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Alan Hopkinson
Head of Systems and Bibliographical Services, Middlesex University Learning Resources

Alan Hopkinson is Head of Library Systems and Bibliographical Services at Middlesex University. In addition, he is involved with many external activities involving library, archives and museums. He has worked for the London Borough of Camden, the British Library where he worked inter alia on the MERLIN project (an early relational database management system for bibliographic use which was incorporated into BLAISE), an IFLA project relating to UNIMARC . This was followed by some time spent working as a UNESCO consultant. After doing some projects for UNESCO in the Netherlands at the Institute for Social Studies, in Tanzania for the National Central Library and in Brazil for IBICT , he worked as Information Systems Manager at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, setting up MINISIS as the library automation system . He has since worked at the Tate Gallery where he implemented SIRSI's UNICORN. At Middlesex University Library, he has implemented DYNIX Horizon on a multi-site campus. (The SIRSI and DYNIX companies have now merged into SirsiDynix.)

He has been involved with the International Guide to Literary and Art Archives and controls the Web Pages of ISIS Plus, the UK CDS/ISIS User Group. You may also see an old version of the Middlesex University Library Periodicals Catalogue which is an instance of a website which has been prepared on CDS/ISIS using records downloaded from the Library Catalogue Horizon System. The Middlesex University Catalogue on WWW ISIS is used as a backup catalogue and was the result of a cooperative project with BIREME in Sao Paulo who have worked with UNESCO to develop this web version of the CDS/ISIS software.

He is currently chairman of the UDC Consortium and IFLA’s Permanent UNIMARC Committee

Professional Activities

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Fellow	Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Fellow	British Computer Society
Member	Philological Society
Member	ARLIS/UK & Ireland
Chairman	ISIS Plus, the UK CDS/ISIS User Group
Committee Member	UK Friends of the Alexandrian Library
Member	British Standards Institution Information and Documentation Committee (representing British Computer Society)
Grantholder	European Union TEMPUS Project to introduce a VLE into Yerevan State University, Armenia
Chairman	British Standards Institution Computer Applications in Inf. and Documentation
Member representing BSI	ISO Committee on Technical Interoperability in Information and Documentation
Chairman	Permanent UNIMARC Committee
Chairman elect	UDC Consortium
Formerly Steering Committee Member and Technical Adviser for SPECTRUM	Museum Documentation Association. UK Museums Standards Initiative
Middlesex University representative	M25 Link Project Technical Committee
SCONUL Representative	SUNCAT
Consultant for Serials Holdings Study	UKOLN
Member	BIC/CILIP Committee on RFID in Libraries
Former Member	European Association of Development Research and Training Institutions, Working Group on Documentation. Working Party on setting up a Bibliographic Nnetwork
Former Rapporteur	UNESCO Working Group on Methods, Norms and Standards in Information (and Sub-Group on Formats and Databases) 1981-1991
Former member and Chair	Refugee Studies Programme Documentation Centre Advisory Committee
He has done consultancies for and/or lectured on courses sponsored by:	Infologistix
	IFLA UBCIM Programme
	Soros Foundation
	British Council
	European Union
	National Computing Centre
	FAO
	World Food Programme
	IDRC
	UK Overseas Development Administration (now Department of International Development)
	United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
	World Health Organization

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Consultancies undertaken in	Armenia, Austria, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada (IDRC), Egypt, France, India, Italy (FAO), Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, USA, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia), Zimbabwe
Papers given or meetings chaired in	Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Georgia, Greece, India, Italy, Kenya, Kuwait, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia (see Serbia)

Publications

Alan has written a number of publications some of which have links to web sites for their full text.

Alan Hopkinson

a.hopkinson@mdx.ac.uk

Home page last updated 1 August 2007