Tom Roper

Born 1955 in London, brought up in Cambridge, where I went to the Perse School www.perse.co.uk . Read economic history at University of Kent www.kent.ac.uk from 1974-78 and then stumbled into a job in a public library. Finding I liked it, I took the postgraduate librarianship course at what was then the Polytechnic of North London in 1983 and worked in North London public libraries till 1990. Then I changed direction, working for the British Council www.britcoun.org and Hawker Siddeley, before finding my way, not unnaturally for a doctor's son, into medical librarianship. I worked in London hospital libraries and at the Regional Library and Information Unit, before going to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons www.rcvs.org.uk in 1996. In January 2003 I became Information Resources Development Coordinator for the Brighton & Sussex Medical School www.bsms.ac.uk, then worked at the University of Sussex and am now in further education.