Library and Information Services Staff
Director of Library and Information Services
John Robinson, BA MA
Assistant Director (Acquisitions & Bibliographic Services)
Peter McCormack BSc, MA(London)
Assistant Director (Archives & Special Collections)
Susannah Rayner BA(UCL), MA(UCL)
Assistant Director (Information Systems)
Martin Whiteside BSc (Plymouth) DIC FRGS ARSM
Assistant Director (Operations)
Libby Homer BA (Hons), MA, MCLIP, FHEA
Assistant Director (Teaching & Research Support)
Barbara Spina BA (Hons), MA, DipLib, MCLIP
Library Administrator and PA to the Director
Gloria Hinds
Executive Officer
Libby Homer
Assistant Director (Operations)
- Tel: 020 7898 4192
- Email: libby.homer@soas.ac.uk
- Room: E14 (Library)
Peter McCormack
Assistant Director (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4166
- Email: pm21@soas.ac.uk
Susannah Rayner
Assistant Director (Archives and Special Collections)
- Tel: 020 7898 4178
- Email: sr30@soas.ac.uk
John Robinson
Director of Library and Information Services
- Tel: 020 7898 4160
- Email: j.robinson@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Spina (previously Turfan)
Assistant Director (Teaching & Research Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4157
- Email: bs24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Library - C4
Martin Whiteside
Assistant Director (Information Systems)
- Tel: 020 7898 4948
- Email: m.whiteside@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D1 (Library)
Library
Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb
Subject Librarian (Middle East & Central Asia)
- Tel: 020 7898 4152
- Email: da4@soas.ac.uk
Winifred Assan
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195/4180
- Email: wa2@soas.ac.uk
Vicky Bird
Subject Librarian (Economics, Politics, Finance & Management)
- Tel: 020 7898 4147
- Email: vb18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: C2
Marcos Carbonell
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4793
- Email: mc54@soas.ac.uk
Beth Clark
Head of Electronic Services
Deputy Head of Teaching and Research Support
- Tel: 020 7898 4164
- Email: bc3@soas.ac.uk
Richard Connor
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4168
- Email: rc40@soas.ac.uk
Simona Continente
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: sc75@soas.ac.uk
Eileen Crawley
Deputy Head of Acquisitions & Bibliographic Services
- Tel: 020 7898 4791
- Email: ec7@soas.ac.uk
Ivan Darias Alfonso
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: ia2@soas.ac.uk
Stephen Joel Dorff
Off-site Library Storage Supervisor
- Tel: 020 7898 4156
- Email: sd29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: E3
Mei-Chuan Fuehrer-Cheng
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4198
- Email: mf32@soas.ac.uk
Lesley Glassington
Assistant Librarian (Saturday Supervisor)
- Tel: 020 7898 4190
- Email: lg8@soas.ac.uk
Giovanni Guazzotti
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4198
- Email: gg2@soas.ac.uk
Christopher Gutkind
Assistant Librarian (Reader Services) - Evening Supervisor
- Tel: 020 7898 4165/ 4190
- Email: cg19@soas.ac.uk
Edward Hood
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4194/4180
- Email: eh13@soas.ac.uk
Jotika Khur-Yearn
Subject Librarian (South East Asia & Pacific Islands)
- Tel: 020 7898 4173
- Email: jk53@soas.ac.uk
Adam Lausch-Holubowicz
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195
- Email: al14@soas.ac.uk
Peter McCormack
Assistant Director (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4166
- Email: pm21@soas.ac.uk
Sujan Nandanwar
Archives Assistant (Special Collections)
- Tel: 020 7898 4183/4180
- Email: sn24@soas.ac.uk
David Pearson
Subject Librarian (Anthropology & Sociology, Linguistics & Literatures)
- Tel: 020 7898 4177
- Email: dp10@soas.ac.uk
Susannah Rayner
Assistant Director (Archives & Special Collections)
- Tel: 020 7898 4178
- Email: sr30@soas.ac.uk
Stephen D Sanders
Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services)
- Tel: 0207 898 4167
- Email: ss24@soas.ac.uk
Mary Seeley
Subject Librarian (History & Religions, Ancient Near East, Semitics & Judaica)
- Tel: 020 7898 4195
- Email: ms28@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D18
Yelena Shlyuger
Principal Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4794
- Email: ys2@soas.ac.uk
Keith T Sparrow
Principal Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4196
- Email: ks6@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Spina (previously Turfan)
Assistant Director (Teaching & Research Support)
- Tel: 020 7898 4157
- Email: bs24@soas.ac.uk
- Room: Library - C4
Harry Stephens
Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4167
- Email: hs30@soas.ac.uk
Eliane Tsarouhis
Senior Library Assistant (Reader Services)
- Tel: 020 7898 4196
- Email: et3@soas.ac.uk
Burzine K Waghmar
Senior Library Assistant (Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services)
Indo-Iranian History, Historical Geography and Philology (Avestan, Old Persian, Parthian, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu, Pashto, Balochi and Kashmiri); Languages and Religions of Late Antiquity and the Silk Road (Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian, contacts among Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and early Islam); Pakistan studies (Ancient and early Medieval History, Dardic and Nuristani dialectology, ethnography and topography of NWFP, FATA, Northern Areas and Trans-Karakoram Tract); Pakistani minorities; HUMINT counterterrorism and linguistic analysis; South Asian Muslim psycho-sociology; Muslim non-Muslim relations (Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh).
- Email: bw3@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: Thursdays and Fridays
Farzana Whitfield
Subject Librarian (South Asia & Development Studies)
- Tel: 020 7898 4153
- Email: fq@soas.ac.uk
LIS Service Desk
Michelle Delgado
Trainer & Microcomputing Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4962
- Email: md12@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 130
Multimedia & Print Services
Michael D A Baptista
Multimedia & Print Services Manager
- Tel: 020 7898 4972
- Email: mb3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Denson Abrahams
IT & Media Services Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4976
- Email: da31@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Patrick Campbell
IT & Media Services Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4971
- Email: pc@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Mohamed Chentouf
IT & Media Services Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4866
- Email: mc60@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Jerry Glasgow
IT & Media Services Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4978
- Email: jg29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Gary Hammond
IT & Media Services Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4973
- Email: gh18@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Richard Jellinek
IT & Media Services Technical Assistant
- Tel: 020 7898 4938
- Email: r.jellinek@soas.ac.uk
- Room: L50
Steve Redding
Print Room Manager
Contact Steve and he will let you know when he can produce your books, brochures and leaflets in-house.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4066
- Email: s.redding@soas.ac.uk
- Room: FG16
Dave Conroy
Senior Printer
David can be contacted for support with in-house printing requests.
- Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4067
- Room: FG16
LIS Information Systems
Martin Whiteside
Assistant Director (Information Systems)
- Tel: 020 7898 4948
- Email: m.whiteside@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D1 (Library)
Vijaya Ganapathy
Senior Analyst Programmer
- Tel: 020 7898 4203
- Email: vg10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D5 (Library 1st Floor)
Liz Maggs
Information Systems Project Manager
- Tel: 020 7898 4204
- Email: em32@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D5 (Library 1st Floor)
Kevin Miller
Web Developer
Technical development of the Rhythmyx web content management system.
- Tel: 020 7898 4461
- Email: km41@soas.ac.uk
- Room: D3 (Library 1st Floor)
- Office Hours: Monday-Thursday
Meenesh Patel
Network Services and System Support Analyst
- Tel: 020 7898 4963
- Email: mp9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 130
Lindsay Whittome
Senior Networks Officer (Desktops)
- Tel: 020 7898 4946
- Email: lw@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 130
