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Nigel Macartney

Photo of Nigel Macartney, Director of Information Services, University of Ulster

Biography - Nigel Macartney is currently Director of Information Services at the University of Ulster, responsible for library, archive, computing and reprographic services.

He was Director of the British Library Research and Innovation Centre (1995 – 1999) and before that Librarian at the University of Hertfordshire.

He is Chair of the North Eastern Education and Library Board’s Library Committee and Honorary Treasurer of CILIP.

Abstract - Establishing a new national agenda for Library and Information Science research

Nigel Macartney, Director of Information Services, University of Ulster. A rationale for and account of the work leading up to the workshop on library and information science research held at the British Library in November last year. Plans are now under development to create a new structure for co-ordinating research in the UK with the aim of meeting the expressed needs of researchers and practitioners

 

 

 



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