Library systems and L Guide - Resources and Review

Features SIRSI product information, including details about Academe, Oasis and Stilas, library management systems for academic, public and government libraries. Also provides resources about Z39.50, details of seminars, conferences and employment opportunities.
 
Provides information on the group's meetings, their officers and members and links to libraries with Advance.
 
Aims to support large scale resource discovery across the Yorkshire and Humberside region by using the Z39.50 protocol to create a distributed union catalogue.
 
Aims to establish a pilot virtual clump to provide single search access to the library catalogues of six members of the M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries. The project will consist of a seamless search tool to the library OPACs of the six pilot partners and will provide monograph and serial information using the Z39.50 protocol.
 
Article discussing methods of assessing the usage of electronic information resources within the library environment. Covers Web analysis software, demographics, and economic and library benchmarks. Also considers the Statistics and Measurement Program available from ARL, and provides links to a range of tools.
 
News and product information from the suppliers of the Dynix, Horizon, and NOTIS systems.
 
News and information from EliAS, producers of library management and administration systems. Products include AMICUS, LibriVision, and DOBIS/LIBIS.
 
Newsletter designed to assist information professionals with integrated online library system issues. Includes articles, reviews and press releases on current library system trends.
 
Group of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions which aims to stimulate, develop and promote concepts and tools for the improvement of quality of modern library services, involving advanced technologies for creation, storage, retrieval, manipulation and display of information.
 
Develops a library and information management system called Adlib. Current developments are the implementation of Z39.50 and a Web interface to Adlib databases. A demo version of Adlib for Windows can be downloaded.
 
Forum for the customers of Horizon, the client
server library automation system from Ameritech Library Services. Offers searchable Horizon-L archives, a discussion group for communication between members of the Horizon Users Group, and listings of Horizon staff and potential purchasers of Horizon software.
 
Information about library resources covering Web pages, online catalogues, product suppliers, trends in automation, and a bibliographic database of related literature.
 
Covers all aspects of information technology in libraries and information services. Contents and abstracts only.
 
Project aiming to integrate 25 Z39.50 compliant catalogues or information services of CAIRNS sites across Scotland into a functional and user
adaptive test-bed service.
 
Weekly list of journal article references about the application of new technologies in libraries, including archives from 1996 onwards.
 
Providers of client
server automation systems, networking and other related services.
 
Information about a supplier of computer systems to public and academic libraries in the British Isles. Includes product news, details of events, and Year 2000 compliance information.
 
Details of software vendors relevant to Information Management Systems (IMS), Document Database Searching, Independent Text
Retrieval Software and Text-retrieval via document imaging.
 
Providers of computer software and hardware for the automation of various functions performed by college, university, public and special libraries. Site provides information about the company and its products, especially INNOPAC.
 
Provider of document management software including BASIS.
 
Report delivered to the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Research Support Libraries Programme, and the British Library's Cooperation and Partnership Programme in April 2001 reviewing the key factors impinging upon the creation of a National Union Catalogue, and assessing the feasibility of implementing such a system. Available in PDF and Microsoft Word format.
 
Product information from Fretwell
Downing Informatics, the suppliers of the OLIB library systems product range.
 
Supplier of information management products including the Windows
based Libero library management system, Ultra*Net CD-ROM networking system, and LaserFiche document imaging system.
 
Information about the CARL system, a turnkey library management system, and other CARL corporation services.
 
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