Academic Staff Guide: Library Business Partners
Discover the Library Business Partners team, how they can support you and identify the point of contact for your school.
About us
We, Library Business Partners, serve as the primary liaison between L&LR and our designated schools and departments. We build proactive relationships with stakeholders, professional services, and Library teams ensuring alignment with University and L&LR strategies. Our goal is to support academics and students by providing the necessary resources and services for achieving strong degree outcomes.
How we can support you
Your specialist Library Business Partner can support you with any of your library queries, such as:
- Connecting you with other library colleagues/ services
- Attending and contributing to your subject, school & department meetings
- Contribute to work on APP, EDI, NSS etc
- Provide training and advice on best practice for Resource Lists
- Offering guidance on selecting inclusive material for courses or modules
- Supporting course development, course validations, quality assessment and accreditation services
- Advising on open access publishing (Read and Publish deals)
Contact us
Listed below are the contact details of the Library Business Partners for each school and department.
Ann Stairmand-Jackson
(ann.stairmand-jackson@bcu.ac.uk)
School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Department of Adult Nursing
- Department of Midwifery and Children’s Health
- Department of Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing
School of Arts
- Department of Art and Design
- Department of Fashion and Jewellery
- Department of English and Media
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Deniz Bilgen
School of Law and Social Sciences
- Department of Law
- Department of Education
- Department of Criminology and Sociology
Professional Services Departments / TBC
Graham Gamblin
School of Life and Health Sciences
- Department of Health and Social Care Professions
- Department of Life and Sports Sciences
- Department of Psychology
Business School
- Department of Management, Business and Marketing
- Department of Accountancy, Finance and Economics
Mercedes Malloy
School of Architecture, Built Environment, Computing and Engineering
- Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering
Professional Services Departments / TBC