Alison Cullingford

Alison Cullingford is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, UK, where she is responsible for over 100 collections of modern archives and rare books. The service was the first English university to achieve Archive Accreditation. She also managed the Unique and Distinctive Collections project for Research Libraries UK. An active member of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and many other sector groups, she also regularly presents at conferences, blogs and tweets on the importance of the special collections librarian.