Interviews

Gaining altitude
11 October 2016

After learning to fly a plane, and then teaching German business executives to speak English, London Info International’s Philip Ditchfield also worked in pharma and publishing sales

‘The team is key’
01 August 2016

Pinar Erzin is founder and president of Accucoms

Giving Harvard a run for its money
27 May 2016

Rafael Ball is director of the ETH Library in Zurich, Switzerland

World-class ambitions
24 March 2016

After 20 years in financial services and the IT sector Paul Feldman is now chief executive of Jisc, the UK higher, further education and skills sectors' not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions

Connections, collaboration and communication
28 January 2016

After holding a variety of positions in scholarly publishing, Melanie Dolechek is now executive director for the Society for Scholarly Publishing

A belief in collaboration
27 November 2015

WIth a background in mathematics and an early career developing software applications, Ella Balagula now leads the Engineering and Technology Solutions business within Elsevier's R&D Solutions group

'A taste for openness and change'
02 October 2015

Daniel Hook founded Symplectic in 2003, alongside three fellow PhD students. Several years later the company was noticed by Nature Publishing Group, which was in the early stages of planning Digital Science. That lead to an investment in Symplectic and the start of Hook's relationship with Digital Science, where he is now managing director

Information should become 'central to global development'
01 June 2015

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) deputy general secretary Stuart Hamilton will be speaking at this year's CILIP Conference. Here he talks about how information will shape global development goals and how information professionals the world over can shape their communities

Necessity, the mother of invention for aggregators
27 March 2015

Kari Paulson, vice president for market development, ebooks, at ProQuest, and Heather Sherman, head of library programme management at Dawson Books, tell Tim Gillett about the latest purchasing trends

Is there a library-sized hole in the internet?
27 March 2015

David Weinberger is senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has been instrumental in the development of ideas about the impact of the web. Shortly before his recent keynote presentation at OCLC's EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Florence, he spoke with Sarah Bartlett

Bridging the research knowledge divide
27 March 2015

Sue Corbett is executive director of INASP, an international development charity that supports developing world researchers through information access and availability, training in research writing; support of indigenous publishing activities and training policy makers in the use of research in policy

Balancing money and mission
02 February 2015

After a career at Oxford University Press, Mandy Hill has "switched sides", and is now managing director for academic publishing at Cambridge University Press. We caught up with her at Frankfurt Book Fair

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