Betsy Anagnostelis is Librarian at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library and Biomedical Team Leader of UCL Library Services. Betsy has fourteen years experience of workin gin medical libraries. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the newsletter He@lth Information on the Internet and the Health Information and Libraries Journal. Betsy also co-authored the Aslib book: Finding and using health and medical information on the Internet, 2001. She has provided training courses in searching the medical research literature and workshops on finding quality health and medical information for several years at national and international events.

 

Bob Bater is Principal Associate with InfoPlex Associates, formed in 1994 to provide information solutions to business. After a number of years as a special librarian with an international firm of consulting engineers, followed by British Aerospace, Bob migrated into the IT field and joined the NHS Training Authority in 1986 as IT Manager, a role he developed over the years into one of Information Manager. Drawing on Bob's experience as both an IT and an information practitioner, InfoPlex specialises in providing advice and consultancy on best practice in knowledge and information management. They are pioneers in the UK of the process-orientated approach integrating human, knowledge and information resources with business processes in support of organisational objectives.

 

David Bawden is Professor of Information Science at a London University. He has many years experience in running professional development courses, particularly in areas of information seeking and retrieval, information organisation, and digital literacy. He is author if several books and numerous articles.

 

Tim Buckley Owen is an independent information industry commentator and trainer with over 35 years’ experience in the information profession. His career has encompassed information management, writing, editing, training, government policy advice and corporate media & marketing. He was Principal Information Officer at the London Research Centre (now part of the Greater London Authority), where he ran a large scale current awareness and database operation, and also set up its business information service from scratch. Tim writes regularly for Aslib’s Managing Information and for Library & Information Gazette, and is a contributing editor to the Freepint publications FUMSI and VIP, as well as being a frequent contributor to Information World Review. The fifth edition of his widely used basic textbook, Success at the Enquiry Desk, is published by Facet Publishing.

Graham Cornish has worked in copyright since 1983.  He has run several hundred  training courses on copyright, and has written a similar quantity of articles and papers on the topic for libraries and archives from many different perspectives.  His publications include Copyright: interpreting law for libraries, archives and information services, Keep it legal: copyright guidance for school library staff and Understanding copyright in a week. He spent several years working on electronic copyright management systems for EU funded projects. For many years he was involved in IFLA affairs and was Secretary of the Copyright & Other Legal Matters Committee. He is a Fellow of  CILIP and was President of the Library Association in 2000. He now works as an independent advisor and trainer on copyright ,working with libraries, archives, museums, universities, publishers and government departments.For many years Graham was a Trustee of the National Library for the Blind and Share the Vision (improving public library services for visually-impaired people). He is also a volunteer member of the Library & Archive service at the National Railway Museum.

 

 

Fiona Fogden is the National Information Services Manager for Baker Tilly, a major firm of Accountants. She has specific responsibility for online resources, including budgeting, evaluation and utilisation. From 1996 to 6th June 2008 she was Manager of the Library & Information Centre at Baker & McKenzie, a City Law Firm where she was known as Fiona Durrant. Before that Fiona was at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Fiona wrote an article on Negotiating Online Contracts for Legal Information Management, April 2003 and has held a webcast with the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians on the topic in July 2003. In 2006 Facet Publishing published her book: Negotiating Licences for Digital Resources, using the name Fiona Durrant.

 

Shelley Hardcastle has just moved to a new Records Management position with the Police. Prior to this, she was Web Content Manager at DSTL, responsible for identifying business critical content for the intranet, extranet and public web site; improving content authoring, navigation and presentation; meta data design and application; training for web content management and the interface with records management systems. She now works with the Metropolitan Police. Prior to DSTL, she was Knowledge Manager at Sainsburys. Prior to this she was a Senior Consultant with Hays IMS, an archivist at Southampton University, Group Records Manager at BOC and Records Centre Manager with the BBC. Shelley is an experienced consultant and has carried out a variety of projects in the public and private sector. She is a past Chairman of the Records Management Society, is an established author and has lectured extensively on records management in the UK and overseas.

John Harrow is a retail/consumer goods analyst at an international executive search consultancy. Previously he was Manager of IfB, Westminster Reference Library's information brokerage.

