1. Bernadette Matthews
07447116192
London SW8
bernadettematthews@outlook.com
Personal Profile
A qualified Librarian, who has a wide range of experience, gained working on contracts and projects in library
related work but also as a volunteer. Good overview of library practices from Degree studies, seeking a library
role.
Skills
· Basic knowledge Office suite of applications
· Cataloging, captioning, library housekeeping, shelving and project management experience
· Freelance, research experience.
· Good knowledge of skills required in entrepreneurship including writing a business plan, and
marketing a business product.
· Book-selling experience where a good command of English, computer literacy interest in books, and
attention to detail were a requirement.
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Employment History
December 2015 – present time (Tuesday)
Volunteer in the archives Queen Square Library Archive and Museum.
Transcribing Case notes from the Archives onto an Excel sheet.
June 2015 - present time (Friday)
Volunteer in WPF Therapy Library: volunteering support in operating a small specialist library in the field of
psychotherapy and counseling : staff the library , assist users in finding and identifying stock, making stock
available, using library system to process users, search system to identify stock availability make and return
loans, assist with general housekeeping tasks, be responsible for security of library and stock during
attendance .
September 2014 – March 2015 – Amnesty UK
Online Bookseller (Volunteer)
· Creating books lists for sale
· Organized the storage of books
· Dealing with and resolving customer queries about stock
· Processed orders
· Valuing rare and old books through online research

2. 2013 - Freelance
· Research on an iconic photograph - the story behind the enigmatic photo of a beached supertanker
for ‘Works that Work’ - a magazine of unexpected creativity, Issue one Winter 2013.
· Sales marketing for a Foreign language bookstore, identifying possible clients and their requirements
which the bookstore could supply.
November 2011 – July 2012 - Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Volunteer
· Transferring details of dried and mounted plant specimen onto an Excel sheet for later export to the
library catalogue.
· Moving specimens within the Herbarium, re-classification of the collection.
February 2012 – June 2012 – Healing UK
Self Employed Fundraiser
· Fundraiser for a charity using complimentary therapies to help children with disabilities and life-limiting
conditions.
Other library related work:
Shelving Assistant - Courtauld Institute
· shelving and library housekeeping
Collection Management Assistant - Senate House Library
· Assisting with auditing of collection
· Checking and recording book locations
· Updating book locations moved to library database
· Creating new signage for the library's Bliss classification system
Cataloguing Assistant - cataloguing and marking up proofs - Garden Picture Library and DK picture library.
Training and Qualifications
June 2003 – June 2008 - University of Aberystwyth.
BSc. Information and Library Studies
Covered : Collection Management, Information Retrieval, Marketing of Services, Information Literacy and a
Dissertation:
Skills gained: independent project work, IT and information handling, writing in an academic context, self
management, doing a literature search and a a small scale research project for a Dissertation
April 2016 – June 2016- Excel course: Mary Ward Centre, Queen’s Square.
Knowledge of the main features of Excel, Workbooks/worksheets, open save files, enter numeric data and
text, select, copy, fill handle, cell height and weight , introduction to charts.
February – June 2013 – PRIME - Prince's Trust SFEDI Award
Certificate in Creating and Starting your own Business

3. April – August 2011 South Thames College City & Guilds
NVQ Level 2 in Spectator Safety
March 2011 - Goodwood Estate Company LTD
Fire Safety