Professor Michael Moss

Biography: Michael was born in Yorkshire and educated at Bath and Oxford . He trained as an archivist at the Bodleian Library and was archivist at the University of Glasgow from 1974 until 2001. Since then he has been research professor in archive studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) where he directs the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme that is accredited by CILIP. He is a non executive director of the National Archives of Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland and a member of the Lord Chancellor's committee on national records and archives. His recent publications include 'Nine o'clock and all's well' or ‘Fire, fire, the Library's burning – the future of the academic library', Minerva 2007, and ‘Educating information management professionals – the Glasgow perspective', Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 48.