Graduate Trainee Library Assistants
Background
The IALS library plays a leading role in the training of law librarians in the United Kingdom. One of the ways that this is achieved is through the recruitment each year of graduate trainee library assistants to the library staff.
During their year here the trainees gain experience of working in four different sections of the library, attend training sessions on the use of legal reference materials and visit several law libraries in London. Many of the trainees go on to complete a postgraduate qualification in information studies and to work in law libraries in the commercial, academic and government sectors.
Given below are details of the qualifications and jobs obtained by some of the ex-graduate trainees of the Institute from the last few years, where this information has been obtainable.
For further information please contact : Katherine.Read@sas.ac.uk
2020-2021
| Paige Dann |
| Sept 2021 - |
Studying Library and Information Management at the University of Sheffield, via distance learning |
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| Ed Aplin |
| Sept 2021 - |
Awaiting information |
2019-2020
| Shaun Heaney |
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| Sept 2020 - |
Library Assistant at IALS |
2018-2019
| Naomi Reeve |
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| Nov 2019 - |
Information Administrator at Linklaters |
2017-2018
| Katie Radford |
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| Sept 2018 - Sept 2020 |
MA Library and Information Services Management (Distance Learning) . University of Sheffield. |
| Sept 2021 - |
Senior Library Assistant (Serials), IALS |
2016-2017
| Lauren Cummings |
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| Sept 2017 - |
MSc Library Science – City, University of London (part-time) |
| Sept 2017 - Feb 2019 |
Document Supply Supervisor at IALS |
| Feb 2019 - Dec 2021 |
Knowledge and Research Assistant at Cooley LLP |
| Jan 2022 - |
Subject Librarian for ICCE, IMS, Law, Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London |
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| Christopher Dyer |
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| Sept 2017 - Sept 2021 |
Knowledge and Research Assistant at Skadden Arps |
| Sept 2021 - |
Research and Information Adviser at Slaughter and May |
2015-2016
| Jamie Elliott |
| Sept 2016 - |
PhD, Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest |
2014-2015
| Sharayne Kerr |
| Sept 2015 - 2016 |
MSc Library Science at City University, London |
| March 2017 - July 2018 |
Information Professional at Investec Bank PLC |
| Aug 2018 - |
Careers Information and Research Officer at UCL |
| Dec 2020 - |
Knowledge Assistant at Mourant |
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| Michael Cheng |
| Sept 2015 - |
Information not currently available |
2013-2014
| George Bray |
| Sept 2014 - 2015 |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
| Oct 2015 - Mar 2016 |
Information Advisor: Document Supply and Open Access" at Cranfield University |
| Mar 2016 - |
Repository and Metadata Assistant Librarian" at Robert Gordon University |
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| Verity Parkinson |
| Sept 2014-June 2015 |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
| Sept 2015-Dec 2017 |
Library Assistant at Inner Temple Library |
| Jan 2018 - Nov 2018 |
Senior Library Assistant, Merton College, Oxford |
| Nov 2018 - |
Resource Services and Support Librarian at Merton College, Oxford |
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| George French |
| Sept 2014 - |
Information not available |
2012-2013
| Ben Cornish |
| Sept 2013 - |
M.Res Political Economics at Kingston University |
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| Mark Pester |
| Sept 2013- |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
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| Joseph Tyler (April -Sept 2013) |
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See 2011-2012 |
2011-2012
| Joseph Tyler |
| Sept 2012 - July 2014 |
MA Continental Philosophy at University of Essex |
| October 2013 - February 2014 |
Facilitator of Philosophical Enquiry at the Philosophy Foundation |
| Feb 2014 - April 2016 |
Outreach Support Worker |
| April 2016 - |
Operations & Knowledge Manager at the Philosophy Foundation |
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| Charlotte Dyer |
| Sept 2012- 2014 |
Fast Streamer at the Department of Work and Pensions |
| 2014- |
PA to Directors. Newbury Building Society |
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| Lauren Tuckerman |
| Sept 2012- |
MSc Information and Library Studies at Strathclyde University |
2010-2011
| Helena Rickard-Dean (formerly Dean) |
| Sept 2011 - July 2012 |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
| Oct 2012- March 2014 |
Assistant Librarian at Greenwich School of Management |
| March 2014 - Jan 2016 |
Information Officer at BLM law firm |
| February 2016 - March 2017 |
Library and Information Specialist at Roche |
| April 2017 - |
Information Services Procurement Adviser at Slaughter and May |
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| Joanne Gallagher |
| Sept 2011- 2012 |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
| Nov 2012- Dec 2015 |
Information Assistant, Taylor Wessing law firm |
| January 2016 - Nov 2019 |
Information Officer, Taylor Wessing law firm |
| Dec 2019 - |
Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Bedfordshire |
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| Matteo Di Domenica |
| Sept 2011- |
Information not available |
| Sept 2012- 2013 |
MA Digital Humanities at University College London |
| June 2014-Dec 2014 |
Library Digitisation Support Assistant at the Royal Society of Chemistry |
2009-2010
| Nicola Bell (Dellow) |
| Sept 2010 - Sept 2011 |
MA Library and Information Studies at University College London |
| 2012 - June 2014 |
Library Assistant , Stanford University Libraries, USA |
| May 2015 - Dec 2018 |
Senior Library Assistant, UCL School of Pharmacy |
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| Jordan Phillip |
| Sept 2010 |
Information not available |
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| Adam Woellhaf |
| Sept 2010 - October 2015 |
Document Supply Service Supervisor, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies |
| Oct 2010 - Sept 2011 |
MSc Social and political theory, Birkbeck College |
| Oct 2015 - Sept 2021 |
Training and Development Librarian at Middle Temple Library |
| Sept 2021 - |
Information Officer at Stephenson Harwood. Postgraduate diploma in Library & Information Management at Ulster University completed in 2020. |
Past Trainees (1994 - 2009)
Page last updated: 28th January 2022
