Library Committee

Find out more about UCL's Library Committee, including terms of reference, membership, meetings and minutes.

On this page you will find:

 

Overview

Reports to

Academic Committee

Chair

Professor Vivek Mudera

Secretary

Michaela Jones | michaela.jones@ucl.ac.uk 

For agendas and minutes; apologies for absence

 

Meeting dates

Scheduled meeting dates: 2025-26

The copy deadlines quoted are the latest dates by which the final papers must be received by the secretary. Please use the templates for papers submission.

Meeting dateCopy deadline
Tuesday 20 November 2025, 10.00am6 November
Tuesday 3 February 2026, 11.00am20 January
Tuesday 2 June 2026, 11.00am19 May

Minutes

* These Minutes include a Confidential/Reserved section which is available, through the Committee Secretary, to members of the Committee only.

2025-26

2024-25

2023-24

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21

Terms of Reference

Subject to any general or particular direction that may from time to time be given by the Academic Committee or the Academic Board, the Library Committee is charged by Council:

  1. To formulate medium- and long-term policy for library provision for UCL.
  2. To keep under review developments in library provision for Institutions of Higher Education.
  3. To consider general management policy at UCL insofar as it affects the library service provided.
  4. To identify strategic development paths most conducive to appropriate library provision for UCL, either in committee or via appropriate working groups as appointed by Library Committee.
  5. To identify strategies for library funding and staffing to enable development along the directions identified in clause 4 above.
  6. To recommend action on clauses 1-5 above to the Pro-Vice-Provost (Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science) or UCL, via the Academic Committee or Academic Board, as appropriate.
  7. To approve proposals by the Pro-Vice-Provost (Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science) for internal distribution of the Library Budget.
  8. To refer such of its business as the Library Committee sees fit to the Academic Board.
  9. To request the Faculty Library Committees to canvass, collate and report to the Library Committee the views of users of the Library on particular key issues which may, from time to time, be needed by the Library Committee to inform policy discussions.
  10. To receive the Minutes of meetings of Faculty Library Committees.
  11. To sustain effective communication with the Faculty Library Committees by submission to the latter of its Minutes.
  12. To receive the Minutes of meetings of working groups that are appointed by Library Committee in accordance with clause 4 above.
  13. To submit to Academic Board annually (or at such frequency as Academic Board may direct), for subsequent submission to Council, a written report of recent activities and developments within the purview of the Library Committee.

  14. To report to the Academic Committee, by submission to the Academic Committee officers of the Minutes of each meeting of the Library Committee.

     

Membership

  • * indicates that that member is serving on the committee as a deputy or nominee of another member.

Ex Officio members

Vice-Provost (Faculties) or nominee (Chair) - Professor Vivek Mudera*

Pro-Vice-Provost (Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science) - vacancy

Director of Services (Library, Culture, Collections & Open Science) - Martin Moyle

Chief Information Officer or nominee - Paul Haywood

Finance Director, Central and Professional Services or nominee - Grace Fisher/Pam Reel*

Students’ Union Education Officer - Sarah Jilani

Students’ Union Postgraduate Officer - Darcy Lan

Nominated members

One member of staff from each Faculty, normally a member of the Faculty Library Committee, nominated by the Dean of Faculty:

Arts and Humanities - Sara Wingate Gray

Brain Sciences - Professor Duncan Brumby

Built Environment - Dr Annabel Brown

UCL Institute of Education - Dr Nicole Brown

Engineering Sciences - Professor Ben Cox

Laws - Dr Elaine Genders

Life Sciences - Dr Rebecca Lever

Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Dr Francesca Scott

Medical Sciences - Professor Tom Carlson

Population Health Sciences - Dr Matthew Jay

Social and Historical Sciences - Trevor Pearce

Elected members

One member of non-professorial academic staff, elected by and from the elected non-professorial academic staff members of Academic Board:

Professor Benet Salway

Secretary

Michaela Jones