VINE: Volume 17 Issue 1
Table of contents
TURNKEY SYSTEMS MARKET PLACE: A SNAPSHOT OF CUSTOMERS, PRODUCTS AND TRENDS
Three years ago, in VINE 54, there was a review of the trends in library automation over the three years prior to that. Now with our grant renewed for a further three years, it…
THE ECONOMIC MARKET PLACE
John Blunden‐EllisThe major change in the library automation market place over recent years has been in the escalation of competition among suppliers. The key factors in this are: the approach of…
SERIALS ON URICA AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
Avril ThomasThis paper describes past and present methods of serials control employed at the National Library of Wales, and notes the problems encountered in the transition from a completely…
SMS: THE SERIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROM DAWSONS
The preceding pages described the serials control component of a minicomputer‐based integrated library system. This article looks at another approach open to libraries namely that…
CLSI ANNOUNCES A NEW DEVELOPMENT PATH
CLSI has recently announced a radical new development path for its LIBS‐100 library automation system. CLSI's previous intention was to migrate from the current PDP‐11 — based…
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CIRCULATION CONTROL SYSTEM — CCS
CJ SendallAlthough the dominant trend in stand‐alone library systems is for libraries to buy in either turnkey systems or software packages from commercial suppliers, there is still in the…
PICA: CENTRUM VOOR BIBLIOTHEEKAUTOMATISERING
Jean PlaisterAs the various Lib‐2 studies conducted throughout the EEC are published (we hope), they should reveal how similar are the trends in automation in many European Countries. Perhaps…
VTLS CHOSEN BY NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND
The National Library of Scotland has selected VTLS (the Virginia Tech Library System) for the automation of its library and for network services it provides through SCOLCAP, the…