Back to the Future: Academic Libraries in Transition

Maxine Brodie

Maxine Brodie is the University Librarian at Macquarie University, a member of the University Council, the Academic Senate and the University’s senior officer for copyright and related issues. She moved to Macquarie in 2002 as Deputy University Librarian after working for 5 years as Director of Information Technology at the State Library of New South Wales. Prior to this Maxine spent 14 years as a senior manager in client, collection and management services at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she also played an active part in IT Strategic Planning for both the Library and the academic and administrative areas of the University.Over the last five years Maxine has led the planning and delivery of a new state of the art Library for Macquarie. This has included the commissioning of Australia’s first Automated Storage and Retrieval System in a library, the relocation of over 35 km of physical collections, the delivery of new kinds of learning spaces for students and a transformative approach to the delivery of library services in consultation with library staff. The new Library opened full services in its new location on 1 August 2011.