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RLUK Conference 2010

Wednesday 10th November11:00 - 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 Knowledge9:00 - 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 Suite11:15 - 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


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

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Professor Geoffrey Crossick became Vice-Chancellor of the University of London in September 2010, moving to the post after five years as Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. He had been Chief Executive of the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Board between 2002 and 2005, taking it through to establishment as a full research council alongside those in the sciences and social sciences.

Professor Crossick is prominent in national higher education 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 closely on research policy issues. He is Chair of the university sector’s Financial Sustainability Strategy Group. His essay The future is more than just tomorrow: higher education, the economy and the longer term was recently published by Universities UK.

He is active in debates about the importance of the arts and humanities, including relations between universities and the creative industries. He has published an influential lecture given in 2006 to the Royal Society of Arts on Knowledge transfer without widgets: the challenge of the creative economy.

He is a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, a member of the Governing Board of the Courtauld Institute of Art and a member of the British Library Advisory Council. He is Chair of the Trinity Long Room Hub, the arts and humanities research centre of Trinity College Dublin. A Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, he was in 2004 elected an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

A social historian specialising in the urban social history of 19th and 20th century Britain and continental Europe (particularly France where he spent a year teaching at the University of Lyon 2), Professor Crossick has published and/or edited seven books and over 40 articles in journals and edited collections.

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 education programmes.

He was formerly the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Dundee (2000-2009) and Chief Executive of the NHS in England (1994-2000). He also has a particular interest in the scientific basis of health services and he chairs the boards of UK Biobank – a major genetic epidemiology study funded principally by The Wellcome Trust and The Medical Research Council – and the Health Foundation, a UK-wide charity committed to improving the quality of healthcare. He is also a coopted member of the Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research. Alan was knighted in 1998 for his services to the NHS, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the 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

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 Institute of Actuaries and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance.Professor Ian Diamond was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor on 1 April 2010. He was previously Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (a position he continued to hold and devote 20% of his time to until 30 June 2010). He was also Chair of the Research Councils UK Executive Group (2004-2009) the umbrella body that represents all seven UK Research Councils. Before joining the ESRC Professor Diamond was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton.

Professor Diamond graduated in1975 with a BSc (Econ) Honours from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) followed in 1976 with an MSc Statistics also from the LSE. He then received his PhD in Statistics from the University of St Andrews in 1981. He began his academic career at Heriot Watt University in 1979 before joining the University of Southampton in 1980 where he was a lecturer, senior lecturer and Professor before being appointed Dean of Social Sciences in 1997 and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2001.A social statistician, Professor Diamond’s work has crossed many disciplinary boundaries, most notably working in the area of population but also in health, both in the developed and less developed world, in environmental noise and with local authorities. His research has involved collaboration with many government departments including the Office for National Statistics, the Department for International Development, the Department of Transport and the Department for Work and Pensions.Professor Diamond is Chair of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales and a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund UK. He is a member of the Universities UK Research Policy Committee, Chair of the Universities UK Group on Efficiency, a member of the Scottish Science Advisory 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 degrees from the universities of Cardiff and Glasgow.

Phil is University Librarian at the University of Liverpool, but prior to this spent most of his career in new university libraries, where he twice had the experience of merging computing and library services. He has been professionally active throughout his career. He served on the executive of SCONUL twice and on a variety of its subcommittees; and is currently chair of Research Libraries UK. His chief current interests include library and university strategy, the management and motivation of library staff, use of surveys and statistical information, and financial issues in library management. He has also written and lectured on legal aspects of information provision, staff development, library automation, text digitisation and “convergence” of library and computing services.

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Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice and improved data management. He currently works as Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Scattering facility at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Along with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially designed tools in the academic research environment. He is a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science, founding Editor in Chief of Open Research Computation, and writes regularly on the social, technical, and policy issues of open research at his blog, Science in the Open.

