A new job

There was a brief announcement on Friday to the LSS Board and to LSS staff this morning which in the fullness of time will have a pretty significant effect on me and various others around me. The full announcement reads:

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Dear all

Following some rather long drawn out negotiations with HR over the past year, I am finally able to confirm the four LSS divisions and heads as follows:

Library services - Peter Ketley (includes Resources Management and Academic
Services)

IT services - Graham Hill (includes MIS, IT technical services, IT customer
services)

Progression and Support - Ron Harle (includes Careers, Counselling, Disability and the LDU)

Centre for Academic Practice - Peter Hartley (includes TQEG, Staff Development and the Graduate School)

Thanks to everyone for your patience while this has been under discussion.
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The new structure which was announced some time ago in principal, will take effect from August 1st 2008. It's a case of starting as you mean to go on by taking the first 14 days of August as vacation and then straight into clearing as a helpline volunteer on the first day back. This blog will hopefully be a good way of communicating with everyone in IT Services, LSS and also among our customers. It is wonderful that the uncertainty has finally been lifted. I really appreciate the opportunity Sara has given to lead IT Services at Bradford. Thank you to Sara for all of her personal efforts and perseverance in resolving a complex and difficult process over the last year. I am really looking forward to working with colleagues old and new to deliver the best IT Service that we possibly can.