Colette Levitt
Location: Pickering
Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
BSc Hons. Degree in Librarianship (1988) and Chartered status (2003). 15 years’ service in public libraries. A qualified Indexer since 2009, achieving Advanced status in 2014.
A broad range of subjects covered for academic, professional and general readership. A good quality and punctual service is provided to clients at a reasonable price. To date over 300 indexes created, the majority for large publishing houses.
Subjects
Academic commissions covering the environment, urban planning and transport systems, energy management in buildings, sustainability and renewables.
Academic commissions covering urban planning, transport systems and landscape architecture
Academic commissions covering renewable energy, sustainability, climate policy and agricultural resource management, pesticide use
Academic commissions on managing teaching practice,
social justice education, teaching assistants, educational leadership, experiential learning
Popular music biographies. Artists include The Police, George Michael and Shane McGowan
History of genres and music industry
Academic commissions on international racism, Covid pandemic and ethnic inequality, terrorism, nationalism and social movements
Academic and general texts on Europe-wide events, specific countries and national identity
Academic commissions on regional security and foreign policy; regional cooperation; contemporary racism
Academic and general texts covering specific periods and overviews
Academic and general texts on history of architecture and building design
Specialised and general texts. Subjects included construction sites, HVAC systems, IEE regulations and offshore safety.
Travel guides, both countries and cities.
Nautical pilot and cruising guides
Commissions on Isle of Wight, Cornish country houses
As public librarian, catalogued local history collections
Personal interest
Academic and general books. Topics including sports coaching, international sports organizations, professional football and adventure sports
General readership
Personal interest having researched own family history
General readership
Personal interest through ownership
Related qualifications
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Other skills
Cataloguing And Classification
Catalogued local history collections and music score library.
Recent indexes include
Moore, Rowan, Property, Faber, 2023
Kellerman, Aharon, Understanding Personal Mobilities , Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
Grant, Carl A., Examining Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students, Routledge, 2023
Diamond, Bryan, Claude Montefiore: Jewish Scholar, Communal Leader and Philanthropist, Bryan Diamond, 2023
Sumberg, James and Sabate, Children’s Work in African Agriculture: The Harmful and the Harmless, Bristol University Press, 2023
Décharné, Max, King’s Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippiest Street in the World, Omnibus Press, 2023
Vallee, Manuel, Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns: Government Disinformation, Industry Profits and Public Harm, Routledge, 2022
Cruising Association , Cruising Almanac 2023, Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson, 2022
Verma, Arun (Editor), Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change, Policy Press, 2022
Clients Include
Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Bristol University Press/Policy Press
Omnibus Press
Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson
Faber
Edward Elgar Publishing
Four Courts Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Special Publication Type
Popular music, solo artists and groups
Personal memoirs
Religious figures
Country and city guides
Nautical pilot and cruising guides
Tools
PC
SKY INDEX