Martin Molloy   

Biography: Martin Molloy has been a Chief Officer of Derbyshire County Council for the last twelve years. He is currently Strategic Director of Cultural and Community Services. He started his career as a graduate trainee in Hertfordshire in 1974 before moving to Hampshire County Council in 1981. Martin serves in a variety of professional roles, he is currently Chair of the Board of the Reading Agency, Board member of the East Midlands Museums Libraries and Archives Council, he is a member of the Advisory Committees of the Departments of Information Studies and Information Science at the Universities of Sheffield and Loughborough respectively. He is Past President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), A Past President of the Society of Chief Librarians, a past member and past Chair of the Advisory Council for Libraries, past Chair of the DCMS Libraries and Adult Learning Steering Group. In 1998 Martin received a Library Association Royal Charter Centenary Medal and was awarded an OBE in June 2004.

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21 st Century Librarian

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