Allison Kavanagh

Allison Kavanagh is Head of Library Services at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin).  She has led TU Dublin Library Services through significant organisational and technological change, bringing together separate library services on each of TU Dublin’s campuses to form a fully integrated multi-campus library service with unified systems while also undertaking two interrelated library building projects.

Allison joined DIT in 2004 having returned to Ireland from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Library. She completed her American Library Association-accredited Masters in Library and Information Science at the San José State University in 2001. A qualified taxation consultant, Allison previously worked as an International Corporate Tax Consulting Manager with KPMG’s Silicon Valley office and held a number of taxation consulting positions in Ireland, including at FGS (now Grant Thornton).

Allison is Chair of the Irish University Association’s Librarians’ Group and a member of the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL) consortium’s Governance Committee. She is Chair of the Library Association of Ireland's Professional Standards Committee and is a board member and former Chair of the Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL). She is CONUL's representative on the HEAnet Board.

 Allison’s areas of interest include change management and library design.