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HEADLINE Project - Appendix C - Personnel Details and Institutional Contributions

Last Modified: Sunday 26 April 1998 
• Personnel
• Institutional Contributions

C1 Personnel

Overall management of the project will be undertaken by John Paschoud at LSE, who will combine this role with technical input to the model design and implementation. John is a chartered information systems engineer with more than 20 years experience in the design and implementation of computer-based systems and their user interfaces. He has previously worked on applications involving very large and distributed databases, and has published and spoken in the fields of geographic and local government information systems. Early in his career he was responsible for the design and programming of information systems for access to special collections at the library of the former South Bank Polytechnic. He joined BLPES in January 1996 primarily to implement the Decomate project, and has since been responsible for developing and supporting Decomate and other new information services at BLPES, including the experimental Archives OPAC and the Unicorn core library system. 

Funding for the additional post at LSE would be used to recruit a full-time Project Officer who would carry out development work mainly on user interface design and item delivery mechanisms. 

Other LSE contributions to the project would come from BLPES IT Support staff who have been involved in relevant projects such as EASI and other Web-based information services, and from Information Services and Collection Development staff who are subject specialists dealing with the target sources of the project, such as on-line and CD-ROM publications on current national and European legislation, and data archive sources. Key names in this context are Jan Wilkinson and Maureen Wade. Jan is Deputy Librarian and Head of Administration & Planning for Library and Information Services at LSE and a member of the LAMDA board; she is responsible for external and public services provided by the BLPES. Maureen is the LSE Sub-Librarian responsible for Information Services, and has been responsible for IT support to the BLPES, including the current procurement and implementation of the Unicorn library computer system. 

High-level input from Jan Wilkinson and Maureen Wade would be complemented by the time of several other staff. Heather Dawson is an Assistant Librarian at the LSE, in the Information Services and Collection Development Division. Since joining the LSE in 1996 she has led a group to review and re-design the BLPES Web pages and was a key participant in the development of the EASI common user interface to hybrid electronic resources. She is the LSE representative for the eLib Superjournals project and in May 1997 became a subject editor for SOSIG, with responsibility for the Politics section. Within BLPES she is responsible for training library staff and users in the use of Internet resources and has carried out Internet training for external bodies such as BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians). Sean Townsend is Data Librarian at the LSE, with a brief to provide data library services to members of the School. This involves training and advising users on existing data services, acquiring and cataloguing new ones and liaising with internal and external data providers. Adam Bovington is IT Support Specialist at the LSE, with substantial experience of a wide range of networked information resources. He provided the main technical input to the development of the EASI service and has developed solutions to the networking of a variety of non-standard CD-ROMs and proprietary on-line resources. 

At LBS, a number of library and IT staff would contribute to the project. Alan Robiette is Director, Information Systems Division, a post which carries responsibility for library and IT services. His background is mainly in IT, but as a member of FIGIT and latterly CEI he has been closely involved with electronic library developments for a number of years. Helen Edwards is Head of the Library with responsibility for managing the full range of traditional and electronic resources. She has a strong IT background with special expertise in database management; for this reason she also heads the MIS development team at LBS and is uniquely placed to contribute in the database design area. Jonathan Eaton is Electronic Resources Manager at the School, responsible for the project management, configuration, deployment and maintenance of a wide range of networked information services. These include bibliographic and financial CD-ROMs, historic and real-time on-line data services, and the UNIX-based library system (Unicorn). Stephen Graham, in addition to contributing to the implementation, maintenance and support of the networked CD-ROM and on-line services and databases in the Library, is responsible for managing and maintaining the Library Web pages, including the LBS Web pages in the M25 consortium Web site. He is the main LBS contact for the LAMDA document supply service. 

The project-funded post based mainly at LBS would be used for development of the database-related parts of the model. 

UH participation would be managed by Di Martin, Director of Learning & Information Services (LIS), responsible for the provision of integrated computing, library and media services to the University. Other key personnel involved with the project would be Andy Wroot, Assistant Director and Campus LIS Manager at the Hertford Campus, the main location for the UH Business School. As Assistant Director, Andy is responsible for policy and procedures across all campuses for computer workstation provision, networked software applications and routine user support in learning resources centres. The Law School is based at the St Albans Campus, where Karen Thompson is the Campus LIS Manager. She also co-ordinates provision of self-help guides and instructions for users across all campuses. Sue Thomas is the Information Consultant at the Hatfield Campus with a remit to support staff and students in the Social Sciences department. 

C2 Institutional Contributions

• The participating institutions will contribute to the project largely in the shape of staff effort and associated institutional support for the staff concerned. In addition there will be significant contributions in the form of the project's share of the institutional IT infrastructure - server upgrades, software licences etc. 

 
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