Keynote Speakers
Martin Molloy OBE
Martin has been a Chief Officer of Derbyshire County Council for the last sixteen years. He is currently Strategic Director of Cultural and Community Services. He started his career as a graduate trainee in Hertfordshire in 1974 before moving to Hampshire County Council in 1981. Martin serves in a variety of professional roles, he is currently President of the Reading Agency and is a member of the Advisory Committees of the Departments of Information Studies and Information Science at the Universities of Sheffield and Loughborough respectively. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Studies, The University of Sheffield. He was a Champion for the Arts Council’s Cultural Leadership Programme. He is past President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), a past President of the Society of Chief Librarians, a past member and past Chair of the Advisory Council for Libraries, past Chair of the DCMS Libraries and Adult Learning Steering Group. He was a member of RNIB Advisory Board for Library Services. He is past Chair of the Board of the Reading Agency. In 1998 Martin received a Library Association Royal Charter Centenary Medal and was awarded an OBE in June 2004.
Jenica Rogers sponsored by TEL-SIG
The professional bio:
Jenica P. Rogers is Director of Libraries at the State University of New York at Potsdam, coming from a background in cataloging, collection development, and staff training.
Jenica serves as the chief administrator of the Crumb and Crane Libraries, with responsibilities that include short-term and strategic planning, fiscal management, fundraising and donor development, representing the libraries to outside constituents, and supervision of 24 FTE employees spanning NYS Civil Service employees, professional staff, and librarians.
Jenica’s current professional interests include trying to think strategically about “the next five years”; advocating for swift but rational implementation of emerging technologies in academic libraries; breaking the bad patterns of ostrich-style library management, and informing, mentoring, and supporting new library professionals as they hit the real world face first and at full speed.
Jenica earned her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 after graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1998 with a BA in English Literature. In 2009 she received a SUNY Potsdam President’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service and was nominated one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers for 2009.
Or, if you prefer:
I’m a librarian who hates talking about herself in the third person.
I’m a real person.
I keep obsessive to-do lists.
I’m kind and generous and selfish and blunt.
I’m faculty, and I was tenured at 33.
I read mostly fantasy and space opera.
Balancing budgets and spending them well makes me feel successful.
I believe in the work I do. Information literacy makes better people, and the world needs those.
I believe that well behaved women seldom make history.
I’m a LARPer.
I’m a knitter.
I love songs about rebellion.
I own a Wii, an XBox, a MacBook, and an iPad, and I play games on all of them.
My main is a Night Elf Warrior.
I love buying books with someone else’s money.
I love throwing out bad books even more.
I find picking out furniture finishes strangely enticing.
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Andrew Green
Andrew Green is Librarian of the National Library of Wales. NLW is a legal deposit library and Wales’s national archive, and houses important collections of manuscripts, maps, pictures, photographs and the National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales.
Before 1998 Andrew worked in UK universities, most recently as Director of Library and Information Services in Swansea University.
He chaired SCONUL (2002-2004) and is a Board member of Research Libraries UK. He is currently active in developing UK electronic legal deposit. He is the President of CILIP Cymru and chairs the Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum. He led the foundation of ‘Gathering the Jewels’, a pioneering all-Wales cultural digitisation project, and of Culturenet Cymru. He sits on the Welsh Assembly Government’s Digital Advisory Board and Digital Inclusion Management Board.
Andrew chaired a steering group to create a national strategy on Welsh medium higher education and is a member of the Council of Aberystwyth University.
Molly Raphael 
Molly Raphael is 2011-12 President of the American Library Association (www.ala.org). As ALA president, Raphael is the chief elected officer of the oldest and largest library organization in the world and serves as its chief spokesperson. Established in 1876, the American Library Association has nearly 61,000 members. Its mission is to provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.
Raphael served in urban public libraries for 40 years. In 2003, she was recruited to lead the award-winning Multnomah County Library (MCL) in Portland, Oregon. During her tenure, she increased diversity in library employment, collections and programming and was awarded the Arthur Flemming Civil Rights Award. Under her leadership, MCL achieved consistently top national rankings among urban public libraries. MCL, a nationally recognized leader in developing early literacy services and programs to reach out to underserved, culturally diverse communities, was selected in 2009 to receive the US Institute for Museum and Library Services’ National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries.
Raphael’s 33 years at the Washington, DC Public Library (DCPL) began as a youth librarian and culminated in her appointment as Library Director in 1997. For over two decades in senior positions, Raphael played a significant role in transforming public libraries to embrace the digital age and become centers supporting neighborhood development.
