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Jennifer John
Biography
I
am currently the Systems Librarian at Cardiff University. As such
I have overall responsibility for running the joint Voyager Library
Management System for 18 Cardiff University and 20 Welsh NHS Trust
libraries. Previously I worked for Geac Computers Ltd.; training
customers on implementing and using the Geac ADVANCE and PLUS Library
Management Systems. Before joining Geac I worked in South Africa
at various institutions. First at one of the South African national
libraries and then; as a librarian and an archivist, in the South
African mining industry. In between stints in South Africa, I was
for three years, an Engineering Subject Librarian at the Polytechnic
of Wales.
Abstract
All
you want - in AWHILES
Since
the early 1990's there has been a successful on-going collaborative
project to establish a joint Library Management System (LMS) between
the medical academic libraries attached to Cardiff University and
the Welsh NHS Trust Postgraduate Libraries. The project is run under
the auspices of the All-Wales Health Information and Library Extension
Services (AWHILES) organisation. A
great effort has been made over the years to establish levels of co-operation
and the sharing of resources between all the libraries in AWHILES,
so that university medical and health-related students on placement
receive an equitable experience, wherever they are based throughout
Wales. There are now 18 Cardiff University and 20 NHS Trust Postgraduate
Libraries on the joint Voyager LMS. The
session will discuss the development of the joint project plus the
problems and solutions that have arisen in managing a database that
crosses academic and NHS library services.
This page was last updated on:
20 June, 2006
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