[11574] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Library automation preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Heise)
Mon Aug 18 20:57:45 1997
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:52:36 -0500
From: George Heise <gheise@ultrix.ramapo.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ECS9708151648A@central.susx.ac.uk>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Please examine Endeavor's Voyager system. You will like it.
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, R.C Young wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> On 11 Aug 1997 Amy Helfman wrote:
>
> > ...
> > The most recent version of the system we are most likely to
> > purchase (the library director feels that since there is no
> > perfect option, we should wait a few years longer before we
> > automate!!!) is a UNIX-based client-server setup.
> > ...
>
> ... about which this veteran of three library automation systems
> implementations
> batch system: 1971
> Geac 8000-based on-line real-time: 1981;
> Geac 9000-based ditto: 1991 (and still going strong)
> would like to say:
> a. the perfect system will never exist;
> b. even if it did, you would not be able to recognise it when
> you saw it if you'd not had the experience of running a
> less-than-perfect system!
>
> -- Bob Young
> Sub-Librarian, University of Sussex Library, Brighton BN1 9QL, UK
> Phone: +44 (0)1273 678160
> Fax: +44 (0)1273 678441 Email: r.c.young@sussex.ac.uk
>
George F. Heise, Associate Director of Library Services
George T. Potter Library
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ 07430
Telephone: 201-529-7571
