Experience

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  Holy Cross College

  • Bury, England, United Kingdom

  • Head of Library

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • Bury, England, United Kingdom

    Head of Library at Bury College - 6th Form College and University Centre. Managing Library team delivering library and information services to 2000+ 6th formers and 300 University Centre students.

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  Liverpool Hope University

  • Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Subject Librarian - Humanities and Law and Criminology

    • Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
    • Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Provided library support to students and staff of the School of Humanities and School of Law and Criminology : taught information research and evaluation skills, arranged acquisition of information resources requested by students and staff, responded to information requests, and provided information support to Network of Hope library users on relevant courses studying remotely. Represented Hope on BIALL Sustainability Working Group and on EUDUG (EU Databases User Group), and backed up colleagues on various ALN (Academic Libraries North) interest groups.

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  European School of Osteopathy

  • Maidstone, U.K.

  • Librarian

    • Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
    • Maidstone, U.K.

    My role was to manage and further develop the libraries and information services and to lead the library staff team working at the teaching and clinical sites of the European School of Osteopathy, located in Maidstone and in nearby Boxley, in Kent, England.

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  La Cote International School

  • Aubonne, Switzerland

  • Library Resource Centre Manager

    • Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
    • Aubonne, Switzerland

    My job was to manage and further develop library and information services at LCIS to all age groups of students from infant school to pre-university level, with a particular focus on supporting reading and providing access to relevant infiormation resources, in both digital and print format.

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  Docip

  • Geneva Area, Switzerland

  • Head of Documentation / Documentaliste Responsable

    • Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
    • Geneva Area, Switzerland

    My role was to further develop Docip's unique online resource of formal Statements made by indigenous peoples to the UN. EU etc. on their current situation and future aims. Docip supports the efforts of indigenous peoples around the world to safeguard and have fully recognised their human and cultural rights, at international, regional and state entity level. Docip participates in a series of UN and other meetings every year. During my time at Docip we successfully achieved nomination and inclusion of Docip's unique documentary archive into UNESCO's Memory of the World register.

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  Yolse

  • Geneva Area, Switzerland

  • Consultant Associate

    • Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
    • Geneva Area, Switzerland

    Yolse engages with UN and other bodies to ensure the provision of affordable medicines in the least developed countries of Africa, particularly francophone Africa, which benefit from patent protection exemptions included in the Bangui Agreement (thanks to pressure from Yolse and others these exemptions were extended for a further 17 years to 2033 in the December 2015 revision of the Bangui Agreement). My role was to assist in preparing all Yolse documentation in English.

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  Globethics.net

  • Geneva, Switzerland

  • Librarian

    • Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
    • Geneva, Switzerland

    Review of Globethics libraries online serials holdings and updating databaseAdding SEO metadata to journals recordsTesting of OAI (Open Archives Initiative) document harvesting procedures for Ethics and TheologyAssistance with staff selection Training new staff Carbon audit planning for Globethics.net

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  African Innovation Foundation / Globethics.net

  • Geneva, Switzerland

  • Senior Librarian African Law Library

    • Nov 2012 - Oct 2015
    • Geneva, Switzerland

    Development of library functionality and user facilitiesLiaison with National Focal Points based across AfricaAcquisitions and content management proceduresTechnical liaison and trainingContent selection criteria (in cooperation with Senior Law Expert)Website content (in cooperation with Programme Coordinator and Webmaster)(Project originally managed for AIF by Globethics.net, Geneva)

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  UNESCO

  • Paris, France

  • Chief Librarian / Sustainability Management Focal Point: UNESCO Annual Carbon Audit

    • Nov 2006 - Oct 2012
    • Paris, France

    Led library and information team at UNESCO's Library in Paris, offering a full range of information services and assistance to readers. Since 2008 additionally serving as UNESCO Sustainability Management Focal Point promoting UNESCO's efforts to move towards sustainability and carbon neutrality in its office operations and staff travel worldwide and conducting UNESCO's annual carbon audit of its operations. Co-wrote UN System strategy paper on sustainability management - adopted as UN System policy in 2011.

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  College of Europe

  • Bruges, Belgium

  • Library Director

    • Oct 1998 - Oct 2006
    • Bruges, Belgium

    Managed library, information services, and website development and participated in North American student recruitment and information service development consultancy projects in Europe and Asia for College of Europe, the first institution operating (since 1949) in the field of bilingual English / French postgraduate studies at European level.

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  British Council

  • Manchester, England

  • Regional Information Coordinator Eastern and Southern Europe

    • Dec 1997 - Oct 1998
    • Manchester, England

    Coordinated British Council information activities in 17 countries across Southern and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkey, Cyprus, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, etc, Developed new BC Information Centre in Baku and planned new information centres in Russia and Ukraine.

