RLUK is pleased to announce that William Nixon, currently Assistant Director (Academic Engagement and Digital Library) at the University of Glasgow Library, will be joining RLUK as its new Deputy Executive Director. William brings to the role a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing research libraries, as well as a long-standing commitment to finding cooperative national and international solutions to shared problems. As a past chair of the Open Repositories Steering Committee and current board member of both SPARC Europe and COAR he brings particular expertise in open research. He has also served as co-convener for RLUK’s Associate Directors Network, as well as Chair of our Digital Shift Working Group.
As Chair of RLUK, Dr Jessica Gardner (University Librarian & Director of Library Services for Cambridge University Libraries) welcomed the appointment, saying: “As our incoming Deputy Executive Director, William Nixon will join a highly successful and dynamic Executive Team for RLUK. William brings a wealth of working knowledge from his long-career within academic libraries, as well as the creativity and energy he has brought to his RLUK work with the ADN and the Digital Shift Working Group. I’m sure that William will step confidently and quickly into the role of catalysing and supporting strategic activity across the membership. I know the whole community will join me in congratulating William on his new appointment.”
William commented that “I am delighted to be joining the RLUK Executive and to have opportunity to work more closely with RLUK’s members and its networks in delivering its ambitious strategy.”
William will take up his new role with us from the start of the New Year.
