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Chester, UK Chester College of Higher Education was founded in 1839 by a group of local churchmen and politicians, including Britain's greatest nineteenth century Prime Minister, William Gladstone. Chester College has a total student population of 6800. Originally established to train young men to be teachers, the College now offers both men and women undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the arts, humanities, sciences, health, education, and nursing, all accredited by the University of Liverpool. As in many British institutions of higher education, Learning Resources is an integrated service offering library and information services, staff development in the use of IT, teaching and learning support, as well as the production of multimedia learning materials and the print unit. The main building for Learning Resources is on the College campus, with smaller site libraries in seven hospitals where Chester College's student nurses and midwives are taught. The College library holds approximately 230,000 volumes, of which 30,000 are distributed among the hospital sites. Learning Resource's vision is to be a patron-focused state-of-the-art service which delivers information, resources, and training, enabling the students and staff of Chester College to achieve their learning and research goals. Chester College has been an Innovative partner library since 1995 and is currently in the process of implementing Millennium. "We chose Millennium because we realized that we had to move into the new technologies which are Web- and client-server based. Millennium enables us to have more functionality and gives us a more attractive interface to the system," said Christine Stockton, Director of the Chester College Learning Resources Center. Stockton added, "Our aim is to integrate traditional library services with our Web-based and electronic resources in an information environment which supports the development of our staff and students as independent and life-long learners." |
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