Scott Nicholls

Scott Nicholls is the University Librarian at the University of Western Australia and he provides leadership and strategic direction to the University Library in supporting the education, research, and community engagement functions of the University.  He is focussed on continuing to develop processes, infrastructure, and staff skills and capacity to help drive innovation and improvement in services and achieve Library and University goals. 

He has over 25 years’ experience in designing, developing and delivering services to meet the information needs of staff and students in higher education. He has a strong interest in how technological innovation can be used to better manage and deliver library services and has played a key role in a number of initiatives within the University including the extensive development of its electronic collections, the implementation of improved searching and discovery services, and the roll out of a unified library management system to better manage the acquisition of and access to library resources. More recently, Scott has been involved in developing and implementing new Library services to support the University's strategic directions in digitisation, digital asset management, and research data management.