He is accountable for co-ordinating our sites at Kalgoorlie, Muresk, Shenton Park, downtown Perth, and the Faculty of Education. Together with our Senior Librarians, John manages, plans and develops scholarly information services for academic staff and postgraduates. He is particularly interested in the innovative use of technology and communications to provide all clients with improved access to information. To date John has presented some 50 papers, and been invited to speak on a diverse range of topics related to libraries, librarians, information, planning and quality at many national and international conferences. Publications include numerous journal articles and book chapters and ten books.
Private interests cover an eclectic range of sport, wine, food and music.
Onderstepoort library users'. Pretoria 24-28 October, 1977'. Current bibliographic projects'. Easing the way for new national libraries'. Library services for Africans in the RSA'.