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The year of the UNICORN: a review of the first year's experience with the UNICORN collection management system at the King's Fund Centre

Program: electronic library and information systems

ISSN: 0033-0337

Article publication date: 1 February 1992

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Abstract

In the Autumn of 1989, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London embarked on an ambitious project to develop a fully integrated information retrieval system for its two libraries and several specialist information exchanges accessible to all staff via the Fund's office automation network. In August 1990, it became the first European organisation to purchase the UNICORN collection management system to which it added the BRS/ SEARCH system for a complete full‐text retrieval and library management package. One year after installation, all modules are operational, a major collection inventory, weeding and barcoding project is nearly complete and the retrospective conversion of the library catalogues is on target with completion due in less than six months. The Fund, now one several of European UNICORN sites, recently hosted the first European UNICORN Users' Group.

Citation

Haines, M. (1992), "The year of the UNICORN: a review of the first year's experience with the UNICORN collection management system at the King's Fund Centre", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 165-176. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047112

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