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Volume 27, Issue 4
1 April 1997
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Review Article| April 01 1997

URICA in the Durban Metropolitan Library System

Carol Barraclough
Library and Information Systems Manager
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1474-1032
Print ISSN: 0305-5728
© MCB UP Limited
1997
VINE (1997) 27 (4): 59–63.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040657

The article describes the background to public libraries in South Africa, and the Durban Metropolitan libraries in particular, including the IT infrastructure. It then looks at the modules of the URICA library system as implemented at Durban, and the library service's future plans.

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