VINE: Volume 19 Issue 3

The turnkey systems marketplace: ten years on

It is now some ten years since the first of the turnkey library systems was installed in the UK; this was the Geac system at the University of Hull. It seems appropriate, to…

An OASIS in the market place: the new system from Dawson Technology

Dawson Technology have developed a new PC‐based system, OASIS (Open Access Strategic Information System), and are marketing it instead of the Data Trek system for which they had…

LIBERTAS at the University of London: a progress report

The following two articles are concerned with LIBERTAS implementations on large networks. At the University of London, there are six LIBERTAS installations at major colleges, with…

LIBERTAS implementation and networking at the University of Wales College of Cardiff

Richard Mellows

The University of Wales College of Cardiff (UWCC) was formed in September 1988 by the merger of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) and University…

European National Libraries and CD‐ROM: A cooperative project

Robert Smith

Following pilot CD‐ROM projects in 1988 carried out by the British Library and the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris (jointly) and the Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt (in parallel)…

Decision support system research at Leicester Polytechnic

Roy Adams

Leicester Polytechnic Library has recently completed a research programme for the British Library Research and Development Department into the application of office automation and…