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 Simon Rooks, Multi-Media Archivist, British Broadcasting Corporation
Simon gained a Joint Honours Degree in History and Librarianship from the University of Wales. He joined the book-based BBC Radio Reference Library in 1989 and soon moved as an assistant to the BBC Sound Archive's enquiry and research operation where he became Senior Librarian in 1995. Following the re-organisation of all the BBC's information, music, image and broadcast collections as Information & Archives, the post of Sound Archivist was eventually created and to which Simon was appointed in 1999. For two years Simon was responsible for an Intake, Selection and Cataloguing staff of 28 and undertook the reorganisation of processes and policies to meet the increasing demands upon the Archive. At this time the 10-year Preservation Project began and Simon's role has been largely in the prioritisation and selection of radio content for digitisation and cataloguing. In 2002 the BBC's Television, Sound, New Media and Records Management Archivists came together in an Archive Group to further develop common policies and processes. This has included work in archival policy, developing the role of Media Managers within production, the digital archive project, supporting new BBC Archive-based public services and supporting the BBC's strategic initiatives in content management. In 2007 the title "Sound Archivist" disappeared - we are all now Multi-Media Archivists reflecting our task to work within a BBC of converged content-production. Finding the new job title a little clumsy, Simon prefers mostly to call himself simply a "BBC Archvist".
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