Emma McDonald
(to serve until 31 December 2012)
Postnominals
BA
Email
Emma.McDonald@cilip.org.uk
Biography
I grew up in Crewe and spent much of my freetime at school helping in the school library. This gave me an early taste of many aspects of librarianship and helped ignite a passion for the profession.
While studying English at Cambridge University, I worked in the Peterhouse library as a Library Assistant. After graduating I spent a year working a law costs draftsman, before getting a job as a Graduate Trainee Librarian at Exeter University.
A fun year at Exeter convinced me that librarianship was what I wanted to do and I applied for a masters course at Loughborough University.
Since graduating from Loughborough, I've been working in West Sussex as a Trainee Librarian. I served on the South East branch committee as one of the newsletter editors for roughly a year and the positive nature of this experience was what encouraged me to stand for election as a trustee.