Recent developments in library automation in Mexico and Venezuela

Abstract

In March 1987, during a visit to Latin America concerned with education for librarianship, I noted a number of interesting developments in library automation. The main library of the National University of Mexico, UNAM, is developing a major co‐operative database for cataloguing, LIBERUNAM. Some 300,000 bibliographical records are already included, mostly from the main library, but the system is eventually expected to cover most of the 100+ libraries in UNAM. The computer can apparently support several hundred terminals, and a programme of installing OPACs in some of the faculty libraries is beginning shortly.

Citation

Johnson, I. (1987), "Recent developments in library automation in Mexico and Venezuela", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 379-381. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046982