Christine Reid BA, MA, FIInfSc, ALA, BIS Manager

Christine Reid joined SBS in August 1993 with an initial remit to plan, set up and develop an information service for the School's staff and clients. She moved to the role from the University of Strathclyde Library Service, where she was latterly Business Information Librarian and Business Faculty Librarian.

The post now entails the development and exploitation of the Information Service to SBS staff and course participants, financial control and budget preparation, staff development and training, and the provision of an information service to corporate clients.

Christine is an award-winning member of staff, most recently being named as European Business Librarian of the Year, an annual award sponsored by the Gale Group. To win the award, Christine's work in developing innovative support for teaching programmes in information management, and the project management, design and implementation of a new intranet/extranet for the school's students world wide, was taken into account. Previously, Christine was awarded a Library Association Royal Charter Centenary Medal - one of only 100 in the UK - awarded to certain individuals for services to the information profession.

Christine has direct involvement with the International Business Environment and project methodology parts of the MBA course and indirect contribution to other parts of the programme.

Christine was elected as Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists in September 1997. From 1996 to 1999 she was President of the European Business School Librarians Group which is a co-operative working group of librarians form the top business schools across Europe. She has been an elected member of the Scottish Library Association since 1989.

c.reid@gsb.strath.ac.uk 
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