Rosemary Russell

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Research Officer, Innovation Support Centre, UKOLN

Contact details:

• Tel: +44 (0)20 8856 7369
• Fax: +44 (0)20 8856 4162
• Email: r.russell@ukoln.ac.uk

Areas of interest

• Distributed library service development - MODELS, AGORA
• Z39.50 applications
• Inter-library lending and ISO ILL protocol
• Resource discovery
• Item identifiers (especially SICI)
• Library management systems - distributed development
• Related developments in Europe

Recent presentations

• Introduction to the MODELS Information Architecture (MIA). MIA requirements analysis study consultation meeting, London, 26 July 1999.
• The Agora hybrid library project. European Library Automation Group 99 seminar: Managing Multimedia Collections, Bled, Slovenia, 21-23 April 1999.
• The Agora hybrid library project. National Electronic Library for Health: London Symposium, 2 December 1998.
• Mining the information landscape. Integrate, Cooperate, Innovate: eLib Phase 3 Conference, December 1998.
• Interoperability and Z39.50. MSc lecture, University of Bristol, 24 November 1998.
• Agora introduction. Meeting for Agora service providers. London, 11 November 1998.
• MODELS outcomes. UKOLN Management Committee meeting. Bath, 28 October 1998.
• Agora: building the technological infrastructure. Hybrid libraries regional workshop. University of Leeds, 15 October 1998.
• Z39.50 update. eLib project managers forum. University of Warwick, 8 July 1998.
• eLib clump projects and Z39.50. Interlend 98 - Forging links (Forum for Interlending conference). University of Surrey, 23-25 June 1998.
• MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services. Scope for collaboration: implementing archives and library networks. University of London, 18 June 1998.
• MODELS - where we are now. A distributed national electronic resource (MODELS workshop 6). Bath, 5-6 February 1998.
• MODELS architecture. eLib phase 3 meeting with library systems suppliers. London, 20 January 1998.
• MODELS and Z39.50 profile development. EFILA meeting. Brussels, 20 November 1997.
• Networking and MODELS. South Western Regional Library System seminar. Bath, 23 October 1997.
• Z39.50: what's it all about? ASLIB Computer Group meeting: Z39.50 in practice. University College London, 20 October 1997.
• Collection level description: facilitating distributed resource discovery. Digital Resources in the Humanities 97 conference. University of Oxford, 14-17 September 1997.

Selected recent publications

• Tracy Gardner and Rosemary Russell. Collaborative workspace environments: experience of evaluation and selection in the Agora project. VINE, 109, February 1999.
• Rosemary Russell. The Agora hybrid library project. Relay, Spring 1999.
• Rosemary Russell. Mining the information landscape. New Review of Information and Library Research, Vol. 4, 1998.
• Rosemary Russell and Greg Newton-Ingham. Agora: building the technological infrastructure. New Review of Academic Librarianship,Vol. 4, 1998.
• Stephen Pinfield, Jonathan Eaton, Catherine Edwards, Rosemary Russell, Astrid Wissenburg and Peter Wynne. Realising the hybrid library. D-Lib, October 1998.
• Rosemary Russell. MODELS: landscaping the information environment. LASERLink, Autumn 1998.
• Rosemary Russell, Sally Criddle and Sarah Ormes. Information landscapes for a learning society: UKOLN conference report. Ariadne, 16 (web version), July 1998.
• Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell and Robin Murray. A utopian place of criticism?: brokering access to network information. Journal of Documentation, 55 (1), January 1999, 33-70.
• Rosemary Russell and Lorcan Dempsey. A Distributed National Electronic Resource? MODELS workshop 6 report. The Electronic Library, 16 (4), August 1998. Draft version available.
• Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell and Robin Murray. The emergence of distributed library systems: a European perspective. Journal of the American Society of Information Scientists, 49 (10), August 1998, 942-951.
• Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell, Robin Murray and Richard Heseltine. Managing access to a distributed library resource. Program, 32(3), July 1998. Draft version available.
• A Distributed National Electronic Resource? Ariadne, 14 (web version), March 1998.
• Rosemary Russell. Standards for serials: building the basis for distributed access. Serials, 10 (3), November 1997, 357-364.
• Rosemary Russell. Towards new models for managing and accessing serials resources. Managing Information, 4 (8), October 1997, 37-39.
• Rosemary Russell. UKOLN MODELS 4: evaluation of cross-domain resource discovery. In: Daniel Greenstein and Paul Miller (eds) Discovering online resources across the humanities. Bath: UKOLN (on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and information Networking), 1997, 18-21.
• Lorcan Dempsey and Rosemary Russell. Clumps or... organised access to printed scholarly material. Program, 31(3), July 1997, 239-249. Draft version available.
• Rosemary Russell. Searching in clumps. Library Technology, 2(3), June 1997.
• Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell and John Kirriemuir Towards distributed library systems: Z39.50 in a European context. Program, 30 (1), January 1996.

LITC publications

(I worked at The Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University, 1992-1995)

• LIBSYS.UK: a directory of library systems in the United Kingdom . London: LITC, 1995. (With Juliet Leeves.)
• From VINE to UKOLN: four months on. VINE,100, September 1995, 29-32.
• Public library networking: an overview. VINE, 98, March 1995, 3-6.
• Z39.50/SR: an overview. VINE, 97, December 1994, 3-8.
• INNOPAC innovates? VINE, 96, September 1994, 30-39.
• Inter-library lending and document delivery: an overview. Vine, 95, June 1994, 3-6.
• From CALM to CALM 2000. VINE, 95, June 1994, 50-60.
• Exodus to GENESIS? VINE, 94, March 1994, 38-47.
• Plain sailing with SWETS. VINE, 92, September 1993, 36-40.
• Library systems for schools: introductory pack. London: LITC, 1995.
• Library housekeeping systems for MS-DOS: introductory pack.London: LITC, 1993.
• Retrospective conversion and sources of bibliographic record supply. Report 4. London: LITC, 1992.

Short communications

• Report on EFILA inaugural meeting, Brussels, 16 January 1995. Library Technology News, 16, February 1995, 8-9.
• Report on ELAG: library systems seminar, Budapest, 27-29 April 1994. Library Technology News, 13, June/July 1994, 7-8.
• EDI: an introduction. Vine, 94, March 1994, 3-4.
• ELAG 17th library systems seminar: the virtual library, Graz, 14-16 April 1993. Library Technology News, 8, June/July 1993, 5-6.

Editorial

• Editor VINE, 1994-1995.
• Editor Library Technology News, 1992-1993.

Last updated 05-nov-1998

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