What attracts me to the position and what I believe I can bring to

it

New college • Being there at the start• Contributing to its growth• Being part of a new team• The challenges involved in starting up a new

service

The Library• Variety of work• Direct contact with students• Small team but support of bigger library

service• Managing a library

Students

• Enjoy academic libraries• International dimension• Training students and staff• Enquiries• Building relations

Career

• Provide me with new skills• Try new ideas• Experiment with new media• Build new networks

Wealth of experience

• University of the Arts London• BPP Academic Law Library• Gray’s Inn Law Library• King’s College Library• Greenwich University/Queen Mary

Skills• Circulation, Periodicals, Cataloguing, ILL,

Document delivery• Training/Inductions• Advocacy/Promotion• Budget management• Reports/Guides

More Skills!• Staff management• Web 2.0• People skills – interact at all levels• Working under pressure• Dealing with the unexpected• Professionalism

Few Examples• Setting up repository• Change management – Wimbledon • Research training• Event organisation• Digitisation project

Summary

• Exciting opportunity• Professional• Ready to go!• I want the job!