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# John MacColl

## University of Edinburgh

John A MacColl is Sub-Librarian for Online Services at the University of Edinburgh, and was Director of the SELLIC Project (Science & Engineering Library, Learning & Information Centre) which ended in 2003. He has worked in various roles in academic libraries, computing services and converged information services in the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Abertay Dundee and Edinburgh. He was Project Officer for Project Jupiter from 1989-1990, promoting the JANET network to university libraries. From 1995-1997 he was Project Director and Managing Editor of the eLib ARIADNE Project and publication (www.ariadne.ac.uk).

He was a Co-Director of the recent JISC-funded ANGEL Project (www.angel.ac.uk) which developed middleware to integrate learning environments and digital library systems. He is also Director of the JISC-funded DEVIL Project (http://srv1.mvm.ed.ac.uk/devilweb/index.asp), investigating the cultural and workflow issues inherent in integrating library and learning environments, and of Theses Alive! (www.thesesalive.ac.uk), also funded by JISC, to develop a UK-wide support service for electronic theses and dissertations. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of JISC's SHERPA Project (www.sherpa.ac.uk), which is creating eprint archives in a number of libraries in the Consortium of University Research Libraries (www.curl.ac.uk)

He currently serves on the CURL Task Force on Scholarly Publishing, and has also served on the committees of the Library Association's University, College & Research Section (Scotland) and the Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland. He is an elected member of the University of Edinburgh Library Committee. His areas of professional interest are in library and information service management in the digital environment, learning technologies and new forms of scholarly publication. He has published a number of articles and reviews in the professional press, and co-edited Delivering the electronic library: an ARIADNE reader (ARIADNE Project, 1999). He also acts as a referee for the Journal of the Association of Learning Technology (ALT-J). Edinburgh University Library's Online Services Division incorporates Systems Support, Systems Development, the Library web site (www.lib.ed.ac.uk), Electronic Information Services, Electronic Reference, Electronic Publications and Electronic Reserve, and houses a number of digital library and learning technology projects.