I'm a Senior lecturer (i.e. a faculty member - most faculty in UK universities aren't called professors!) in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, where I've taught since 2000. My key focus is information literacy, and I do quite a lot of talks on the subject. This year (2006) I did a seminar with Ola Pilerot in Sweden on workplace information literacy, some conference etc. sessions with Bill Johnston in Australia, talk at a conference at Staffordshire University, a presentation authored with one of my PhD students (Yazdan Mansourian) at the LILAC conference, and in October 2006 I'll be doing a talk in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Sheila Webber's web resources
Information Literacy Weblog. There are usually about 5 posts a week. There was a previous version where I posted 2003-2005 but due a technical problem these posts currently only exist in a zipped file.....	Information Literacy place (in gross need of updating)
Marketing library and information services (in even more need of updating)	Business information and the internet project (which was completed a few years ago: the substantial report can be downloaded in separate chapters)

I maintained (1994-2000) a site called Business information sources on the Internet, which got into various internet guides - I generally refer people who want a substitute to Karen Blakeman's site

• Information literacy. This is work mainly carried out in collaboration with Bill Johnston and has become the dominant interest of late. We were awarded a three year grant by the Arts and Humaities Research Board, 2002-2005, to investigate UK Academics' conceptions of, and pedagogy for, information literacy. We had a full time Research Asssitant, Stuart Boon, working with us: project info is at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/project/

• Marketing of information, especially pricing issues.

• Business use of information on the internet

I was awarded a grant by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre to study the use that businesspeople make of internet business information sources. This was a joint project with the Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University.

I have also given talks and written articles about various aspects of charging for information and library services.

There is a list of my publications on this site.

• Information literacy;
• Business information;
• Research methods;
• Customer Relationship Management;

From July 1992 to June 2000 I lectured in the Department of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde. For some years I was Deputy course coordinator for the Information and Library Studies MSc/Diploma, and was class coordinator for various postgraduate classes. Together with Bill Johnston in Strathclyde's Centre for Academic Practice, I taught a one-semester credit-bearing Information Literacy class, open to 2nd and 3rd year students in the Business School (this is still taught by Bill together with my former colleague Paul Burton). I was part of the team teaching a compulsory Management Development programme for all students in the Strathclyde Business School.

Before moving to Strathclyde, I was the Head of the British Library's Business Information Service. I managed free and priced business information services and a section of 14 people. Other jobs at the British Library (BL) included Manager of BLAISE Online Services, and project officer in the Chief Executive's Office: I was lucky enough to join the British Library at a point (1980) when BLAISE was still just about the most important British online host.

My career started with a job as library assistant at Sussex University Library. After this, I attended what was then the Polytechnic of North London, obtaining a postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship and gaining my first professional post in the HQ library of the Health and Safety Executive.

My first degree (from the University of Kent at Canterbury) is in German language and literature.

I was awarded the Information World Review 1999 Award for Professional Excellence and was also runner up for the 1999 European Business Librarian of the Year Award sponsored by the Gale Group.

I was heavily involved in the work of the Institute of Information Scientists (e.g. having been a Council member, and chaired the Marketing Coordination Group, as well as being involved in Special Interest Groups, notably the group-formerly-known-as the UK Online User Group, noe UKeiG). I edited the monthly newsletter Inform from 1992-1997 and was a Committee Member of the Scottish Branch of the IIS from 1992-1999, including two years Chairing the Committee. From 1992-1997 I was on the Executive Committee of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations, representing the IIS. Since the IIS merged with the LA to become CILIP I have been involved as a member of the CILIP Recruitment and Retention Panel, and also part of an Executive Group working on CILIP's definition of information literacy. In 2004 an Information Literacy group started up within CILIP's Community Services Group, and I'm part of that committee.

I was a member of the advisory board for the American Society for Information Science and Technology Bulletin.

I am an elected Member of the Standing Committee of the Management and Marketing Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). I participated in a pre-conference seminar in Haifa in August 2000 and in Quebec in 2001, co-organised an event for IFLA in Glasgow, August 2002, and for the conference in Oslo in 2005.

I'm currently External Examiner for the Management Development programme at Strathclyde University. I was an External Examiner for the MSc in Information and Library Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1999-2004. From 1993-1998 I was an External Examiner for the BA course in Information and Library Studies at the University of Central England in Birmingham's School of Information Studies.

In 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 I was an external assessor for the Department of Culture Media and Sport/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund. I have several times been a member of the Advisory Board for the International Online Information Meeting (held in London each December), was on the Executive Committee for the 2001 meeting.

My husband has an excellent site about the Zarzuela. We also both like Scotland and Bax and this is an account of a visit to Morar in September 2000 with photos by me and words by Chris (Bax wrote some of his music in the Morar Hotel, where we stayed). I like taking photos with my digital camera and you can find quite a few of them on the information literacy blog: http://information-literacy.blogspot.com