Publications

An exciting profession which needs to unite  CILIP Update magazine (Nov 08)

Exposing rare and unique research collections RINnews (Winter 2008)

Copac: a research community widening its base (co-authored with Lisa Jeskins) CILIP Update (Mar 09)

Copac: current activity and future developments (co-authored with Lisa Jeskins) in Interlending and Document Supply (37:3, 2009)

How UK academic libraries choose metasearch systems (co-authored with Dick Hartley) ASLIB Proceedings (62:1, 2010) (based on my MA dissertation)

The Archives Hub, Managing Information, Jan 2011

Voices for the Library and social media, guest post on UKOLN social media blog, March 2011

Linked data and the LOCAH project, Business Information Review, June 2011

UK RED day – report from the event, Ariadne, June 2011

Alternative uses of the Library Degree, guest post on FR365 blog, July 2011 http://futureready365.sla.org/07/23/alternative-uses-of-the-library-degree/ 

The Rise of the New Professional, InfoToday.eu, http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/The-rise-of-the-New-Professional-77180.aspx

Think yourself Future Ready, guest post on FR365 blog, Sept 2011 http://futureready365.sla.org/09/06/think-yourself-future-ready/

Linked and Future Ready, InfoToday.eu http://www.infotoday.eu/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Linked-and-Future-Ready-at-ILI2011-78142.aspx

Creating linked open data for library and archive descriptions (co-authored with Jane Stevenson), MMIT 37(4), Nov 2011

New Professional’s Column CILIP Update (various issues, 2012)

The New Professional’s Toolkit Facet, 2012

Aiming high on the ‘smily scale’: creating Copac’s new interface CILIP Update, July 2012

Presentations (many of these can be seen on my slideshare)

Plugging in to your peers: proving the value of social networking, CILIP new professionals conference, July 2010

Do libraries have a future? ILI, Oct 2010

Voices for the Library and social media – UKOLN social media workshop, Feb 2011

‘linked data’ – OU RED day, Feb 2011. Panel with Owen Stephens and Mathieu d’Aquin from the LUCERO project

Voices for the Library – CILIP Wales conf, May 2011

CILIP New Profs info day – workshop on ‘getting involved’, June 2011

Alternative uses of the Library Degree – panel at SLA 2011, June 2011

Linked data and the LOCAH project – poster at Umbrella, July 2011

Linked data and the LOCAH project – presentation at ILI, October 2011

Alternative uses of the Library Degree – webinar for SLA LMD Jan 2012 http://vimeo.com/34984523

New Professionals & Marketing Yourself, SLA Europe event, New Professionals and Marketing Your Library Service, Apr 2012

The Future Skills Project – CILIP CDG L&SE AGM, May 2012

Assembling your new professional’s toolkit, CILIP New Profs Info day, May 2012

A tour of the Library of the Future – AWHILES conf, Jun 2012

Seeing your career from the outside, in – panel at SLA conf, 2012

How to parlay your SLA experience into a new job, a promotion, even your LinkedIn profile – SLA conf, July 2012

Alternative careers for new library & information professionals, MMU Graduate Trainees Day, Nov 2012

Professional organisations for fun and profit, MMU Library & Information Management, Nov 2012

Interoperability, Networking, & Standards (with Jane Stevenson), MMU Library & Information Management, Nov 2012

Interoperability and data sharing: how to get archival data out of your system, and what to do with it when you have, UKAD Forum, March 2013

Opening up – bibliographic data-sharing and interoperability, MMiT Conference, Sheffield, April 2013