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Library Collection
The Chapter has a Computer Audit library collection
housed at the Guildhall Library in the City of London. The collection
was initiated in 1994 with the purpose of having a ‘collection of
historic books and journals relating to the development of computer
auditing as a profession’.
The Guildhall library is keen to hold the collection
as it gives an aspect on the City's institutional business life and the
development of computer audit in general. I am informed that the
collection, while being relatively small at the moment, is regularly
referred to by both academics and the public for research purposes.
The Board considered the continuation of the
collection in November 2000. The result was the collection would be
maintained and rationalised but still continuing on an historical basis.
The idea of having a library of current publications was discussed but
thought both impractical and potentially expensive.
Both the Board and the Guildhall Librarian are keen
to receive book/publication donations. So if you have any books ready
for disposal, please do not automatically throw them away, contact the
librarian to discuss the matter first. The Librarian is Irene Gilchrist
(tel: 020 7332 1123, email: irene.gilchrist@corpoflondon.gov.uk).
A basic guideline for suitable donations would include, a
standard/benchmark type book, specific issue book (e.g. digital
signatures), books broadly related to computing within London (e.g.
report on the London Ambulance Service), books/publications of national
importance (e.g. Year 2000) etc.
The Guildhall Library is situated in the centre of
the City of London (Aldermanbury, EC2P 2EJ map).
It can be described as one of the earliest public reference libraries in
the United Kingdom, since it was originally founded as a library of
manuscripts in 1423-25 and counted among its users Sir Thomas More and
Erasmus. The Guildhall Library of today is freely available for the use
of any member of the public, and is used by visitors from throughout the
world in view of its unique collections. Its principal strength lies in
its historical research collections - in printed, graphic, manuscript,
microform and electronic formats - relating to London and to the City in
particular. Supplementing these are further substantial research
collections in the fields, inter alia, of British history,
topography, biography, genealogy, heraldry and economic and commercial
history.
Lastly, just to emphasis the library
collection is only of an historic nature; there are no current books. In
addition, some overseas readers have been under the misapprehension that
the library offers numerous facilities including studying for the CISA
exams and offering accommodation, this is not the case.
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