Rosie Jones is the newly appointed Director of Student and Library Services at Teesside University, a University which has a significant positive social, economic and cultural impact on local communities and wider economies. She was previously the Director of Library Services and Open Learn at the Open University, a University driven by its mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. She has worked in academic libraries since 2001 in a diverse range of institutions, taking a particular interest in games and learning, information literacy and learning space development.