Claire Knowles
Acting Director Of Library Services at University of Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolClaire Knowles is an innovative library and digital services leader with 12+ years’ experience driving large-scale digital transformation across UK higher education. Currently Acting Director of Library Services at the University of Leeds, she oversees content, research, and student-facing portfolios while sponsoring AI adoption and leading multi-million-pound digitisation and cloud preservation programmes. Technically grounded from an earlier software engineering background, she combines hands-on systems ownership (repositories, LMS, library management platforms) with strategic governance and sector-level collaboration. Claire is known for empathetic, service-focused leadership and for translating complex digital infrastructure projects into user-centred outcomes that expand access to knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Systems, MSc Information Systems at University of LiverpoolBA (Hons) History, BA (Hons) History at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (30)
open-access9
datavault9
extjs9
collections9
azerothcore8
java7
css7
servicenow7
python7
rest-api7
creative-commons6
dspace6
data-exchange6
svg5
fonts5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
UoEMainLibrary/dspace-additions
Jul 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:16 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
repositoriesdspaceadditionsconsortium
seesmith/skylight
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
A new way to expose your collections
Contributions:38 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
exposecollections
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