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) University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. He was Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Nottingham from 1996-2000, setting up the Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College.His interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities e.g. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences in the Globewide Network Academy and the Semantic Web. With Henry Rzepa he has extended this to chemistry through the development of Markup languages, especially Chemical Markup Language. He campaigns for Open Data, particularly in science, and is on the advisory board of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Together with a few other chemists he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk movement in 2005.In 2002, Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues proposed an electronic repository for unpublished chemical data called the WorldWide Molecular Matrix (WWMM)

Chris Rusbridge was the Director of the Digital Curation Centre from February 2005 until retiring from that post in April 2010. The DCC was set up with funding from JISC and the e-Science Core Programme, to support and promote continuing improvement in the quality of data curation and of associated digital preservation. The 3rd Phase of the DCC began in March 2010, funded by JISC.That appointment followed five years as Director of Information Services at Glasgow University. There his responsibilities included the library and archives, together with IT, MIS, and A/V services. For the previous five years, he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a major digital library R&D Programme. During his tenure at JISC, one of his major interests was preservation 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 academic and library computing in the UK and Australia.

Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School staff since 1979, having also taken his LL.B and Ph.D at Edinburgh. Appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School 1999-2003, and Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science in the University 2004-2008. He is on leave of absence January 2010-September 2014, having taken up an appointment as a Scottish Law Commissioner.Professor MacQueen has previously held visiting appointments at Cornell University in the USA, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and Stetson University College of Law (‘Florida’s first law school’). He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. In October 2008 he was elected Vice-President (Humanities) of the RSE for a three-year term. Professor MacQueen’s research and teaching focus on three major areas: (1) the history of law; (2) the private law of obligations; and (3) intellectual property. His work is generally centred on Scots law, but emphasises the significance of the comparative and especially the European context for a full understanding of the ‘mixed’ Scottish system and its future as well as its past development. It also argues that ‘mixed systems’ can help us understand the likely trajectory of European private law in the future.

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Kevin Ashley is Director of the UK’s Digital Curation Center (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/). The DCC, run as a partnership between the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bath, was established by JISC in 2004 to provide services, training and practical advice and guidance to research institutions on digital preservation with a special focus on research data curation. The DCC’s activities include the provision of online data management planning tools (DMP Online), DC 101 training activities, the Research Data Management Forum (in association with RIN) and a series of regional roadshows designed to support institutional developments in research data management. The DCC’s Data Curation Lifecycle model has been widely adopted in the field.Kevin was formerly Head of Digital Archives Department, University of 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 National Digital Archive of Datasets), the digital preservation training programme (DPTP) and AIM25 (http://www.aim25.ac.uk/.) He was a member of the RLG/NARA taskforce which developed TRAC, was chair of JISC’s Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group, and was or is a member of a range of advisory bodies, including that for Erpanet and the UK Archives Hub. Kevin speaks frequently on matters related to digital preservation and management of digital content.

Bo Middleton is Head of e-Strategy and Development for Leeds University Library - leading the development and coordination of all systems which underpin the work of the Library, as well as strategy related to digital content. She has responsibility for the Library Collection Management Teams, the Library Systems Team, and the Repository Team (for the LUDOS and WRRO repositories). She also 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 Director for the JISC IncReASe project (White Rose consortium project), chairs the WRRO service steering group; and is currently director for the JISC funded LIFE-SHARE project and the JISC funded RePosit project.

Robbie Ireland: In 2003 Robbie completed an MA in Scottish Language and Literature, before going on to obtain a PG Diploma in Information Technology, both from the University of Glasgow. Robbie began working at the University of Glasgow Library in 2005, and has worked with Enlighten, the University’s institutional repository and publications database since 2006.

Toby Hanning: Toby completed an MA in English Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2005, and began working as a Graduate Trainee at the University of Glasgow Library in 2006. Since then he has worked in a number of departments, and in 2009 moved to Enlighten, the University’s institutional repository and publications database. In 2010, Toby completed an MSc in Library and Information Management from Robert Gordon University.

Sarah has worked for Durham University Library for nearly seven years where she now leads the Library’s education team. This challenging (and wildly entertaining) role includes working with children, young people and adults to help them engage with and learn from the collections held by the Library and in the University Museums. A typical week could involve anything from running sessions for 8 year olds on Ancient Egypt to talking to postgraduate researchers about how to access archive resources to putting camel hoof prints round the Museum. Prior to joining the University Sarah worked at The National Archives, joining as a 19th century records specialist before moving to the Education Department to project manage their online learning programme.

