![]() ![]() ![]() We were lucky to find someone that we particularly want this late and it has taken a few days to coordinate management agreement, timetable and availability. Today these included the final booking of an Author visit for World Book Day in March 2016. I then set about responding to the emails. The diary holds the time-tabled classes which determine the structure of the day. I start at about 8.15, get a coffee and cull my emails in-between talking to pupils as they return books, borrow laptops or answer Reading Challenge Questions. I am currently working with an Archive Management system to eventually create third party online access to the whole collection and I have also created an online WW1 Roll of Honour using open source software which enables me to share information with interested researchers.Ĭan you describe a ‘typical’ day? My colleague opens the Library at 8am and pupils start to arrive immediately. The photographs were immeasurably useful for exhibitions and displays during the school’s 500 th Anniversary and since. I spent several years cataloging 800 photographs dating from 1869 which for an ex-photographer was a labour of love besides providing a great marketing tool for the School. ![]() I can’t estimate how many items we have on site but the documents I mainly work from are handwritten Registers from 1807 and School Magazines from 1869. This takes the form of everything from receiving, cataloging and storage to dissemination and promotion. As an untrained Archivist my work in the archive, (apart from responding to regular requests for information) is undertaken during the school holiday periods. Unusually, my Librarian role is combined with the responsibility for the school Archives, the majority of which are stored in the library office. E-resources are dynamic and vulnerable to technology changes so regularly checking they are still available, and teaching pupils and staff how to access them has become a large part of my role in the last five years. I try to post at least once a month and endeavor to aim my posts at pupils and staff although it is visited from all over. I write a blog to link to our subscription e-resources from outside school and promote reading. I am a Head of Department so I manage a budget and collate statistics on resource use. I also organise reading events like Mulled Wine in the Library at Christmas (staff) and author visits to the school. I have a part-time assistant in the morning which allows me to engage in work that requires focus or work that takes place elsewhere, but for most of the day there is a steady stream of issuing and returning, photocopying, supervising children, recommending, networking with teachers and supporting classes. I teach information skills from Y3 to Y13 and I will stand in front of any class, assembly, staff briefing or a group of parents, in order to raise the profile of the library. I am customer facing every minute of every day, even during my lunchtime. To that end I choose, purchase, manage and promote books and e-resources. My over-riding responsibility is for Reader Development and Information and Library Skills within the Senior School. What does your job involve? Jack of all trades. What is your current job title? Head Librarian/Archivist of an Independent School in the Midlands. I took the Diploma ILS at Aberystwyth by distance learning but ran out of money before the Masters element. ![]() What qualifications did you take? I have a BA(Hons) and an MA in Photography. I will be eternally grateful for that sheer good luck. Always something new to read and great for the village kids with homework tasks pre-internet. It provided a lifeline for many, including me! It was a cost free afternoon destination on seemingly endless damp days. Stock was surprisingly diverse and contemporary. The Library was only open for perhaps 7 hours per week and doubled as a bank one morning a week but had a regular user group aged from 0 to 85 years of age. How did you first get into the information and library profession? I stood in during a friend’s career break in a small village library in the west of Ireland when my children were young. ![]()
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