About

Ok, it's a sham. I never went to beauty school so I can't be a beauty school dropout, it's just what I thought of when I decided to go back to the drawing board one day and start this ramble.

I'm Ange Fitzpatrick and I'm passionate about libraries. I love the clever things they do with technology, the books they contain and the quiet, unassuming way the people who work there perform the impossible every day. I work at the University Library in Cambridge and have been attached in one way or another to the University of Cambridge since 2000.

This blog is occasionally about libraries, but more often it is about the things I bump into everyday, the books and films I watch, and the things I don't want to bore my better half Marsh with.

If you are interested in what I do in the library field, check out the library-type keywords in the tag cloud on the main page, or you could try the rather dry section below. Perhaps you want to offer me a job in some kind of space-age library of the future; if I can have my own hoverboard, I'm VERY interested.

Aside from being a librarian I have plied my trade as a body piercer's assistant and as a stand up comedian. If these careers have use in your space-age library of the future, I'd be more than happy to resurrect them. Call me about the hoverboard.

Professional Experience

Authority Control
Cambridge University Library

April 2009 – Present

Responsible for loading new Library of Congress Name and Subject Authority files and the resultant data clean-up operations. Exporter and importer of data from global sources.

I still find time to be a librarian at large and am currently tweeting to colleagues and web 2.0 afficionados in the UK and Europe.


Senior Cataloguer
Cambridge University Library

February 2007 – April 2009

Managing the work of a small cataloguing team dealing with new acquisitions in a variety of formats.


Cataloguer
Gonville & Caius College Library

2004 – 2005

Graduate Trainee
Newnham College Library

2003 – 2004

Library Assistant
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

December 1999 – September 2000 ( 10 months)


Education

Currently enrolled on MScEcon Information & Library Studies course at Aberystwyth University. 

University of Cambridge
MA English

2000 – 2003

Dissertaions: the poetry of W.S. Graham, the idea of Utopia in the works of L. Frank Baum and the use of language in modern Scots poetry.

Activities and Societies: JCR President, Newnham College 2002-2003

JCR NewBiLes Rep, Newnham College 2001-2002