We are pleased to list here the members of the RIVAL network. They are listed and profiled below. They also feature according to geographic location on the RIVAL map.
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Richard Aird
What I do: Director of Service Delivery and Change at University of Stirling email: richard.aird@stir.ac.uk Twitter: @ricaird My LIS skills and interests: Virtual Learning Environments, Leadership skills, Strategic planning, Business planning and asset management, Project management, Change management, Communicating with stakeholders, Service innovation, development, and design, Customer service skills, Library, information and knowledge technologies A bit about me: The furthest I’ve travelled on a single day trip was to Cyprus! |
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Ines Byrne
What I do: Digital Transition Manager, Digital, National Library of Scotland Phone: 0131 623 3759 Email: I.byrne@nls.uk Twitter: @ByrneInes My LIS skills and interests: Digitisation, Collection management, Selection of materials and resources, Legal deposit, Collection promotion, Digital literacy, Virtual Learning Environments, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Partnership development A bit about me: In November 2019 I celebrated 30 years of freedom of movement thanks to the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event without which I would not be where and who I am today. |
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Laura Cagnazzo
What I do: Repository and research data librarian, Library, University of the West of Scotland Email: laura.cagnazzo@uws.ac.uk Twitter: @laurafcagnazzo My LIS skills and interests: Cataloguing and resource description, Metadata, Understanding research contexts, Library, information and knowledge technologies, Networking skills A bit about me: I spent nine months on a working holiday visa, travelling around Australia and New Zealand. |
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Jeanette Castle
What I do: University Librarian, Information Services, University of the West of Scotland Phone: 0141 484 3750 email: Jeanette.Castle@uws.ac.uk Twitter: @JeanetteCastle My LIS skills and interests: Reading literacy and reader development, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Demonstrating value, Partnership development, Strategic planning, Policy, Financial management, Service innovation, development, and design A bit about me: I ‘sing’ in the Rock Choir! |
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Gillian Daly
What I do: Executive Officer, SCURL, National Library of Scotland email: g.daly@nls.uk Twitter: @gillhdaly My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Demonstrating value, Partnership development, Influencing key stakeholders, Working with decision makers, Policy, Project management |
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Marshall Dozier
What I do: Academic Support Librarian, Library and University Collections, University of Edinburgh Phone: 0131 650 3688 email: marshall.dozier@ed.ac.uk Twitter: @mafrado A bit about me: I love making crafty things. |
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Giulia Giganti
What I do: Open access & impact administrator, Research office – school of philosophy, psychology and language science, University of Edinburgh Phone: 0131 515 0306 Twitter: @giuliagiganti A bit about me: I enjoy cooking korean food because I like spicy food. |
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Paul Gooding
What I do: Senior Lecturer in information studies, Information studies, University of Glasgow Email: paul.gooding@glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @pmgooding My LIS skills and interests: Information Resources, Knowledge synthesis and information integration, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Understanding information seeking behaviour, Informetrics, Information analysis, Understanding research, Evaluative research, Desk Research, Understanding and presenting research reports A bit about me: In my professional librarian days, I spent three weeks in South Africa providing library support for the BBC Sport World Cup coverage. |
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Hazel Hall
What I do: Professor of Social Informatics, School of Computing: Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Phone: 0131 455 2760 Email: h.hall@napier.ac.uk Twitter: @hazelh My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge management, Knowledge transfer/organisational learning, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Understanding research, Evaluative research, Understanding and presenting research reports, Information literacy, Social media and collaborative tools, Communication skills, Networking skills A bit about me: Humphrey Littleton once mentioned me on I’m sorry I haven’t a clue on Radio 4, thanking me for sending in a game suggestion. |
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Morag Higgison
What I do: Librarian, Library and Information Services, Scottish Government Phone: 0131 244 4551 Email: morag.higgison@gov.scot Twitter: @moraghiggison My LIS skills and interests: Understanding information services, Understanding research, Desk research, Information literacy, Digital literacy, Social media and collaborative tools A bit about me: I had an amazing summer crossing America by public transport – planes, trains and buses (took 3 weeks). I had never been outside Europe. |
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Sally Kerr
What I do: Digital and data innovation consultant and producer, D S Kerr Consultant Email: kerr.sally@gmail.com Twitter: @weebletherer My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge management, Data management, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Information governance, Leadership skills, Advocacy, Partnership development, Strategic planning, Service innovation, development, and design, ICT skills A bit about me: I play the French Horn. |
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Jill Mackintosh
