Anne began her career as a teacher and librarian at the New South Wales Department of Education from 1967 to 1973. In 1990 she accepted an appointment as a visiting faculty member at the
University of Iceland for a year, then in 1991 moved to the
University of British Columbia in Canada as associate professor with responsibility for teacher librarianship programmes. After two years in Canada, she returned to Iceland. She was also visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Management at the
University of Western Australia in 1996 and 1999 Anne wrote a regular column on InfoTech for the North American journal
Teacher librarian and was the webmaster for the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) from 1995 to her death in September 2005. She introduced many teacher librarians around the world to emerging online resources through the "site of the week". From 2003–05, Anne held the position of Chair of the Standing Section for School Libraries and Resource Centres for the
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).
Research interests Anne Clyde's doctorate in 1981 from James Cook University was a survey of the history of school libraries. Her research interests included the use of the internet and online information services in a range of library and educational settings, investigating the ways in which they are understood and measured. She also studied the characteristics of research and researchers in the field of school librarianship. She wrote many scholarly papers, presentations and articles on social networking including
Weblogs and Libraries which was the first scholarly work on the topic. ==Works==