Dear All,

Now that Valerie has retired I want to take the opportunity 
to clarify the relevant JRULM roles and contact personnel 
for your information. ( By the way this is quite a long 
message so you might want to print it out!)

In general the JRULM Health Sciences Team will be your 
main point of contact. The core Team consists of:

myself, Katy Woolfenden, as Faculty Librarian (Medicine 
Dentistry Nursing & Pharmacy) and Team Leader

Eleri Strittmatter - Nursing Information Developments 
Manager

Alastair Flett - Assistant Librarian - Health Sciences

Sheila Padden - Health Service Management and 
Statistics Subject Specialist (in addition to her main roles 
as Education Faculty Librarian and JRULM's Staff 
Training & Development Officer)

and Diana Leitch - Pharmacy Subject Specialist (in 
addition to her role as Assistant Director of JRULM and 
Head of Information Resources & Services Division).

A more detailed description of our roles and when and 
how you might want to contact each of us is given below:

Katy Woolfenden
Telephone: 0161 275 7386
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

As the Faculty Librarian for Medicine Dentistry Nursing & 
Pharmacy and Leader of the Health Sciences Team I am 
now the main point of contact for JRULM both within the 
Faculty and within the North West Region.  As such I am 
the person with whom David and his HCLU Team will 
negotiate over general JRULM services to your libraries 
on a Region wide level, current and future.  On a more 
local level I have overall responsibility for information 
resources and services to the entire Faculty of Medicine 
Dentistry Nursing & Pharmacy.  I am the main point of 
contact for you specifically with regard to JRULM 
services in support of the staff and students of Medical or 
Dental Schools who might be based, or on placement, at 
your sites. In addition, I am aware that many of you are 
involved within your local Health Authority Patch Groups 
working on FLIS matters and may wish to ask for JRULM 
co-operation/ support /involvement in this area; I am also 
your main point of contact for matters like this.

Eleri Strittmatter
Nursing Information Developments Manager
Telephone: 0161 275 3720
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]

Eleri takes specific responsibility within the Team for 
matters relating to the staff and students of the School of 
Nursing.  This includes the information resources and 
services provided at the Main University Library and 
Gateway House, as well as all the clinical sites at which 
staff and students are based and placed. Those of you 
who run libraries at sites with a strong contingent of 
University of Manchester Nursing students will already 
know who you are and be very familiar with Eleri.  
However, it is important to remember that staff and 
students from the School can appear / work in many 
parts of the Region and so please do feel free to contact 
her if you think she can be of any assistance to you. 

Alastair Flett
Assistant Librarian (Health Sciences)
Telephone:  0161 275 3675
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]

Alastair has a general remit within the Health Sciences 
Team to assist me with all aspects of my work but 
specifically takes the lion's share of the user education 
and training workload relating to the School of Medicine 
and Dentistry within the Faculty.  He also keeps our 
Internet Resources Pages up to date.  So if you need 
advice on access to and use of electronic resources & 
databases or internet sites to help you with a query from 
a member of the University of Manchester, please do 
contact Alastair.

Sheila Padden
Health Service Management & Health Statistics Subject 
Specialist
Telephone:  0161 275 7387
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]

Sheila's main responsibilities are as the Education 
Faculty Librarian and the JRULM Staff Training & 
Development Officer, but because of her extensive Health 
Services & Statistics knowledge and experience she is 
also a member of the Health Sciences Team.  Within the 
Team she is responsible for liaison with the Centre for 
Healthcare Management at the University and acts as the 
subject specialist for queries relating to health statistics.

Diana Leitch
Pharmacy Subject Specialist
Telephone:  0161 275 3737
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Most of you will know Diana as the Assistant Director of 
JRULM and the person who has overall responsibility for 
the provision of information resources and services to the 
entire University of Manchester.  However she has also 
been the Pharmacy subject specialist within the library 
for the last 20 years by virtue of a PhD in Chemistry and 
a Pharmaceutical information background. The School of 
Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences was moved from 
the Faculty of Science into the Faculty of Medicine 
Dentistry & Nursing this summer (hence the new and 
lengthy Faculty title!).  A by-product of this was that 
Diana became the newest member of the Health 
Sciences Team.  She has a great deal of experience, 
knowledge, and contacts in the pharmacy information 
world and may be of help to you in dealing with any 
queries from Pharmacy staff and students of the 
University based at clinical sites or on placement. 

Of course, there will also be other more specific points of 
contact within JRULM of use to you from time to time.  
The main ones are listed below:

Reference & Information Point 
(For general queries throughout the library's opening 
hours)
Telephone: 0161 275 3751

Document Supply Unit and Distance Learning Service
(David Orman / Joan Lowe)
Telephone:  0161 275 3741

Membership 
(Peter Wadsworth)
0161 275 3760

Technical Help Desk
(for technical help with access to and use of JRULM 
databases & other JRULM electronic resources - though 
for content or training matters you should contact a 
member of the Health Sciences Team)	
0161 275 7388

I hope that this clarifies matters for you all. However, 
please do feel free to contact me if you would like any 
further information or are ever in any doubt as to who 
might be your appropriate contact person.

Best wishes

Katy

PS I know that some of you are aware of the fact that I 
will be going on maternity leave towards the end of the 
year.  Further information about the cover in place during 
my absence will be issued by Diana Leitch nearer the 
time.  In the meantime don't let that put you off getting in 
touch!

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Katy Woolfenden
Faculty Librarian
(Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Pharmacy)
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester  M13 9PP
Telephone:  0161 275 7386
Fax:  0161 273 7488
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]
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