Don Richardson

Associate Director for Technolgoy and E-Resource Management

Responsibilities

As administrator of the Voyager integrated library system, Don is responsible for its management and support and is the primary liaison to the system vendor. He also administers the library's digital collection management system, federated search tool (QuickFind) and link resolver (FullTextFinder). In addition, he manages the licensing and implementation of many of the library's electronic databases and resources, such as EBSCOhost, Engineering Village, FirstSearch, Gale, SciFinder Scholar, and Web of Science. He acts as a resource for library staff and users on these systems; consults with CCC and other IT Division staff on systems-related questions; and serves as the library's liaison to several consortia on database and electronic resource issues. Don also is an IT liaison to the Computer Science and Physics departments.

Code that might be used for a Quick Keyword Search box with no other options.

Code that might be used in left-side library menu with a few options. This is like what we have now.


DigiTool Woodbury Collection simple search box

Search for    

Browse the Woodbury Letterheads Collection

DigiTool Dickens Collection simple search box

Search for    

Browse the Dickens Collection

Persistent link to Hard Times

Try Summon!:

Search Summon for full text journal articles:

Contact Information

E-mail: drichard@wpi.edu
Don Richardson
Associate Director for Technology and E-Resource Management
George C. Gordon Library
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Phone: (508) 831-6161
Fax: (508) 831-5829

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Last modified Thu Jan 8 15:20:41 EST 2009