Sheila Mary Corrall is Professor of

Library and Information Science Library and information science(s) or studies (LIS) is an interdisciplinary field of study that deals generally with organization, access, collection, and protection/regulation of information, whether in physical (e.g. art, legal proceedings, e ...

at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. Her research interests are in

scholarly communication Scholarly communication involves the creation, publication, dissemination and discovery of academic research, primarily in peer-reviewed journals and books. It is “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evalu ...

collection development Library collection development is the process of systematically building the collection of a particular library to meet the information needs of the library users (a service population) in a timely and economical manner using information resources ...

in the digital world, professional competence, and

intellectual capital Intellectual capital is the result of mental processes that form a set of intangible objects that can be used in economic activity and bring income to its owner (organization), covering the competencies of its people ( human capital), the value rela ...

in library and information services.

Education

Corrall completed a postgraduate diploma at the North London Polytechnic, now the

University of North London The University of North London (UNL) was a university in London, England, formed from the Polytechnic of North London (PNL) in 1992 when that institution was granted university status. PNL, in turn, had been formed by the amalgamation of the No ...

. She holds an MBA from the Roffey Park Management Institute and a MSc in Information Systems from the University of Southampton.

Career

Corrall worked at the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

for ten years before moving into Higher Education libraries in 1991. She was Director of Library & Information Services at

Aston University Aston University (abbreviated as ''Aston''. for post-nominals) is a public research university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first c ...

until 1995 when she moved to the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

in the post of Librarian. In 2002 she was Director of Academic Support Services at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

. In this year she also became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Corrall was appointed Professor of librarianship and information management at the

University of Sheffield Information School The Information School or iSchool of the University of Sheffield, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, was founded in 1963 as the University's Postgraduate School of Librarianship and became in 2010 the first UK iSchool. The School is ranked ...

in 2003. She was Head of Department from 2006, succeeding

Peter Willett Peter Willett is an Emeritus Professor of Information Science at the University of Sheffield, England. Life and education Willett was born 20 April 1953, obtained an Honors degree in Chemistry from Exeter College, Oxford in 1975 and then went to ...

, until 2010. During her term, the department was invited to become the first UK member of the iSchools consortium, an international group of leading educational institutions committed to research in information. Since 2012 Corrall has been Professor and Chair of the Library & Information Science Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Corrall co-authored ''The new professional’s handbook: Your guide to information services management'' (1999), which was well-received for its coverage of a broad range of topics relevant to professional information workers. In 2003 she was awarded an International Information Industries Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the information profession.

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals presidency

Corrall was the first President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), established in 2002 replacing the Institute of Information Scientists and the Library Association. During her presidency, Corrall championed

information literacy The Association of College & Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued and the use of inform ...

. She was succeeded by Margaret Watson in 2003.

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