News from Sirsi
News from Sirsi
RAF College Cranwell chooses Unicorn
The Royal Air Force College in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, UK has chosen the Unicorn Library Management System to replace its existing TinLib system. The Unicorn system will be installed on a Windows 2000 server and will provide access via a Graphical User Interface (WorkFlows with Z39.50) to Cataloguing,Authority Control, Circulation, Acquisitions, and Serials Control. Restricted access to the OPAC will also be available through the Web via the iLink electronic library. The RAF College Cranwell library service supports the wide range of courses taught at Cranwell and the personnel work both at the College and the RAF station.
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College chooses Unicorn
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, which has four sites in the West of London, has chosen the Unicorn Library Management System. The Unicorn system will be installed on a Windows 2000 server and will provide access via a Graphical User Interface (WorkFlows with Z39.50) to Cataloguing, Authority Control, Circulation, Acquisitions (with EDI), Serials Control, and Academic Reserves. SmartPORT will be used to capture bibliographic data from Z39.50 sources world-wide. Access to the OPAC and other electronic services will also be available through the World Wide Web via the iLink electronic library. The project will include converting data from an existing FoxPro system.
Royal Geographical Society chooses Unicorn
The Library at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in London has chosen the Unicorn Collection Management System to provide online access to historic collections. The Unicorn system will be installed on a Sun Solaris server. Once fully implemented, Sirsi's iLink interface will provide access over the Web to the library and archives at the RGS. Library staff will have access via a Graphical User Interface (WorkFlows) to Cataloguing, Authority Control, and via Knowledge Portal to external services over the Web.The library at the RGS holds a unique collection of two million maps, photographs, archives and artefacts,which document ninteenth and early twentieth-century British exploration and geographical discovery.
Once launched on the Web in 2004, the iLink interface will enable anyone in the world to retrieve information about the materials in the collection and request items for use within the Society's reading room.
For further information please contact: Sirsi, Unicorn House, Station Close,Potters Bar, Herts EN6 3JW, UK. Tel: +44(0) 1707 858000; Fax: +44(0) 1707 858111; E-mail: nick@sirsi.co.uk; URL: www.sirsi.co.uk
