Anne is a British children's librarian,
who has been living in Kenya since August 1999.
Anne qualified with a B.A (Hons) degree
in Librarianship and Information Science in 1981, and since then
has worked in many places; from Beamish Open air Museum in country
Durham, to the Barbican Centre in London, to Hertfordshire and Cambridgshire
library services in the UK.
Anne left the UK with her family in
1994 to go to Papua New Guinea, where she did voluntary work with
the National Library Service there, creating corporate sponsored
folding bookcases to send(stocked) to schols all over PNG. Anne
was made a life member of the Friends of the PNG National Library
Service for the work she did.
In 2004 Anne was awarded an MBE by the
Queen and the British Government for her work in both PNG and in
Kenya.
