Liz Jolly (Chair)
Liz is Associate Director (Services and Operations) in the Information Services Division (ISD) at the University of Salford. ISD delivers a portfolio of services including library services, student and academic computing, and corporate information network and telephony services. Liz’s current responsibilities include: library services and collection management; integrated library and ICT customer support and enquiry services and university audiovisual and design and print services and telephony operations. Previously Liz was Head of Customer Services in ISD. She has also worked at East London, London South Bank, Huddersfield, Leeds Metropolitan, Lincoln and Manchester Metropolitan Universities.
Liz has been Chair of the University, College and Research Group since 2004 and serves as the Group’s CILIP Councillor. She was inaugural Chair of UC&R North West Section from 2003-4. Her professional interests include: the student experience development of libraries as spaces for learning and academic collaboration; staff learning and professional development; integrated library and computing services and cross-sectoral partnerships. |
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Jo Webb
(Vice-Chair)
Jo Webb is Head of Academic Services at De Montfort University where she leads library services in support of learning, teaching and research, including subject liaison and academic learning support. Jo is also a university Teacher Fellow and a National Teaching Fellow.
Jo has been involved in UC &R at local and national levels for over ten years as local and regional Hon. Secretary, section Chair and now national Vice-Chair. She has also been Chair of the British Business Schools Librarians ’ Group (BBSLG) and is active in a number of other professional organizations.
Jo started her career in Oxford , first as a library scholar (a student library assistant) while a Modern History undergraduate and then worked at the History Faculty Library. After an MLib and the Dawson Prize at Aberystwyth her first professional post was at Cranfield University where she worked as an Information Specialist in the Management Library and later the Kings Norton Library. She has an MBA (with Distinction) from De Montfort and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jo has co-authored two books for Facet , Teaching information skills and Providing effective library services for research and has published on staff development, process improvement and collection management. |
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Amanda Poulton
(Hon. Secretary)
Amanda is Academic Team Manager: Learning and Skills Development at De Montfort University where she co-ordinates teaching activity across the library service and contributes to the management and development of support for learning, teaching and research.
Amanda has worked in three sectors since qualifying in 1997, working for the NHS in Wales, the University of the West of England and Aston University before transferring to public libraries in Northamptonshire. Amanda returned to academic libraries in her current post in 2006.
Amanda first joined UC&R as a student representative on the Northern section of UC&R in 1996 and has since been involved with UC&R at both a local and national level whilst working in the academic sector. Amanda took over as Hon. Secretary for UC&R national in April 2008. Amanda has also been actively involved in the East Midlands Branch of CILIP, and the Public Libraries Group (PLG). As the recipient of PLG’s Personal Learning Grant in 2004, Amanda was on the judging panel for the PLG Public Library Building Awards in 2005.
Amanda has a strong commitment to her own professional development in addition to staff development and is a CILIP mentor, a member of the CILIP Assessment Panel and the CILIP Accreditation Board. Amanda’s other professional interests include learning and teaching particularly peer learning and teaching, and support for health sciences.
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Jon Purcell
(Hon. Treasurer)
Jon is Director of Library Services at the University of St Andrews and was previously Deputy Librarian at Newcastle University and Head of Technical Services at Liverpool University. He has also previously worked in FE College Libraries( in Nottinghamshire, Milton Keynes and St Helens) and public libraries in St Helens and Southern Education and Library Board in his native Northern Ireland.
Jon has been Treasurer of UC&R for more years than he (or Barclays Bank) care to remember and has also been involved in organising the bi-annual joint CoFHE/UC&R conferences – Bath, Durham, Norwich and last (oh yes it is!) Liverpool 2008. He has been a member of the SCONUL Newsletter
editorial team, and currently a member of the SCURL (Scottish Consortium of University and Research Libraries) Business Committee and a member of the United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) Project Board. In what little
spare time he has, Jon enjoys hill walking, reading (that’s why he’s a Librarian, collecting Folio books and listening to music. |
David Clover
(International Officer)
David is the Information Resources Manager/Librarian at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, part of the University of London Research Library Services. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library and Archives supports postgraduate teaching and research in the history and social sciences of the Commonwealth and its member nations, and runs Masters level degrees in globalisation and development; and human rights. Previously David has worked in the UK at the Institute of Education, University of London; the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, development charity ActionAid; and briefly on his arrival in the UK, the Hendon Reference Library. In New Zealand he worked in a number of sectors and libraries, including the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. David is an Associate Lecturer in the Health and Social Care faculty of the Open University, and a trustee of the McDougall Trust (which incorporates the Lakeman Library for Electoral Studies).
David was recently appointed co-Editor of Relay, UC&R’s official journal, and chairs the London section of the University College and Research Group, and has held other posts in that group since joining the UC&R London Committee in 2000. His professional interests include research support, collection management, service quality, library collaboration, information literacy, distance education and ethics. He plans to complete his CILIP chartership application by the end of 2007. |
Jane Marshall
(Conference Secretary)
Jane has a range of library experience, having worked in the commercial, FE and HE sectors. Following a first professional post at Bury College, much of her early career was in a large advertising agency, first as Information Officer then Manager, with responsibilities ranging from acquisition and resource management, to service access, delivery and user education, across the agency.
Her first role on joining Manchester Business School was project managing a company ethical screening programme for a green trust fund. Her roles since then have encompassed provision of business information to both commercial and MBA/PG student users, including user education, marketing and project management, with particular reference to executive education and alumni services. She is active on both Business School and Library committees, including the School’s Executive Education Board and the Library’s Staff Training and Development Action Group.
Her professional interests extend to events organisation and marketing and she was formerly co-events organiser for CILIP North West branch. She has been Secretary of UC&R North West section for the last four years and is currently Conference Secretary for UC&R National.
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Christina Lewis
(Marketing Officer)
Christina is currently working for the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) at the growing Epsom campus as the College Librarian. She has worked at UCA (and previous known as the Surrey Insititute of Art & Design) since 1999 in a variety of roles (Multimedia Librarian and the Acting Site Librarian at Farnham). Previously Christina has worked at the North East Wales Institute, Wrexham.
Christina has worked in the profession for 13 years (both part time and full time) and is a Chartered member of CILIP. She has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies (University of Salford) and Postgraduate Dipolma in Information and Library Management (Liverpool John Moores).
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