DYNIX AT THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Available to Purchase

In the current restrictive financial climate, it is nice, in the same issue of VINE, to be able to write about two new installations in the UK: the previous pages covered DOBIS at Liverpool University; this article takes a preliminary look at Stirling University's implementation of Dynix. Apart from the fact that both are universities, there is little in common between the two sites: in size of parent organisation and of library the two are at nearly opposite ends of the scale; the time‐scales followed range from around 9 months from delivery of hardware to live running at Liverpool to less than 3 months at Stirling; and the applications in use are different — both have cataloguing and OPAC but Sterling has introduced circulation whereas Liverpool has acquisitions. Both, however, placed heavy emphasis on links with the campus network and, by extension, with JANET.