Simon Bennett Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

LondonThis is a temporary ongoing post at this charity covering sick leave. My general administrator duties have included, so far, arranging catering for internal meetings, printing the next day's catering schedule, sorting and delivering post internally, franking outgoing post, typing up flip charts, stuffing envelopes, calculating catering costs for meetings held internally and filing personnel department documents. I have also been involved in classifying and cataloguing a small collection of library books for the formation of a fledgling library for the organisation. I also have written a guide for colleagues to help them add items to the library catalogue. In addition, I have also been involved in work in the organisation's tax recovery department, inputting gift aid claims on a database and dealing with related enquiries by phone and e-mail.

LondonI was involved in the United Kingdom Research Reserve project, a joint venture between the British Library and some of the UK's major universities, to compare British Library science and humanities journal holdings with those held by individual universities with a view to the British Library being the sole repository of these journals. My role was to check individual journal title holdings on the British Library shelves and record what I found.

Duties in this part-time post in the NHS, included literature searching on various types of diseases and treatments, using Medline and Embase databases on behalf of wide range of medical professionals, producing a monthly journal contents current awareness service, inter-library loans and book ordering. I was responsible for ordering books and journal articles from the British Library, as well as from other medical libraries in the same region or nationally. I also took part in a successful library accreditation procedure and helped maintain a public health intranet. I catalogued books and documents using DB textworks.

My duties at this secondary school included monitoring student’s attendance for private study periods, internet usage and giving research and higher education advice. I performed other administrative tasks for the Head of Sixth Form.

My duties at this charity/pressure group, included answering enquiries from organisation staff using Factiva, Lexis/Nexis and internal databases to obtain relevant journal articles, cataloguing documents using DB textworks, dealing with loans, sending out a daily news bulletin, and compiling monthly current awareness bulletins. I was responsible for training new staff to use the library and its facilities.

LondonMy duties in this short-term contract for this charity/think-tank, included cataloguing of scientific journal articles using DB textworks and manning the enquiry desk which involved dealing with enquiries from the public and students. This would include sending out publications produced by the organisation and recommending other sources of relevant information. I would also recommend to them the organisation's comprehensive website.

My duties at this publisher of marketing information, included researching stories for inclusion in two weekly marketing journals called Weekly Bulletin and AMMO. PotentiaI stories were sourced from the daily press, and weekly/monthly trade journals and then input onto a desktop publishing system, using a house writing style. This was augmented by telephone research with a view to obtaining exclusive information which was not yet in the public domain. Both journals were started from scratch on a Monday morning, and were due to be completed by Thursday evening. I was responsible for making sure the other three members of the team kept up to speed with what needed to be achieved on each day, and for proofing what had been input on the system.

LondonMy duties at this pressure group included obtaining and updating information sources for the library service, answering enquiries from Federation members and the public on the status of individual road schemes, students (historical and statistical information), and the media (including doing interviews for radio stations and newspapers). I was the first point of contact for many of the enquiries which came into the organisation due to the increasingly small numbers of staff, which were often of a very general nature. For example, I would sometimes arrange media contact for other members of staff. I also produced articles and newsletters for the Federation's monthly bulletin for the members. I would also write the Federation's public inquiry submissions on road schemes.

LondonMy duties at this commercial information service, aimed at advertising agencies and other marketing service companies, included answering enquiries from information service subscribers and ad hoc clients using desk research, as well as producing daily and monthly digests of information. Enquiries usually consisted of obtaining historical information on consumer markets and on advertising and marketing campaigns for particular brands or market sectors. This was done via an in-house microfiche system of press cuttings. The role demanded a high degree of time management and working to deadlines. After three years I wanted a role with more responsibilities.

Ba (Hons), Librarianship And Information Studies

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