POLICY AND ADVOCACY

  • Briefing papers for policy-makers and practitioners in health, social and public policy

 

  • Engaging & consulting with key stakeholders


  • Researching policy, drafting practice briefings, strategic and operational plans

 

  • Analyzing best practice to meet strategic aims



  • Reviewing content for dissemination 
  • Sensitive to the cultural ethos of each client

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  • Research and analysis of best practice



  • Focus on developing professional practice

Information consultant with  focus on information, libraries, cultural heritage and social policy 



Clients from different sectors and industries

 

  • national and local government
  • research institutes and archives
  • academic libraries
  • not for profits/third sector/charities
  • libraries and cultural heritage

INFORMATION SERVICES

  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Experience as information professional, manager and consultant 


  • developing and delivering services
  • analysis of clients' infrmation needs
  • development of policies, best practice and procedures
  • designing new services
  • planning and implementation of of operational change
  • analysis and research of services and user needs
  • benchmarking best practice to conform to industry standards


RRESEARCH

  • providing policy and practice briefings for policy-makers and practitioners


  • monitoring trends in health, social and public policy


  • engaging & consulting with stakeholders at national and international level


  • advising on submission of research proposals


POLICY - ADVOCACY  - HORIZON SCANNING


HEALTH POLICY AND PATIENT ADVOCACY

  • Lay Advisor to Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOPHTH), UK
  • Lay Examiner, Communications Module (Consultant Final Examination). 
  • All Party Disablement Group: research, evidence and policy papers


TRAINING AND EDUCATION


  • Joint Council for GCSE: policy guidelines students with disabilities.
  • Guidance on policy and practice for faculty and students with disabilities in further, higher and adult education

INFORMATION AUDIT

The information cycle in policy development: a model for good practice : Audit Toolkit 



  • identifies, maps and optimizes the flow of information within an organization




Evaluating and understanding processes

  • research at ‘service-desk level’
  • analyzing information needs of users and staff teams
  • who is using and sharing which data?
  • supporting strategic development




PERFORMANCE INDiCATORS

  • reporting processes and Key  Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • public library research: analysis of best practice


Outcome-focused:

  • applying Toolkit  in central and local government, not-for-profit and Third sector organizations


  • Performance indicators framework


  • reporting processes and KPIs (Key performance Indicators


  • public library research 

STRATEGIC THINKING AND PLANNING:

  • experience as practitioner and manager
  • developing and delivering information services
  • analysis of clients' and organization needs
  • development of policies, practice and procedures 
  • designing new services and organizational change
  • analysis and research of serviced and user needs
  • benchmarking and standards: best practice

research and ANALYSIS


  • reviewing information and communications content
  • reviewing websites, information for patients, users and general (lay) public
  • conducting interviews and focus groups in research projects 
  • analyzing qualitative data 



  • Information policy
  • Public libraries in the information society
  • social inclusion
  • digital economy
  • impact of public library in inner city area


INFORMATION  CONSULTANCY

  • Aslib/IMI
  • InfoResponse Associates
  • British Library Consultancy
  • Centre for Public Libraries in the Information Society 
  • British Library Research & Development
  • Solon Consultants


CLIENTS INCLUDING


  • Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS)


  • British Library Consultancy


  • Swedish Public Libraries Directorate



INFORMATION SERVICES PLANNING 

  • SKILL: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities,UK
  • World ORT Union (NGO Training and Development
  • British Library Research & Development
  • School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): (academic library)
  • Jews’ College/LSJS Library (research institute)

 Hebraica and Judaica

 Retrospective bibliographic       conversion

  • from card index to computer catalog
  • making library data accessible globally to scholars and researchers
  • sharing bibliographic data and collections 

project management

  • marketing, procuring and leading consultancy teams


  • analysis, review and preparation of action plans


  • planning, scoping and designing projects


  • preparing budgets and resources

 

  • reporting on progress, risks and constraints


  • leading dispersed, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural global teams


  • developing creative, innovative solutions to resolve project issues 

Review of Public Library Service (England and Wales), funded by Department of Culture Media and Sport, DCMS) 


  • successfully led dispersed academic research team
  • coordinated quantitative and qualitative research
  • drafted and co-ordinated publication of Final Report for central Gvernment

 

 

RESHET: Retrospective Cataloguing in Hebraica/Judaica

(SOAS/LSJS): (Higher Education Funding Council/RSLP)-funded

 

      Service prioritization: 

  • balancing ongoing service demands with resource availability
  • managing staff skills, budget, project and resource constraints 

     Vendor contract negotiation:

  • ITT for computerization of academic library system
  • outsourcing retrospective conversion: seven academic libraries in consortium
  • quality control of bibliographic data to meet international standards