Victoria Owen

Biography

Victoria Owen holds a joint appointment as Special Advisor to the VP Dean on Information Accessibility at U of T Scarborough and as Information Policy Scholar-Practitioner in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her complementary roles position her within the academic and experiential programs to contribute to the practice, principles, and scholarship of information policy. Her particular focus encompasses copyright, access, accessibility, preservation, and the public interest. 

Her background is in library administration at the University of Toronto, and in special and public libraries, including the CNIB Library for the Blind. Victoria holds a Master’s in Library Science and a Master’s in Law, specializing in intellectual property. She is the chair of the Canadian Federation of Library Association’s Copyright Committee, on the board of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Accessible Book Consortium, Chair of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ (IFLA) Advisory Committee on Standards, and a member of OLA’s Copyright Users Group. She is currently a Visiting Program Officer with the Association of Research Libraries and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and chairs the ARL-CARL Joint Task Force on the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation