Number 10, September 1994
The process of implementing the Library's new integrated system (see Perspectives, May 1994) is now well under way.
In late July the Innovative Interfaces software and a test database of approximately 20,000 of the Library's bibliographic records were installed on the system computer, a Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha 3000. Training for members of the Library staff began at that time and will continue through November. By the end of September the Library's full database, containing well over 700,000 bibliographic records for all holdings that have been converted to machine-readable form, will be loaded and the acquisitions database will be transferred to the integrated database. Library staff will begin cataloging recent acquisitions on the new system at approximately that time, and a reorganization of technical services staff, designed to take advantage of the integrated functionality of the new system, will also be implemented.
In January, following the conversion of the circulation database, the new system will be made available to the public and OBIS will then have a brand new look! Public orientation and training sessions for the "new OBIS" will be announced at that time.
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