[11579] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Library automation preparation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Heine)
Tue Aug 19 20:33:06 1997
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:48:21 -0500
From: Martin Heine <martin@tm.tno.nl>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In the UK you can contact Fenwood Systems for the Libero product. It is miles
ahead of the Dynix Software, and for much better price.
Fenwood Systems Ltd.
2 Kingston Estate, Eastern Rd
Aldershot, Hants,
Tel +441252350001
Martin Heine
>
> ----------------------------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
>
