Working together: an ode to joy

Derek Law was Head of the Information Resources Directorate and University Librarian from 1999 until October 2008. He was educated at Arbroath High School, George Watson's College and the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Before joining Strathclyde he held appointments at King's College London and at the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow. He was awarded the Barnard Prize for contributions to Medical Informatics in 1993, Fellowship of King's College London in 1997, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999, an honorary degree by the Sorbonne in 2000, the IFLA medal in 2003 and Honorary Fellowship of CILIP in 2004. He holds a chair in the Department of Computing and Information Science and is a member of the Centre for Digital Library Research.

Seamus Ross is Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, also known as U of T’s iSchool and was Interim Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at U of T (2015-2016).  He served as Dean of U of T's iSchool for seven years (2009-2015). Before joining Toronto, he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) at the University of Glasgow (1997-2009).  During 2016 and 2017 he is Visiting Professor School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece).