VINE: Volume 15 Issue 4
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BREAKING THE SILENCE: NEWS OF SWALCAP'S LOCAL INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM
1986 heralds a period of significant change for SWALCAP, the Bristol‐based co‐operative, currently supplying centralised cataloguing and circulation systems to 23 Member…
FRESH FIELDS AND PAST YOUR SCREEN
Marilyn DoverThe PIRATE project operated by Devon Library Services is a local community information service which differs in many respects from local information schemes elsewhere. Although…
GEAC LOCAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AT HILLINGDON BOROUGH LIBRARIES
Alison HunterBackground As described in VINE 48, Hillingdon Libraries issued in September 1982 a 91‐page specification for the supply of an integrated online library system. Though only one…
CLSI'S LIBS‐100 LIVE AT COVENTRY LANCHESTER POLYTECHNIC LIBRARY
During 1985 CLSI established itself as an obvious force in the UK turnkey market place, acquiring 5 customers for its LIBS‐100 system in the course of the year. The first of…
STOCK AUDITING: ANALYSING SWALCAP MANAGEMENT INFORMATION ON A SPREADSHEET
Philip PayneWe all like to believe that our library catalogues are an authoritative record of our library stocks. But how confident are we that this is the case? Losses, in particular, are…
BRITISH LIBRARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY AUTOMATION PROGRAMME
The Library automation programme supports research which is aimed at improving the efficiency of library operations through the use of computer systems and other forms of…
COPOL AND ELECTRONIC MAIL
Roy AdamsAlthough it has been around for many years electronic mail (e‐mail) has grown in public awareness over the last few months to a point where one could get the impression that the…