Ernie Ingles

Associate Vice-President (Learning Services), University of Alberta

Ernie Ingles is presently Associate Vice-President (Learning Services) at the University of Alberta, and has been Chief Librarian and Director of Libraries since 1990. In this capacity, he has achieved recognition for his strategic planning initiatives, technology planning, the creation of the NEOS consortium, the development of the province-wide Health Knowledge Network, and other innovations.

Mr. Ingles has held several executive positions on Boards, including the OCLC Members Council, the Presidency of the Canadian Library Association, the Bibliographic Society of Canada, the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, and the Saskatchewan Library Association; and has served on and chaired numerous others, such as OCLC Research Libraries Advisory Board, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, the Book and Periodical Development Council, the National Library of Canada, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.

He has published frequently, and has made a key contribution to the Canadian library community through the founding of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute. He has been the recipient of numerous awards; in 2003 he received the Queen's Jubilee Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to libraries, and in 2001 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.