Nigel Macartney
(to serve until 31 December 2010 and to serve as Honorary Treasurer until 31 December 2008)
Email: Nigel.Macartney@cilip.org.uk
Biography
Nigel Macartney is Director of Information Services at the University of Ulster, responsible for the library, archive, computing and reprographic services used by the 23,000 students and 3,500 staff of the University. He served as Director of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre between 1995 and 1999, where he encouraged the development of national research funding strategies and close co-operation between national library organisations. From 1982 to 1995 he was Librarian at the University of Hertfordshire; his roles here included provision of information services to industry and business, academic library co-operation and new technology. He was also Managing Director of Cimtech Ltd during the latter part of this period.
He was born in Manchester and, after taking a degree in History at Cambridge, his early career encompassed experience in public and further education libraries. He has some knowledge of European libraries through his work at the British Library and through an EU TEMPUS project involving collaborative work with Technical Universities in Poland. He has served on several Government advisory committees. His current interests include learning resource centre design and implementation of IT and Information strategies. He is also playing a leading role in the business process review programme being implemented at the University of Ulster. He is a member of the North Eastern Education and Library Board in Northern Ireland and was Chairman of the Board's Library Committee. Nigel chairs NIRAN Ltd., which provides the JANET data network to the province’s universities, colleges and research institutions. He served as Honorary Treasurer of CILIP from 2005 – 2007 and had been an officer of the former Library Association Audio Visual Group in the 1980s.
Nigel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a member of CAMRA, the Manchester United Supporters Trust and Ballycastle Golf Club.
Read Nigel Macartney's 2008 Candidate Election Manifesto.
Updated: 14 February 2008