Library and information management
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Interviews with professionals
An interview with Tim Berners-Lee
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, and founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
An interview with Professor Chao Chen
Professor Chao Chen is the incoming President of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR)
An interview with Sheila Corrall
Sheila Corrall is professor of librarianship and information management at the University of Sheffield.
An interview with Monica Crump
Monica Crump is the head of Bibliographic Services in the National University of Ireland in Galway and chair of the Acquisitions Group in Ireland, a special interest group for librarians coming together to share tips and guidance and chat.
An interview with Lorraine Estelle
Lorraine Estelle talks to Margaret Adolphus about her work and predictions for the future of libraries. Lorraine is the chief executive officer of JISC Collections, for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
An interview with Ruth Jones
Ruth Jones is head of Publisher Relations and Product Development at the British Library.
An interview with Lars Våge
Lars Våge is a librarian at Mid-Sweden University Library. He is the author of books and articles in Swedish about searching for information on the Internet and blogging.
An interview with Philippa Levy
Professor Philippa Levy is academic director of the Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS), at the University of Sheffield, and a member of the Department of Information Studies.
An interview with Roddy MacLeod
Roddy MacLeod is senior subject librarian at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
An interview with David Nicholas
Professor David Nicholas is the director of the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where he is also professor of library and information studies and director of the UCL Centre for Publishing and the research group Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER).
An interview with Charles Oppenheim
Professor Charles Oppenheim is professor of information science at Loughborough University, where he heads up the department.
An interview with Gary Price
Gary Price is a librarian, information research consultant, and writer based in suburban Washington DC.
An interview with Anette Schneider
Anette Schneider, librarian at the Danish National Library, Denmark, talks to Margaret Adolphus about her role and the key issues facing the Danish library community while at the 2007 UKSG conference.
An interview with Katina Strauch
Katina Strauch is the assistant dean for technical services and collection development at the College of Charleston.
An interview with Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur and former options trader. In 2001 he founded Wikipedia and in 2003 he set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a charity, of which he is Emeritus chair. He is also, along with Angela Beesley, the founder of Wikia, which is working on a search engine project.
An interview with Jill Emery
Jill Emery is head librarian, Serials and Electronic Resources at the University of Texas Libraries at Austin after several years as director for the electronic resources programmes at the University of Houston.
An interview with Ralph Kiel
Ralph Kiel is associate librarian, information systems at the University of Western Australia Library, Perth.
An interview with Maurice Line
Maurice Bernard Line was a leading figure in library and information science within the UK.
An interview with Sue McKnight
Sue McKnight has been director of libraries and knowledge resources at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) since August 2004. She has responsibility for the libraries and learning resources (LLR) division.
An interview with Jane Kinney Meyers
Jane Kinney Meyers, founder of the Lubuto Library Project, is president and chairwoman of its board of directors (Lubuto means light and enlightenment in the Bemba language).
An interview with Jill Taylor-Roe
Jill Taylor-Roe is head of Liaison & Academic Services, Newcastle University Library, which has been awarded the Charter Mark, the UK Government’s recognition of excellence in customer service in the public sector, five times in succession.
An interview with Dr Max Vögler and Dr Heiner Schnelling
Dr Max Vögler (MV) works for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany. He is programme officer in the group Academic Libraries and Information Systems.
Dr Heiner Schnelling (HS) is director of the University and State Library at Halle, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and chair of the library committee of the German Research Foundation.
An interview with Hazel Woodward
Hazel Woodward is university librarian and director of the University Press at Cranfield, a post she has held for over seven years. Previously she was head of Electronic Information Services at Loughborough University.