Anne Welsh is Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at University College London, and Digital Identity Manager at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. She spent fifteen years as a librarian before becoming a full-time academic and now teaches Cataloguing on UCL's MA LIbrary and Information Studies (MA LIS) and Historical Bibliography on its MA LIS, MA Archives and Records Management and MA/MSc in Digital Humanities. She has chaired CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA since they began in 2009, and is a well-known conference speaker at national and international level. A former editor of Catalogue & Index, Anne is now the Assistant Editor of Alexandria: the Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues. She blogs regularly at http://annewelsh.wordpress.com and tweets @AnneWelsh.Photo credit: Naomi Woddis, http://www.naomiwoddis.com