Andreu Sulé

I was born in Barcelona (Spain) at 1964. I began my degree studies in the Geography and History Scholl of the University of Barcelona at 1984, in the Contemporary History specialty. Three years later I began my studies in the Librarianship School of the same university as a way to know more about a discipline that I discovered during my visits to the university library. This that, at beginning, was just a relationship with books developed in a wider interest in other subjects, specialty with technology.

My first librarian job was in 1990 as cataloguer in the Technical Services of a university of Barcelona (UAB). In this service we managed the bibliographic and authority control of the automated catalogue (VTLS) of all schools libraries. Five years later I changed to a cooperative cataloguing project (CCUC) that met all universities of Catalonia and the National Library of Catalonia. Moreover that manage the bibliographic and authority control of the cooperative catalogue, I was member of a team in charge of produce cataloguing rules of all kind of materials, and develop control and quality standards.

At 1998 I was called from the Librarianship School (the same one where I realized my studies!) to teach some technology and cataloguing courses. The experience was so gratefully to me that two years later I decided leave my job and work full time at the School as a teacher. Since then, I have always been related with technology and cataloguing matters, and also with prison libraries, the subject of my thesis. I have participated in several research projects: the information system automation of one of the most important Spanish publishing group (Grupo Godó); the community information automation of a big Catalonia city (Sabadell); the development of a national name authority list (CANTIC); writing guidelines for Catalan prison libraries… One of the last projects is the open software automated systems test lab that we present this year at BOBCATSSS as a very useful pedagogical tool to bring a little bit more these, some times, difficult technologies to Librarianship students.