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Automation arrives in Douglas College library

he library, in conjunction with

the Systems and Computing
Department, has purchased an
INLEX/3000 Integrated Library
System and a Hewlett Packard 900
Series computer.

The new system will mean im-
proved access for library users and
will allow staff to keep better con-
trol of library books.

When users enter the library
in September, 1990 they will see
computer terminals on the tables
where the microfiche catalogue
readers now sit. When a book is
checked out, its bar code will be
scanned at a terminal. It means no
more signing a blue card for each
book.

 

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find out instantly
whether the book
they’re searching for
is in stock and
whether it’s avail-
able.

Cockburn says
17 public access com-
puter terminals will
be “very user friend-
ly” and will include
easy-to-use instruc-
tions for the first-
time user.

“The system will
be absolutely up-to-
date, listing every
book the library has
received as soon as it
is catalogued and
ready to borrow,”

 

 

Virginia Chisholm, director of Learning
Resources, Al Atkinson, dean of Educational
and Student Services Division and Bill Day,
College president, sign agreement to purchase

the new automation system.

she says.

“In the future,
anyone witha
microcomputer and
a modem will be
able to dial up the
OPAC from

 

“The Hewlett Packard is the
Rolls Royce of computers,” says
Jean Cockburn, chairperson of the
library’s Automation Publicity
Committee. “Everything the
library orders, owns and has
checked out will be listed in one in-
tegrated database.”

Once the system is up and run-
ning, borrowers will be able to sit
at a computer in the library and

anywhere outside
the library,” she says. “But the im-
mediate objective is to get the
OPAC up and running for walk-in
users.”

Library staff hope to have the
system in full operation for the fall
1990 semester. Installation will
begin in May.

“It’s a big job,” says Cockburn.

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