philip gorman

technical services librarian

About

I enjoy helping people find what they are looking for - whether that be hard copy resources in a library, digital resources in a catalogue or CMS, or insights from large, complex datasets.

Country

united kingdom

City

london

Industry

political organization

Skill

research, social media, library management, microsoft office, library research, information management, knowledge management, sharepoint, google analytics, indexing, sql, php, wordpress, copywriting, cataloging, proofreading, publishing, editing, document management, lexis, javascript, css, html, solr

Experience

technical services librarian

house of commons

2017-12 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

research services librarian

slaughter and may

2013-9 - 2015-5 · 1 yr 9 mos

* Provided legal and business research to legal staff through an enquiry service, using a range of hard copy and digital resources. Enquiries were fielded via email, phone and in person. * Created daily current awareness updates for solicitors. * Presented training on legal and commercial research to trainee solicitors and new joiners. * Created and maintained guides on how to use our legal and commercial resources. * Helped to design and maintain an enquiry logging platform for the knowledge and information department.

libraries and publications administrator

slaughter and may

2012-9 - 2013-9 · 1 yr 1 mo

Responsible for assisting the libraries and publications manager with the upkeep of the central and satellite libraries; maintaining the library management system, entering and updating records and processing books. Other tasks include distributing circulated journals, updating looseleaf resources and issuing book renewals for patrons.

search analyst at the house of commons

house of commons

2015-5 - 2017-12 · 2 yrs 8 mos

* Responsible for managing the quality of data in Parliamentary Search from an end user and service perspective. * Analysing Parliamentary Search user behaviour and site usage, providing reports on usage to management. * Maintaining and improving metadata quality - identifying issues, defining and delegating tasks, alerting users to issues where appropriate. * Working closely with the Thesaurus Editor on thesaurus revisions resulting from search analysis. * Gathering feedback on Parliamentary Search from users with a view to prioritising for potential development.

Education

gravesend grammar school

2001-1 - 2008-1 · 7 yrs 1 mo

Activities and Societies: History Prefect

westminster business school

2012-1 - 2013-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

ucl

information science

2013-1 - 2014-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Internet Technologies Introduction to Database Programming and Querying Digital Resources in the Humanities Fundamentals of Information Science XML Server Programming and Structured Data Database Systems Analysis and Design Systems Management