UC&R Yorkshire and Humberside: Executive Committee
Chair: Sue White
Head of Library Services
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Tel. 01484 472784
Email: s.a.white@hud.ac.uk
Sue White was Deputy Director of Computing and Library Services from September 2001 when the two previously separate services converged into one; more recently she has been appointed as Head of Library Services. Her background is in academic/subject librarianship, both in Huddersfield and Leeds, and she has also spent a number of years working in further education. Her professional interests are varied, and include staff management and development, quality assurance, and the 'regional agenda'.
Secretary: Christopher Leach
Academic Subject Librarian and Systems Development Librarian
Library & Learning Resources
University of Lincoln
Derek Crothall Building
George Street
HULL
HU1 3BW
Tel. 01522 886305
Email: cleach@lincoln.ac.uk
Christopher Leach has been working in academic libraries since 1979, firstly in Further Education and then, from 1985, in Higher Education. He has been responsible for two technical services Departments, and has now moved into the area of direct subject support as Academic Subject Librarian at the University of Lincoln where he has an interest in information skills training. In his dual role as Systems Development Librarian he also has a particular interest in library management systems and electronic resources.
Treasurer: Vacant
Web Officer: Lisa Foggo
Academic Liaison Librarian
J. B. Morrell Library
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
Tel. 01904 434253 (University of York with voicemail)
Email: lf253@york.ac.uk
Lisa Foggo is an Academic Liaison Librarian, with subject responsibility for English, Language and Linguistics, Music and Theatre, Film and Television, which is a new department at York. She is involved in information literacy, web editing and various media and audio-visual projects. Lisa is a chartership mentor and her interests include information literacy, media and audio-visual developments, cultural diversity and e-learning. She was previously a Faculty Team Librarian at the University of Leeds.
Web Officer: Catriona Kemp
HYMS (Hull York Medical School) Librarian
J. B. Morrell Library
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Brynmor Jones Library
University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Tel. 01904 434516 (University of York with voicemail)
Tel. 01482 465012 (University of Hull)
Email: catriona.kemp@hyms.ac.uk
Catriona Kemp is librarian for the joint Hull York Medical School and is based at both the Universities of York and Hull. She joined the Medical School in 2003 at its launch and has been involved in establishing systems and equity between the two university libraries as well as negotiating services with local NHS partners. Prior to this she was with Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh where she was the University College Periodicals Librarian as well as being Subject Librarian for various departments including Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, the Centre for International Health Studies, Hospitality & Tourism and Retail Management. She has also worked as a JISC Project Officer progressing elearning adoption and evaluation within HE & FE institutions involving Queen Margaret University College, the University of Kent at Canterbury, South Kent College of Further Education and the UHI Millennium Institute.
Peter Gledhill
Learning and IT Services
City Campus,
Howard Street,
Sheffield
S1 1WB
Email: P.F.Gledhill@shu.ac.uk
Clare McCluskey
Academic Support Librarian and Assistant Health Information Specialist
Fountains Learning Centre
York St John University
Lords Mayor’s Walk
York
YO31 7EX
Tel: 01904 876699
Email: c.mccluskey@yorksj.ac.uk
Clare McCluskey is the Academic Support Librarian for Health at York St John University and is also seconded, part time, as Assistant Health Information Specialist within the faculty of Health and Life Sciences, supporting staff and students with their research projects. She has worked at York St John since qualifying in 2003, starting as Senior Information Desk Assistant and then spending some time as Database Librarian.
Prior to this, Clare spent two years at Leeds Metropolitan University, firstly as Graduate Trainee and then in Bibliographic Services whilst studying for her MSc.
Her principal, professional area of interest is in the user experience and how library services, both physical and online, can be organised to enhance this.
Tony Chalcraft
College Librarian and editor
Reference reviews
York St. John College
Lord Mayor's Walk
York YO31 7EX
Tel. 44 (0)1904 716700
Fax. 44 (0)1904 612512
Email: a.chalcraft@yorksj.ac.uk
Tony Chalcraft - biography to follow.
Antony Osborne
Academic Librarian
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield HD1 3DH
Tel. 01484 472700
Email: a.osborne@hud.ac.uk
Antony Osborne has been the Academic Librarian for Human & Health Sciences since February 2001 and is a co-opted member of the group. Prior to that he started out in Public Libraries them moved into Health Care Librarianship via the West Yorkshire College of Health Studies and latterly the University of Huddersfield. Professional interests include staff development, staff management and the evolution of the profession and the image it presents to the outside world.
Margaret Westmancoat
Deputy University Librarian and University e-Learning Fellow
York St John University
Fountains Learning Centre
Lord Mayor's Walk
York, YO31 7EX
01904 876316
h.westmancoat@yorksj.ac.uk
Helen graduated from the College of Librarianship Wales, Aberystwyth too many years ago to remember, and has worked for the British Library, the Public Health Laboratory Service, and is now Deputy University Librarian at York St John University. Over the years she has done most library-related tasks, specifically cataloguing, enquiry work, library web-site, and is systems administrator for the University LMS. She has been involved in projects to develop both the current library web-site and a virtual tour of the Learning Centre, gaining a University e-Learning Teacher Fellowship for the latter . She led the university's recent successful bid for JISC funding to develop an institutional digital repository.
Library interests are promoting information literacy in the institution, staff development, and any use of technologies to help with student support. She is a mentor under the Yorkshire Accord mentoring scheme.
Helen is also an active member of the SirsiDynix user group, is currently on the CILIP Assessment Panel (NE) and has recently joined the UCR committee, where she has volunteered (maybe foolishly) to try to resurrect "Relay".
Personal interests include walking, going to the theatre, eating out, and craft work. Helen also, unusually perhaps, officiates at weddings in her local church as an Authorised Person, or registrar.
Updated: 04 September 2008