On 26th January I started in the Law Library as an Information Librarian, though to some degree this is a return “home”, as many (150+) moons ago I worked at UoC in the Library’s Systems Department (now Library IT). It’s been great to catch up with some of you again over the last week or so, as well as beginning to get acquainted with new colleagues.

For the last five years I worked at Lincoln University, first as the “Information Studies Librarian” and later as the “Teaching and Liaison Librarian”. In the latter role I had two hats: (hat 1) an overview of (and participation in) the library’s teaching programme to students, and (hat 2) consultations, largely one-to-one, with academic staff on how the library could support their research and teaching. Whichever hat I was wearing, the Moodle online teaching platform was helpful in providing ready access to information we were conveying to students and staff, so I was glad to hear that Moodle is coming to UoC.

I am married with two sons (12 and 15), and am well into fulfilling the useful paternal role of sports’ chauffeur, as well as the more irritating role of articulating strongly-held, but teenagerly unfashionable, opinions regarding current trends in music, personal grooming, etc.

Among my personal interests I include classics. In 2007 I completed an Honours degree in classics from UoC, which I studied for part time over four years; and being constrained to reading original texts in Latin only, last year I began studying ancient Greek to round out my classical education. So “hairete” to you all!

John