Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 25 Issue 3

The implementation of BASIS at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Mary Davies

This paper summarises the factors influencing the selection and implementation of BASIS (Release K) and its library application packages (TechLib/STACS/BILL) in the creation of…

Implementing CAIRS‐LMS in a small academic library: experience at Templeton College, Oxford

David Perrow

Templeton College is a management education centre linked to Oxford University. In 1989 the existing micro‐CAIRS system was upgraded to the integrated CAIRS‐LMS system running…

The automation of map library routines: problems and potential

C.R. Perkins

This article explores and explains the differences of emphasis in the past, evaluates current developments and speculates upon future uses of automated procedures in map…

Library automation in Belgium in 1990

Jilien Van Borm

Belgium has a longstanding and rich tradition in library automation from the beginning in the late 1960s to the present day. Unlike, for instance, the Netherlands, it has no…

Information technology in Greek libraries: an update

R.J. Hartley, I. Trohopoulos

In an earlier paper we reported on the application of information technology in Greek libraries. In November 1990, the British Library Research and Development Department (BLR&DD…

‘Upward still and onward’: where are we going in library automation? A personal view

F.J. Friend

I can still remember the pride with which, just under 20 years ago, we installed a punched‐card ALS system into the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. It was the…

A report of the talks given at the British Library Research and Development Department Open Day, November 1990

Mary Feeney

The British Library Research and Development Department (BLR&DD) held its Open Day on November 14th 1990. The event was well‐publicised and drew representatives from the library…

A report on the Computers in Libraries International 91 conference

Lucy A. Tedd

Computers in Libraries International 91 was the fifth in an annual series of conferences run by the publishers Meckler Ltd, in the UK. It was held from the 26th to the 28th of…