Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Details
Name: Derek George Law
Work Address: Information Services Directorate
Curran Building
101 St. James Road Glasgow G4 0NS
Telephone: (Mobile) 07 802 802 155
e-mail: d.law@strath.ac.uk
Qualifications:
M.A. (Hons) Glasgow University (Mediaeval and Modern History) 1969
Dip.Lib. Strathclyde University 1970
A.L.A. Library Association 1972
F.L.A. Library Association 1989
F.I.Inf.Sc. Institute of Information Scientists 1994
F.K.C. Fellow of King’s College London 1995
F.R.S.E. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999
D. Univ. University of Paris 2000
F.C.L.I.P. Fellow, Chartered Institute of Library & Information
Professionals 2002
F.S.N.R. [Inaugural] Fellow of the Society for Nautical Research 2015
Employment:
Assistant Librarian, St Andrews University 1970-77
Sub-Librarian (Acquisitions), Edinburgh University 1977-81
Librarian, Erskine Medical Library, Edinburgh University 1981-83
Director of Library Automation, Edinburgh University 1983-84
College Librarian, King’s College London 1984-93
Director of Information Services & Systems, King’s College London. 1993-98
Librarian and Director of Information Strategy, Strathclyde University 1998-2001
Head of the Information Resources Directorate, Strathclyde University 2002-08
Consultant 2008-
Chair, JISC Advance 2009-15
Current status: I “retired” in November 2008 and since then have taken on a number of roles.
- I chaired the JISC Advance Company until its closure in 2015
- I was PI on a study on the Future of Libraries, jointly funded by BL/JISC/RIN/RLUK/SCONUL;
- I have undertaken consultancy reviews for the World Health Organisation, The University of Malta,
the Open University, The Greek Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency and the EU;
- I was a Scotland-Malawi Fellow, based in Malawi for two months in 2009.
- I undertake regular project reviews for the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme
- I will undertake a Visiting Professorship at UCL Doha in Spring 2019
Previous Post:
In my previous post at Strathclyde I managed a staff of 300 and a budget of over £12 million. I was a member of the senior management
team of the University. I was responsible for Academic Computing, Administrative Computing, Learning Services (which covers classroom
support, courseware development, e-learning strategy, assistive technology and IT applications training for staff and students) and the
Library. I hold an emeritus chair in the Department of Computing & Information Science as head of the Centre for Digital Library Research
and was responsible for the PREDICT centre which undertakes research on the knowledge economy, with specific reference to HE.
2.Personal Memberships: CILIP; American Library Association; Association for Learning Technology (Founder Member); Navy Records Society; Society for Nautical Research; US Naval Institute.
3. Personal Awards, Honours and Public Lectures
Farries Award for Public Relations [as Chair of London UC&R Committee] 1988
CLSI Annual Lecture on Library Automation 1989
Barnard Triennial Prize for contributions to Medical Informatics 1993
Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Information Science 1994
Elected a Fellow of King’s College London 1998
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999
Appointed Senior Research Fellow and Leader, Centre for Digital Library
Research, University of Strathclyde 2000
Epixtech Annual Lecture on Information Policy 2000
D. Univ. from the University of Paris, honoris causa 2000
Chair in Department of Computing, University of Strathclyde 2001
Honorary Membership, CILIPS 2003
IFLA Medal 2003
OCLC Distinguished Scholars Program 2004
Hon Fellowship, CILIP 2004
Emeritus Professorship 2009
Royal Society of Edinburgh Travel Grant (for Malawi) 2009
Associate Membership of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies 2019
4. Personal Professional Activities
External University Activities
External Examiner Manchester Metropolitan University 1992-94
External Examiner The Robert Gordon University 1997-2002
Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield 1997-2004
Visiting Professor, University of Central England 1998-2006
External Assessor, University of Malaya 2011-2015
External Assessor, University of Portsmouth for Course Approval for
MA in Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage 2014
Library Association/CILIP
National Councillor 1985-96
