IATUL Board of Directors

“Recent events have really highlighted the benefits and need for us to work internationally, to collaborate across borders to continually develop and respond to change. In such a fast moving profession and world as ours, IATUL brings together the unique perspectives of librarians and their services across all continents to share and spark ideas for the benefit of all our communities.”

• Workforce development and skills
• Governance
• Study space design and use
• Open research
• Collaborative service development 

Kate is the University Librarian for the University of Bath, in the UK. A Theology graduate from the University of Manchester and with a MA in Library & Information Studies, she has worked in libraries since the 1980s, contributing to a range of sectors within the profession including business libraries, public libraries, private members’ libraries and the advertising industry. 

Kate is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) and the Royal Society of Arts. She is a regular speaker and contributor at conferences and has held a number of senior leadership positions, including: Justice of the Peace, Chair of Governors for a 1^st School, Lecturer in Information & Library Management, Executive Board Member of the University of Bath, of the Society of College, National and University Libraries and of regional library groupings.

Kate has a close relationship with CILIP and was elected as their President for 2022. Her Presidential theme of Workplace Development reflected her longstanding commitment to this in her career and in her voluntary activities.  She was an Assessor for CILIP’s Professional Registration for 20 years and Chair of their Professional Registration (PR) & Accreditation Board until 2020.  She then led a comprehensive review of PR and skills for CILIP to ensure its best fit for member and employer needs, chaired their Sector Development Committee until 2024 and is now Chair of CILIP’s Board of Trustees.

"I see IATUL membership and participation as a way to reach beyond our own Libraries and build networks with colleagues from around the world. In particular, the  Special Interest Groups offer active connections to like-minded colleagues and the Annual Conferences and Seminars give an opportunity to learn and grow professionally."

• Bibliometrics and open access
• Research data management
• Academic library management
• Library engagement and outreach including social media

Kara Jones has over 25 years of experience in academic libraries in Australia, England and the United Arab Emirates. She joined the American University of Sharjah (UAE) as University Librarian in 2019.  

Kara's current experience with strategy, leadership and executive membership includes AMICALCoordinating Committee membership and she is currently co-convenor of the AMICAL Open Scholarship Interest Group. She is an Advisory Board member for various publishers, representing the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is a Chartered member of CILIP in the UK and regularly presents on topics such as LibQual survey actions, research impact tools (ie. 11 Research Impact Things) and scholarly communications models.

"Being in IATUL means joining the global library conversations enriched by cultural perspectives. It’s a chance for me to serve and contribute towards fostering connections among us.”

• Library operations & Administration
• Knowledge management
• Negotiation skills
• Library & learning spaces 
• Design
• Scholarly communications
• Open education
• Research data management
• Outreach & engagement
• Team-based learning (TBL)
• Transformative agreements
• Library analytics (Aspiring) 

Caroline is the University Librarian at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is overseeing the Office of Information, Knowledge and Library Services (OIKLS) and is responsible for developing and executing the vision and strategic plan for OIKLS to become a world-class academic library through the innovative use of technology, information services, library resources, physical spaces and close collaborations with stakeholders.
Caroline has over 25 years of experience in the library field. Starting out as a Librarian with the National Cancer Centre (Singapore), she was subsequently asked to start-up and head the Tanoto Library at INSEAD, Asia Campus. In 2012, Caroline was once again offered an opportunity to establish and lead a new library, this time, the Medical Library at the newly launched Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (a partnership between Nanyang Technological University and Imperial College London). In September 2019, she was appointed as the University Librarian of Nanyang Technological University.
She holds a Master of Science (Knowledge Management), Nanyang Technological University and a Bachelor of Arts (Library and Information Science & Information Technology), University of Tasmania, Australia.
Caroline was awarded the Library Association of Singapore (LAS) Professional Service Award, 2017 and the Nanyang Awards (Teamwork), 2016. Recently, she led her teams to win 3 awards at the Administration Excellence Awards 2023, Nanyang Technological University.

“For me, IATUL means international expertise united and actively involved to promote the development and appreciation of academic libraries on a global scale.”

• Design of library and learning spaces
• Strategic planning
• Open access
• Change management
• Scholarly communication

Since 2013 Gerda Winkler is head of the three branches of the University Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a quadrilingual university, at the interface of different cultures in South Tyrol, a predominantly German-speaking Italian region with a Ladin-speaking minority, promoting international projects and cooperations. She is also director of bu,press, the Bozen-Bolzano University Press. Her work focus lies particularly on international cooperations as well as on the interconnection of local scientific libraries, but also cooperations with public and specialized libraries. She has published various articles dealing with her key research area, the design of library and learning spaces, specifically with a cooperation project which led to the establishment of EduSpace Lernwerkstatt at one of the University Library’s branches at the faculty of education and the construction of a new library, as a result of the collaboration between the University Library and the public library of Bruneck-Brunico.

