VINE: Volume 23 Issue 3
Table of contents
Developments in Library Houskeeping Systems: an overview
While the eighties were years of much research into automated library housekeeping systems they were years of consolidation rather than innovation. The early ‘online’ circulation…
Circulation Functions Within OPAC: self‐issue and self‐renewal at Bradford University Library
Peter KetleyThis paper looks at the implementation of facilities for the issue and renewal of books by users, without the intervention of library staff, provided by McDonnell Douglas through…
TINlib in a Further Education College Library: a student viewpoint
Rosemary DanseyAutomating for the first time, Isle College chose IME's TINlib library management system on the evidence of its ease of use for end‐users. After almost six months of live use a…
MARCo from Data Trek
To complement their long standing Manager Series, Data Trek have developed a MARC based system for the medium sized library. As well as offering the normal functionality expected…
The installation of BOOK Plus at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Villeneuve D'Ascq, France
Marie‐Josée RichStowe Computing's BOOK Plus library housekeeping system has proved popular in France with well over twenty users at the time of writing. The public library authority at Villeneuve…
The Essex Problem! How Essex migrated from an offline to an online system
Diane WhittakerEssex has one of the country's largest library systems with 92 libraries and issues running at over 18 million per annum. A system of this size was bound to represent a challenge…
Plain SAILing with Swets
Rosemary RussellThe serials control package from Swets, SAILS, has been around for many years but has so far made little impact on the library automation market. The system originated on…