Heritage Users
Types of Institution
The Heritage library management system is used by a diverse variety of library resource centres from academic to medical, legal and other special libraries. It is difficult to say exactly where the limits of its scope for automation lies, but we have customers spread over multiple sites and running on large WANs (Wide Area Networks) and others with just a single PC. Some sites have just a few hundred titles whilst others have well over a hundred thousand. The Internet and 'Thin Client' software means that it can be used effectively on almost any network, be it a small LAN or a relatively slow WAN covering multiple sites.
Types of User
The following types of institution are represented in our current user list:
- Arts libraries
- Careers services
- Charities
- Colleges (FE and HE)
- Companies and Large Corporates
- Government
- Legal Libraries
- Military
- Medical Libraries
- Schools (state and independent)
- Special Libraries
- University departmental libraries
Example Users
The following is a small sample of each type of institution using Heritage. We have over 1,300 sites and a full user list is available upon request.
- CILIP (formerly The Library Association)
- Arup
- Cambridge Regional College
- SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research) - University of Sussex
- Kings School Canterbury
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary
- Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Institution - Northern Ireland
- BBC
- Blackburn College
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- Cornwall County Council
- General Teaching Council
- Northern Ireland Assembly Library
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
- Transport Research Laboratory
- Microsoft (UK) Ltd (Technical Library)
- Riverside College Halton
Case Studies
- Medical
- College
- Legal
- Special
- Theological
- Kings School Canterbury
- Central School of Speech and Drama
User Groups
The Heritage User Group, HUG, was founded in 1988 and is still going strong - it recently launched its own website http://www.hugonline.co.uk. In addition there are now national user groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Some of these meet regularly, others are more occasional. Local user groups exist in many parts of the country and other groups have been set up by users in specific types of library only e.g THUG (Theological Heritage User Group). Click here for more information about these groups.