine Estelle is Chief Executive of JISC Collections, the organisation implementation of the JISC and RLUK resource discovery taskforce that manages the national procurement and licensing of a broad vision which focuses on enabling the reuse of library, museum and array of intellectual property for academic libraries. JISC Collections archive metadata to provide rich end user services. Prior to joining collaborates with its library members and the publishing community to JISC Andy worked as an electronic resources librarian. undertake research that drives the development of licensing and business models in line with user needs, innovative technology and the future of digital content. Recent projects in this area have included the National e-books observatory, the e-books for FE project. She is a member of the Knowledge Exchange Licensing Group, which looks at the issues of digital licensing and procurement at multi-national level and she is an active participant in the ICOLC conferences. She is a member of the RLUK Conference 2010 Edinburgh

global, not-for-profit membership corporation and information service provider. In this role for 16 years he responded to the needs of research Mike Mertens institutions and represented the intersection of libraries, museums and archives in professional forums and conferences. RLG Programs Mike Mertens is Deputy Executive Director and Data Services combined with OCLC Research to create the leading venue for applied Manager of RLUK. Before joining RLUK, Mike held a number of posts research, community building and prototyping of future systems and at University of Birmingham’s Library Services, in Bibliographical services in support of the research information community. Services and Learning and Research Support. Originally involved in Before directing RLG, Jim held positions in private industry (medical NFF-funded work and RSLP cataloguing projects, he also worked technology, merger and acquisition analysis), the University of on the Eurostudies section of Intute, and was commissioned by the Chicago libraries and the University of Pennsylvania libraries. University of Birmingham and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago (MBA and work on Conflict Studies online resources. Mike serves on the Archives MLS) and was an undergraduate at Georgetown University (BA). Hub Steering Committee, the Copac Steering Committee, the LIBER Steering Committee for Digitisation and Resource Discovery (SCDRD), and is Chair of the LIBER Europeana Working Group. Martyn Wade Martyn Wade joined the National Library of Scotland (NLS) as National Adam Rusbridge Librarian in 2002, after 25 years experience in the public library sector. During this time he worked in a number of rural and urban authorities, Adam Rusbridge works at EDINA at the University of Edinburgh including London Borough of Sutton, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire, where he is leading support activities for the UK LOCKSS (for Lots of and was formerly Head of Libraries, Information and Learning with Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance. He also contributes to the Piloting Glasgow City Council. Throughout his career he has taken a particular an eJournals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) and Pilot for interest in developing integrated customer and citizen focused services. Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 (PECAN) projects. Before moving to EDINA, Adam was based at the Humanities Advanced Under his leadership, NLS has developed a reputation for innovative Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of developments aimed at widening access to the Library’s collections, Glasgow where he was involved in a number of digital preservation expertise and services. In particular, the Library is exploring the use of projects, including the Digital Curation Centre and ERPANET. partnerships and technology to support research at all levels, whilst enabling and welcoming new audiences to enjoy, learn and benefit from the Library’s rich and unique resources. Martyn has a wide range of professional interests, and is an active Peter Burnhill member of a number of groups including: The Joint Committee on Legal Deposit Peter Burnhill is Director of EDINA, the UK National Academic Collections Advisory Panel, National Trust for Scotland Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the Vice Chair of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature University’s Data Library. The Board of the Scottish Poetry Library With degrees in economics and statistics, Peter started out in The Scottish Library and Information Council Edinburgh as a researcher and senior lecturer before moving full time Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries into ‘data’and leadership of EDINA, always attempting to combine that with continuing work as an information methodologist. Early The Council of Lifelong Learning UK years included time with the Scottish Education Data Archive, work Martyn was awarded a Bachelor of Librarianship degree from with SCURL to launch SALSER as the first web-based serials union Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic in 1976, and Master of Librarianship catalogue, two terms as President of IASSIST (the international from Aberystwyth University in 1992. association for data librarians and archivist), and the founding director of the Digital Curation Centre. His contribution to serials is motivated both by the intrinsic importance of ensuring ease and continuity of access to scholarly resources and because he regards the journal as an Dr Geoff Curtis interesting information object that helps us understand what we need Geoff founded Curtis+Cartwright and has over 30 years of public to do to ensure ease and continuity of access to mulitmedia, data, sector consulting, governance and systems engineering experience. learning material, mapping, and much else. Geoff was previously a director of The Smith Group Ltd (now Detica) Peter is an Official Observer to the ISSN Network and will be for some 15 years. Geoff is currently managing the ‘Academic libraries presenting progress in a project being conducted jointly with the of the future’ project which is being funded as part of a joint initiative ISSN International Centre, called PEPRS: Piloting an E-journals to explore future scenarios for academic libraries, particularly in the Preservation Registry Service. Peter also represents the University of context of a rapidly-changing environment. The project will help Edinburgh as one of the CLOCKSS Archive Nodes. higher education institutions and organisations look at the challenges faced from a fresh focus and formulate strategies to ensure the sector continues to be a leading global force. The project partners are the British Library, JISC, RIN, RLUK and SCONUL. James Michalko Jim provides the leadership, vision and operational direction for the RLG Partnership within OCLC Research. 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In March 2010 David Prosser became the Executive Director of Daniel Greenstein is Vice Provost for Academic Planning and RLUK, the representative body for the UK’s leading research libraries. Programs at the University of California’s Office of the President. Before moving to RLUK, he was, from 2002, the founding Director of Prior to joining UCOP in 2007 he was director, respectively, of the SPARC Europe, an alliance of over 110 research-led university libraries California Digital Library, the Digital Library Federation, and the from 14 European countries advocating new models of scholarly UK’s Arts and Humanities Data Service. He holds degrees from the communication. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, Universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford and began his career as a and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow. and Elsevier Science. During this time he was involved in all aspects of publishing from production through to editorial and financial management of journals. Before becoming a publisher he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK. rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk rluk research libraries uk www.rluk.ac.uk www.rluk.ac.uk

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