[1] During this time, along with colleague Michelle Paull, he was responsible for researching the library's acquisition of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle collection and preparing it for exhibition,[3] and received the Anthony Powell papers from Michael Meredith of the Eton College Collections.

I think it acknowledges scholarship as worthwhile and it actually shows that work demanding patience and care is still important.

One of the most satisfying parts of my job was that I was able to bring the collections to the general public through exhibitions.

"[5] Following his retirement, he became Deputy Chairman of the Friends of the British Library in February 2007, taking over from Don Pritchard.

[7] In 2005, he was appointed as a member of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art.