Author archives: Ben Showers

Ben Showers

About Ben Showers

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Ben is one of JISC’s programme managers in the digital infrastructure team working on the Library Management Systems programme. This programme of work is currently engaging with areas including: open source software, user experience and usability as well as broader areas of library infrastructure and institutional systems. He is also responsible for work with the PALS metadata group and a usability programme to help embed usability within higher education organisations. Ben also has experience of managing digitisation and impact programmes due to his previous role as programme manager with eContent.

How important are open ebook standards to universities?

Ben Showers, 14 February 2012 1 comment

Ebook standards may lack the glamour that the technology attracts, but the arrival of ePub3 has the potential to transform how the academy creates and delivers its content to students and researchers. Just weeks into the New Year and already … Read more

App-ortunity Knocks: Mobile and the future of the library

Ben Showers, 22 August 2011 Add a comment

How do universities and their libraries respond to an increasingly mobile world?  At what point does mobile find itself at the heart of what a university does?  Are we at a tipping point with those that fail to address students’ … Read more

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