Martin J. Lewis

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis is Director of Library Services and University Librarian at the University of Sheffield. He is a Board Member of the Consortium of Research Libraries UK and chairs its e-Research Task Force. He also sits on the British Library Advisory Council, and is a member of the Project Management Board for the UK Research Data Service feasibility study. His professional interests include the marketing of library services, library staff development, and the design of library buildings and learning spaces. Previous posts have included Deputy Director at the University of Sheffield Library; heading the Health Sciences Library at Sheffield; subject consultant for science at the University of Leeds Library; and a one-year exchange appointment as Visiting Librarian in the MIT Libraries. Before becoming a librarian, Martin worked as civil servant in his native Cardiff, with responsibilities in the area of health workforce planning. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he read biochemistry; and the University of Wales Aberystwyth, where he took a postgraduate diploma in librarianship. A key strategic focus for the University Library under Martin’s leadership has been the envisioning and commissioning of a major new learning space, the £23M Information Commons, which opened in 2007.