Andrew Barker has been Director of Library Services & Learning Development at Lancaster University since September 2019. Prior to that he held a number of senior roles within diverse university libraries, including the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. Andrew was Chair of UKSG between 2018 and 2022, and has been Vice-Chair of SCONUL since December 2021.

Gaynor is committed to develolping sustainable and fair routes enabling authors the choice of not for profit journals in which to publish their research.

Ivy Anderson is Associate Executive Director and Director of Collections at the California Digital Library, where she oversees a broad range of shared collections activities on behalf of the ten-campus University of California system, including primary responsibility for systemwide publisher negotiations. Ivy is the CDL lead for UC’s efforts to transition major journal licenses to open access and serves as co-chair of UC’s systemwide Publisher Negotiations Task Force. She currently chairs the Governing Council of SCOAP3, a global open access initiative in high energy physics, and is also on the steering group of the Plan S “Pricing Publisher Services” project.

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA’s online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. She also contributes to the work of a number of committees across the library sector.

Elizabeth has worked in the higher education sector and in Library and information for more than 20 years. Her areas of interest are digital learning, digital/information literacy and widening participation; where these are employed in her current post as Assistant Director of Library Services (E-Services, Systems and Collections) at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been involved with the Association for Learning Technology since 2013 and became a Trustee in 2017. She is actively involved in TEL developments in her institution, working with academics and the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange consortium. One of her current areas of interest is working with an academic research centre on the ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ at Birkbeck, alongside undertaking a proof of concept project in the Library and has recently had published an article on “Decolonizing the curriculum” at https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.475/

David Clay is University Librarian at the University of Salford, providing strategic leadership and vision for libraries, learning spaces and print services. He previously served as Associate University Librarian (Learning and Research Support) at the University of Salford where he was responsible for developing services in support of teaching, learning and research and on development of the library’s collections. David’s current focus is on developing the academic library workforce to meet shifting priorities and new service directions.

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX, Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent participant at industry events including the COUNTER Board of Directors, Charleston Library Conference, STM Futurelab, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Council of Science Editors, NISO Transfer Standing Committee, and NASIG Digital Preservation Committee. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.

Seth Cayley is the Vice President for Gale Primary Sources at Gale, a Cengage company. He and his global team are responsible for commissioning and creating Gale’s award-winning digital archive products, which include 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and China and the Modern World.

Seth and his team work with many of the world’s leading libraries to conserve and digitise their special collections, and make them more widely available to researchers and students worldwide. Partner libraries include The British Library, Harvard Libraries, the Second Historical Archives (Nanjing) and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

In total, the Gale digital archive programme contains more than 200 million pages of scanned rare materials, covering over 800 years of global history. These products are available in more than 5,000 libraries worldwide.

Seth has written a number of articles about digital resources – and their impact on research and teaching – for both academic journals and the mainstream press, and regularly presents at conferences worldwide.

See:

S. Cayley “Digitization for the Masses: Taking Users Beyond Simple Searching in Nineteenth Century Collections Online”, Journal of Victorian Culture Vol 22 Issue 2 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2017.1301180

S. Cayley and C. Horrocks, “The Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992: A Sustainable Brand for the Digital Age”, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol 48 Number 2 (2015) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/585971

http://edtechnology.co.uk/Article/captivating_content_

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/apr/15/illustrated-london-news-archive-online

http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/newspapers/Geneva_2014/s6-smyth_wisdom-en.pdf

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=357

Punch authors revealed for the first time

Alicia Wise is Executive Director of CLOCKSS, a community of research libraries and academic publishers working together to ensure the long-term preservation of the scholarly record. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology and focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

Vicky has held a variety of senior roles at Emerald, including Head of Publishing Development, Director of Business Development and Marketing, and most recently, Group Director of People and CEO of Emerald’s creative business, Research Media.

This range of experience – spanning editorial, new product / digital development, business intelligence, HR and global marketing communications – provides broad insight into the challenges and opportunities facing academic publishing. It’s an exciting time to lead Emerald in meeting them.

Vicky is also a keen advocate for diversity in academic publishing, launching Emerald’s workplace diversity programme, STRIDE, in 2015, and speaking on the issue at international conferences and events.

Masud is the University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. A computer scientist by education, and with libraries in his DNA, Masud is passionate about digital leadership and innovation in the changing library and archive environments. His core interests include strategic development, digital transformation, open research, and inclusive leadership. Masud is also the Vice-Chair of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and a firm supporter of diversity embedded in our thinking and practice within libraries and collections.

Dr Momodou Sallah is the Director, Centre for Academic Innovation, and a Reader in Globalisation and Global Youth Work at De Montfort University, UK. He is also a founding Director of Global Hands, which is a Social Enterprise/Charity operating in The Gambia and UK, with a focus on capacity building and social good. In June 2013, he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy. In November 2015, he was named the “Most Innovative Teacher” in the UK by Times Higher. He has more than 20 years’ experience working with young people at local, national and international levels; from being the Youth Director of Gambia Red Cross Society to a Senior Youth Worker at the Leicester City Council, UK. Dr. Sallah has numerous publications in the fields of work with black young people, young Muslims and globalisation/global youth work. His research interests include diversity, participatory methodologies, globalisation in relation especially to young people, and Public Engagement.