The Integrated Workstation from Dawson Technology

The Integrated Workstation (IWS) was developed by a team at Leicester Polytechnic, funded by Dawson Technology who, in 1986, took over the marketing of AIM, the interlending package developed by Leicester. The idea behind IWS was that it should provide for all the librarian's IT requirements from a single desktop PC. It encompasses online searching and downloading and subsequent manipulation of search results, access to CD‐ROMs, access to other packages such as AIM and Dawson's serials system, SMS, and access to a suite of office automation software.