John Fitzgerald is librarian at UCC
Education: De la Salle school, Macroom, Co Cork; UCC, BA in English and philosophy, 1983; UCD diploma library and information studies, 1987; University of Wales at Aberyswyth, MPhil 1991. Awarded the 1986/87 Italian Government/Council of Europe scholarship based at the European University Institute, Florence.
Career: TCD, project manager of the card catalogue computerisation project; R&D librarian and documentation controller in Moog Ltd (electronics manufacturing) and Schering Plough (pharmaceutical sector); project manager in Lysia Ltd, Britain (software company). He has also worked as a full-time researcher in the Department of Library and Information Studies, UCD.
Professional affiliations: he has served as chairman of the consortium of national and university committee of librarians, chairman of the Conference of Heads of Irish Universities committee of librarians, and is currently chairman of the Cork Archives Institute.
Interests include: the application of IT to the library environment, comparative librarianship and library staff development.
Family: married to Róisín Crowley; children: Alexander, three-and-a-half years old and Elena, aged two. John and Róisín are currently restoring a 150-year-old farmhouse near Macroom that was built by John's great grandfather.