Raphael has served on boards for many organizations and institutions. In the past decade, she has served on advisory boards for several graduate library and information science programs. Prior to being elected President of the American Library Association, Raphael held many elected and appointed positions in ALA and other library-related organizations.
Raphael received her M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College in Massachusetts and received its Alumni Achievement Award in 2006. She holds an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Ohio.
Karen Coyle sponsored by The National Library
Karen Coyle is a librarian with over thirty years of experience with library technology. She now consults in a variety of areas relating to digital libraries. Karen has published dozens of articles and reports, most available on her web site, www.kcoyle.net. She has served on standards committees including the MARC standards group (MARBI), NISO committee AX for the OpenURL standard, and was an ALA representative to the e-book standards development that led to the ePub standard.
She follows, writes, and speaks on a wide range policy areas, including intellectual property, privacy, and public access to information. As a consultant she works primarily on metadata development and technology planning. She is currently investigating the possibilities offered by the semantic web and linked data technology.
Andrew Booth sponsored by Health-SIG
Andrew Booth is Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield – combining his joint interest in applying the evidence based practice approach to his own professional background with supporting the practice of others. Andrew is the world’s most prolific author in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) and has served for over a decade on the committees of the International EBLIP Conference Series (2001-2011), most frequently as Chair of the International Programme Committee. W
ith Anne Brice, a colleague from Oxford, UK, Andrew has co-edited the only EBLIP handbook – Evidence Based Practice: a Handbook for Information Professionals (2006). Andrew serves on the Editorial Boards of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP), the international open access journal, Health Information & Libraries Journal, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, the International Journal of Mixed Methods Approaches and Perspectives in International Librarianship.
Michael Houlihan
Chief Executive
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Mike Houlihan started his museum career as a Research Assistant in the Department of Exhibits at the Imperial War Museum, London, becoming Keeper of the Department of Permanent Exhibitions and Head of Exhibitions Research.
He joined the Horniman Museum in south London as Deputy Director in 1984, and was appointed Director in 1994. The Horniman holds internationally-recognized collections of musical instruments and world cultures, as well as natural history.
In 1998, Mike was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the newly-created National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland, steering through the merger of Northern Ireland’s three government-funded museums.
In 2003, he became Director General of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, a family of seven museums illustrating the history, industries, and natural environment of Wales as well as important international collections of art.
Mike is Chairman of ICOM UK and was previous Chair of the Collections Trust. He has published on military history and has particular interest in the experience of the British Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914–18.
Aroha Te Pareake Mead
Aroha Te Pareake Mead (Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou) has been involved in indigenous cultural and intellectual property and environmental
issues for over 30 years at tribal, national, Pacific regional and international levels. Currently she is global Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic & Social Policy (CEESP) as well as Senior Lecturer in Maori Business in the Management School of Victoria University of Wellington. She is a member of Te Pae Whakawairua, the Maori Advisory Committee to the Chief Archivist of Archives NZ and the Maori Statistics Advisory Committee to the Chief Statistician, Statistics NZ.
Aroha previously worked as the National Policy Director for Te Tau Ihu o Nga Wananga - the National Secretariat for the three Maori/tribal universities and before that she held managerial positions in Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry of Maori Development. She lead the organization of the Conference that developed the 1993 Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the 1994 Roundtable of Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination, and the 6th International Conference of Ethnobiologists as well as numerous, national, regional and international conferences on traditional knowledge, cultural and intellectual property rights, biodiversity and genetic resources. More recently she was lead organiser of the global conference "Sharing Power: A New Vision for Development." She has published widely on issues of Maori and indigenous cultural heritage protection. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vms/staff/aroha-mead.aspx
Master of Ceremonies
Apirana Taylor
Apirana Taylor from the Ngati Porou, Te Whanau a Apanui, and Ngati Ruanui tribes, and also Pakeha heritage, is a poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, story teller, actor, painter, and musician.
His poems and short stories are frequently studied in schools at NCEA and tertiary level and his poetry and prose has been transla
ted into several languages. He has been Writer in Residence at Massey and Canterbury Universities, Rangi Ruru, St Andrews College and Hagley High School.
He has been invited several times to India and Europe to read his poetry and tell his stories, and to National and International festivals.
He travels to schools, libraries, tertiary institutions and prisons throughout NZ to read his poetry, tell his stories, and take creative writing workshops. He is published nationally and internationally.
Apirana lives in Paekakariki with his whanau.