 

 

Naomi Korn is a freelance consultant specialising in copyright. In particular, her interests include the copyright issues surrounding econtent, digitisation, digital rights management, Intellectual Property Rights policies, risk management and good practice. Naomi is an experienced trainer, developing and facilitating the MDA's Copyright Essentials and Licensing Essentials workshops. Naomi is also the facilitator and co-author of the Museums Association's Essentials of Copyright Law Seminar, as well as providing and facilitating training modules for CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and tailor-made training for King's College, London. She is currently the Secretary of the Museums Copyright Group, sits on the Advisory Panel of the Public Catalogue Foundation, as well as providing expertise in creating the Rights Management section in the updated version of SPECTRUM. Naomi was the Tate's first Copyright Officer, a post which she held for three years. During her work at the Tate, she was the focal point for copyright across the organisation, leading negotiations for blanket licences with rights holders, training staff and developing processes and policies for the organisation. Naomi is a contributor to the Legal Workpackage of the EC-funded EMII-DCF (European Museums' Information Institute - Distributed Content Framework) Project, which she has subsequently revised into a cross-sectorial "Good Practice Guide to Copyright". Whilst at Tate, she completed a 15 day secondment over two months with MDA providing copyright advice to collections across the UK and copyright resources. Naomi has also worked for the Bridgeman Art Library where she specialised in licensing and infringement resolution. Naomi has given papers on copyright and best copyright practice at a variety of conferences, events and seminars.

 

Caroline Moss-Gibbons is Leader of CILIP Council. She is also a consultant at a Royal College in London, responsible for providing a largely web-based information service with access to hundreds of e-resources to over 17,000 Fellows & Members world-wide. She is also responsible for the extensive Archives and heritage collections of the College, founded in 1518. Prior to this she was the Institute Librarian & Web Manager of the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research. She has extensive experience, particularly in the special library sector, of serials collection management and consortium purchasing, both when working in the agricultural science research environment and latterly as the leader of the negotiating team for the independent health libraries in London serials consortium (CHILL). Her professional interests and expertise are in the area of electronic serials and other e-resource management, trends in e-publishing and the effective presentation of, and access to resources for end-users via the desktop.

 

Christopher Murphy is director of a research company and a member of the international faculty of the Institute of Competitive Intelligence. He previously held posts in the former Department of Trade and Industry and at the London Business School before taking up his present role in 1989. His work as a trainer includes presenting on courses devoted to compiling business plans, company law, economics and statistics. Gower Publishing commissioned his to write ‘Competitive Intelligence: gathering, analysing and putting it work’, which received enthusiastic reviews when it was published in 2005. Chris has been one of the editorial team on Jordan Publishing’s flagship encyclopaedia ‘International Corporate Procedures’ since it first appeared in 1992 and has contributed to a wide ranges of professional and specialist journals and websites. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, the Society of Business Economists and the World Future Society.

 

Chris Pond worked at the House of Commons Library for over 30 years where he was Head of Reference and Reader Services. He lectures and writes regularly on Parliament and parliamentary history, and government publishing and information. He is Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Official Publications and an honorary fellow of CILIP. Chris has a special interest in historical, as well as current, sources in this area. He has been involved in electronic publishing since 1978 and has been keen to explore means of electronic information dissemination. As a local councillor, he also takes an interest in local government publishing and information.

 

 

Graham Robertson is the Principal Consultant of Bracken Associates, which he formed in 1988, and specializes in the strategic implementation of knowledge and information management initiatives. After graduating from King's College, London University, with a degree in electrical engineering, Graham went on to qualify as a chartered accountant. He then spent eleven years working with a major international oil company in both finance and information technology functions. A founder member of the Aslib special interest group: KIMNET. He is well known for his articles and presentations on the subject of information auditing as a management process and lectures to post-graduate students at several universities.

 

 

Lyn Robinson lives in London, where she has worked as an information specialist for over 20 years. She has been associated with ASLIB as a course director and consultant for about the same length of time. With a background in science, information technology and information science, Lyn is currently Director of the Information Studies Scheme for the Department of Information Science at City University, and has a strong interest in developing postgraduate courses to meet society’s need for leaders in information and critical literacy. Lyn has traveled and lectured extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, gaining valuable experience in the provision of international library and information services, and the changes wrought by technological, sociological, political and economic developments.

