Abstract
It’s quite daunting sitting down to write a first Presidential column. What note (or is it pose?) to strike? The Latin tags of my distinguished predecessor Stuart James, the mellifluous and measured prose of a Colin Will or just go with the Chic Murray jokes? It’s late January as I write so nothing much has happened to the President yet. I’m told a little biography is a customary starting point. So, born 1947, school in Arbroath and later Edinburgh (Knock knock. Who’s there? Emma. Emma who? Emma Watsonian), mediaeval history at Glasgow University then library school at Strathclyde. Conventional progression through the ranks in St Andrews, Edinburgh and London before returning to Strathclyde University in 1998. Turned my hand to most things – cataloguing, serials, reader services, medical libraries, IT of various sorts. A big mouth and a taste for bad jokes led to LA Council, IFLA, travelling, writing and lecturing. Hobbies: naval history (writing); reading (detective fiction, Patrick O’Brien, Flashman, naval history…); suffering on behalf of Arbroath FC and West Ham; good restaurants; a bottle of Scapa; Eric Clapton and Bessie Smith.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Scottish Libraries |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2002 |