Jessie M. N. Hey

 

With a background of many years as a practising information specialist, my research interests span diverse areas of digital libraries and hybrid libraries. I have taught on the Undergraduate Human Computer Interaction course and presented many electronic library workshops.

Physical libraries have grown to encompass increasingly complex digital materials - becoming hybrid libraries. Previously I worked on Project MALIBU which investigated hybrid libraries in the Humanities. MALIBU (MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users) was a joint collaboration between King's College London, the University of Southampton and Oxford University. In 2002 I completed a PhD in Resource Discovery for Digital Libraries in which I evaluated the Global Information Gathering Agent GIGA - a tailored tool for searching both the visible and invisible web.

My current project is TARDIS. This is a joint project within the University of Southampton - between the University of Southampton libraries, the IAM group in Electronics and Computer Science, and Information Systems Services. We are building a sustainable multidisciplinary e-Print archive to leverage the research output of the university. Our work also gives feedback into the development of the pioneering free EPrints software as we explore both self-archiving and mediated archive creation as effective solutions. Some of my recent presentations and papers on e-Prints, institutional repositories and academic scholarship are shown on the TARDis web site.

 

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University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ

Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 6112 (at Southampton Oceanography Centre), +44 (0)23 8059 3256 (IAM Group)

Email: jmnh@ecs.soton.ac.uk or jessie.hey@soton.ac.uk
Room 164/14 at SOC in the National Oceanographic Library, Zepler 4^th floor Lab 4237