MICHAEL EMLY

Biography: Michael Emly is Team Leader for Collection Management Services at Leeds University Library.  He has substantial prior experience both as a cataloguer and as a systems librarian.  In the past 3 years, he has led a project to integrate material in non-Roman scripts into the main Leeds OPAC, which now contains details of over 30,000 titles in Chinese script as well as of a smaller number of books in Japanese and Arabic.  

Title: Unicode implementation and implications for standard Library Management Systems

Summary: This talk will focus on the main issues which arise when non-Roman scripts are used within a standard Library Management System.   The value and role of data in non-Roman scripts will be discussed from the perspective of the end-user, with a particular emphasis on the Library OPAC.   These service issues will be positioned within the broader library context, including the use of appropriate standards (such as Unicode and MARC21) and the availability of resources to support associated activities such as ordering and cataloguing.