Lynne Brindley

Biography

Lynne Brindley has been the Chief Executive of The British Library since 2000. Since her appointment, Lynne has led a major strategic repositioning and modernisation programme to ensure that the BL continues to provide relevant services to users in the 21 st century, and that the library is recognised for its contribution to research, innovation and culture. Lynne came to the BL from the University of Leeds where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and University Librarian. She previously held positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, Principal Consultant at KPMG, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Director of Information Services at Aston University.  She spent the early part of her career at the British Library.   Lynne is also active in national and international bodies concerned with cultural, library and digital information strategy. Her research and professional interests are in knowledge management and digital preservation.

Abstract - The National and Public Library Partnership

Are libraries still relevant in a world where more information than ever before is freely available to the public via other channels? Can libraries successfully compete with other information providers and leisure activities to retain and grow their user base? This talk will outline some of the key challenges facing the public library sector today. It will consider the ways in which libraries can and are working to tackle these challenges through reaching out in new ways to their users, working in partnership and through repositioning and representing libraries for the 21 st century.