Colette Levitt

Location: Pickering

Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member

Contact Info

Mobile: 07891 790610
Email: [email protected]

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

Geography - Human

Academic commissions covering the environment, urban planning and transport systems, energy management in buildings, sustainability and renewables.

Urban Development

Academic commissions covering urban planning, transport systems and landscape architecture

Environmental Science

Academic commissions covering renewable energy, sustainability, climate policy and agricultural resource management, pesticide use

Education (All Areas)

Academic commissions on managing teaching practice,
social justice education, teaching assistants, educational leadership, experiential learning

Music

Popular music biographies. Artists include The Police, George Michael and Shane McGowan

History of genres and music industry

Social History

Academic commissions on international racism, Covid pandemic and ethnic inequality, terrorism, nationalism and social movements

European History

Academic and general texts on Europe-wide events, specific countries and national identity

International Relations

Academic commissions on regional security and foreign policy; regional cooperation; contemporary racism

British History

Academic and general texts covering specific periods and overviews

Architecture

Academic and general texts on history of architecture and building design

Health and Safety

Specialised and general texts. Subjects included construction sites, HVAC systems, IEE regulations and offshore safety.

TravelTourism

Travel guides, both countries and cities.
Nautical pilot and cruising guides

Local History

Commissions on Isle of Wight, Cornish country houses

As public librarian, catalogued local history collections

Personal interest

-Sports and Games

Academic and general books. Topics including sports coaching, international sports organizations, professional football and adventure sports

Cookery Books

General readership

Genealogy/Family History

Personal interest having researched own family history

Photography

General readership

Pets

Personal interest through ownership

Related qualifications

Chartered Librarian


Other skills

Cataloguing And Classification
Catalogued local history collections and music score library.

Recent indexes include

Weigerif, Rupert and Major, Louis, The Theory of Educational Technology, Routledge, 2023
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

Biographies/ Autobiographies

Popular music, solo artists and groups
Personal memoirs
Religious figures

Travel Guides

Country and city guides
Nautical pilot and cruising guides

Tools

PC
SKY INDEX