Treasurer & Chairman University College & Research Section 1989-92
Chairman, IT Committee 1985-90
Chair of Executive Committee 1991-96
Facilitator for long-term strategy review 1997
Chair, Governance Review 2006-07
Scottish Library Association
Vice President 1999-2001
President 2002
Standing Conference of National and University Libraries
Council Member 1989-92
Committees on Automation Policy, Medical Materials, Performance Indicators,
Recurrent Expenditure (various periods between 1985-92)
Other Professional Activities
Association of Scottish Health Services Libraries Committee 1982-3
British Library Advisory Committee on Bibliographic Standards 1989-91
British Library Advisory Committee on Document Supply 1989-92
Charlesworth Awards for Serial Publications. Judge 2002-2005
Elsevier European Libraries Advisory Board 2004-2006
Inter University Computing Centres Committee on Networking 1989-92
IRIS Project Board (Open Access in Scotland) 2006-2009
JANET Library Users Group 1987-90
John Campbell Trust. Trustee 2002-
LIBERTAS User Group. Chairman 1991-94
National Electronic Library for Health Advisory Board 2001-2005
National Library of Scotland. Trustee 2000-2002
Office for Humanities Communication. Publication Committee 1997-2004
Royal Society Scientific Information Committee 1992-97
Scotland’s Cultural Portal: Advisory Board Chairman 2002-2005
SLS Library Systems User Group, Chairman 1993-95
SUNCAT Steering Committee, Chair 2002-2007
UK Medical School Libraries Group, Chairman 1983
UK National IFLA Committee, Chair 1998-2003
UKOLN Steering Committee Chairman 1990-95
University of Strathclyde:
Court 2003-2008
Senate 1999-2008
Senate representative on Ceremonials and Honorary Degrees Ctte 2004-2008
Senate representative on General Convocation 2003-2005
5. Miscellaneous Academic Activities
British Commission on Maritime History. Board Member 2011-2018
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Trustee 1984-98
Naval Historians Society; Chairman 2005-
Navy Records Society. Councillor and Vice President 1999-
Oftel Education and Public Access Points Task Force 1998-1999
Queen’s Anniversary Prizes Assessor 2009-2015
Royal Geographical Society Library and Maps Committee 1990-1992
- Council 1997-1999
Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Councillor 2002-2006
Royal Society of Edinburgh. Deputy Curator 2008-2011
Samuel Pepys Club Committee 1995-98
Society for Nautical Research, Secretary 1991-1995
- Vice-President 1995-
6. PhD External Assessor
University of Loughborough [details not kept] 1997
University of Cambridge F. Rowland (by publication) 1999
University of Sheffield D. Allan Information Strategy in Practice 2000
University of Northumbria G. Walton (by publication) 2002
University of Loughborough M. Al-Shehri A Virtual University Model
for Higher Education in Saudi Arabia 2003
University of Loughborough A Muir Digital Legal Deposit 2004
University of Strathclyde N. Munro Contrasting Legacies: Determinants of Support for
Incomplete Democracies in the Republic of Korea and the
Russian Federation [internal examiner] 2004
University of Southampton H. Mason Integrating Institutional Repositories into the
Semantic Web 2008
University of Loughborough S.P. Manuel Strategic management and development of UK
university library websites 2012
University of Portsmouth A. Dappert DePICT - A conceptual model for Digital Preservation 2013
University of Loughborough J. C. F. Ravenwood Selection of digital material for preservation in
libraries, archives and museums 2013
University of Loughborough M. Younus Digital Reference Services in University Libraries of
Pakistan 2014
University of Loughborough D. Johnson A Multiphase Mixed Methods Analysis of UK
E-commerce Privacy Policies 2019
7. Advice/Consultancies for Commercial Companies and Other Bodies:
Computer Companies: Digital Equipment Corporation; Sun Microsystems;
International Organisations: AGARD; Council of Europe; European Union; INETI; International Parliamentary Union, World Health Organisation
National Governments: Government of Canada Serials Task Force (2001-5), Government of Denmark (1997); Government of Malawi (1981); National Hellenic Research Foundation (2001)
National Organisations: British Film Institute (1997), British Medical Association (1999 and 2003); Royal College of Organists( 2004); Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1982); Royal Geographical Society (1997-1999); Scottish Museums Council(1999)
