People

Morwenna manages the art and design library at UWE Bristol and supports several programmes. Progressing from a graduate traineeship at City University London, she completed her MA Information Studies at the University of Brighton. She worked in several of the Brighton libraries before moving to Arts University Bournemouth before taking on her current role in 2008.

Binni (they/them) is Digital Resources Librarian at Chatham House, a policy institute based in London. They have previously worked in public and academic libraries in Sweden and the UK. Binni has been an activist for many years, and is particularly interested in the equality and diversity work that trade unions and professional organisations can do for and with LGBTQ+ communities. They are a union rep for Prospect and last year they won an award for equalities work. Binni is on the committee of CILIP’s LGBTQ+ Network and a CILIP trustee, where they are in the recently formed EDI sub-group. Binni has spoken on a panel on diversity at CILIP conference in 2019 and run several workshops on being an ally to trans and non-binary people.

Jennifer Fearon is an Education Consultant and Head of Skills (Library & Student and Academic Services) at Sheffield Hallam University. Jennifer has been working in the education, training and development sector since 1989 and has a Masters Degree in Education from The University of Nottingham. She has extensive experience of the Further and Higher Education Sector, Academic skills development, safeguarding, child protection and working with young people to ensure they can successfully achieve their ambitions and goals. She has a keen interest in well-being and support services and has extensive experience in leadership and management, coaching and mentoring. She is an advocate of developing students’ academic skills and is currently involved in PEER Learning and the training of students to become Peer Mentors, level 6 students, providing resources and guidance for student’s at level four developing academic excellence and student success. Jennifer is a Brief Solution Focused coach and is currently working on her advanced certificate. She has a certificate in NLP as well as qualifications in Leadership and Management and became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2019. She is co-chair of Hallam Race Network, Director of ANetwoc, (Academic Network for Women of Colour) and a member of DILON. Her commitment to Equality and Diversity is intrinsic to her private and professional life.

Tavian is Library and Archive Manager of the Stuart Hall Library at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts). She is responsible for developing resources on contemporary visual art and artists of African, Asian and Latin American descent born or based in the UK, alongside running a programme of talks and reading groups in Iniva’s Research Network. Tavian has a keen interest in developing diverse library collections, reframing identity and gender in cataloguing subject headings and archival approaches to social justice. She has worked in art libraries, museums, societies, higher education institutions and received her MA in Library and Information Studies from University College London (2015). Her article on ‘South Asian collection development at the British Museum’ was published in the Art Libraries Journal (2019) and she was recently a speaker at ARLIS and CILIP conference (2019). Tavian is a member of ARLIS and Chair of ARLIS Professional Development Committee (2021).

Rose is the Teaching Resources Librarian and a part-time Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) in Lincoln. She is responsible for BGU’s Teaching Resources Collection, which houses specialist materials for trainee teachers, educators, and those studying children’s literature. She lectures on BGU undergraduate modules related to the Atlantic World and the history of collecting in British libraries, archives, and museums, as well as the MA course, Heritage Education.  Her research documents the hidden histories related to class, gender, race, and personal identity embedded in visual culture, which intersect with larger narratives of empire, colonialism, and democratic ideas. She is also a founding member of TILIIs, a BGU interest group engaged in discussion, debate, and the sharing of useful library resources for teaching that address the long-standing corrosive effects of inequality on our contemporary society.  While an art librarian and later a PhD student, Rose was series editor for the Art Researchers’ Guides to different cities in the UK and Ireland, published by ARLIS between 2010 and 2017.

Donna is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Irish Art (CSIA) as part of the Library and Archives department of the National Gallery of Ireland. Her work includes assisting researchers in accessing the library and archival collections, maintenance of the collections, and the development and implementation of departmental policy, projects, and outreach programmes. She has recently established and facilitates a departmental Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Forum that provides a regular space for staff to reconsider prior practices and examine more equitable policies and procedures. As a researcher, she explores the remaining material culture of Ireland’s institutional history and the ethical questions surrounding its documentation, management, and interpretation as sensitive heritage.

Tavian is a librarian, programme coordinator and editorial publishing manager. Since 2018, she
has been Library and Archive Manager of the Stuart Hall Library at iniva, developing collections
on radical and emergent contemporary artistic practice centring Global Majority, African, Asian
& Caribbean diaspora perspectives. She is also the Project Manager for Living Legacies (2024-
25), an ambitious National Lottery Heritage Fund project to develop community engagement
and outreach around the heritage of iniva’s institutional visuals art archive with a team of
consultants. Tavian has an MA in Library and Information Studies from University College
London (2015) and a keen interest in developing diverse library collections, best practices in
community archiving and mentoring new informational professionals. Tavian was previously a
consultant on the Equity Steering Group Committee for ARLIS (2021) and currently volunteers
as a member of the Educational Academic Achievement Committee at The Worshipful
Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (2022-present).

