15 May 2025, 15.00-16.30 SGT
(8am-9.30am BST)
Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill
Perceptions of modern librarians’ roles are frequently out-dated. Often subject librarians belong to the past; cataloguers are increasingly rare; hierarchies are flatter; and even senior librarians juggle several roles and step in at any level as required. Squeezed budgets are not the only or even the main reason. Today’s academic librarians work in a fast-moving environment and must be versatile, agile and well-informed. They are often as or more highly qualified than the academics they serve. Their aim is always to deliver more than expected. What kind of people structure achieves this? Two senior librarians from opposite sides of the world explain and explore.
Speakers are:
Dr Natalie Pang, University Librarian and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media (National University of Singapore)
Mr Steve Sharp, Associate Director of Library Resources (Sheffield Hallam University)
The webinar is sponsored by De Gruyter Brill and will be moderated by Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf. Registration is free of charge.
For more details and to book your place on the seminar, click here.
Who should attend
Academic librarians; public librarians; publishers; members of librarian support groups; members of consortia and trade associations; academics and students interested in sustainability; environmentalists.
Dr Natalie Pang is University Librarian at NUS Libraries, as well as Head at the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Other than leading NUS Libraries, she actively contributes to research and teaching in the areas of digital citizenship and digital humanities at NUS. She is involved in international academic communities in library and information science and has served as chair of the programming committee for the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), as a steering committee member for the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres), and as a steering committee member for the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL).
Mr Steve Sharp is Associate Director of Library Resources at Sheffield Hallam University, one of the largest universities in the UK. SHU delivers a wide range of practical and applied courses, is well-known for empirical research, and has a strong sense of being a “university of place”. It has a robust civic agenda, working closely with local libraries, museums, galleries and theatres to deliver benefits to the local and wider community.
Steve is responsible for all physical and digital library collections and also for the Library’s Special Collection & Archives.
Previously he worked at the University of Leeds, where he was responsible for acquisitions, cataloguing and inter-library loans.
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