Anne J. Gilliland

Anne Jervois Gilliland (born 1959) is an archivist, scholar, and professor in the field of archival studies. She is currently director of the Center for Information as Evidence at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.

Education Gilliland grew up in Northern Ireland. She holds an M.A. in English Literature (Old Norse and Anglo-Irish Literature concentrations) from Trinity College Dublin; an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan. She became a full professor in 2005. She served as chair of the department between 2005 and 2009, She is currently director of the Center for Information as Evidence at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. She has also collaborated widely with Australian archival scholar Sue McKemmish, particularly on the topics of rights in records, co-creatorship, and Indigenous peoples' claims to their records.

She was a founding faculty member of the Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI).

Awards and honors Harold A. and Lois Haytin Faculty Award from the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (2012) C.F.W. Coker Award from the Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists (1998) Margaret Cross Norton Award, from the Midwest Archives Conference (1997) Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute of the University of Glasgow, 2002–03 Fellow of the Society of American Archivists