Further research interests include Strategic Planning, Open Access, Change Management and Scholarly Communication.
From 2015 to 2021 she was member of the Austrian scientific board of the inter-university Library and Information Studies study program.

“For me, involvement with IATUL means the opportunity both to benefit from a wide range of global perspectives on the important issues facing academic libraries today, and to share the unique perspectives that come from my own host institution. As a specialist in the area of scholarly communication, I also greatly value the opportunity to interact with those who come from countries and regions very different from my own and who bring a very different viewpoint on scholarly-communication issues. IATUL is rich with organizational and social diversity, and I love being a part of that mix.”

• Library management and leadership
• Collection development
• Vendor/publisher relations
• Scholarly communication 

Rick Anderson is University Librarian of Brigham Young University. He earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at BYU, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno, and as Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah. He has published widely and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog. A collection of his essays titled Libraries, Leadership and Scholarly Communication was published in 2016 by ALA Editions, and his most recent book, Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018) has been published in three languages.

In 2005, Rick was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover & Shaker” – one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.”  In 2008 he was elected president of NASIG, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009-10. In 2013 Rick was the recipient of the HARRASSOWITZ Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award and was the Gould Distinguished Lecturer on Technology and the Quality of Life at the University of Utah. In 2015 he was elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and research libraries.

"IATUL is a unique network to be able to harness diverse ideas, knowledge and people to collaborate at a global level on shared challenges and opportunities. It provides a forum to continue to grow and learn from each other."

• Relationship management and engagement
• User experience
• Open research including OA and RDM
• Workforce and leadership development
• Change management

Michelle is the University Librarian at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, the University of Waikato in Aotearoa, NZ. She previously worked in the UK for 15 years including as the Deputy and then Director of Library and Archives at the University of York.

Michelle is a member of the Open Access Australasia Executive Committee, a member of CAUL’s Indigenous Knowledge Advisory Group and co-leads the Open Scholarship strand of the CONZUL (Council of NZ University Libraries) strategy. She is a founding member of the Committee on Data in Research (CoDiR) in Aotearoa, NZ and co-leading a project mapping the research data landscape in Aotearoa, NZ.

Michelle was the co-founder of the Relationship Management in HE Libraries in the UK. She was previously the Co-convenor of RLUK's Associate Directors Network and a founding member of the RLUK Digital Shift Working Group. She was heavily involved in Sconul work and programmes during her time in the UK including on the workforce development group and the trends and futures strategy group.

"As an association composed of like-minded library leaders and professionals, IATUL provides a unique platform for academic libraries to connect professionals across national and cultural boundaries, to share trends and best practices in academic librarianship and to learn from each other."

• Global / transnational higher education
• Library leadership
• Change management
• Staff and leadership development
• Succession planning
• User experience
• Library space design and planning
• Scholarly communication in the open science era

Isabelle Eula joined EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in June 2021 as Director, Scientific Information and Library Services. She is a member’s of EPFL Vice-Presidency of Academic Affairs and serves in several key committees of the ETH domain - a collaboration network of leading Swiss research institutions. 

Isabelle has over 30 years of experience in the LIS field, of which she spent 20 years leading libraries at international branch campuses, with a successful record of developing fully-fledged operations, managing change and building staff capacity in complex multicultural environments. She received the Carnegie Mellon University’s Library Faculty Excellence Award in 2007 for her accomplishments as Library Director at the Qatar campus.

Prior to relocating to Switzerland, Isabelle held various professional and leadership roles in both specialised and academic libraries. Her previous appointments include: Monash University Malaysia, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, the Qatar Foundation’s Education City Central Library project - which has become the Qatar National Library, and the French National Center for Scientific and Technical Information.

Isabelle has been involved in professional organizations at the national and international levels. She served in various capacities in ALA and ACRL committees (2005-2014). She co-founded and chaired the Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region (2006-2011). She joined IATUL in 2015, and in recent years, served as SIG-ALICE coach for the inaugural cohort of Cambodian librarians. At Monash Malaysia, she was a founding member of the Womens’ Empowerment Network (2019-2021).

Isabelle is a current member of SLiNER Management Board, the Swiss Library Network for Education and Research.

Her areas of interest encompass library leadership development, staff mentoring, user experience, space design and planning, advancing open access and open research data.

"To me ITAUL is an inclusive global network of library professional dedicated to sharing best practice. IATUL enables us to bring our collective expertise to bear as we address common and global challenges."

