Staff List

Mr Simon Speight, BA (Hons) History; MA Librarianship

Head of Academic Support in the Library

Responsibilities

Simon is responsible for the work of the Academic Support Team within the Library. This team liases with faculties and departments to ensure the Library provides services which match the research needs and teaching interests of the university.

Publications

Books: sections

Speight, S. (1997). Major journals in sociology. In Blackwell's Student Companion to Sociology,. Ballard, C., Gubbay, J. & Middleton, C. Oxford: Blackwell. 331-333.

Books: reviews

Speight, S. (2009). M-Libraries: Libraries on the move to provide virtual access. Ariadne 61(October 2009).
Speight, S. (1998). Nick Holmes and Delia Venables. 'Researching the Legal Web: a guide to legal resources on the internet'. Journal of Information Law and Technology 1998(1).

Conference papers

Perkins, H. & Speight, S. (2008), Blah, blah blogs: the use of blogs to support reference management software, Virtually There: 2008 WESLink Conference. University of Wolverhampton.
Perkins, H. & Speight, S. (2008), Blah, blah, blogs: the use of blogs to support reference management software, Up Close and Personal: our changing roles in a digital learning age. 2008 NOWAL Conference. Edge Hill University.
Speight, S. (2008), Who wants to be a Librarian?: The use of voting technology in inductions, Approaches to Induction. Birkbeck College, London.
Speight, S (2007), Who wants to be a Librarian?: the use of voting technology in inductions, User Education in the 21st Century: 51st BBSLG Conference. Northampton.

Journal papers: academic

Loughridge, B., Oates, J. & Speight, S. (1996). Career development: follow-up studies of Sheffield MA graduates 1985/6 to 1992/3. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 28(2): 105-117.

Journal papers: professional

Perkins, H. & Speight, S. (2008). Ref it, Blog it! Using blogs to support reference management software. ALISS Quaterly 3(2): 34-37.
Speight, S. & Perkins, H. (2007). "What tangled webs.": redesigning the University of Warwick Library website. SCONUL Focus 41(Summer/Autumn): 50-53.
Speight, S. (2001). Finding information from the National Assembly for Wales. Legal Information Management
Speight, S. (1997). WWW - What is it good for? Assistant Librarian 90(1): 7-9.
Speight, S. (1996). Evaluating CD-ROM products. Managing Information 3(12): 36-38.