Richard Ovenden

Richard Ovenden was educated at Durham University and University College London, and has worked as a professional librarian since 1985. He has served on the staff of Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as Deputy Head of the Rare Books Section), at Edinburgh University Library (as Director of Collections and latterly as Acting Deputy Librarian), and now at the Bodleian Library Oxford (as Keeper of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts and Associate Director of Oxford University Library Services).

He sits on JISC’s Content Services Committee and Digitization Advisory Group, is a Board Member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and Co-Director of the Paradigm and Cairo Projects. He has published widely on the history of collecting, the history of photography and on professional concerns of the library, archive, and information world. He currently head Oxford’s involvement with the Google mass digitization project.