Recent developments in library automation in Mexico and Venezuela Available to Purchase

In March 1987, during a visit to Latin America concerned with education for librarianship, I noted a number of interesting developments in library automation. The main library of the National University of Mexico, UNAM, is developing a major co‐operative database for cataloguing, LIBERUNAM. Some 300,000 bibliographical records are already included, mostly from the main library, but the system is eventually expected to cover most of the 100+ libraries in UNAM. The computer can apparently support several hundred terminals, and a programme of installing OPACs in some of the faculty libraries is beginning shortly.