VINE: Volume 19 Issue 1

TECHLIB/STACS: a library housekeeping application of BASIS

This article, and the one which follows on CAIRS‐ LMS, describes two library housekeeping packages which have been developed using the database systems of BASIS and CAIRS…

CAIRS‐LMS: a library housekeeping system based on CAIRS

CAIRS and MICRO‐CAIRS are well‐established text retrieval systems; LMS (Library Management System) was launched at the end of 1987 to offer library housekeeping facilities in…

Management information from commercial automated library housekeeping systems: report of a survey

Jean Marie Willers

Background A survey was undertaken in November 1988 of libraries in polytechnics and universities in England and Wales having automated library systems. Its purpose was to find…

As simple to use as a card catalogue: can you put your library catalogue on CD‐ROM?

Tony McSean, Neil Smith

Scope This article surveys the systems currently available here and in the US for using CD‐ROM technology to produce working library catalogues; it investigates whether it is…

Developments in URICA at the British Museum (Natural History)

Martin Fisk, Michael Willsher

The library of the British Museum (Natural History) [BM(NH)] is rightly regarded as one of the premier scientific libraries of the world. In its field it contains holdings of…