KAREN GEORGE

Biography: Karen George is responsible for the management of library services to staff in the Home Office and its agencies. She has worked in several government libraries over the last 14 years including MAFF (now DEFRA) and the Department of Health. She is on the Committee of the Government Libraries and Information Group and has been Editor of the Group's Government Libraries Journal since 1996. In December 2004 Karen received the IWR Information Professional of the Year award in recognition of her many achievements in the field of information provision.        

Title: The new Home Office Library

Summary: The Home Office moved to a new building in February 2005 and Karen was responsible for planning and overseeing the transfer of the Home Office Library to its new location. She will share her experiences of the various stages of the project, outline how the new Library evolved from being just lines on a piece of paper to becoming a bright, modern, fully-functioning Library - and explain how she survived to tell the tale.