Paul Clarke
(to serve until 31 December 2008)
Email: Paul.Clarke@cilip.org.uk
Biography
I was born in 1953, was educated in Bexley, Kent and started work in Greenwich in 1972. I was one of those lucky people to be seconded through Library School (Ealing) at my employer’s expense and I have stayed with Greenwich since. Others can decide whether this was due to idleness or misplaced loyalty!
During this time I’ve worked in or managed most areas of a public library service and worked on various projects in other Council departments. Current responsibilities include: Diversity, reader development, mobile and homebound services, prison library, staffing and two static sites.
I have been a CILIP Councillor for the last three years and also sat on the Policy and Development Committee. In writing this I realised that I have been chartered for over thirty years – frightening!
I am married, my wife Janice is a law librarian and when not at work, which doesn’t seem very often, we live within half a mile of the highest treetop in Kent.
Hobbies include; reading (Science, history, cryptozoology) book collecting (Burroughs, Moore, Crompton), growing cacti in an increasingly leaky greenhouse and on clear nights some amateur astronomy.
Read Paul Clarke's 2008 Candidate Election Manifesto.
Updated: 12 February 2008