Privileged Spaces: Academic Libraries in University Estates Strategy

About

Regina Everitt is Assistant Chief Operating Officer (ACOO) & Director of Library Archives and Learning Services at the University of East London. She began her professional career as a technical author/trainer working with computer companies that developed software for the manufacturing pharmaceutical and financial sectors in the US and UK. After managing a small library at a university in West Africa as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps she transitioned into the HE sector developing and managing libraries social learning spaces and other learning resources. Concerned about the low representation of Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) staff members in leadership positions in academic libraries she co-project managed SCONUL research to document GEM staff experiences in library and information sciences (LIS) and is working with the sector to implement the recommendations from the report to develop more diverse talent. She is a member of the SCONUL Board the British Library Advisory Council and a member of a CILIP trailblazer group that is developing a standard for a Level 6/7 apprenticeship. She co-edited Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries which considers how academic libraries are navigating this contentious topic.Neil Everitt is Director of Strategic Engagement at the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM). Before joining IWFM he developed an interest in property after completing a volunteer procurement project for a charity providing community-based services in London. Prior to that he fulfilled a number of sales & marketing procurement and change management roles in several countries with a large multi-national mining organisation.