 

James Shearer is an Information Consultant and a part-time Senior Lecturer at a Business School, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate classes concerned with information management and information strategy. Particular interests are information strategy, information retrieval, database development, and knowledge management. He has taught a number of short course in the UK and abroad dealing with aspects of information retrieval and has published, with Alan Thomas, two books: Cataloguing and classification : trends, transformation, teaching and training (Haworth Press, 1997) and Internet searching and indexing : the subject approach (Haworth Press, 2000). He is currently researching the use of thesauri as an aid to knowledge capture as part of the KM research cluster at WBS.

 

 

Kate Simpson took the leap just this year from permanent work to freelance information architecture with her company. She helps organisations improve the findability of their key information assets and improve the usability of their online spaces. Kate's career, following a law degree and postgraduate diploma, began in Editorial in the legal publishing industry. Now applying those editorial and attention to detail skills to websites and intranets instead of documents, Kate has over seven years' experience in redesigning information spaces to help people find and manage their information more successfully. Her specialist areas of focus are: information architecture, user experience and usability, taxonomies and tagging, knowledge and content management.

 

 

Ian Thomson is a European information specialist.  Currently, he is:

1. Executive Editor, European Sources Online
2. Director of the South Wales Europe Direct Information Centre
3. Manager, European Documentation Centre, Cardiff University
4. Consultant to the Enterprise Europe Network, Wales
5. President, European Information Association

Whilst working as a researcher to a Member of the European Parliament, he created in 1980 European Access, which became the leading bibliographic service for European information in the 1980s and 1990s. Later, under his continuing editorship, an electronic version, European Access Plus, was launched, as was a new information service called KnowEurope.  He is the author of the book ‘The documentation of the European Communities’ (Mansell, 1989). Winner of the European Special Librarian of the Year Award 1994 by the European Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

European Sources Online, is a commercial web-based European information service. Until June 2006 it was published by ProQuest Information and Learning. It is now directly published by Information Services at Cardiff University as an activity of the EDC and South Wales Europe Direct Information Centre.  The European Information Association is the international professional organisation for those who work with European information.

Ian is currently joint-editing a book reviewing European Union information services in the UK to be published by Taylor and Francis later in 2008.

He directs and presents papers at a large number of training courses and conferences on European topics throughout the world, in the United States, Canada and Australia and in most European countries.

He has regular teaching and training assignments at the College of Europe, Natolin, Poland and Bruges, Belgium; and at European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, Luxembourg and Barcelona.

In addition, Ian provides training and lectures for the European Commission in Brussels and throughout the rest of Europe. In the United Kingdom he has directed courses for ASLIB/IMI, the Circle of State Librarians and the Civil Service College, as well as for the European Information Association and SCOOP. 

He has carried out consultancy work for the Wales European Centre, the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and European Commission.

 

 

 

Susanna Winter's first degree was in Modern Languages, and she spent five years teaching French & German at secondary level. She retrained in Library & Information Studies in 1998 and has worked for law firms ever since. She has been at a major London Law firm since July 2004, first as a Research Librarian and for the last two years as Library & Information Centre Manager, with specific responsibility for online resources and research. She is looking forward to combining this role with maternity cover for the firm's Corporate Social Responsibility Manager during 2009. Susanna was Chair of City Legal Information group for two years, until July 2008.

 

 

 

Nicola Wise began her career in retailing when she was an Executive Trainee and consequently a departmental Supervisor in Harrods of London. After moving to a leading department store group, she was promoted to Manager of several departments before becoming Training and Development Manager. To use her skills and gain further experience in other industries, Nicola joined a prestigious Management Development consultancy where she developed her own client base. In 1991 she set up her own consultancy – Wise Associates – after requests from her clients to provide a more personal and specialist service. Amongst those clients where AT&T, Barclays Bank and Imperial College, London. Since then she has particularly specialised in the areas of Performance Management, Multi-Cultural Communication and Management Skills (incorporating both individual and team development in the UK, Europe and the US).