The Unicorn Collection Management System: Its Structure and Features Available to Purchase

The Unicorn Collection Management System, developed by Sirsi Corporation, is an integrated library system consisting of the following modules: bibliographic and inventory control; circulation; enhanced public access with Boolean, truncation and adjacency searching; academic reserves; acquisitions; serials control; authority control; materials booking; and electronic mail. The system stores and displays records either in a short form, full‐MARC, or library‐designed format. Online and offline interfaces to biblio‐graphic services such as OCLC are available. Written in C for use with the UNIX or XENIX operating systems, Unicorn can be acquired as a total turnkey system or as software only. A sidebar describes the installation and use of Unicorn at Nashville Tech.