BOOK 38: AN INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM FOR THE IBM SYSTEM 38 Available to Purchase

In recent years, IBM hardware has not figured largely in the UK library automation scene, with the exception, obviously, of the microcomputer market and the IBM‐PC. Some libraries, usually public, use the parent organisations mainframe to run in‐house library systems, developed from the offline environments of the early 70s. The only turnkey system currently marketed for IBM hardware in the UK is DOBIS/LIBIS and that has been targeted at academic libraries. However, this looks set to change with the introduction into the UK of an Australian library system, Book 38, developed to run on the IBM System 38 hardware by Stowe Computing, Australia. Book 38 is an integrated library system offering cataloguing, online public access catalogue, acquisitions, circulation control and serials. It also interfaces fully to a range of other software products for local authorities in the financial and property areas.