Christian West

Hi, I'm Christian West, a librarian in Canberra

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Christian West is a professional librarian with significant IT and public library experience. He is currently employed in the university sector with an aim to move into library management in a tertiary institution.

Team Leader, Library Technology Services at University of Canberra

January 2011 - May 2012

Lead the technology team, investigate and implement new library technologies, maintain and support existing library technologies.

Cataloguing, Thesis and e-Document Coordinator at University of Canberra

January 2010 - February 2011

Technical Services Team Leader at Yarra Libraries

June 2009 - January 2010

Team Leader - Technical Services at Brimbank Libraries

2007 - 2009

Amlib Support Consultant at Infovision Technology

2005 - 2007

Librarian at Casey Cardinia Library Corporation

1998 - 2005

Team Leader, Library eServices at University of Canberra

May 2012

In charge of the newly designed eServices team, a merger of the previous Technology and e-Resource Services teams. My staff look after recurrent materials (mainly serials, ejournals and databases), IT support and planning, licensing and maintain the ILMS, the research repository database and the library's proxy server. Personally I am the system administrator for the ILMS Millennium, provide support for IT hardware and software within the library and liaise with various university departments on Library IT matters.

Charles Sturt University

2004 – 2006

Masters of Applied Science

Monash University

2000 – 2002

Bachelor of Information Management and Systems

libraries, rfid, public libraries, youth literature, computing