DEVOLUTION AND REGIONALISM IN THE UK
REPORT OF THE LA POLICY ADVISORY GROUP

Appendix 6 PAG Membership & Terms of Reference

Mary Heaney (Chair)
Director of Learning Centres
University of Wolverhampton

Patrick Conway
Director, Arts, Libraries & Museums
Durham County Council

David Dawson
Senior ICT Adviser
Resource

Penny King
Head of School,
Info & Learning Development
Cambridge Regional College                    

Ray Lester
Head of Library & Information Services
Library, Natural History Museum

Ann Matheson
Consultant
formerly National Library of Scotland

Carole Munro
Library Services Manager
Aberdeen University  

David Murray
Director
London Library Development Agency

David Stewart
Regional Director of Health Service Libraries
Health Care Libraries Unit
Warrington Hospital

Alan Watkin
Chief Leisure, Libraries & Culture Officer
Wrexham County Borough Council

Guy Daines
Principal Policy Adviser
The Library Association

Anita Sawyerr
Secretary
The Library Association

The PAG wishes to acknowledge the written contribution of Kirby Porter, Principal Librarian, Northern Ireland Executive/Northern Ireland Assembly.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

The PAG will consider and, where appropriate, make recommendations on:

• How LIS can engage effectively with the new regional and sub-regional structures.
• The nature of the agendas at those levels (economic, social, health, cultural and environmental regeneration, lifelong learning, learning and skills councils etc) and the LIS contribution.
• The Government and Resource agenda and the emerging regional library and cultural structures.
• The impact of ICT and networks.
• How the experience of the four home nations can inform and influence the regional agendas within those home nations.