• Library leadership
• Workforce planning and development
• Library and learning space development
• Collection development
• Change management
• Transnational education
• Widening participation and user experience

Diane Job is the Director of Libraries and Learning Resources at The University of Birmingham, a research-intensive University with campuses in the UK and in Dubai and engaged in numerous local and international partnerships. 

Activities within Diane's remit can be summarised as falling within 7 broad areas: 

- Academic Skills Development (student facing)
- Library Customer Support (Physical and Digital - Front of House Services)
- Collection Development and Research Communications
- Special Collections and Archives
- Teaching and Learning Space Development
- Digital Education (Learning Technology and Digital Education Ecosystem)
- Educational Development (academic facing)

Diane has been at Birmingham since 2009 and oversaw the development of the award winning new Main Library and the associated service transformation. Diane spent the early years of her career working in public libraries in London, her home city but has spent the last c30 years working in leadership positions in the UK HE sector.

Diane has previously served as the chair of her local regional library collaboration (The Mercian Collaboration) and as a board member on two significant UK sector membership organisations SCONUL and RLUK. 

"IATUL stands out as the unique global network of university library directors and academic librarians that support sharing best practices, identify new trends and embrace multicultural context and engagements."

• Library leadership
• International librarianship
• Open access and open science
• Research and academic support services
• Collection development
• Scholarly communication etc.

Dr. J K Vijayakumar (Vijay) is currently the Director of Library Services and Professor at American University of Antigua in Antigua (West Indies), previously he was the founding team member and Associate Library Director at AUA. He also served as founding team member of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia in various positions including University Library Director and Strategic Information Advisor in the Provost Office. He started his career as Scientific Officer at University Grants Commission’s Information and Library Network Center in India. Dr. Vijay served on the prestigious Board of Directors at the International Association of University Libraries (2019-2021), various standing committees of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and publisher advisory boards of several STM publishers. He visited more than 30 countries for professional engagements and actively supported several international library programs and projects. He holds an MSc in information studies from Robert Gordon University, doctorate in information science from Bundelkhand University, master’s in library science from Annamalai University, and bachelor’s in science from Kerala University. He is the recipient of IFLA-OCLC fellowship in the USA, Salzburg global fellowship in Austria, IFLA-ALP travel grant to Argentina and Goethe BII visiting study grant in Germany.

"IATUL serves as a crucial platform for me and my colleagues in China, keeping us informed and engaged in the global developments of libraries. The numerous challenges we face today, spanning across libraries in various regions, necessitate collective and coordinated actions and responses, and we aspire to be an integral part of these efforts."

• Science communication
• Media effects
• Public opinion research
• Scholarly publishing
• Quantitative research methods
• Diffusion of innovation

Professor Jianbin Jin has been serving as the Director of Tsinghua University Library since September 2022. He is a professor of communication studies at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. Additionally, he has been a member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University since 2019. Professor Jin is a member of the Editorial Boards for several prestigious journals in the field of journalism and communication, including Asian Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Chinese Journal of Communication. He currently serves as the Vice Director of the Academic Library Division of the Library Society of China and the Vice Director of the Beijing Committee for Academic Libraries. Throughout his career, he has authored several books and over 100 papers on communication studies.

Professor Jin earned his B.E. and B.A. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1991 and 1992, respectively. He obtained his M.E. from Tsinghua University in 1997 and his Ph.D. from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2002. He was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute from May 2006 to January 2007.

"Considering the ongoing advances in technology and the resultant shifting higher education landscape, IATUL means a solution to global academic library challenges through impactful networks and collaboration."

• Strategy development and execution
• Data and information literacy
• Knowledge and information systems management
• Open science
• Mentorship and capacity building

Mathew Moyo is currently serving as the Chief Director for Library and Information Service at the North-West University, South Africa. He holds higher degrees in Information Science at both the Masters and Doctoral levels, in addition to other graduate qualifications in Knowledge and Information Systems Management and Leadership. His experience in academia spans more than 30 years. He has worked in various management as well as academic and research roles. Apart from his current role of Chief Director, Mathew is affiliated to the Social Transformation Research Area within the faculty of Humanities where he continuous to contribute as a researcher. His work interests are in the areas of Governance and Leadership, Mentorship, Capacity Building, Teamwork, and Strategy, among others. His research interests are in the areas of Information Literacy, Information Behavior, Research Data Literacy, Knowledge and Information Systems Management, among others. In his current role as Chief Director, Mathew is affiliated to several professional organizations and boards, including serving as the General Chair of the International Conference on Information Literacy (ICIL-Africa), which is a sister conference to the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL). Mathew has also been involved in local professional associations work at both the branch and national levels. He has presented papers at national and international conferences and appreciates collaborating with colleagues with similar research interests and areas of expertise at national and international levels.