3 Appendix
Acknowledgements
Members of the working group
- Chairman: Matthew Evans, Chairman of Faber and Faber and The
Library and Information Commission
Vice-chairman: Professor Mel Collier, De Montfort University
(to July 1997); Dawson Holdings PLC (from August 1997)
Project leader: John Dolan, Head of Central Library, Birmingham
City Council
- Richard Bent, HM Treasury; now Department of Trade and
Industry
Robert Craig, Director, Scottish Library and Information Council
Lorcan Dempsey, Director, UK Office for Library and Information
Networking
John Diamond, Journalist
Sir Brian Follett, Vice-chancellor, Warwick University
Margaret Haines, Principal Adviser, Library and Information
Commission
Grace Kempster, Chief Librarian, Leeds City Council
Richard Livesey-Haworth, Group Executive Director, ICL plc
Bill Macnaught, Director of Libraries and Arts, Gateshead
Metropolitan Borough Council
Dr Robert Sabin, Vision Campaign Project Manager, BT
Linda Tomos, Director, Wales Information Network, Department of
Information and Library Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Peter Wienand, Farrar & Co.
- Observers
Sally Booth CBE, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Neville Mackay, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Other participants
- The working group broke into smaller groups to prepare each chapter,
and we are extremely grateful to the following, who joined in, gave
their time, and made significant contributions to the finished report:
Zohra Ahed
Chris Armstrong, Centre for Information Quality Management
Chris Batt, Borough Libraries and Museum Officer, London Borough
of Croydon
Leigh Brownsword, Pentagram Design Ltd
Professor Peter Brophy, Head of the Centre For Research in
Library and Information Management, University of Central Lancashire
Bob Christie, Society of Information Technology Management
Dr Bob Cooper, Strategy Director, UKERNA
Revd Graham Cornish, British Library
Joe Crofts, BT
Guy Daines, Head of Professional Practice, Library Association
Philippa Dobson, Head of Information Services, Leeds Library and
Information Services
Jane Drabble, Director of Education, BBC
Jonathan Drori, Head of Digital Media and New Learning Channels,
BBC
Professor Judith Elkin, Dean, Faculty of Computing and
Information Studies, University of Central England
Ian Everall, Public Library Services Manager, Walsall
Metropolitan District Council
Leo Favret, Library Operations Manager, Bromley Leisure Services
Anne Fisher, Policy Adviser, Library and Information Commission
Shelagh Fisher, Principal Lecturer, Centre for Research in
Library and Information Management, University of Central Lancashire
Brian Gambles, Head of Information Management and Networking,
Birmingham Library Services
Vivien Griffiths, Assistant Director, Libraries and Learning,
Birmingham City Council
Chris Hart, BT
Frances Hendrix, Director, LASER
David Inglis, Director, Digital Library Project, British Library
Graham Jessop, Financial Services Manager, West Sussex County
Council
Helen Kilpatrick, County Treasurer, West Sussex County Council
Dr Brian Lang, Chief Executive, British Library
Nigel Macartney, Director, British Library Research and
Innovation Centre
Martin Molloy, County Librarian Archive and Arts Officer,
Derbyshire County Council
John Neighbour, BT
Sandy Norman, Information Manager, Library Association
Sarah Ormes, Research Officer, UKOLN
Steve Pollock, Head of Learning Support, BBC
Sue Reeder, Head of Personnel and Member Services, Hertfordshire
Libraries, Arts and Information
David Ruse, Chair, Project EARL
Lynda Samuels, Market Research and Planning Consultant
Sue Schreiber, Business Analyst, ICL
Ross Shimmon, Chief Executive, Library Association
Anthony Tilke, Professional Adviser, Youth and School Libraries,
Library Association
Pearl Valentine, Chief Librarian, Northern Ireland North Eastern
Education and Library Board
Rob Wirszycz, Director General, Computing Services and Software
Associates
Chris Yapp, Manging Consultant, Lifelong Learning, ICL
- We consulted widely as we wrote the report, and John Dolan and others
addressed many groups. In addition we arranged focus groups in different
parts of the UK to address specific areas of the plan. We are grateful
to all those people who joined in, and also to the following people who
gave their valuable advice:
- John Blagden, Chair, LINC
William Blomfield, BT
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey Bart., Information for All
Martin Dudley, Hertfordshire County Council/Information for All
Hilary Hammond, Director of Arts and Libraries, Jane Churley,
Principal Librarian, John Creber, Principal Assistant Director,
Norfolk County Libraries
Kevin Harris, Information Manager, Community Development
Foundation
Graham Jordan, Director, Cabinet Office Central IT Unit
John Lewis, Principal Consultant, Admiral Managment Services Ltd
(for the Computer Harmonisation Project Board, Northern Ireland)
Dougal McInnes, Local Government Association
Bob McKee, Assistant Chief Executive, Solihull Metropolitan
Borough Council
David Owen, Director, Libraries and Theatres, Manchester City
Council
Ursula Owen, Education Extra
David Ritchie, Regional Director, Government Office for the West
Midlands
Ken Worpole, Comedia
- I am very grateful to everyone on the working group. We came together
in a hurry, and had just three months to deliver our report to the
government. Everyone worked extremely hard, and under a great deal of
pressure managed to keep not only their sense of humour but also clear
minds about what we wanted to do. This was undoubtedly helped by the
fact we had a shared vision of what we wanted for the public library
sector.
- I am most grateful to Mark Wood, Editor in Chief of Reuters, for the
discussions we had and the very considerable help he gave with the
introduction as well as other parts of the report.
- Bob Davenport, the editor, took the whole thing in a raw and
unfinished state and worked wonders with it. John McConnell of Pentagram
then took over from Bob and designed the final report. My assistant at
Faber and Faber, Clare Reihill, bore a huge and additional burden for
the past three months, and my grateful thanks go to her.
- Finally, I come to John Dolan, the project leader. John was seconded
from the Central Library in Birmingham in April 1997 for four months,
and I know that everyone on the working group will agree with me when I
say that without his work this report would not exist. He approached the
project with a calmness and an intelligence that everybody responded to;
he has my gratitude, and the thanks of the entire working group.
- Matthew Evans, July 1997
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