Jessica Gardner is the University Librarian and Director of Library Services at Cambridge University Libraries. She is strongly committed to continuing collaboration for UK libraries with libraries across
Europe.

Her special areas of interest are the Strategic development of collections for research; Scholarly
Communications; Library as Space; Open Research and Open GLAM;
Special Collections; Digital Humanities; Leadership and organisational
development.

Before her time at LIBER,  Jessica was active on the Board of RLUK, most recently serving as Chair.