VINE: Volume 22 Issue 3

Text Retrieval Systems for Libraries: an overview

Text retrieval (TR) systems are also commonly referred to as information retrieval (IR) systems. Essentially they can be thought of as being equivalent to the cataloguing and OPAC…

Information Retrieval Using The Great Dane

Robert Burrell, Chris Mac Arthur

The nature of the courses offered by Southampton Institute and the consequential variety of in‐house databases available meant that power and sophistication in information…

Flexible Storage and Fast Retrieval

Jane Henderson

BRS/SEARCH is a popular text retrieval package often used in combination with other software such as library housekeeping and imaging systems. The author has had experience of…

INMAGIC at Ove Arup

Simon White

The library at Ove Arup rejected a database management system solution to their catalogue requirements in favour of a text retrieval package in the shape of INMAGIC. The reasons…

VUBIS

With offices and users in several countries VUBIS is firmly established in mainland Europe having almost 200 installations, mostly in Belgium and Holland. The system was…

Talis: BLCMP's recently launched UNIX system

BLCMP recently launched their totally new system, Talis, at the Library Resources Exhibition. The first prototype has been extensively demonstrated although there is still a…