Stepping Away from the Silos

Biography

Margaret Coutts was Chair of the Jisc Content Advisory Group and of the Jorum Steering Group from 2011 to 2015, following her retirement as University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Over a period of some 35 years, she has also held posts at the universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Kent. Her experience spans strategic planning for and delivery of information services to all major academic disciplines, and includes the creation of a converged service comprising library, computing services, administrative computing and academic teaching support. In the UK and beyond, she has taken pivotal roles in major partnership ventures between universities, across wider education and heritage sectors, ...