Alex is a Liaison Librarian at University for the Creative Arts. His role involves delivering
information literacy workshops, research tutorials and collection development for the university’s
School of Fashion & Textiles and Business School for the Creative Industries. Previously, he
worked in further education libraries in both library and learning technology roles. He has an
interest in emerging technologies and implications for visual literacy, colour and material
resources, and practice-based research methods. He completed his MSc in Library Science at
City, University of London in 2020 and holds a degree in Fine Art from Bath School of Art &
Design.

Cait is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the Royal College of Art, working with the Schools of
Communication and Design. Her role includes supporting students and staff with their research,
teaching information literacy, developing the collection, and liaising with academic teams. Cait
has previously worked in libraries at University of the Arts London, King’s College, the Courtauld
Institute, and Kingston University. She completed her BA in Illustration at Camberwell College of
Arts, and her MSc in Library Science at City, University of London.

Lorraine-Marie James is Academic Librarian of Art, Design & Photography, Journalism, Media &
Performance, Fashion & Textiles programmes at The University of Northampton. She holds a
first-class degree in Illustration from The University of Northampton and is currently a Masters
distance learning student in Information and Library Studies at The Robert Gordon University.
Lorraine is passionate about the arts from drawing, theatre and orchestral performances. She
has held previous roles in Events, Training, Education and Retail settings and recently received

the Professional Services ‘Rising Star’ winner recognition and overall Institutional ‘Rising Star’ at
The University of Northampton, Learning and Teaching Awards 2022-2023. 

Antonia graduated with a BA in Sculpture from Bretton Hall College, part of Leeds University in

After several years working in community arts projects and Teaching English as a Foreign
Language she decided to pursue a career as a librarian. She began working as a Library
Assistant at Kings College London in the medical libraries based at Guy’s and St. Thomas’
Hospital. In 2006 she moved to work at the Royal College of Art as a Library Assistant and
studied part time for an MSc in Information Management in the Cultural Sector at City
University. In 2009 she started as the Subject Librarian for Art, Design and Visual Cultures at
Goldsmiths, University of London and in 2020 moved to work as a Liaison Librarian at UCA
(University for the Creative Arts) at the Rochester and Farnham campuses. 

Jessa is an artist, writer and library worker. She is the Subject Librarian for Art, Design and
Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London and an archivist at Banner Repeater,
working on the Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing (DAAP). In her practice, she works with diy
print publishing, performance, sound and moving image. She’s interested in the power
dynamics of media in relation to bodies and a politics of listening; a feminist ear that can also be
an eye, skin or fist. Recently she is working at troubling The Library as a knowledge system by
recording resistant gestures.

Klara is the Journals and E-Resources Librarian at the Royal College of Art. She has responsibility for managing and developing the RCA’s online collection of journals and databases, as well as maintaining the current and archived print journal collections. Klara has worked previously in subscriptions at King’s College London and in corporate and public libraries. Klara has previously been a member of the Sherif Committee and the ARLIS 2021 Conference Working Party, and is a current member of the UKSG Education Subcommittee. She co-founded the ARLIS Serials Committee in 2022.

Madeleine is Serials and Digital Resources Librarian at Tate and is responsible for managing the current and historic serials collection as well as the online resources. She is also Conservation Liaison Librarian supporting the five conservation departments at Tate. She has previously worked at The Wiener Holocaust Library, The Architectural Association Library, and The Taylor Institution Library at Oxford. She holds an MA in Library Studies from UCL and an MA in The History of Art from The University of Toronto. She is currently Membership Secretary for ARLIS UK & Ireland.

Ben Cornish has been a team leader for the NHM’s Unlocked project since 2021. He is responsible for co-leading an audit of the library’s large collections of monographs, maps, and serial publications. Before this he worked as a legal librarian at various universities, legal practices and honourable societies across London. He holds a MA in Librarianship from the University of Sheffield. He has written and presented on various aspects of librarianship including public access to academic libraries, cataloguing natural history publications and the future of public libraries.

Liz is the Subject Liaison Librarian for Fine Art, History of Art and Film Studies at University College London. She is also Collection Manager of UCL Special Collections’ Small Press Collections which include c. 5000 independently published Little Magazine titles. Prior to working at UCL, Liz was Assistant Librarian for Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. Previous ARLIS roles include Chair of the Visual Resources Committee, Committee Member of the Publications Committee, and Editor of the ARLIS News-Sheet. She also co-compiled with Maria White and Patrick Perratt Artists’ Books: A Cataloguer’s Manual (ARLIS UK & Ireland, 2006).

Eleanor has worked as an Assistant Academic Support Librarian at LCC since May 2021 after 10 years as a School Librarian.  She supports several BA film courses as well as working in the Collections and Special Collections team. In this role she has responsibility for managing the serials collections within the LCC Library. She graduated with MSc Library and Information Studies from UCL in 2009.