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Linda Kalinda (@Lundambuyu L.Kalinda@nhs.net) is Head of Library and Knowledge Services, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Linda says: I lead the strategic development, management and delivery of a high-quality, cost-effective, multidisciplinary library, information and knowl- edge service to staff and students of multiple health care providers including commissioner organisations in Lincolnshire.


Some of the most exciting projects I have worked on were unexpected; for example creating a specialist database using IS Oxford’s Heritage as well as visual basic to create mandatory training reports. My favourite project is working with the Health Information Week project team on the Leadership course, because it has challenged me.


What was your earliest ambition? My earliest ambition was to be a pilot and still remains a lifelong ambition.


Who has inspired you in your career? My father’s love of knowl- edge has always been a source of inspiration, and as a child I looked in awe at his expansive home library. I never understood why books had a whole room in our house, while my sister and I shared a bedroom. Two of my sisters ended up being biblio- philes – and I a Librarian.


Career advice – what’s your top tip? If someone says it can’t be done, it means they have not YET discov- ered how to do it. It was one week before Christmas and my amazing boss Vanessa O told me with disap- pointment that IT had said it would be impossible to set up and create a certain type of report. Knowing how databases work, I did not understand why one type of report could be pro- duced and not another. At Christmas, my son came home and I asked him about it. He suggested using VBA in Excel and create Macros. Wide-eyed and excited, I took in all he taught me and eureka! I finally understood what my son does for a living; he has been telling me he is a Data Scientist and it meant nothing until then.


Best professional achievement? While in Swindon, I was invited to


September 2018


a strategic planning meeting and almost didn’t go when I saw the list of attendees. But just that week, Jo Walley (CILIP/HEE Leadership), had challenged us to get outside our comfort zone and to meet leaders in our organisations. What’s the worst that could happen? I could sit in silence and observe (a very unlikely scenario for anyone who knows me, which meant there was a possibility of displaying some ignorance). It turns out they were brainstorm- ing about how to select a policy management system. The trouble was they did not have the £750,000 quoted by IT. It had to list policies (Catalog), send reminders to authors (Reminders & Circulations), keep an archived copy of policies (Accession record) and be accessible all over the hospital (Opac). I was elated! I did this for BTHFT and Heritage. This I could actually do. Now was the time to speak up… and I did.


Worst professional moment? Travelling by road for five hours, I arrived at an interview just in time for my slot. Brain freeze. All I could think of was how tired I was and the pend- ing journey home. I had been waiting for three years for a vacancy at that hospital and I blew it.


What CILIP member networks do you belong to? HLG, MI&T, Leaders Network, ILIG, K&IM.


What drives you on?


I am passionate about the endless possibilities for our profession. Knowing that no matter what we are asked, we have the skills and tenac- ity to find the evidence, knowledge or answers to almost any question. Having the skills mix of librarians in any organisation is an asset.


A book you’ve enjoyed recently? Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: unlocking the secrets... by Mark Gungor. I love the “nothing box”. Appar- ently “my husband has the capacity to be completely vacant”. It explains the way our brains work, and I learned more from this book than my Biology class ever taught me. I am also reading The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb. I love this story, full of words like impossible, inhuman, defeat, elusive and holy grail.


Have you got any hidden talents? I would say being good at Scrabble and knowing the ending of a movie after watching five minutes of it. My husband would say I am a natural at being a hotel critic.


Do you cook, if so, what’s your signature dish?


I went to a girls’ catholic school where cooking, baking and sewing were man- datory. My signature dishes are home- made pizza and vegetable lasagne with homemade pasta sheets.


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