Privileged Spaces

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.

Part I Foundations

1. Estates and Facilites with Libraries: working together to deliver university strategy - Lucy Black and Robert Kilpatrick

2. Academic libraries and estates strategy: a library leadership perspective - Tim Wales

3. The university library as estates asset: tools for negotiating space in an evolving strategy - Regina Everitt

4. A practical guide to writing a successful business case to influence university estates strategy - Anna O'Neill

5. The role of academic libraries in ‘selling’ the university - Regina Everitt

6. The library through a workplace lens - A conversation with Neil Everitt

Part II Landings

7. Repurposing library study space to create a family room: a case study at University of Bradford - Alison Lahlafi

8. Politics, persuasion, and persistence: the learning commons project at University of Galway - John Cox

9. The University of Northampton Waterside Campus - Becky Bradshaw and Chris Powis

10. Social and informal learning spaces and inclusion - Andrew Cox, Melanie Benson Marshall, Jenny Burnham, Leo Care, Chris Clow, Savannah Hanson, Tim Herrick, Myles Jones and Alison Little

In Summary: The privilege of working in partnership - Regina Everitt

Index