Chris Martindale (Chair)
Chris is Chair of the East Midlands section of CILIP UC&R. He has served on the Committee for over ten years and for three years concurrently worked on the National UC&R Committee too. Chris is the Faculty Support Team Manager for Business, Computing & Law at the University of Derby. Chris has been actively involved in committee work for the Profession for over twenty years. Beginning with one of early regional online user groups serving as Chair and Secretary and was formerly chair of the BBSLG (British Business School Librarian’s Group) between 2002-2006. In his ‘spare time’, he has had a career that has spanning public, commercial and academic libraries.
Emma Sansby (Secretary)
Emma has been the Head of Library Services at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln since 2004, having previously worked for ten years in further education. She has an MA in Library and Information Management from the University of Northumbria and is a chartered member of CILIP. Emma was a founder member of the Lincolnshire Information Services Network (LISN), a cross-sectoral library liaison group formed in 1999 and still going strong.
Paul Cavanagh (Treasurer)
I am presently an Assistant Librarian at De Montfort University, with responsibility for subjects within the Faculty of Health & Life Sciences and with previous experience of working in HE, FE and scientific libraries. I completed my MSc in Information and Library Management at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and I am a Chartered member of CILIP. My professional interest include learning and teaching practice and student support in academic libraries.
Katie Fraser
Katie works as an Information Librarian, supporting Science, at the University of Leicester. She is currently working towards her chartership. Before becoming a librarian, Katie studies for a PhD in Learning Sciences, looking at the design of new technologies to support children's homework. Since joining the profession she's already worked across three university libraries in the East Midlands! Her previous involvement with CILIP includes acting as a Project Board member on the consultation stage of the Defining Our Professional Future programme (AKA 'CILIP Future' AKA 'the Big Conversation') and sitting on the Career Development Group Yorkshire and Humberside committee.
Gill Holt
I currently work at the University of Nottingham as a part-time Senior Information Assistant in the Derby Medical School Library. Additionally I provide freelance research, information and translation services for clients in the UK and Europe. Although I started my career in education and children’s services, my main work experience has been in special libraries providing information/research services. Previous posts include the Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aéronautique in Paris, the National Foundation for Educational research (where I led the UK unit for Eurydice – the European education and information network) and the Health and Safety Laboratory. I hold a degree in European Studies, a Post-graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management and I’m a chartered member of CILIP.
Fiona MacLellan
Fiona is currently Academic Librarian for the School of the Arts and School of Science and Technology at The University of Northampton. She graduated from Loughborough University in 2004 and previously worked in public libraries and at the Natural History Unit of the BBC at Bristol. Fiona has recently completed a PGCTHE qualification.
Marie Nicholson
Marie is an Academic Subject Librarian at the University of Lincoln and has worked there since 1996. She has an MA in Information and Library studies from Loughborough University and is a chartered member of CILIP. Marie is also a member of ALISS (Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in the Social Sciences).
Sharon Potter
I have worked at Nottingham Trent University in a variety of professional roles for over 20 years, and have been the Liaison Librarian for Social Sciences since 2008. I was a UC&R Group committee member in my early years at NTU (1988-1991), during which time I completed my chartership. My librarianship career began in Government libraries, after completing the Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship at the then North London Polytechnic.