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

Abstract

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 contracted user and was looking then towards a live date early in 1984. In the event, that schedule proved over‐optimistic and NUL is only now gradually implementing the various modules of LS/2000. The package currently comprises circulation, cataloguing, and online public access modules or subsystems, plus the administrative subsystem for setting a wide range of system parameters. A new module running on the OCLC M300 Workstation (a modified IBM‐PC) and interfacing with both LS/2000 and with the online shared system has been developed for serials (see next issue of VINE) and the intention is that a similar development path will be followed for acquisitions. Newcastle will be taking all modules as they become available, but at the time of writing, NUL was live for cataloguing and for online public access: circulation control is currently managed by NUL's in‐house automated system. The transfer of this to LS/2000 is still waiting for enhancements to the software and on having sufficient coverage of active loan stock on the LS/2000 database.

Citation

(1985), "LS/2000 LIVE AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A PROGRESS REPORT", VINE, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040322