David worked briefly in further education libraries before joining Portsmouth University Library as a Metadata & Procurement Librarian, during which time he taught cataloguing and classification on an MA course at the University of Brighton. Now the Assistant Librarian (Promotions), David manages the operational delivery of Library promotional communications and publishes occasional articles and blog post on librarianship, most recently collaborating on a book chapter on a novel online Library navigation system for the upcoming monograph "Technology, change and the academic library".