14 September 2017
Members Reappointed to the National Library of Scotland Board
The Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, today announced the reappointments of Fiona Robertson, Noreen Adams, Professor Adrienne Scullion and Dianne Haley as Members of the National Library of Scotland Board.
MEMBERS
Fiona Robertson began her career at Tate before moving to lead cultural regeneration projects and arts/museum services in Cumbria, London and South East England. She worked in the Scottish Government on policy, including Culture, Gaelic, Transport Housing and Community Planning. Fiona is currently Head of Culture and Public Service Reform at Perth and Kinross Council. She is a post-graduate in Modern Scottish Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Noreen Adams has over 20 years’ experience of managing and transforming broadcast archives, specialising in developing industry metadata standards and delivering digitisation projects. Noreen is also a Gaelic speaker with a particular interest in improving web access to Gaelic materials.
Professor Adrienne Scullion is a scholar and an academic with research in Scottish theatre and drama from the eighteen-century to the present day. She is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. Adrienne serves as a lay member of the Court of Edinburgh Napier University and is Chair of the Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow. Previously she has held academic appointments at the University of Glasgow, where she was the James Arnott Chair of Drama, and at the start of her career, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Trinity College Dublin.
Dianne Haley is an experienced senior executive, non-executive director and Board advisor for organisations across the private, public and charity sectors. She was on the executive team of market leading protection specialist Scottish Provident and established her own business in 2005 to provide interim management and consultancy services in change management and strategy. Dianne has extensive experience of implementing transformational change, combining strategic vision with an understanding of the culture issues and programme management disciplines needed to effect sustainable change. Dianne is a Fellow of the Strategic Planning Society and a volunteer for the Cranfield Trust.
REAPPOINTMENTS
The reappointments for Noreen Adams, Professor Adrienne Scullion and Dianne Haley will be for four years and will run from the 1 February 2018 to 31 January 2022. The reappointment for Fiona Robertson will be for one year and will run from the 1 February 2018 to 31 January 2019.
These reappointments are regulated by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland.
REMUNERATION
These reappointments are part-time with a time commitment of twelve days per year.
Member positions are not remunerated.
OTHER MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS
Fiona Robertson, Noreen Adams, Professor Adrienne Scullion and Dianne Haley do not hold any other public appointments.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
All appointments and reappointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees’ political activity within the last five years (if there is any to be declared) to be made public.
Fiona Robertson, Noreen Adams, Professor Adrienne Scullion and Dianne Haley have had no political activity in the last five years.
BACKGROUND
The National Library of Scotland is one of the world’s leading research libraries with a particular focus on the study of Scotland and the Scots. It is the largest library in Scotland with over 24 million items and is one of the six Legal Deposit Libraries entitled to claim a copy of every printed and electronic work published in the UK and Ireland under the terms of the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2013.
Its key priorities take account of its statutory functions of preserving and developing its collections, providing access, encouraging education and research, whilst contributing to the understanding of Scotland’s national culture as a country with a rich heritage and a vibrant future.
Core funded by the Scottish Government, it operates within the context of the Scottish Government’s national outcomes and strategic objectives, including public service reform. It is governed by a Board which is accountable to the public through Ministers and the Scottish Parliament for the discharging of the functions defined in the National Library of Scotland Act 2012, and for the overall vision, strategy and corporate performance of the Library.