Venessa Harris

I am a qualified Librarian with a passion for books and bookshops.

Formerly the Project Cataloguer of the Recusant Collection at Downside Abbey near Bath, and currently continuing to catalogue this collection on an adhoc basis, I am currently accepting private collection cataloguing requests, book review requests from authors and publishers, and proof reading requests.

Please contact me at: [email protected]

I am seeking employment in the following fields within the Somerset area:

* antiquarian book cataloguing

* information management consultancy

* archives researcher

* research/education officer

I am also available for book provenance research, book identification for valuations, ESTC and other union catalogues edits/updates and data cleaning.

I am researching Dom Raymund Webster, former Great Librarian at Downside Abbey Library. I have a Masters degree in Librarianship, with a dissertation on books as material culture.