Speakers biographies
Sheila Cannell
Sheila Cannell is Director of Library Services and Deputy Head of
Information Services at the University of Edinburgh, and responsible for a
major building redevelopment project at Edinburgh. She is chair of the
SCONUL Working Group on Space Planning. She is also chair of the Scottish
Confederation of University and Research Libraries; and on the Boards of the
Consortium of Univrsity and Research Libraries, Scottish Library and
Information Council and Edinburgh City of Literature Trust.
Dr Stuart D Lee
Dr Stuart D Lee is Acting Director of Oxford University Computing Services
the main provider of IT at Oxford. He has worked on e-learning and digital
libraries for the past 17 years, and managed the original JTAP 'Virtual
Seminars' Project (1996-98) on which the new First World War Digital
Archive project is based. Dr Lee was also the Research Officer for the
Mellon-funded 'Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections', sat on
the JISC Digital Images working group, and for several years chaired the
JIBS User Group. He has published two books entitled Digital Imaging: A
Practical Handbook (LAP, 2000), and Building an Electronic Resource
Collection (LAP, 2002), and reports on learning design for JISC. He is also
a member of the Oxford English faculty and has lectured and tutored on the
poetry of the First World War, Medieval literature, Electronic literature,
and has published books on Old English and on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Jane Savidge
Jane Savidge is Director of Library and Learning Support Services at the University of Surrey,
and was formerly Head of Learning and Research Support at Kingston University. She is a member of
the joint CURL/SCONUL e-Research Task Force leading Work Package 2 on Workforce Development. WP2 conducted
the survey of Library involvement in e-Research activity which included analysis of Library staff training
needs and subsequently organised ‘Support for e-Research: Filling the Library Skills Gap’ at the National
e-Science Centre in June 2007. She represents the CURL/SCONUL e-Research Task Force on the newly
established Research Information Network Working Group on Researchers and Libraries.