Jane Campbell, Director, Learning Resource Centre
Jane is the Director of the Academy's Learning Resource Centre, and also teaches an information literacy module to first-year students. She began her career as a librarian in Canada, and has spent the last 18 years working in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates as library developer, manager and consultant.
Jane's particular interests are information provision in developing countries, and information literacy. As a CUSO volunteer in Jakarta, she established a library in the University of Indonesia's Environmental Research Centre. She then became a library consultant for a CIDA project, helping university libraries in eastern Indonesia to improve their procedures, services and collections. During eight years with the British Council, she was library director in Indonesia and then Zimbabwe, and a consultant to BC libraries in Malawi and Zambia. She joined the start-up Royal University for Women in Bahrain to establish their library. At The Emirates Academy, her aim is to take the Learning Resource Centre from its development phase to become a mature, indisputably world-class facility.
Jane's teaching experience includes producing and teaching courses for library technician students at Algonquin College in Canada, teaching English and academic preparation classes to scholarship students in Indonesia, as well as developing and delivering information literacy courses in UAE and Bahrain.
She has a Master of Library Science from the University of Toronto in Canada, and Bachelor's degrees in sociology and education.
