Professor Derek Law is Head of the Information Resources Directorate at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Most of his work has been to do with the development of networked resources in higher education and with the creation of national information policy. Recently he has worked on the use of wireless technology in developing new methods of teaching and learning. This has been combined with an active professional life in professional organisations related to librarianship and computing. A committed internationalist he has been involved in projects and research in over forty countries.
He was awarded the Barnard prize for contributions to Medical Informatics in 1993, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999, an honorary degree by the Sorbonne in
2000, the IFLA medal in 2003 and Honorary Fellowship of CILIP in 2004.
He has worked in several British universities and published almost 200 book chapters, articles and conference papers.