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In 1988, Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) celebrated the twelfth anniversary of its automated community information system. This vast local resource represents over 10,000 records of local information contained in eight public databases. The last twelve years have marked a period of intensive systems' development and maintenance, and afforded little occasion for reflection. This anniversary has presented PPLD with a twofold opportunity: to analyze the status of the files within the library's service plan and to chart their future direction.

Maggie III is an integrated system that supports a public access catalog, cataloging interface, bibliographic maintenance, circulation, electronic mail, and community information databases. Acquisitions and serials modules are under development. The system, available from the Eyring Research Institute, is based on software created for the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL). Sidebars describe 1) the structure of the community information databases, 2) the planned use of the CARL software by other libraries in Colorado, and 3) the mounting and use of the non‐bibliographic database, “A Matter of Fact”, on the CARL system.

The project's approach and focus as well as some results of phase I (1986) and II (1987) are reported in Part 1. Each phase of the project combined different tasks: