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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Managing library services across three campuses

London, United Kingdom

Managing library services across three campuses - Birmingham, London, and Manchester - to support business and computing undergraduate and postgraduate franchised programs; and Degree Apprenticeships programs across six sites in England.Leading on planning and managing library resources and services for course support, incl. taking part in Course Committees and Academic Board meetings.Collection development and management (policy development and compliance; supplier selection; stock control etc.).Library skills and information literacy training - design and delivery.Liaising with academic and support staff. incl. taking part in the Teaching and Learning Committee work.Recruitment, training and supervision of team members.

Nunaton

Led on information and digital literacy development and training: from informal to embedded delivery to over 2,000 learners and member of staff every yearEnsured the library is one of the main innovators in the area of ICT, emerging technologies and social media in the college: successfully promoted innovative use of tablets and blogging for teaching; flipped and blended learningAuthored the ebook collection development strategy to reflect the competing priorities of FE and HE programs taught in the collegeIntroduced a structured program of CPD in the team and created learning objects; encouraged use of freely available CPD opportunities: webinars, JISC eventsLed on local, distributed, operational and strategic projects, incl. in the areas of ICT for learning innovation, reforming team structure and working culture, and launching new services. Developed effective library marketing practice embracing traditional and social media and involving the whole team; introduced blogging, Facebook and TwitterDeveloped and lead on the e-safety work with staff, developed an online training module; pro-actively contributed to equality and diversity activities across the CollegeRegularly contributed to various CILIP regional and interest groups, JISC webinars and librarians’ events, Colleges – University of Leicester Network (CULN) Librarians Group, DMU Associate Libraries and Associate Learning Development Networks, Council for Learning Resources in Colleges (CoLRiC)Successfully bid for additional internal and external funding for implementing iPad provision in the college (2012, £4,400) and developing a library smartphone app (2014, £30,000).

North Warwickshire And Hinckley College

Management of the library and PC management systemsContributing to stock acquisition and collection managementCo-ordination of marketing activities in the LibraryAssisting College Librarian in managing staffDevelopment and implementation of information skills training for students andacademic staffCataloguing (AACR2, MARC 21) and classification (Dewey Decimal System).

London, United Kingdom

Successfully implemented a computer-based library catalogueParticipated in development of book, serials, photo and music collections – selection, contacting creators and publishersAssisted with classification and cataloguing; edited occasional printed publicationsDeveloped and edited the Library website.

Ma, Information Science, Distinction

Dissertation - Baltic and Slavonic Libraries in Britain: Their Place in Developing Group Identity And The Life of Emerge Communities..

Ba Hons., Theology

BA (Hons) in Theology for Ministry, incl. Diploma in Philisophy. Non-theology courses: introduction to psychology and social anthropology..