APPLICATION OF WINISIS FOR AUTOMATION OF CIRCULATION SYSTEM: A PRACTICAL. The new company may have more financial resources to devote to making the system work well, said Daniel Iddings of R.M.G. Gives an overview of the features and functions of library automation software. Tuesday`s expected announcement follows months of rumors that DataPhase, based in Shawnee, Kan., was searching for a buyer for some of its business.Īn industry consultant suggested last week the acquisition may be a blessing for Chicago. Siddique and Mahmood (2015) conducted a survey study to investigate the position of integrated library systems (ILS) and software that had been used in the. Robert Levy, a lawyer for DataPhase, said UTLAS will provide continuing service to libraries that already have the ALIS III system and will buy the rights to sell the system to other libraries. The firm is a division of International Thomson Organisation Ltd., a multinational communications firm based in Toronto.

UTLAS, an acronym for the University of Toronto Library Automation Systems, is a spinoff company that designed and installed a computer system for the University of Toronto. DataPhase has promised delivery ''in the next couple of days,'' he said. But Ulo Ormiste, library data processing director, said he had not yet received the programs. The new computer programs were to have been delivered Monday.

Richard Friedman, a lawyer advising the library board on the computer contract, said he will study Chicago`s contract with DataPhase and the expected agreement between DataPhase and UTLAS.įriedman wants to know whether UTLAS will provide only the routine maintenance for the system once it is fully installed or if UTLAS will be taking on the obligations of the original contract that DataPhase undertook five years ago.īoard members voted in March to delay releasing DataPhase from a $596,000 performance bond until June 1, to wait for delivery of the last group of computer programs that are supposed to correct two basic flaws in the circulation system. The other half of the ILS includes retrieval components through a discovery layer which provides access to collections and catalogs, and circulation.

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