Ben Showers
Brettenham House (South Entrance)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
My blog posts
Collaborating to save monographs… we need you!
It’s no longer sustainable , facing a number of grave challenges to its survival and we need your help to find a solution. Understanding these challenges with... >>
How important are open ebook standards to universities?
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... >>
App-ortunity Knocks: Mobile and the future of the library
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?... >>
Role
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.
Expertise
Media coverage
Three principles for the future of librarianship
, August 2013
Designing researcher-centric library services
Research Information, May 2013
Libraries learn to love E-books
Research Information, May 2013