New Hall Cambridge, 7 - 9 July 2003
Presentations
Wednesday, 9th July
9.30 Diane Whittaker
Breaking barriers: or how to be interoperable
in the heritage sector…
DIANE WHITTAKER writes: I trained as a librarian
at Newcastle Polytechnic (now the University of Northumbria
in Newcastle) and worked for a few years as a special librarian
in the City, before joining Essex Libraries as the Systems
Librarian. This post developed through several years until,
when I left the authority I was the IT Manager and involved
in much more than the library automation system. Since leaving
Essex, I have worked for Dynix as a Sales Consultant and
First Edition EDI Services as the Library Sector Account
Manager.
I am now the Sales Manager at Crossnet Systems.
Crossnet specialise in providing interoperability solutions
to make it possible for organisations to link various catalogues
and databases together. We also provide ISO ILL software
to consortia and individual library authorities who wish
to automate their ILL processes.
Synopsis
The many changes in how libraries operate
in the public sector – increasing regionalisation, the demise
of some of the old ILL regions, the introduction of the
People’s network, even the last local government reorganisation
have led to an increasing interest in working together to
make new services available to customers. This has led to
some exciting projects to implement connectivity between
library systems.
This paper talks about the experiences of
two of these projects – the Interlending and Resource Sharing
Projects in the South West Region and Project WiLL - the
London Libraries Development Agency implementation of a
pan London resource discovery system linking together library
catalogues, community information databases and other resources.
There are many possibilities for new ways
of doing business and new services to offer to customers
arising out of these projects – some of these will be explored
as a conclusion to the paper.
Presentation
(Microsoft PowerPoint file, 210KB)
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