Job title: Senior Assistant Librarian, Battersea Reference Library, London Borough of Wandsworth.

Field of Interest: Reference and information services; Library co-operation and inter-library loans services; the relationship between the Christian faith and library and information work.

Short description: I studied librarianship at the former Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) from 1974-76 and have been a Chartered Librarian (ALA, now MCLIP) since 1977. I have held library posts in the Department of Trade and Industry and the public library service in the London boroughs of Redbridge, Southwark and Wandsworth. I have worked for the last named borough since 1979, firstly as an inter-library loans specialist but more recently as a reference librarian. I have served since 1980 as the honorary Secretary of the Librarians’ Christian Fellowship and have a special interest in applying Christian thinking to the problems and issues of the library and information professions. My role in LCF involves me in organising meetings and conferences, dealing with correspondence, and editing the regular Newsletter and journal. I have also organised the services of thanksgiving held at the major conferences of the Library Association (now CILIP) since 1980. I am a trustee of the Christian Book Promotion Trust and actively involved in the Trust’s long running library scheme.

Present address: 34 Thurlestone Avenue, Ilford, Essex, IG3 9DU, England.

Phone: + 44 (0) 20 8599 1310.

E mail: secretary@librarianscf.org.uk

Publications: Editor of “Issues in Librarianship: the Christian dimension” (UCCF, 1985) and “Issues in Librarianship 2: the debate continues” (UCCF, 1996). Contributor to: “Little Fat Buzz” (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977); “In Unexpected Places” (Marshall Pickering, 1988) and “Christian Librarianship: integrating faith and profession” (McFarland, autumn 2002). Contributor to various librarianship and Christian periodicals and web sites.

Web site: www.librarianscf.org.uk