Jill Taylor-Roe is the Head of Liaison and Academic Services at Newcastle University Library. She has recently been closely involved in the development of the University’s Engagement Strategy. As well as managing the team of Liaison Librarians, Jill provides leadership to the Library’s Special Collections and Archives section which has been the focus of the Library’s engagement activity with the community and local schools.

Catriona Fisher is Customer Services Manager at the University of Glasgow Library, with responsibility for frontline services including Enquiries @ The Welcome Desk, Collection Services and Human Resources Support. Before coming to the University of Glasgow in 2006, Catriona was at James Watt College of Further and Higher Education for 6 years, latterly as Head of Library Services.

Linda Davies is the Science and Biomedical Sciences Librarian in Cardiff University. Linda has been a Site Librarian in Cardiff for thirteen years 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.

Simon Bains is Head of Digital Library, University of Edinburgh, where he has responsibility for all aspects of digital library development and 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 National Library of Scotland. He serves on OCLC Global Council, the RLUK Digitisation Thinktank, and the Research Information Network Consultative Group for Librarianship and Information Science. Simon has worked in research libraries for over 15 years, primarily in digital library positions.


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Jo Lambert is Project Coordinator for the Journal Usage Statistics 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.

Sheila Cannell is Director of Library and Collections, and Deputy Head of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh. She is on the RLUK Board, Chair of the SCONUL Working Group on Space, and a Trustee of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust.

Antony Brewerton is Head of Academic Services at the University of Warwick. He has previously worked for Oxford Brookes University, Reading University Library and the University of Oxford. The Academic Services division at Warwick covers the Library’s team of Academic Support Librarians, the Learning Grid and Teaching Grid, as well as a new research support wing and the Wolfson Research Exchange facility. His research team is currently developing its offering to support the information needs of researchers across a wide spectrum, as well as continuing to enhance services offered through the Research Exchange.Antony is a chartered librarian and Fellow of CILIP. He is also a qualified marketer and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His professional roles have been wide and varied. Antony has been the Honorary Secretary of the CILIP Multimedia Group. He was the National Academic Co-ordinator for National Libraries’ Week and the featured academic librarian in the CILIP careers guide. He has published widely on a variety of librarianship subjects and for the last ten years has been the Editor of SCONUL Focus. Antony has presented papers internationally on library issues and regularly runs workshops for CILIP and other professional groups. Antony is also a member of the RLUK Workforce Think Tank. He 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 opportunities for role development. Antony will reflect on initial findings in his session.

Lorraine Estelle is Chief Executive of JISC Collections, the organisation that manages the national procurement and licensing of a broad array of intellectual property for academic libraries. JISC Collections collaborates with its library members and the publishing community to 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

EDINA Management Board, the chair of the ETHOS Governance Steering Committee and until recently was a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing Board. Prior to joining JISC Collections she worked in the publishing industry, firstly in trade book publishing and then in the area of children’s educational books and multimedia.

Paul trained as a librarian but has spent most of his working life in the commercial sector in a variety of roles. Between 1995-2003 he was Managing Director of Swets in the UK and in 2003, jointly established Content Complete Ltd, managing the business, as Co-Director, until the sale of the Company to JISC Collections in 2009. Paul served on the UKSG committee for over 10 years, the last three as Chair.

Colleen Hyslop has been Senior Associate Director at the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries since 2005. She joined the staff at MSU in 1982 and has held management positions in technical services and human resources. Her earlier positions were at University Microfilms International, University of Texas at Austin, and Wayne State University. She served as principal author and project administrator of two IMLS LSTA grants totaling $800,000 for the creation of a pilot project which became the Michigan MeLCat statewide centralized catalog and resource-sharing system. MeLCat has grown from the original 6 libraries in 2000 to almost 400 multitype libraries in 2010, contains more than 9.7 million items, and expects to handle 1 million requests in 2010.Colleen has been professionally active in a number of organizations,including the Michigan Library Association, which she served as President in 1988-89; Program for Cooperative Cataloging; and American Library Association. Cooperative endeavors, technical services, and automation have been the focus of her publications and presentations. She was honored with the MSU Distinguished Faculty Award in 2002, the Michigan Library Association Librarian of the Year 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 Indiana University.

