VINE: Volume 15 Issue 2

OKAPI: A PROTOTYPE ONLINE CATALOGUE

Gill Venner, Stephen Walker, Nathalie Mitev

This article is a continuation and expansion of, which reported on an early stage of “Microcomputer networking in libraries”, a project funded by the British Library Research and…

BLBSD ANNOUNCES SUCCESSORS TO LOCAS AND BLAISE‐LINE

The British Library Bibliographic Services Division (BLBSD) has now announced details of its plans for taking its automated services into the next decade. It has acquired two…

LS/2000 LIVE AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A PROGRESS REPORT

It is some two years since VINE described OCLC Europe's local system, the LS/2000: at that time Newcastle University Library (NUL) was — and for that matter still is — the sole…

MICRO LIBRARY: AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED LIBRARIES

Micro Library is another newly introduced packaged being aimed at the corporate library and small academic research library environment. It is marketed by SPS Software Services, a…

A LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION OF A LAN

Though Local Area Networks (LANs) have been much talked about over the past two or three years, their role in libraries has, with a few exceptions, been in the realms of…

THE GEAC EXPERIENCE AT HILLINGDON

JE Clarke

In Hillingdon it was decided in January 1982 to proceed with the automation of all major library applications (circulation, local information, catalogue and acquisitions) as a…

MODULE 4 — THE EALING EXPERIENCE

Carole Day

The London Borough of Ealing Public Library Service installed a DS Module 4 system in summer 1984; by January 1985 all twelve branches and the Bibliographic Services Department…

URICA: THE BRENT EXPERIENCE

Alec English, Clare Jurkowski

Brent Library Service was the first U.K. public library to purchase URICA. Conventional wisdom suggests that the purchase of an untried computer system is not the smoothest path…

MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS PLANNED AT LASER

LASER has recently announced plans for major research into the application of viewdata and communications technology to bibliographical/information processing and networking. The…