Edwina Smart
(to serve until 31 December 2010)
Postnominals: MA FCLIP PGCE
Email: Edwina.Smart@cilip.org.uk
Biography
I graduated from Liverpool Polytechnic in 1978 chartering in 1980. I worked in Public Libraries unil 1989 when I became a school librarian in a large inner city comprehensive. I trained as a teacher and taught in primary schools for several years during which time I gained a Master's Degree in Education. Since returning to Librarianship I have been awarded Fellowship of CILIP.
I currently work as a Branch Librarian in a small Welsh valley town. I teach on the Information Communications Diploma Course for Coleg Llandrillo and support their Librarianship Foundation Degree students. I represent Wales on the Jodiawards judging panel which awards annual prizes for excellence in accessible cultural websites and digital media.
I have carried out project work in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka involving migrant worker web sites, using the library as support in post traumatic events and the teaching of Information Technology (ICT). I am particularly interested i supporting Para-professional library workers towards qualification through their use of ICT and also people with disabilities.
I have been the Chartership support Officer for CDG Wales before joining the Chartership Board of CILIP. I am a member of Cilip Cymru Committee, Wales Policy Forum Representative and CDG Wales Chair.
Since the tsunami of 2006 I have supported and regularly visited Andarasgaya School in Sri Lanka with support from CDG Wales and many other people from the Library world. The school continues to thrive and improve. I currently sponsor three of the students to remain in school by giving talks and selling notelets, please contact me if you would like to help or hear me speak.
I am also a tea lady for Pontypridd Cricket Club and am usually found in the summer months watching cricket and making copious amounts of tea. My ambition to have my cakes mentioned on Test Match Special is only hampered by my failure to send in one of my special fruit cakes.