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Lizz Edwards-Waller

Lizz is researching information literacy skills as part of her Arcadia fellowship. Her project, known as IRIS, focuses on (a) the information skills of undergraduate students at Cambridge University; and (b) the provision of library inductions and information skills training across the University.

Lizz studied geography at Girton College, Cambridge and took time out from the course to work as the Welfare and Graduates sabbatical officer at Cambridge University Student’s Union. In 2006 she joined the Albert Sloman Library at Essex University as a graduate trainee, where she worked in cataloguing, inter-library loan and reader services departments.

Since 2007 Lizz has worked in the Entrance Hall team at Cambridge University library and has recently obtained her Diploma in Information and Library Studies at Robert Gordon University. The focus of her studies has been the expansion of reader services within academic libraries. She is also interested in promoting library services to prospective students and exploring new means of user education.

For more information about the IRIS project please see the IRIS blog.