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Jenn Phillips-Bacher

Jenn Phillips-Bacher

Jenn Phillips-Bacher is Web Manager at Wellcome Library, where she spends her days working on projects to improve the Library's online user experience. Jenn studied Medieval History and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then went on to become a librarian. She can be found on LinkedIn and Tumblr.

  • Ice, dust and sweat: a closed week report

    05/07/2010

    As certain as death and taxes, so it goes that the Wellcome Library’s annual closed week was held during a stretch of particularly glorious summer weather. Huddled away in the frigid, windowless stores and in back offices of 183 Euston… Continue reading

  • New version of Encore released

    01/02/2010

    It’s been nearly a year since we unveiled Encore, the quick catalogue search interface for the Wellcome Library catalogues. While we work to customise the product to suit our users, we also receive updates from the software developers, the most… Continue reading

  • Closed Week by the numbers

    10/07/2009

    Each year the Library closes for a week to allow staff to work on projects that could be disruptive to our readers during normal open hours. This year our stocktaking activities included a full tidying of all open access collections… Continue reading

  • Cleaner and clearer search results in Encore

    06/07/2009

    Encore, the Library’s new user-friendly catalogue interface, has recently undergone a few changes. Just a few weeks ago we upgraded to a new version which offers a better way of saving and emailing records, improved search functionality, and the ability… Continue reading

  • Eureka!: Resource discovery at the Wellcome Library

    16/06/2009

    Regular visitors to the Wellcome Library website may have noticed the launch of Encore, our new online catalogue interface, during the dark days of February. Summer arrived and brought with it an upgraded version of Encore, which has now been… Continue reading

  • Encore catalogue open for tagging

    27/03/2009

    In February the Wellcome Library launched Encore, its new catalogue search tool. Even though it is still being tweaked to best suit the needs of our users, Encore is already making an impact. Encore offers registered Library users the ability… Continue reading