What I do: Head Librarian, Scottish Poetry Library Phone: 0131 557 2876 Email: jill.mackintosh@spl.org.uk My LIS skills and interests: Collection management, Selection of materials and resources, Collection evaluation and information quality, Information literacy, Reading literacy and Reader Development, Supporting users, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Partnership development, Operational planning, People management, Customer service skills, ICT skills, Library, information and knowledge technologies |
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Hayley Lockerbie
What I do: Network librarian, Library, Live Life Aberdeenshire Libraries Phone: 01467 539467 Email: hayley.lockerbie@aberdeenshire.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Understanding information services, Understanding information seeking behaviour, Understanding research, Information literacy, Reading literacy and Reader Development, Teaching and training skills, Supporting users, Demonstrating value, Partnership development A bit about me: I’m a Gilmore Girls superfan and loom-knitter. |
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Martina McChrystal
What I do: Director of library services, University of Glasgow email: Martina.Mcchrystal@glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @mmcchrystal My LIS skills and interests: Collection management, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Demonstrating value, Partnership development, Influencing key stakeholders, Working with decision makers, Strategic planning, Financial management, People management, Change management A bit about me: I am depicted as Cutty Sark on a mural in the Torphichen Inn. |
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Paul McCloskey
What I do: Strategic Manager – Community Learning and Development and Libraries, Communities and Families, City of Edinburgh Council Phone: 0131 529 6156 Email: paul.mccloskey@edinburgh.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Leadership skills, Partnership development, People management, Customer service skills, Communication skills A bit about me: I sang on television aged 11. Fortunately no recordings exist! |
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Kirsten McCormick
What I do: Academic librarian, Library, Glasgow Caledonian University Email: Kirsten.McCormick@gcu.ac.uk Twitter: @kirstenmccorm11 My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Knowledge synthesis and information integration, Understanding information seeking behaviour, Information retrieval, Understanding and presenting research reports, Copyright, intellectual property and licensing, Information literacy, Digital literacy, Supporting users A bit about me: I won 2013 CILIP travelling librarian award, went to Australia to research building collections around international sporting mega-events. |
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Sean McNamara
What I do: Head, CILIP Scotland Email: sean.mcnamara@cilips.org.uk Twitter: @seanmacnamara1 My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge transfer/organisational learning, Digital literacy, Supporting users, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Demonstrating value, Influencing key stakeholders, Working with decision makers, Operational planning, Policy, Financial management, Service innovation, development, and design A bit about me: I recently got married in New York. |
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Andrew McTaggart
What I do: Strategy officer (libraries), Children & young people, prison, mobiles, health, City of Edinburgh Council email: andrew.mctaggart@edinburgh.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Information resources, Information management, Data management, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Obtaining benefits from information products/expertise, Understanding information services, Data analytics, Information analysis, Understanding research, Statistics and statistical analysis A bit about me: I played at ‘T in the park’ at Strathclyde park in 1998. Main instruments: guitar and mandolin |
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Maureen McWhirter
What I do: Knowledge and Information manager, Research and evidence division, Department for International Development Email: M-McWhirter@dfid.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge management, Information management, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Obtaining benefits from information products/expertise, Understanding and presenting research reports, Research ethics, Communicating with stakeholders, Social media and collaborative tools, Communication skills |
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Eva Nueno
What I do: Library learning support officer, Library learning support – library and university collections, University of Edinburgh Phone: 0131 651 5276 Email: eva.nueno@ed.ac.uk Twitter: @evanueno My LIS skills and interests: Copyright, intellectual property and licensing, Cataloguing and resource description, Archiving (open access repositories), Digitisation, Preservation, Advocacy, Knowledge management, Influencing key stakeholders, Informetrics, Data analytics A bit about me: I’m doing a Masters (DL) on Library and Information Science, Digital Library and Information Services. |
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Diane Pennington
What I do: Senior lecturer, Computer and information sciences, University of Strathclyde Phone: 0141 548 3900 Email: diane.pennington@strath.ac.uk Twitter: @infogamerist My LIS skills and interests: Ontologies, Cataloguing and resource description, Information architecture, Metadata, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Digital literacy, ICT skills, Library, information and knowledge technologies, System design and development of systems, Social media and collaborative tools A bit about me: My chihuahua, Thistle, and my basset hound, Juniper, run my life. |
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Emily Prince
What I do: School Librarian/Lifelong Learning Library Development Leader, Wester Hailes Education Centre, City of Edinburgh Council Email: emily.prince@whec.edin.sch.uk Twitter: @miss_e_prince My LIS skills and interests: Subject indexing, Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Collection management, Reading literacy and Reader Development, Digital literacy, Demonstrating value, Service innovation, development, and design, Social media and collaborative tools |
