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SALLY HERNANDO
Biography:
Sally Hernando has worked for the
NHS for 10 years in a number of information service roles, including
leadership of the NHS South West's key modernisation programme for
knowledge and library services, Access to the Knowledge Base.
Since April 2002 she has been Head of Knowledge Resources Development
Unit, NHS South West Workforce Development Confederations, where
her responsibilities include IM&T education, training and development,
workforce development to support the NHS National Programme for
IT and e-learning, as well as library and knowledge services.
Previous
roles have included Head of Information Service at the Wellcome
Trust, and Head of Library Services, Buckinghamshire College of
Nursing and Midwifery.
Sally is
a chartered librarian with a Masters in Business Administration
and the Diploma of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Title:
Managing the e-library
Summary:
NHS England now procures electronic
databases and journals centrally, on behalf of its 1.2 million staff,
through the National Core Content project. The work has achieved
significant cost savings and has made access available much more
seamlessly for end users.
We now have
the potential to explore national procurement in other areas, such
as document delivery and library management systems – but how far
can centralisation be taken without weakening the quality of service
received by end users? And how will the role of the librarian,
and the decisions they take on local service delivery, change?
This session
will explore these NHS initiatives and discuss transferability to
other sectors. It will cover:
- Electronic resources in the NHS – before and
after centralisation;
- Carrying out a national procurement for e-resources
and the benefits to be gained from wide area collaboration;
- Potential developments over the next three years;
- The changing role of local library services;
- Interactive session on moving from print to electronic
resources in collection development;
- Feedback from delegates.
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