VINE: Volume 15 Issue 2
Table of contents
OKAPI: A PROTOTYPE ONLINE CATALOGUE
Gill Venner, Stephen Walker, Nathalie MitevThis article is a continuation and expansion of, which reported on an early stage of “Microcomputer networking in libraries”, a project funded by the British Library Research and…
BLBSD ANNOUNCES SUCCESSORS TO LOCAS AND BLAISE‐LINE
The British Library Bibliographic Services Division (BLBSD) has now announced details of its plans for taking its automated services into the next decade. It has acquired two…
LS/2000 LIVE AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A PROGRESS REPORT
It is some two years since VINE described OCLC Europe's local system, the LS/2000: at that time Newcastle University Library (NUL) was — and for that matter still is — the sole…
MICRO LIBRARY: AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED LIBRARIES
Micro Library is another newly introduced packaged being aimed at the corporate library and small academic research library environment. It is marketed by SPS Software Services, a…
A LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION OF A LAN
Though Local Area Networks (LANs) have been much talked about over the past two or three years, their role in libraries has, with a few exceptions, been in the realms of…
THE GEAC EXPERIENCE AT HILLINGDON
JE ClarkeIn Hillingdon it was decided in January 1982 to proceed with the automation of all major library applications (circulation, local information, catalogue and acquisitions) as a…
MODULE 4 — THE EALING EXPERIENCE
Carole DayThe London Borough of Ealing Public Library Service installed a DS Module 4 system in summer 1984; by January 1985 all twelve branches and the Bibliographic Services Department…
URICA: THE BRENT EXPERIENCE
Alec English, Clare JurkowskiBrent Library Service was the first U.K. public library to purchase URICA. Conventional wisdom suggests that the purchase of an untried computer system is not the smoothest path…
MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS PLANNED AT LASER
LASER has recently announced plans for major research into the application of viewdata and communications technology to bibliographical/information processing and networking. The…