Dr Gillian Oliver

PhD Programme Director,
School of Information Management

Introduction

Gillian has worked in information management in the United Kingdom, Germany and New Zealand. Her research interests include a focus on organisational and occupational cultural influences in digital preservation, as well as the information cultures of organisations. Gillian coordinates the Information Studies Programmes' participation in the web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium.

Qualifications

BA Hons, Polytechnic of North London; M.Lib, University of Wales; PhD, Monash

Administrative Responsibilities

• Research Degrees (PhD, MCA, MA) Programme Director
• Coordinator of the WISE Consortium

Selected Publications

Oliver, G. (2011). The digital archives. In Lorna Hughes (Ed.), Evaluating and measuring the value, use and impact of digital collections (pp 49-60). London: Facet.

Oliver, G. (2011). Organisational culture for information managers. Oxford: Chandos. (See details here.)

Oliver, G., Chawner B. & Liu, H. (2011). Implementing digital archives: Issues of trust. Archival Science, 11(3/4), 311-327. [Link]

Oliver, G. (2011). Assessing information culture: A framework for records managers. iRMA: Information and Records Management Annual, 31-37.

Oliver, G. (2010). Transcending silos, developing synergies: Libraries and archives. Information Research, 15(4). http://InformationR.net/ir/15-4/colis716.html

Oliver, G., Crookston, M. & Dorner, D. (2010). Digital sustainability: An emerging research agenda. Archifacts, April, 13-24.

Oliver, G., Evans, J., Reed, B. & Upward, F. (2009). Achieving the right balance: Recordkeeping informatics, Part 1. IQ, 25(4), 18-21.

Oliver, G., Evans, J., Reed, B. & Upward, F. (2010). Achieving the right balance: Recordkeeping informatics, Part 2. IQ, 26(1), 42-44; 52.

Oliver, G., Kim, Y. & Ross, S. (2008). Documentary genre and digital recordkeeping: Red herring or a way forward? Archival Science, 8, 295-305.

Oliver, G. (2008). Information culture: Exploration of differing values and attitudes to information in organisations. Journal of Documentation, 64(3), 363-385.

Oliver, G., Ross, S., Guercio, M. & Pala, C., (2008). Report on Automated re-Appraisal: Managing Archives in Digital Libraries (Deliverable 6.10.1) ( Pisa: DELOS NoE, January 2008). ISBN: 2-912335-40-X

Oliver, G. (2007). Implementing international standards: First, know your organization. Records Management Journal, 17(2), 82-93. (Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award 2008)

Oliver, G. (2006). Globalisation and education for the information management professions: Challenges for small countries. In Christopher Koo, Diljit Singh and Abdus Sattar Chaudhry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice (A-LIEP) ( pp. 105-110). Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

Oliver, G. (2004). Investigating information culture: Comparative case study research design and methods. Archival Science 4(3-4), 287-314. (also translated into Spanish: Investigar la cultura de la informacion: diseno y metodos de investigacion de un estudio de caso comparativo. Pp.157-187 in Nuevos metodos de investigacion en archivistica. Anne Gilliland y Sue McKemmish, eds. Cartagena : 3000 Informatica, 2006.)