Library Services Suppliers: Bibliographix; I.T.S; Library Contract Services; OCLC; TALIS; Uniqads
Miscellaneous: E.P.S.; Solon Consultants; ingenta
Publishers: Elsevier; Information Access Company; Institute for Scientific Information; Taylor & Francis
Serials Agents: Blackwell’s; Dawsons; Swets and Zeitlinger;
8. Departmental, Computing Centre and Library Reviews:
University: University of Aberdeen (1994 and 2005), University College of Wales Aberystwyth Department of Information and Library Studies (1993); University of Botswana (1983), British Library of Political and Economic Science (1996), Cranfield University (1996); University of East Anglia (1995), University of Wales College Cardiff (1985,1993,1997), Dublin Institute of Technology (2005), European University Institute in Florence (1994 and 2015), University of Glasgow (1997), Ionian University, Corfu (2011), University of Keele (1993), London Institute (1997), University of London School of Advanced Studies (1999-2000), Loughborough University (1999, 2011, 2014, University of Malawi (1981 and 2003), University of Malta (2009), Napier University (1993), University of Northumberland (1997), University of Nottingham (1997), Open University (2008-9), University of Oxford (2005), University of Paisley (1997), Queen’s University of Belfast (1999), The University of Pretoria (2004, 2017), The Robert Gordon University (2003), Roehampton Institute (1996), St Mary’s University College Twickenham (1996), Sheffield Hallam University (1993), University of Stirling (1994), University of Strathclyde (1997), University of Surrey (1993), University College London (2009), University College London, Department of Library and Archive Studies (1992), UWIST (1984)
9. National, Funding Council and Research Council Activities
Computer Board
- Member 1989-90
- Godfather for Wales and East of Scotland 1989-90
Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities
- Public Libraries Network Committee 1999-2001
Department of Culture, Media and Sport
- Library & Information, Commissioner 1995-2000
- Chair of its International Committee 1995-2000
- Finance Committee Member 1998-2000
- New Library: the People’s Network. Content Working Party 1998
- Wolfson Foundation Panel for Public Library Infrastructure Awards
Chairman, 1998-1999
ESRC Research Resources Board 1992-1994
- review of Social Science Library Collections in the UK 1993
HEFCs/UFC/HEFCE, Library and Information Studies Adviser 1990-97
- Review of Northern Ireland Libraries for DENI 1993
- Chair of Library and Information Management Panels
Research Assessment Exercises 1992&1996
Information Systems Committee of UFC 1990/1992
- Chair of Review of National Microform Facilities 1992
Joint Funding Councils Libraries Review Panel, Member 1993-94
- member of sub-panels on IT and on Staffing 1993-94
- member of Follett Non-Formula Funding Allocation Panel 1994-95
- member of Follett Implementation Group for IT 1994-97
Joint Information Systems Committee of HEFC’s
- Member 1992-97
- Member 2008-2013
- Information Services Sub-Committee, Chairman 1992-97
- Humanities Non-Formula Funding Programme, Manager 1996-98
- Manager, HEFCE electronic journal initiative 1997-98
- Member, Digital Libraries II, UK Steering Committee 1997-98
- Member, UK Archives Hub Sub-Committee 1999-2004
- Member, JISC Strategic Review Panel 2000-2001
- Member, Committee on Content 2002-2004
- Serials Union Catalogue Project (SUNCAT), Chair 2002-2007
JISC Advance
- Board Chairman 2009-2015
Medical Research Council Rayner Review of Libraries, 1982
Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.
- Assessor 2009-2015
Research Support Libraries Programme (The Anderson Committee)
- Management Group Member 1998-2002
- Steering Group Member 1998-2002
UKERNA
- Board Member 1998-2002
10. International Activities
American Library Association International Committee 2000-2005
Aurora Leadership Programme Instructor [Australia] 2001
Berlin 10 Open Access Conference (South Africa). Advisory Committee 2012
British Council Advisory Committee on Libraries and Information 1998-2002
Council of Europe delegations, Member 1988-90
eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries), Advisory Board President 2003-2004
EPT (Electronic Publishing Trust) Trustee 2011-2018
European Consortium of Innovative Universities
- Web Supported Learning Steering Group. Member 2001-2003
- Collaborative European Virtual University. ECIU Representative 2002-2003
European University Quality in e-Learning.
