Laura Woods – Co-Chair
Neil Infield – Co-Chair
Meghan Jones
Seema Rampersad
Sarah Hammond
Géraldine Clément-Stoneham
Dennie Heye
Laura Woods graduated from City University London with an MSc in Library and Information Studies in January 2010, and is currently working as an Information Services Adviser at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. She has been involved with SLA Europe since winning one of the Early Career Conference Awards in 2009, and attending the 2009 Annual Conference in Washington DC.
Laura blogs about her professional development activities at Organising Chaos, and you can find her on Twitter as @WoodsieGirl. She is interested in networking with her peers, particularly fellow new professionals, and in innovative ways to promote library services and the information profession.
Neil Infield is Manager of the Business & IP Centre at the British Library. He manages a team of 12 business and intellectual property reference experts, providing information and advice to inventors, business start-ups and entrepreneurs. In his three years at The British Library Neil has introduced a number of innovations, including a range of workshops and one-to-one business advice sessions, as well as free downloading to memory sticks. He has spoken widely on innovation in business information, including at Online Information 2007 in Sydney, and Online Information 2008 in London. Prior to The British Library Neil was manager of Business Information Services at Hermes Pensions Management in the City of London. He was responsible for market data services, creating their website and intranet, as well as creating and editing their staff newsletter.
He has been active in SLA for nearly 20 years, including President of SLA Europe in 2003, In 2006 he was made a fellow of the association. In the few hours of spare time that his commuting and two teenage children allow Neil enjoys gardening and tennis. He recently succumbed to a mid-life crisis and bought a Kawasaki KR1-S motorbike.
Meghan Jones handles the technical support and development of Knowledge systems at Arup. As a librarian, she worked in the corporate, academic, health and legal sectors and has a particular interest in technology in libraries. She is an Open Source in Libraries Advocate and can be found providing social media assistance as a committee member for several professionally related bodies.
Originally from Trinidad & Tobago, Seema Rampersad came to London to study Information and Communication. Currently, she works for the Intelligence Unit at the Greater London Authority. Prior to this, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Business Information Centre for many years. She is still an advocate for traditional library/information services and skills. Though, in both roles she has continued to use new technologies for collaborating across subject areas and borders. At present, she is interested in social media and the use of multimedia as business/professional development tools for managing and delivering information and knowledge.
Sarah Hammond graduated from the University of Sheffield with an MA in Librarianship in January 2010 and is currently working as a conference indexer in the British Library’s cataloguing team. Before beginning her postgraduate studies she worked as a library assistant for three years in the library and archives of the National Railway Museum. She joined SLA Europe in 2008 when she won an SLA Europe and IEB Division Student Scholarship to attend SLA 2008 in Seattle, WA. After a spell away from the professional life to begin the challenge of motherhood, Sarah is now back into the fray and has joined the SLAE DigiComms Committee.
Sarah attends as many professional events as time and money allow, recently CILIP Umbrella 2011 and Library Camp 2011, and also writes for CILIP Special Interest Groups occasionally, most recently for the Cataloguing and Indexing Group journal. She blogs at schammond, and is active on Twitter as @schammond. Sarah is interested in all things metadata and library and information services in general and seems unable to leave any interesting subject unread; she also thinks having an undergraduate degree in psychology is actually more relevant to information work than some might think.
Géraldine Clément-Stoneham grew up in Switzerland. After she obtained her MA in Musicology and English from the University of Geneva, she decided to move to London to pursue her studies at UCL where she completed an MA in Library and Information Studies. She finally set her mind on a career in the City. After 11 years spent between investment banks and a large international law firm, Geraldine is currently the Corporate Knowledge and Information Manager at the Medical Research Council.
Her experience covers a wide range of activities including knowledge and information management, competitive intelligence, legal and commercial research, information systems architecture, information governance, open access publishing, team coaching and training.
Geraldine speaks regularly at conferences and is a strong advocate of continuous professional development. She writes about her experience in her blog, Knowledge Ready and shares via Twitter @geraldinecs.
Dennie Heye – Podcast editor
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