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New reporting line for 果冻影院 Library Services
17 November 2016
果冻影院 Library Services has been moved from 果冻影院 Professional Services to report to the Vice-Provost (Research), Prof David Price, with immediate effect.
Dr Paul Ayris, Director of 果冻影院 Library Services, has
been appointed Pro-Vice-Provost.
As Pro-Vice-Provost, Dr Ayris (who will continue as an ex officio member of the 果冻影院 Senior Management Team) will: develop 果冻影院's scholarly communications offering, building on the current successes of the Open Access activity, 果冻影院 Press and research data management; and continue the Library's activity in collection management and collection building, in both paper and digital formats, while seeking out collaborations with other collections, both in 果冻影院 and further afield in London.
The 果冻影院 Library Strategy lays down that its mission is to "Provide an information infrastructure to enable 果冻影院's research and education to be world class". The new reporting line better reflects the Library's mission as an academic support division.
Recently, Dr Ayris has served as President of LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries. He also chairs the UK Negotiation Team for JISC Collections which has struck a multi-million pound deal with the publisher Elsevier for access to Science Direct.
Dr Ayris said: "These changes reflect the success of the Library Strategy and the great visibility that our facilities and services have across the whole of 果冻影院. They underline the strong, historic links between the Library and 果冻影院's activity in teaching, learning and research. We will continue to enjoy collegial links with 果冻影院 Professional Services. I have been asked, for example, to carry on as co-chair of the Organising Committee for the 果冻影院 Professional Services Conference in February 2017."
Professor Price commented: "Since his appointment in 1997,
Paul's service as Director of 果冻影院 Library Services has been as model of how
Professional Services can work to support the university's core academic and
research mission. He is a true leader - and internationally recognised as one -
in such areas as scholarly communication, open access, research data management
and innovation in collections management. Paul's appointment as
Pro-Vice-Provost in my office is a welcome recognition of his outstanding
service and, more importantly, his team's potential to make an even greater
contribution to 果冻影院's research and academic performance."