Dame Lynne Brindley, DBE's Biography

Dame Lynne Brindley, DBE's Professional Career

Career

head of mktg and chief exec's office British Library 1979-85, dir of library and info services and pro-vice-chllr Aston Univ 1985-90, princ conslt KPMG 1990-92, librarian and dir of info services LSE 1992-97; Univ of Leeds: librarian 1997-2000, pro-vice-chllr 1997-2000, visiting prof of knowledge mgmnt 2000-; visiting prof of info mgmnt Leeds Metropolitan Univ 2000-03; chief exec British Library 2000-; memb: Lord Chancellor's Advsy Ctee on Public Records 1992-98, Jt Info Systems Ctee HEFCE 1992-98, Int Ctee on Soc Sci Info UNESCO 1992-97, Research Resources Bd ESRC 1997-, Library and Info Cmmn DCMS 1999-2000, Stanford Univ Advsy Cncl for Libraries and Info Resources 1999-, Bd Museums, Libraries and Archives Cncl 2003-, Strategic Advsy Bd for Intellectual Property 2008-, AHRC 2008-, Bd Strategic Advsy Bd for Intellectual Property 2008-, Arts and Humanities Research Cncl 2008-; chair Electronic Libraries Prog HEFCE Review of HE Libraries 1992-93; tstee Thackray Med Museum Leeds 1999-2001; Freeman City of London 1989, Liveryman Worshipful Co of Goldsmiths and Silversmiths 1993; hon fell: UCL 2002, Univ of Wales Aberystwyth 2007, LSE 2008; Hon DLitt: Nottingham Trent Univ 2001, Univ of Leicester 2002, Univ of Oxford 2002, Univ of Sheffield 2004, Univ of Reading 2004, Univ of Leeds 2006, Open Univ 2006, Aston Univ 2008; Hon DPhil London Guidlhall Univ 2002, Hon DSc City Univ 2005, hon degree De Montfort Univ, hon degree Univ of Manchester, hon degree Univ of Loughborough; fell Inst of Info Sci 1990, FLA 1990, FRSA 1993

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