Project Evaluation

The External Project Evaluator for the project is Professor Sue McKnight.

Professor McKnight is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning Resources at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand where she is responsible for library services, information and communication technologies, and facilities management.

In this capacity she will be contributing to the design and implementation of project evaluation strategies.

She is a Fellow of both CILIP (UK) and the Australian Institute of Management. Sue was named a National Teaching Fellow in June 2008 by the Higher Education Academy (UK) and was named Manager of the Year by the Australian Library and Information Association in 1999.

Before joining University of Canterbury, she was Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Prior to that Sue was Executive Director of Learning Services and University Librarian at Deakin University in Australia, and held senior posts at The University of Queensland Libraries. Sue also has special library and public library experience in Australia, as well as international consulting and facilitation experience.

She has been an active member of IFLA, chairing its Academic and Research Libraries Section from 2005-2009. She chaired the JISC eBooks Working Party and was Vice-Chair of the JISC National eBooks Observatory Project in the UK prior to leaving the UK. Sue has also been a member of the Pearson Education Strategic Advisory Board, Bloomsbury Academic Library Advisory Board, Desire2Learn User Board and WebCT Product Advisory Board.

In Australia, Sue has been active in the Australian Library and Information Association (and the former ACLIS and LAA) since 1981, including two terms as Victorian Branch President, President of the Geelong Regional Group and four years as Chair, Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (Victoria), and a term as LAA national General Councillor.