Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has elected a new Vice-Chair and six new members to its Board of Directors, effective from the date of the recent AGM, March 21, 2019.
Jessica Gardner, University of Cambridge and a current member of the Board, stood unopposed for the role of Vice-Chair and will serve in this role for two years before succeeding to the role of Chair in 2021.
The six new Board members elected to an initial three-year term are Nick Barratt, Senate House Libraries; Stella Butler, University of Leeds; Diane Job, University of Birmingham; Caroline Taylor, University of Leicester. Jill Taylor-Roe, Newcastle University, and Masud Khokhar, University of York, had previously served six-months on the Board as co-opted members but were formally elected for a new three-year term.
Jessica Gardner started her current role as University Librarian and Director of Library Services for the University of Cambridge in April 2017. In that role, she is also a member of the Legal Deposit Librarians Committee, a Director of the Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries, a Trustee of the Sir Winston Churchill Archives at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a fellow of Selwwn College, Cambridge. Jessica also represents Cambridge as its library representative on the International Alliance of Research Libraries (IARU).
Jessica joined the RLUK Board in April 2013, just before she left her role as Head of Library and Culture Services at the University of Exeter for the post of University Librarian at the University of Bristol. Whilst at Bristol, Jessica laid the foundations for the University’s major capital investment in a new University Library, and led institutional initiatives to develop a roadmap for investment in learning spaces for independent study. She first joined Exeter, as Head of Special Collections, in 2001; and went on to lead a wider portfolio, including art and culture, before stepping up in 2009 to lead the library teams through the rapid changes associated with the development of Exeter’s ground-breaking Forum project. Also at Exeter, Jessica established her professional interest and leadership in open access, which has continued through subsequent roles and culminated in the development at Cambridge of the University’s position statement on Open Research.
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