Steve Williams

Steve Williams is University Librarian and Director of Library and Learning Services at the University of Leicester.

He was previously University Librarian, and held various roles, at Swansea University.

Steve has a background in digital, computing, information and libraries, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), has served as a trustee and board member of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (the National Library of Wales), and as Chair of the Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum. 

• White Coat Purple Coat: There and back again - using lessons learned from the pandemic to shape the library services of the future. Keynote, WHELF Colloquium 2021
  
  
• Being Agile in a Novel World. Keynote, Gregynog Colloquium 2020
  
  
• The Academic Librarian, Wittgenstein and the Pizzaiola, WHELF/HEWIT Colloquium Keynote, Gregynog, 2016
  
  
• Exploring the affect of current trends and future expectations on the boundary of the academic librarian using Critical Systems Heuristics, 2015
  
  
• The Well-known Solution: neat, plausible and wrong, WHELF/HEWIT Colloquium, Gregynog, 2014
  
  
• Open Access: Benecol or Bypass, WHELF/HEWIT Colloquium, Gregynog,2012
  
  
• Visualising Word Association Data, British Association of Applied Linguistics BAAL2009, Newcastle 2009
  
  
• A Quest for New Harmony, Briefing Day 2008, Aberystwyth University
  
  
• Monitoring JANET: from photons to flows, TERENA Networking Conference, Copenhagen, 2007
  
  
• From Communication to Collaboration, University of Wales, Swansea, May 2004