Staff at UKOLN are wishing former colleague Andy Powell the best of luck on his one-man charity bike ride from Lands End to John O’Groats in memory of former Deputy Director of UKOLN Rachel Heery who died a year ago. Andy, who worked with Rachel at UKOLN for some 10 years, gives the motivation behind his 1,000-mile odyssey in his blog End to John O’Groats and invites everyone to donate. Andy’s journey began yesterday in Cornwall and he will blog, blip and tweet progress as he manages his trusty but ageing steed and a dodgy knee all the way to Scotland. Details of these and how to donate can be obtained from Andy’s site.
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Andy Powell Cycles in Memory of Rachel Heery
Monday, July 26th, 2010Winner of John M Slatin Award at W4A 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Brian Kelly was the lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which received the John M Slatin award for the Best Communications Paper at the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Further information is available.
The World of Data According to Dorothea Salo
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010UKOLN was delighted to be able to host a thought-provoking presentation by Dorothea Salo, Digital Repository Librarian for the University of Wisconsin, who has been visiting the UK in the past week or so. Featured by The Library Journal
as one of its Movers & Shakers, Dorothea is noted for her blog Caveat Lector (2002-9) and now writes on a new blog on the subject of e-research, The Book of Trogool. Her presentation entitled Grab a bucket – it’s raining data was videoed under difficult lighting conditions; the footage which favours the speaker’s slides in such conditions is now available as Part 1 and Part 2.
Off the digi-scale
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Brian Kelly is featured in an interview published in the April issue of Information World Review.
New Issue of Focus on UKOLN Available
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Issue 21 of Focus on UKOLN, the electronic newsletter which provides news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, was published recently.
Appointment of UKOLN Deputy Director
Friday, January 8th, 2010Paul Walk has been appointed as Deputy Director of UKOLN.
This post will provide technical leadership, vision and strategic insight across a wide range of digital library contexts, for education and research and across the range of UKOLN activities ensuring that UKOLN addresses the requirements of its user communities.
UKOLN, as a JISC Innovation Support Centre, has responsibility for the support of innovation and development in JISC-funded programmes and projects, especially within the Information Environment, and in this context, Paul will be providing leadership, strategic co-ordination and oversight of all JISC-funded technical innovation activity at UKOLN.
Paul joined UKOLN in September 2007, as Technical Manager and Team Leader for the Software and Systems Team. Paul had previously worked for fifteen years in Higher Education in London, primarily in the development and provision of technical library and Web services.
Paul says of his appointment, “I’m delighted to have been offered this opportunity. At UKOLN I am fortunate in having colleagues who are individually talented and who, collectively, offer an extraordinary range of expertise. I look forward to helping to lead them in facing the very real challenges which lie ahead.”
Rachel Heery
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009It is with great sadness that we report that Rachel Heery, former Assistant Director of UKOLN, died on Friday 24 July, after a long-term illness. Rachel joined UKOLN in 1995, and led the R&D Team and later became Assistant Director for Research and Development, until her retirement in 2007. Our thoughts are with all Rachel’s friends and colleagues, but above all her family. It is possible to send a message about Rachel.