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Volume 11, Issue 1
1 March 1995
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OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives
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Case Report| March 01 1995

The Borrowing Update System: current status, future plans and technical elements Available to Purchase

John D. Lewis
John D. Lewis
Site Administrator at the New Media Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1694
Print ISSN: 1065-075X
© MCB UP Limited
1995
OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives (1995) 11 (1): 21–26.
https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510080733

The Borrowing Update System (BUS) is a Windows‐based interlibrary loan package designed to facilitate common tasks related to record management and reporting. As a follow‐up to the initial article (which introduced the BUS), discusses the technical aspects with a look toward expansion issues.

Keywords:
Computer software, Databases, File transfer protocol, Interlending, Libraries, Operating systems, Software development
© MCB UP Limited
1995
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