Library staff
Find out more about the Library’s managers, curators and other experts.
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Christopher Pressler, John Rylands University Librarian, Director of The University of Manchester Library and Professor of Collecting Practices
Professor Christopher Pressler is John Rylands University Librarian and Director of The University of Manchester Library. He has also held the positions of University Librarian and Director of the Irish Modern Archives Research Centre at Dublin City University, University Librarian of the University of London, University Librarian of the University of Nottingham and Librarian, Dartington College of Arts.
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John Hodgson, Associate Director: Curatorial Practices
Responsible for the strategic development and management of the Special Collections; providing team leadership in the collective pursuit of collections-based academic, student and public engagement; providing team leadership in the development of digital imaging.
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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
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Safina Islam, Head of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust
Leading the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust, ensuring their efficient operation, promotion and long-term sustainability; leading the Centre’s engagement programmes with local communities, connecting them with our collections, and ensuring that our collections are more reflective of these communities.
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Jo Robson, Library Manager
Managing the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre library and archive, including collection management, supervision and management of library and archive staff.
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Maya Sharma, Collections Engagement Officer
Supports engagement with the AIU RACE Centre's library and archive collections, working with students, researchers and lecturers as well as schoolteachers and community-based educators, to ensure that Black, Asian, ethnic minority, refugee and migrant histories and experiences are known and valued by all. Also works directly with community members and groups who wish to draw on the collections.
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Collection Care
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Elisabeth Carr, Interim Collection Care Manager
Managing the Collection Care team responsible for ensuring the well-being of, and access to, all physical Library holdings across all sites and stores, including condition checking, collection surveys, conservation treatments, emergency planning, integrated pest management, environmental monitoring.
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Laura Caradonna, Collection Care Team Leader
Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the three Collection Care studios.
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Mark Furness, Senior Conservator
Responsible for administration of external loan requests, in addition to the conservation and preservation of Library collections.
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Curatorial Team
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Jane Gallagher, Digital Engagement Manager
Leading Special Collections to develop innovative digital engagement which facilitates outstanding research, teaching and learning, and public engagement, with a particular focus on Digital Humanities; leading the Imaging team; Curatorial responsibility for religious and theological printed material post-1500; Special Collections Subject lead for Modern Languages.
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Janette Martin, Student Engagement Manager
Leading the development of innovative student engagement with Special Collections; leading the SC Reader Engagement team; Special Collections Subject lead for History (modern) and American Studies; Curatorial responsibility for History archives (social, economic, industrial and political history).
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Julianne Simpson, Research Engagement Manager
Leading the development of innovative research engagement with Special Collections; Special Collections Subject lead for History (medieval and early modern) and Chinese Studies; Curatorial responsibility for foreign language and literature printed collections, incunabula, history of science, technology and medicine, and East Asian printed collections.
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Anne Anderton, Special Collections Curator
Special Collections Subject lead for Art History; Curatorial responsibility for western manuscripts and the art, photography and object collections (Visual).
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Paul Carlyle, Carcanet Project Archivist
Carrying out the Providing Access to Large Literary Archives in a Digital Medium (Palladium) project, funded by Arts Council England.
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John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer
Creating fully-researched catalogue records for all of the fifteenth-century printed books at the Rylands. Promoting the Incunabula collection within The University of Manchester and elsewhere to ensure the widest publicity and use of the collection as possible.
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Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist
Special Collections subject lead for Japanese Studies; Curatorial responsibility for non-western manuscripts and archives.
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Charlotte Hoare, Special Collections Librarian
Responsible for cataloguing the University of Manchester medical collections as part of a project funded by the Wellcome Trust; developing access to these collections through contributing to the reader engagement, promotions, exhibitions, events and other strategies.
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James Peters, Special Collections Archivist
Special Collections subject lead for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Curatorial responsibility for University archives, scientific, technical and medical archives; Curator of University Heritage Collections; Special Collections lead for digital preservation.
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Julie Ramwell, Special Collections Librarian
Special Collections Subject lead for Drama and Music; Curatorial responsibility for post-1500 English printed collections, including English literature, private press and street literature, and also modern French literature; Special Collections lead for stock and locations.
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Donna Sherman, Special Collections Map Librarian
Special Collections Subject lead for Architecture, Geography and Planning; Curatorial responsibility for Map Collections and printed atlases; Special Collections lead for teaching and learning.
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Jessica Smith, Special Collections Archivist (Creative Arts Archives)
Special Collections subject lead for English Literature, Creative Writing and the Institute for Cultural Practices; curatorial responsibility for Literary, Performing Arts and Visual Arts archives.
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Lianne Smith, Special Collections Curator
Special Collections subject lead for Religions and Theology. Curatorial responsibility for books, periodicals and archives relating to the Christian Brethren.
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Imaging
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Gwen Riley Jones, Imaging Manager
Leading imaging activity and development to support research, teaching & learning and public engagement activity; developing the implementation of advanced photographic methods and liaising with researchers and curators to support and develop activities of Special Collections.
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Tony Richards, Senior Photographer
Supporting research, teaching and learning, and public engagement with Special Collections using a range of advanced photographic methods.
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James W. Robinson, Senior Photographer
Supporting research, teaching and learning, and public engagement with Special Collections using a range of advanced photographic methods.
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Reader Engagement
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Kate Miller, Reader Engagement Coordinators
Co-ordinating and delivering a customer-focused Special Collections reader service across sites and managing the team of Reader Services Assistants.
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Dominic Marsh, Reader Engagement Coordinator
Co-ordinating and delivering a customer-focused Special Collections reader service across sites and managing the team of Reader Services Assistants.
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Visitor Engagement
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Yvette Jeal, Engagement Manager
Leading the Engagement team to deliver Library and University strategy, working with internal and external partners to deliver engagement goals across the University and city.
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Emily Tan, Visitor Experience Manager
Leading the development, implementation and evaluation of the exhibitions programme.
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Gemma Henderson
Public Programmes
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Liza Leonard
Retail
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Steph Seville
Public Programmes
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Sally Finkill
Public Programmes
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Visitor Engagement Coordinators
Coordinating the Visitor Engagement operation, managing the Visitor Engagement team, specialising in retail and public programming.
Overseeing the delivery of the public programmes and engagement with research in line with the University's strategic priorities. Managing the Library shop and operation.