- Institutional Reviewer 2008-9
European Virtual University. Steering Committee 2002-2004
Greek Ministry of Education
- Consultant on proposed Union Catalog of Greek Academic Libraries. 1997
- Assessor for Faculty Appointments and Promotions Panel 2014-
Institute for Scientific Information Advisory Board 1992-96
International Conference on Digital Libraries
- Organising Committee, Paris 1999
International Congress on Medical Librarianship
- 8th Congress (2000) Organising Committee 1996-2000
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Secretary then Chairman Biological and Medical Libraries Section 1985-93
Secretary then Chairman, Special Libraries Division 1989-93
Member of Professional Board 1991-93
Member of Executive Board 1997-2003
Treasurer 1997-2003
Member, IFLA Open Access Taskforce 2011-2015
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- Programme Committee 2019
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeannes de Recherche (LIBER)
- Automation Committee 1987-91
mLearn 2015: 14th World conference on mobile and contextual learning, Venice
- International Review Panel 2015
University of Malawi. Scotland-Malawi Fellow teaching librarianship course 2009
University of Malaya. External Assessor for Chair Appointments 2011-2017
University of Tblisi, Library School Governing Board 2003-2007
University of Torun, Poland, Visiting Lecturer 1998-2003
UCLA. Taught course on management 2008
UCL Doha. Visiting Research Fellowship (awarded but not taken up) 2019
11. European Commission
Telematics for Libraries Programmes. Drafting Luxembourg 1993-4
UK representative activities, various 1985-98
- Review of Cultural Network Programme 2003
- Review of eContentplus Programme 2008-9
EU Project Reviews
DL.org 20 January 2010 Luxembourg
19 April 2011 Luxembourg
Europeana Libraries February 9th 2012 Den Haag
March 18 2013 Brussels
Europeana Newspapers 13 March 2014 Brussels
21 May 2015 Luxembourg
KEEP 30 March 2010 Luxembourg
1 June 2011 Paris
SUCCEED 25th February 2014 Alicante
19th February 2015 Alicante
TELMAP 13th November 2012 Luxembourg
8 May 2013 Luxembourg
Project Bids Evaluation
eContentplus Evaluator
ICT Call 6 (recorder) 2010
ICT Call 9 Access to cultural resources. (recorder) 2012
ICT Call 10 Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity 2013
ICT Call 11 Technology-enhanced learning in May-June (recorder) 2013
ICT Call 12 Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies (recorder) 2014
ICT Call 19a Technologies for the Creative Industries (recorder 2015
ICT Call 22 Technologies for Learning and Skills 2016
ICT Call 24 Gaming and Gamification 2016
MSCA-IF Marie Skłodowska-Curie-Curie Individual Fellowships 2016
MSCA-IF ECO-SOC Individual Fellowships 2017
MSCA RISE Call 2018
MSCA-IF Individual Fellowships 2018
12. Research Grants
I have been grantholder for numerous projects but the following are those where I might be considered principal or joint principal investigator or director. Information on these is held almost entirely by previous employers and so many of the figures are estimates drawn from memory. All the awards were made through competitive bidding and peer review processes, except nos 4 & 6. In recent years my role has been to develop a research question or proposal and then recruit staff who I direct and/or to stimulate the discussion of and testing of models by others.
13. Centre for Digital Library Research
In 1999, after my arrival in Glasgow, I, and existing library staff, bid competitively for a number of research contracts and won
most of these. Given that a small number of other contracts already existed and following discussion with the Principal, it was agreed
to create a Centre for Digital Library Research as a focus for digital library research occupying a unique niche in
information science in the UK. Formally this is associated with the Department of Computing and Information Science,
in order to ensure that the Centre staff are RAE-returnable. The group has gone on to win several other contracts and
currently has an annual research turnover of about £500,000 per annum and is managing twelve projects at present.
I led the group, averaging twelve staff, all working on the general area of digital libraries and electronic information systems. A
full record of the Centre and its work can be found at http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/. It received a 4 rating in the 2001 RAE Exercise.
14. Editorial Boards:
At various times I serve or have served on the boards of Alexandria; British Journal of Academic Librarianship; Health LibrariesReview; Information and Learning Science; Internet Research; International Journal on Grey Literature; Journal of Information Networking; Liber Quarterly; Libri; LISA (Library and Information Study Abstracts); New Library World; New Review of Information Networking; OCLC Micro; Scholarly Communications Report, Scholarly and Research Communication, The Electronic Library.