Nottinghamshire County Libraries and BOOK PLUS

Nottinghamshire County Libraries recently embarked on a new phase of automation with the replacement of their ageing Plessey SPC1B circulation system — possibly the last in the country. This serviced the five largest branch libraries in the Nottinghamshire system (which includes all the City libraries) and ran on the local authority ICL 2900 series mainframe computer which held books on loan and catalogue files. The priority for Nottinghamshire was to replace the system in those five libraries but the new system goes much further.