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Hilary Reid
What I do: Learning Resource Officer, Learning Resources, Ayrshire College Phone: 01563 523501 Email: hilary.reid@ayrshire.ac.uk My LIS skills and interests: Information literacy, Digital literacy, Supporting users, Virtual Learning Environments, Leadership skills, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Advocacy, Demonstrating value, Partnership development, Influencing key stakeholders, Working with decision makers, Service innovation, development, and design, Customer service skills, Quality management A bit about me: I own a rescue dog from Romania, whose Romanian name was ‘Willy’! |
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Lynne Robertson
What I do: Lifelong learning library supervisor, Lifelong learning libraries, City of Edinburgh Council email: lynne.robertson@edinburgh.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Copyright, intellectual property and licensing, Cataloguing and resource description, Archiving (open access repositories), Digitisation, Preservation, Advocacy, Knowledge management, Influencing key stakeholders, Informetrics, Data analytics A bit about me: I enjoy hill/trail walking. |
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Bruce Ryan
What I do: Researcher, School of Computing: Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Phone: 07909 504328 Email: b.ryan@napier.ac.uk Twitter: @bruce_research My LIS skills and interests: Understanding research, Evaluative research, Desk research, Understanding research contexts, Understanding and presenting research reports, Supporting users, ICT skills, Communication skills, Networking skills A bit about me: I’m a vegan cyclopath, and I blog personally at bruceryandontexist.info. I also blog professionally at bruceryan.info. |
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Rachel Salzano
What I do: PhD student, School of Computing: Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Email: r.salzano@napier.ac.uk Twitter: @librarygryphon My LIS skills and interests: Cataloguing and resource description, Metadata, Understanding information seeking behaviour, Understanding research, Collection development policy, Collection promotion, Supporting users, Customer service skills, Communication skills A bit about me: I’m currently writing two novels: a historical romance in its second draft and a high fantasy in its first draft. |
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Katherine Stephen
What I do: PhD student, School of Computing: Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Email: k.stephen@napier.ac.uk Twitter: @metaskillsPhD My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge sharing and collaboration, Understanding information seeking behaviour, Understanding research, Digitisation, Frameworks and curricula for education and training, Teaching and training skills, Communication skills A bit about me: I do coastal rowing. |
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Alison Stoddart
What I do: Lifelong learning strategy officer, Libraries, City of Edinburgh Council Phone: 0131 242 8032 Email: alison.stoddart@edinburgh.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Information resources, Information analysis, Understanding research, Understanding research contexts , Digitisation, Digital literacy, Supporting users, Demonstrating value A bit about me: I love travelling and visiting new places. (last visit: Bruxelles) |
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Andy Taylor
What I do: Senior Scientist at BioAscent Drug Discovery, I also actively collaborate with Henry Moseley Imaging Facility at the University of Manchester on the use of machine learning for spatial target identification, and a UK-wide Metrology working group. Recently I have co-edited a special edition of the Sensors journal: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/ML_biomed Email: ataylor@bioascent.com My LIS skills and interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Ontologies, Imaging, Databases, Semantic web technologies, Visualisation, Metadata, Research data management & systems, Data analytics, Library information and knowledge technologies, Software development A bit about me: I play with swords on a semi-professional basis. |
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Melissa Terras
What I do: Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh email: m.terras@ed.ac.uk Twitter: @melissaterras My LIS skills and interests: Understanding information seeking behaviour, Understanding research, Copyright, intellectual property and licensing , Digitisation, Legal deposit, Leadership skills, Strategic planning , Project management, Library, information and knowledge technologies, Social media and collaborative tools A bit about me: I collect Belgian Ceramics, and snow globes. |
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Alyson Tyler
What I do: Freelance researcher Email: alysontyler@greenisp.co.uk Twitter: @dralysontyler My LIS skills and interests: Evaluative research, Desk research, Understanding and presenting research reports, Reading literacy and Reader Development, Digital literacy, Policy, Project management, Strategic marketing, Social media and collaborative tools, Communication skills A bit about me: I am also a yoga teacher and massage therapist. |
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Karen Walker
What I do: Principal librarian, Education (Leisure, Culture & Inclusion), Orkney Islands Council, Orkney Library and Archive Phone: 01856 873166 ext 3025 Email: karen.walker@orkney.gov.uk My LIS skills and interests: Knowledge transfer/organisational learning, Understanding information services, Statistics and statistical analysis, Information governance, Reading literacy and Reader Development, Strategic thinking and evaluation, Operational planning, Community planning and engagement, Social media and collaborative tools, Communication skills A bit about me: I’m a keen knitter. |
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