Anna Gialdini Email & Phone Number

Trento, It

Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Acquisitions (selecting, curating and purchasing resources) and exchanges; cataloguing and classification (print and electronic resources); developing the library’s website and managing its social media profiles; supporting user services, public outreach and publishing services.

London, United Kingdom

Co-leading the implementation of a new Library Management System, including the integration of data from various sources (archival and research data) into the Library's discovery tool; developing a library-wide metadata policy; managing web-based resource discovery and access systems; responsible for digitisation services for resource lists and users with disabilities. I am also the chair of the Discovery and Data Quality Working Group and member of the LibApps Working Group (designing and curating the library website) and Disability Working Group (ensuring compliance with disability regulations).

London, United Kingdom

Provision of high-quality metadata records to improve discoverability of digital and print resources; cataloguing (including Archives / Special Collections); stock management (auditing, weeding, replacements); creating the new Library webpage and related resources (LibApps).

London, United Kingdom

Circulation and user services; supervising student assistants; selecting and setting up displays. I was also the senior member of staff on duty in the evenings.

London, United Kingdom

My duties included circulation; assisting the Librarian with acquisitions and deselection; cataloguing.

London, United Kingdom

User services (including welcoming and registering readers, answering enquiries, renewing tickets, giving inductions); document supply; ordering new books. I also managed social media (70% rise in engagement during the time of my employment) and contributed to self-managed projects including digitisation of library collections, ESTC reporting, and offprint cataloguing. I occasionally gave tours of the library to groups.

Keyword indexing of Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, an online resource launching autumn 2018.

London, United Kingdom

Planning and teaching 'The Early Modern World, 1500-1750' module (first and second year undergraduate students); marking essays.

I was the official translator (Italian to English and English to Italian) for all blog content (fashion, lifestyle, travel, and beauty) for The Blonde Salad, a website with over 14 million page views per month

Bruges Area, Belgium

I collaborated in the organisation of the exhibition Haute Lecture by Colard Mansion. Innovating text and image in medieval Bruges (Groeningemuseum, March-June 2018). I was involved in the curatorial, administrative, and creative aspects of the exhibition, including liaising with about 20 catalogue authors and 51 loaning institutions and designing blueprints for the exhibition catalogue.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Short-term research fellowship focusing on the use of books in early modern medicine and pharmacy.

London, United Kingdom

I designed and taught seminars for MA students in Book and Paper Conservation on topics from Book History to Cultural and Intellectual History

I selected and indexed academic publications for the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance database and checked the accuracy of previous entries.

Phd, Ligatus Research Centre, Book History

Activities and Societies: Awards: Bibliographical Society of America, BSA Short-Term Fellowship; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Msc, Library Science, With Distinction

My dissertation on the University of Roehampton's Hammersmith and Fulham Collection (a semi-archival collection in the Foyles Special.

Ma, Classics, 110/110 Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Erasmus exchange semester at University of Strasbourg, France.My dissertation in Greek Palaeography.

Diploma, Archival Science, Diplomatic And Palaeography

Ba, Humanities (Classics Pathway), 110/110 Cum Laude

My dissertation in Greek Literature was awarded the Mario Soldati Award for Critical Writing in 2012.