David Alsmeyer manages British Telecom's library, information and translation services, which provides technical library and information services and a full translation and interpreting service to people throughout the BT Group
Achievements have included work towards building a digital library for BT. The BT Digital Library incorporates the Inspec and ABI/Inform databases and a number of internal databases on a WWW server. These databases are supplemented by electronic journals hosted on the library server or on publishers' sites. Electronic journals include titles from Elsevier Science, the IEEE, the IEE, and the in-house BT Technology Journal.
The library has been transformed from a large, paper collection to a much smaller core collection of key documents backed up by an end-user driven document delivery system. This has allowed the library to refocus on building the Digital Library. Staff training has been provided to ensure that all employees in the library have the skills and experience they will need.
From 2000 - 2001, he was a member of a British Library Think Tank to help shape its long-term future direction. Its aim was to anticipate responses to changes in technology and other external developments.
He joined the Advisory Committee of the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU) at the University of Loughborough in 1999.