‘Don't Give Me Passion,Give Me Cataloguers’: Lynne Brindley and the Art of the Possible

Abstract

This article provides a personal appreciation of Lynne Brindley's over-arching professional contribution during her distinguished career written from a UK perspective. In particular the article focuses on her contribution to the Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (the ‘Follett Review’), and to the Follett Committee's Information Technology Sub-Group (FIGIT) and the subsequent eLIB Electronic Libraries programme, both of which she chaired. The author concludes she was a pivotal national figure in UK Higher Education and a gifted administrator who could be counted on as a proselytizer and popularizer as well as a really good communicator.