Experience

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  National Library of New Zealand

  • Dunedin

  • Facilitator at National Library

    • Mar 2000 - Present
    • Dunedin

    My full-time job involves building the capability of school library staff, educators, and school management teams in schools throughout Otago and Southland. This role centres on working alongside school staff to create and develop effective and responsive school library services. I also contribute to professional development by delivering face to face and online learning opportunities across a variety of content areas including but not limited to: digital literacy, reading, and school library development.

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  Invercargill Public Library

  • Senior Librarian

    • Jun 1991 - Feb 2000

    I was in the Children's Services department and was part of a small collaborative team. I was reponsible for the non-fiction collection management, providing reference and readers advisory services to children and parents. In addition I provided pre school storytime programmes, holiday activity programmes, and hosted a variety of visits to the library by school groups, and other interested visitors.

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  BP Engineering (London)

  • Librarian

    • May 1990 - Nov 1990

    This position involved working in the Information Unit and providing the engineers with professional reading as required. A particular project during this time was updating the British Standards collection to ensure currency.