VINE: Volume 19 Issue 2
Table of contents
London Borough of Bromley: from ALS to Geac in six months
The London Borough of Bromley began drawing up a specification for a system to replace the existing ALS system in August 1987. Preliminary discussions with a number of suppliers…
The Work of BEDIS (Book Trade Electronic Data Interchange Standards Committee)
Tony HallFor ten or more years it has been the wish of libraries and library suppliers to communicate electronically, but in 1989 it is still the case that the vast majority of orders…
BABEL II‐ An account of the second conference on data standards for electronic data interchange in the book world
The second BABEL conference provided the opportunity for the five working parties of BEDIS to present their draft reports and recommendations. The five areas covered by the…
Advance: Geac's new PICK‐based system
In 1988 Geac acquired an American company, Advanced Libraries & Information Inc. (ALII) which had developed a PICK‐based system for the University of Hawaii. Geac are now…
The Integrated Workstation from Dawson Technology
The Integrated Workstation (IWS) was developed by a team at Leicester Polytechnic, funded by Dawson Technology who, in 1986, took over the marketing of AIM, the interlending…
Mandarin: a PC‐based system from Canada
This article is based on a description which was first published in the ‘Guide to Library Systems for Schools’. At the time the guide was written, the UK agents for the system…
SALBIN: Freedom of Access for Users Unlimited
Marion RallsThe Scottish Academic Libraries Bibliographic Information Network (SALBIN) is one among many of the manifestations of productive co‐operation among the Scottish libraries. Other…