Heritage in Medical Libraries

Heritage began life as Bookshelf, developed in conjunction with the Cairns Medical Library at the University of Oxford (John Radcliffe Hospital); so it has always been particularly suited to Medical Libraries.

At present there are over one hundred Medical libraries (many are multi-site) in the UK using Heritage. Below are a few reasons why.

  • We can provide hosting services to the NHS as we have a connection to NHSNet from our Oxford office. 
  • Suitable for large multi-site institutions.
  • Annual support and upgrade costs which are substantially less than for equivalent systems.
  • Quickcat Online - download catalogue records from the National Library of Medicine, British National Bibliography or Library of Congress directly into the Heritage catalogue record.
  • Supports a variety of classification schemes, including NLM and Bliss.
  • Heritage Online - Online version of OPAC and circulation facilities which can be provided via the Internet (with a secure link to NHSNet in order to provide availability and reader information).
  • Inter-operability with existing systems via SIP2, ODBC, LDAP, Z39.50 etc.
  • Event Scheduler - Schedule processes such as the creation of reports, sending of overdue notices etc so they are generated automatically.
  • Circulation Facilities - Heritage offers the most sophisticated circulation facilities around, including short loans, timed loans, postal loans and inter-site transfers.

Case Studies

We provide a number of short case studies for you to read. Please click on the links below.

Newham Hospitals

Nobles Hospital

Royal College of Psychiatrists

It is always good to have a system that looks good on the desktop for users as this definitely ups the users' perception of a switched-on library service.

Angela Clarke
North & North East Lincs PCT

 
 

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