Experience

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  Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

  • Volunteer

    • May 2019 - Present

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  Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

  • United Kingdom
  • Civic and Social Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Volunteer

    • May 2019 - Present

  • Service Manager

    • Dec 2014 - Present

    Supporting the elderly through volunteers, in particular for the Home from Hospital service covering up to 6 weeks from hospital discharge

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  Bristol Pound CIC

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Volunteer

    • Aug 2014 - Present
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Data analysis, public engagement, helping to run stalls to support launch and development of this local currency (have done the latter for 2 years in free time)

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  BBC

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Archive Services Manager

    • Sep 2009 - Mar 2014
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Media archive management, including of the renowned Natural History Unit (NHU) archives; team management including recruitment & development; budgeting; reporting; project management; collaboration with external organisations; contributing to strategic development; ensuring efficient research enquiry services to customers; ensuring effective cataloguing and indexing of content

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  BBC

  • United Kingdom
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Regional Manager, BBC Information & Archives

    • 2004 - 2009

    Bringing together and managing all the libraries in BBC Bristol - NHU, Research Centre, News Library; plus supporting regional news libraries in the South and West of England

  • Natural History Library Manager

    • 2001 - 2004

    Bringing together and managing NHU Film & Sound Libraries

  • Film Librarian

    • 1991 - 2001

    Day to day management plus contributions to strategic development in prestigious multi-media library offering archiving services to the NHU and an enquiry service to the BBC and BBC Worldwide's commercial clip sales

  • Assistant Librarian

    • 1990 - 1991

    Cataloguing and classification of film/ video material and answering enquiries relating to material for commercial clip sales

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  Zoological Society of London

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Library Assistant

    • 1986 - 1990
    • London, United Kingdom

    My responsibilities included answering enquiries from general public & scientific community, administering inter-library loans, maintaining/ supervising reading room, & assisting library users.