HUG Committee 2008
Chair:Julian Dawson We have been using Heritage at Arup since May 2002, and whilst the experience has not been completely pain free, we have ourselves a proper management system now. In a former life we used DB/Textworks, and I managed to find myself chairman of the UK Inmagic Users Group. (History has a habit of repeatig itself) When not avidly reading Marvin posts, I am the information systems manager with the Arup Information Management Group, and have a strange prediliction for census statistics. But in my real life I am a wine drinking cricket viewing bird watcher. |
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Secretary:Ihar Ivanou is a systems librarian at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College (Nuneaton). He manages HUG membership database and deals with relevant enquiries. Beyond Heritage, he is interested in anything related to his country of origin, Belarus, in blogging, e-learning, social networking, Apple Macs and Christian theology. |
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Treasurer:Tim Kirtley is Assistant Librarian at St Hilda’s College in Oxford, where the college library has been using Heritage since the early 1990s. |
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Sofia Valpereiro Sofia is currently a LRC Manager at a secondary school in Cheshire. Previous to this role she's spent the last five years in the UK working in various roles on academic librarianship, including customer services, liaison & information skills and Virtual Learning Environments. |
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FE/HE:Ian Cockrill |
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Special Libraries:Laura Priddle IStructE is a learned society and qualifying body for structural engineers. We have over 21,000 members in 109 countries. The Institution began life as The Concrete Institute in 1908 and the Library was founded soon after. Our collection includes items from the 1700s to the present day. I’ve been working at IStructE since 2002, first as Assistant Librarian and now as Deputy Librarian. In my current role I divide my time between running the busy enquiries service, acquisitions, cataloguing and staff training. The Library has used Heritage since 1998. We’ve spent a lot of time developing our own ‘construction industry’ thesaurus and retrospective cataloguing. Our plans for the next year include upgrading to 4.2.6 and making full use of Heritage Online. I would like to see more creative thinking from IS Oxford, but am also keen for the company to improve some of the standard modules, particularly serials management |
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Schools:Margo Veitch I am the schools representative on the Heritage User Group Committee. I have an IT background having worked in the Computer Science Department at Glasgow University before going to work first for English Electric in the Support Department and then for ICL as a System Validator. After some time out to raise a family I started helping out in the library of a local school. I have been involved with the Heritage Library System since it was known as Bookshelf. Currently, I am the co-ordinator for the Cheshire Schools Group. This is a group of about fifty two schools throughout Cheshire, Warrington and Halton. Within the group I help to install and upgrade Heritage Systems and train the staff on the use of these systems. I also liaise between IS Oxford and the schools within the group when they have problems. |
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NHS:John Bramwell I am relatively new to the Library Service Management System, although I have a strong IT background from my years at Salford University studying BSc (Hons) in Computer Science & Information Systems. I have quickly made good relationships with IS Oxford through our WebOPAC combined catalogue and now in the process of merging 5 library sites into one! In the future I hope to successfully upgrade all sites to the forever increasing point (4.2.etc) new Heritage System.
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