Tim Leonard is Associate Director: Space, Experience and Innovation at Lancaster University Library. He oversees the development of the Library’s learning spaces, its frontline services team and digital systems.
Tim has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years and has held positions at Lancaster, the University of Bolton, Manchester Metropolitan University and Cardiff University. He is a member of UKSG’s Education and Events Subcommittee and represents Lancaster in a range of groups with RLUK and Academic Libraries North. His professional interests include learning space design, environmental sustainability and innovative technologies in libraries.

Tom is currently undertaking a secondment as the Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Within this role he leads and coordinates programmes of activity to develop an Open Research Culture as well as exploring options to facilitate open monograph publishing. In his substantive post he works across the areas of Open Access, Research Intelligence and Research Data Management to coordinate and deliver a range of projects, services and initiatives as an Open Research Officer. Tom is also co-editor of the UKSG e-News.

Jane is the Associate Director: Content and Discovery.

Jane is responsible for the Libraries’ main research and teaching collections. (Rare books and archives fall under the remit of our Cultural Collections). She manages the Libraries’ information resources budget, which buys the books, journals, databases and digitised collections to support research and teaching across the University. Jane is the strategic sponsor for the Open Higher Education strand of the Libraries’ Forward Plan and is a keen proponent of open research and open education.

Jane supports sector-wide initiatives that promote collaboration in relation to collections and open scholarship. She was instrumental in setting up the UK Print Book Collection, is a member of the Jisc Library Hub Community Advisory Board and was a co-Convenor of the RLUK’s Collections Strategy Network. Jane is also a member of the White Rose Libraries Innovation Board and the SCONUL Markets and Technologies Group.

Isabel Archer is Access & Acquisitions Manager with responsibility for Acquisitions & Reading Lists, based in Content & Discovery Services at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on the acquisition and delivery of content for teaching and learning, both through commercial and open access routes.

Joanne is an Academic Liaison Librarian at Brunel University of London, collaborating with staff and supporting students in the Departments of Biosciences, Psychology and Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences. Joanne’s work at Brunel focuses on advocating for the adoption and use of OER in teaching and learning. She is an active member of the OER Community of Practice for the UK & Ireland and has recently been co-leading community training on OER adoption.  

Helen is Faculty Librarian for Engineering & Science at the University of Sheffield. She is a keen advocate of OER and leads the University’s work in this area, co-chairing the University’s OER Steering Group. Helen is a member of the advisory group for the Open Education Network’s OER Community of Practice for the UK and Ireland (https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/oer-community-uk-ireland), and is a member of the LIBER Educational Resources Working Group (https://libereurope.eu/working-group/liber-educational-resources-working-group/). 

To Follow

Toby is COO of Thoth Open Metadata, and also works on collaborative outreach across open infrastructures as a member of the Copim Community. Next to that, he co-coordinates the OPERAS Open Infrastructures for OA Books Working Group, is a co-convener of the Radical Open Access Collective, and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit.

Suzanne is Deputy Director of Library and Learning services at the University of Southampton, with strategic responsibility for academic and community engagement. She provides leadership for operations and service development, archives and special collections, research services, academic liaison and student skills development. 

Suzanne is co-chair of the LIBER Educational Resources Working group.