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 on a programme of projects that are designed to improve institutional services by reusing user activity data. Andy is also overseeing the implementation of the JISC and RLUK resource discovery taskforce vision which focuses on enabling the reuse of library, museum and archive metadata to provide rich end user services. Prior to joining JISC Andy worked as an electronic resources librarian.

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Sheila Cannell

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Mike Mertens is Deputy Executive Director and Data Services Manager of RLUK. Before joining RLUK, Mike held a number of posts at University of Birmingham’s Library Services, in Bibliographical Services and Learning and Research Support. Originally involved in NFF-funded work and RSLP cataloguing projects, he also worked on the Eurostudies section of Intute, and was commissioned by the University of Birmingham and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office to work on Conflict Studies online resources. Mike serves on the Archives 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.

Adam Rusbridge works at EDINA at the University of Edinburgh where he is leading support activities for the UK LOCKSS (for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Alliance. He also contributes to the Piloting an eJournals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) and Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 (PECAN) projects. Before moving to EDINA, Adam was based at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow where he was involved in a number of digital preservation projects, including the Digital Curation Centre and ERPANET.

Peter Burnhill is Director of EDINA, the UK National Academic Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the University’s Data Library.With degrees in economics and statistics, Peter started out in Edinburgh as a researcher and senior lecturer before moving full time into ‘data’and leadership of EDINA, always attempting to combine that with continuing work as an information methodologist. Early years included time with the Scottish Education Data Archive, work with SCURL to launch SALSER as the first web-based serials union catalogue, two terms as President of IASSIST (the international 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 interesting information object that helps us understand what we need to do to ensure ease and continuity of access to mulitmedia, data, learning material, mapping, and much else.Peter is an Official Observer to the ISSN Network and will be presenting progress in a project being conducted jointly with the ISSN International Centre, called PEPRS: Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service. Peter also represents the University of Edinburgh as one of the CLOCKSS Archive Nodes.

Jim provides the leadership, vision and operational direction for the RLG Partnership within OCLC Research. Prior to joining OCLC in 2006, Jim was President and CEO of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), a

global, not-for-profit membership corporation and information service provider. In this role for 16 years he responded to the needs of research institutions and represented the intersection of libraries, museums and archives in professional forums and conferences. RLG Programs combined with OCLC Research to create the leading venue for applied research, community building and prototyping of future systems and services in support of the research information community.Before directing RLG, Jim held positions in private industry (medical technology, merger and acquisition analysis), the University of Chicago libraries and the University of Pennsylvania libraries. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago (MBA and MLS) and was an undergraduate at Georgetown University (BA).

Martyn Wade joined the National Library of Scotland (NLS) as National 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, including London Borough of Sutton, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire, and was formerly Head of Libraries, Information and Learning with Glasgow City Council. Throughout his career he has taken a particular interest in developing integrated customer and citizen focused services. Under his leadership, NLS has developed a reputation for innovative developments aimed at widening access to the Library’s collections, expertise and services. In particular, the Library is exploring the use of 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 member of a number of groups including:The Joint Committee on Legal DepositCollections Advisory Panel, National Trust for ScotlandVice Chair of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature The Board of the Scottish Poetry Library The Scottish Library and Information Council Scottish Confederation of University and Research LibrariesThe Council of Lifelong Learning UKMartyn was awarded a Bachelor of Librarianship degree from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic in 1976, and Master of Librarianship from Aberystwyth University in 1992.

Geoff founded Curtis+Cartwright and has over 30 years of public sector consulting, governance and systems engineering experience. Geoff was previously a director of The Smith Group Ltd (now Detica) for some 15 years. Geoff is currently managing the ‘Academic libraries of the future’ project which is being funded as part of a joint initiative to explore future scenarios for academic libraries, particularly in the context of a rapidly-changing environment. The project will help 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.

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In March 2010 David Prosser became the Executive Director of RLUK, the representative body for the UK’s leading research libraries. Before moving to RLUK, he was, from 2002, the founding Director of SPARC Europe, an alliance of over 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries advocating new models of scholarly communication. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press 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.

Daniel Greenstein is Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Programs at the University of California’s Office of the President. Prior to joining UCOP in 2007 he was director, respectively, of the California Digital Library, the Digital Library Federation, and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Data Service. He holds degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford and began his career as a Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow.

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