Michael Heaney
Photo: Rob Judges
Until October 2012 Executive Secretary at the Bodleian Libraries
I have extensive experience in
- Metadata and data analysis
- Head of Foreign-language and Antiquarian Cataloguing at the Bodleian Library (1987-95)
- UK adviser and contributor for the analytical model of AACR2 (The logical structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) developed by Tom Delsey (part 1 Description and part 2 Access
- Author of the Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues which underlies the RSLP Collection Description Schema
- Project Manager for the Bodleian Broadside Ballads website and helped to develop the Ballads Semantic Specification for the revised website
- Technical reviewer for AHRC research proposals
- Copyright issues
- Copyright adviser for the Bodleian Libraries
- Member of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance
- Strategic planning and library management
- Executive Secretary at the Bodleian Libraries responsible for a broad range of issues
- Strategic and scenario planning for the Bodleian Libraries
- IFLA Officer 2003-11 and Governing Board member 2009-11; working on IFLA's institutional repository 2011-present
- Strategic planning on the IFLA Governing Board
- Advice to the Russian Library Association on strategic planning
- Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Advisory Committee
- Statistics and performance measurement
- IFLA Statistics and Evaluation Section 2001-2009 (Chair 2003-07, Secretary 2007-09)
- Editorial Board, Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement(2005-2015)
- LISU Advisory Board
From October 2012 I am
- editor for the IFLA Publications Series published by DeGruyter
- member of the Advisory Board and Steering Committee for the University of Sheffield British Academy Research Project Childhoods and Play
- member of the Steering Committee for the EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Project The Full English
- trustee/board member of The Story Museum
- consultant to the LIBiTOP project 2013-2014
- member of the Bodleian Ballads Project Advisory Board and Steering Committee
- Technical reviewer for AHRC research proposals
- member of the International Advisory Committee for the UNESCO Memory of the World programme (2011-2015)
- member of the UK Memory of the World Committee (Deputy Chair 2009-13)
- mentor for CILIP accreditation