New Vice-President and four Trustees join CILIPS Board
Category: News
Following the recent nominations process, CILIPS is delighted to announce our new Vice-President and the four new Trustees who are joining the Board from January.
Our new Vice-President, who will become CILIPS President in 2024, is Dr Diane Rasmussen Pennington. From January, Diane will be Professor of Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University, moving on from her current role as Senior Lecturer and Course Director for the MSc in Information and Library Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Diane chairs CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group and is an elected member of IFLA’s Education and Training Section. She is also co-chair of the iSchools Women’s Coalition, about which she addressed the 2022 CILIPS Annual Conference as part of our WINspiration programme, and she became an Honorary Member of CILIPS in 2021.
Joining the CILIPS Board as Trustees are Jennifer Findlay, Head of Library and Archive Services at the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, Joy McLean, Senior Librarian at West College Scotland and Social Media Officer for ARLG Scotland, Kavan Stafford, Information Officer at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, and Karen Veitch, Institutional Repository Support Assistant at the University of Strathclyde. Re-elected for three years is Heather Marshall, Chair of our Trustee Board and Senior Academic Liaison Librarian at the Sir Alex Ferguson Library, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Chair of CILIPS West Branch.
Stepping down from the Board in 2023 is Immediate Past-President Cleo Jones, and Trustees Agnès Guyon and Scott Simpson. The CILIPS Trustee Board, staff team and membership would all like to express our gratitude to Cleo, Agnès and Scott for their service, supporting CILIPS with their expertise and enthusiasm as well as being exemplary advocates for the profession. We are especially grateful for Cleo’s leadership as CILIPS Vice-President in 2020 and CILIPS President in 2021, inspiring Scotland’s professional community with her passion, commitment and determination to celebrate the essential contribution that our libraries make to the nation.