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  Metametrics Inc

  • Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Legal Information Specialist

    • Jan 1997 - Nov 1997
    • Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Created a commercial laws information database for Central Asia, working on contract to USAID and University of Maryland's ISIS programme. Conducted workshops and seminars on internet access at Kazakh Academy of Sciences and spoke at the Central Asian Law Libraries Conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Liaised with officials at Ministry of Justice, Kazakh legal and higher educational institutions, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID and associated contractors, as well the local representative of the American Bar Association

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  Emirates Center for Strategic Studies

  • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  • Librarian

    • Jul 1996 - Aug 1996
    • Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Short contract working on library and information service development project

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  Open Society Institute

  • Prague, Czech Republic

  • Assistant Director: Libraries and Automation, OMRI/Radio Free Europe

    • Apr 1995 - Jun 1996
    • Prague, Czech Republic

    Managed library and information resource in Prague serving Radio Free Europe broadcasters, OMRI researchers, journalists, business people, and academics in Czech Republic and Central/Eastern EuropeMultinational information and library services team, work included internet initiatives and management of the OMRI Website (described by the International Herald Tribune as “A Star Rises in the East”) and electronic delivery of the OMRI Daily Digest of news items derived from 1400 East European news publicationsOrganised and executed move of Radio Free Europe Library from Munich to Prague

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  Central European University

  • Prague, Czech Republic

  • Library Director - Prague Campus

    • Oct 1993 - Apr 1995
    • Prague, Czech Republic

    Managed rapid growth of library and information services in new university, with particular emphasis on development of electronic information resources. At the time, CEU had two main campuses in Prague and Budapest, but in 1995 it was decided to concentrate activities on the Budapest site. I was centrally involved in achieving external accreditation for CEU academic programmes in Prague, a functioning university library being a key aspect of this. Developed staff performance assessment system and ran highly successful postal costs support for university library book exchanges in Central Europe

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  Self-Employed

  • Castle Bytham, England

  • Legal Information Management Consultant

    • Nov 1992 - Oct 1993
    • Castle Bytham, England

    McKenna & Co, solicitors: comprehensive restructuring of information service functions Waltons & Morse, solicitors: set up a new library and information service, including discussion and negotiation with management and widespread consultation with management and employees, and recruitment of staff to manage the facilityPlanning Exchange: facilities management and organisational review of information services covering local government and environmental sectorsClarke, Willmott & Clarke, solicitors: library and information service development planning, negotiation with and making presentations to senior management on service possibilities and associated staffing, developing strategy for effective use of information resources

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  McKenna and Co.

  • London, England

  • Director of Information Services

    • Jul 1986 - Oct 1992
    • London, England

    Led team providing library and information services to large international law firm Designed new purpose-built information services facilityDeveloped comprehensive current awareness services, and put in place City's first comprehensive copyright compliance policy in the sectorInstalled new CAIRS Library Management SystemIntroduced time-charging to client files by IS staffDeveloped comprehensive programme of in-house training for lawyers in conjunction with London Business School and others

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  Allen & Overy

  • London, England

  • Librarian

    • Jun 1985 - Jun 1986
    • London, England

    Managed development of information services in large City law firm

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  European Commission

  • Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris

  • Official

    • Dec 1978 - May 1985
    • Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris

    Indexer - EU Official Journal EU Official Publications Office, Luxembourg 12/78 - 02/80Acquisitions / Cataloguer / Reader Services Librarian EU Commission Central Library, Brussels 03/80 - 04/82Information Officer EU Press and Information Office, Paris 05/82 - 05/85

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  Falkirk Council

  • Falkirk, Scotland

  • Readers Adviser, Central Library

    • Mar 1978 - Nov 1978
    • Falkirk, Scotland

    Readers Adviser in Falkirk Central Library, supervising a number of Library Assistants (one of whom was mad enough to marry me). Temporary Librarian at Bo'Ness Branch Library.

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  Ayrshire and Arran College of Nursing and Midwifery

  • Ayr, Scotland

  • Area Librarian

    • Jan 1976 - Feb 1978
    • Ayr, Scotland

    Library services to two nurse teaching campuses in Ayr and Irvine, and management of nursing library resources in outlying hospitals across the county. [I see the College has since been subsumed into the University of the West of Scotland]

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  University of Aberdeen

  • Aberdeen, Scotland

  • Library Assistant

    • Apr 1972 - Jan 1974
    • Aberdeen, Scotland

    Library assistant in Science Library at King's College and Saturday assistant at Marischal College Library.