CILIP | Barbara Stratton BA DipLib MSc MCLIP

Barbara is CILIP’s Senior Policy Adviser with a remit for information society issues. These include a range of policy matters affecting library and information services in the digital age such as internet policy, copyright and related rights, preservation, privacy, freedom of expression, and access to information.

She is not a lawyer but is a Chartered Member of CILIP and in a past life worked at The British Library and at the Inner Temple Library. Lifelong learning has helped to provide a skills set for her current role at CILIP: her first degree was in Modern Languages, followed by a PGDip in Librarianship, an MSc in Information Science - Computerised Systems (University College London) and latterly the PGDip in UK, EC and US Copyright Law (Kings College London). She is also an alumna (2007) of the University of Amsterdam’s prestigious Institute for Information Law (IViR) International Copyright Law Summer School.

Barbara is Secretary to LACA: the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, which is convened by CILIP, and an active member of EBLIDA’s Expert Group on Information Law and IFLA’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee. Her role is to advocate on behalf of libraries, within the UK, the European institutions and in international forums, to achieve a regime in both the digital and analogue environments which reflects a fair and balanced information society, promotes access to knowledge, fosters the development of library and information services, and safeguards users’ rights.

Updated: 10 July 2008