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Community Profile
Ben Eldridge
Assistant Librarian My name is Ben Eldridge and I have just recently started at Waimakariri District Council as an Assistant Librarian in the Reader & Reference services team. For the past 5 years I have been working in high school libraries and prior to that I worked for Auckland City Libraries for 5 years. In between my stints as a librarian I have worked in made to measure suiting, worked as a freelance journalist and photographer for The Press, and completed a Bachelor of Musical Arts majoring in jazz performance on guitar. I perform around Christchurch quite often with a variety of different groups and have played in the pit bands for musicals such as Cinderella, Legally Blonde and Mama Mia. I have a long association with North Canterbury having lived in both Rangiora and Broomfield when I was younger. I now reside in Christchurch with my wife, our two teenage children, two cats and one dog. I am excited to be once again working in public libraries and feel very lucky to be working amongst a supremely talented and empathetic bunch of people.
