Simon Barron

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Gender	Male
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Occupation	Librarian
Location	United Kingdom
Introduction	A librarian and writer living in the UK. I'm in my first professional post as an Assistant Librarian in Harrogate having recently completed an MA Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. I'm interested in libraries' role in academic/scientific research, new technologies in libraries, digital libraries, electronic cataloguing and metadata, and the advancement of Web 2.0 and 3.0.
Favorite Books	The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Catch-22 by Joseph Heffer, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 1984 by George Orwell, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky