CALM: computer aided library management Available to Purchase

CALM, in the words of the supporting literature, “is a computer based library management system for use in book, film, slide, microfiche and other libraries”. Its objective is to “provide storage and retrieval facilities for day to day and time efficient management”. The program is designed to be adaptable for a variety of libraries, and provides the following functions: acquisitions and supplier information, cataloguing and classification, indexing (by keywords and thesaurus), keyword searching, circulation and loan control including reader information, printed reports and documents from the system, and an optional feature to communicate with remote information centres, such as Dialog and Blaise. The wide range of functions, however, individually lack many of the features important to libraries.