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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (August 4, 2000) The Brisbane Library Service, the largest public library
service in Australia-serving 850,000 citizens-has implemented Sirsi Corporation‘s Unicorn™ Library
Management System for its 32 libraries located throughout the city of Brisbane. Operating under the authority of the Brisbane City Council and under the direction of Christine Mackenzie, the
libraries loan 9 million items annually from a total collection of 1.2 million titles. According to Mackenzie, the Brisbane libraries chose to replace their Dynix system with Unicorn because it
rated tops in functionality, offered a match for the library's platform requirements, had a proven record of success in other large public libraries and scored high in user-friendliness.
The Brisbane system, which is based on five 'hub' libraries that cover the entire city and support
an additional five to six branches each, the ease of changing from our old system to Unicorn confirmed our decision to go with SIRSI," Mackenzie said.
According to Mackenzie, Brisbane libraries are working to expand their traditional role from book
repositories to centers of the community and gateways to information from a variety of sources, including electronic ones. "In addition to the Unicorn system and WebCat, which initially attracted
us to SIRSI, the recently introduced iBistro™ Internet access center will enable us to go even further in fulfilling our goal of providing information anywhere, anytime in our community,"
Mackenzie said. After seeing iBistro in action at the American Library Association conference in Chicago, Mackenzie is enthused over iBistro's features. "I like the categorized searches across
both the local library's and other libraries' catalogs; Web resource searches; record enrichments such as book reviews, author biographies, and tables of contents; popular web sites and best
seller lists; and updates managed by SIRSI. And I find the potential of creating electronic book clubs especially intriguing," Mackenzie added.
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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
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July 2000: Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College has chosen the Unicorn Collection
Management System to provide an Integrated Library Management System to replace their existing Datatrek and Tinlib library systems.
The Unicorn system will be installed on an Oracle database under the Solaris operating system
on a Sun E450 server. Access will be provided to library staff via a Graphical User Interface (WorkFlows with Z39.50) to Cataloguing, Circulation, Academic Reserves, Serials Control,
Materials Booking, Inter-Library Loans, EDIFACT, Authority Control and Acquisitions together with a Knowledge Portal to external services over the Internet. SmartPORT will be used to
capture data via Z30.30. Access to the OPAC will be via WebCat.
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College is a multi-campus institution with three Learning
Resources Centres supporting learning, teaching and research in the Faculties of Applied Social Science and Humanities, Design, Health Studies, Leisure & Tourism, Technology and the
Buckinghamshire Business School.
Dorette Biggs, Head of Library and Media Resources, commented: "The implementation of
SIRSI's Unicorn Collection Management System will give us the opportunity to greatly improve our service provision. The Web OPAC will provide access to the library catalogues of all three
campuses for BCUC staff and students and members of the wider academic community, both from within the institution and externally. After a rigorous selection process it was decided that
SIRSI's Unicorn Collection Management System would be the best system to take us into the 21st century." Contact:Sirsi UK
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International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
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The International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has chosen
the Unicorn Collection Management System to provide an Integrated Library Management System to replace their existing Basis library system
The Unicorn system will be installed under the Solaris operating system on a Sun Ultra 10 and will
provide access via a Graphical User Interface (WorkFlows with Z39.50) to OPAC services, Cataloguing, Circulation, Authority Control, Current Awareness and SDI, Serials Control and
Acquisitions together with a Knowledge Portal to external services over the Internet. Access to the OPAC will also be available over the Internet via WebCat.
The IBFD's Library and Information Centre contains the largest collection, worldwide, of
information on international taxation, national taxation systems and related subjects. The IBFD library has over 30,000 books and subscriptions to over 1,000 journals, official gazettes,
loose-leaf services and databases available. Bibliographical details of the collection are stored in a database to facilitate research and retrieval. Contact:Sirsi UK
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Texas State implement Bath Profile
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Blue Angel Technologies and Sirsi Corp. Enable Unprecedented Interoperability
Austin, Texas (August 11, 2000) The Texas State Library and Archives Commission announced
today that through the combined efforts of Blue Angel Technologies of Valley Forge, Pa., Sirsi Corporation of
Huntsville, Ala. and State Library personnel, the Texas State Library has successfully implemented the first cross-domain Web application to use the Bath Profile in a production environment.
The Bath Profile is an internationally registered Z39.50 profile designed to provide effective
interoperability between electronic library catalogs and other database applications. Conformance to this profile's specifications will improve international search and retrieval of
electronic information resources worldwide. This profile is the result of ongoing international collaboration and builds upon existing work in Europe, North America and Australia.
With this implementation of the Bath Profile, the State Library has established a new, seamless
interoperability between two of its flagship database services: the State Library's online catalog of holdings and TRAIL, the Texas Records and Information Locator service. SIRSI's Unicorn
Library Management System powers the online catalog; while Blue Angel's MetaStar product powers TRAIL.
The Texas State Library has successfully established the ability for library users to search a
variety of databases at one time through its adherence to the Bath Profile. Now, with a single query, Texas citizens with Internet access can easily locate information resources not only from
the 150 Texas state agencies represented in the TRAIL service, but also from the State Library's electronic catalog. In the future, additional resources such as full-text and specialized reference
database services will be added to the Texas Web site as more vendors support the Bath Profile.
"Our implementation of the Bath Profile has become a virtual 'Rosetta Stone' for our flagship
database services, allowing us to perform cross-domain searches and compare similar data from disparate sources, all from a single, simple search screen," said Allen Mullen, network
developer for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (August 11, 2000) The six-member Lycoming County Library System, which
enjoys the highest per capita circulation among all Pennsylvania county systems, has chosen Sirsi Corporation's Unicorn™ Library Management System to automate the James V. Brown
Library in Williamsport, as well as its five Lycoming County member libraries. According to Director Janice Trapp, "We were looking for an automation system that would fit the design
elements we needed, such as easy catalog searching and a user-friendly interface. We know that many Pennsylvania libraries our size have selected SIRSI. Also our review of systems at the
American Library Association (ALA) conference indicated that SIRSI was the best match for our needs." Replacing a Gaylord system, Unicorn will tie all the Lycoming County libraries together
for the first time with one common catalog.
"Our patrons are really looking forward to using the new SIRSI system to locate and obtain
materials," Trapp said. "With our old system, users had to go to three separate places to search the catalog. Now Unicorn provides everything patrons need from a single access point," Trapp
continued. "We strive to be the lifelong learning center for our community, and now SIRSI will help us make this goal a reality. Our staff is as excited as our patrons to have a graphical, staff-friendly
system," Trapp added.
With a current total collection of 252,000 items, the libraries have served three generations of
citizens in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. A 2,500-item Pennsylvania Collection and a newspaper collection with more than 80,000 articles indexed by surname on marriages,
obituaries, court cases, and land sale notices from 1807-1904 make the libraries a major source of genealogical information.
SIRSI, the leader in library technology, is a privately held company founded in 1979, with
headquarters in Huntsville, Ala. SIRSI (www.sirsi.com) uses the most advanced technology available to provide easy-to-use information systems for libraries, businesses, and archives. With
offices in major U.S. cities and subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, Latin America, the Middle East, the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom, the company has established its
Unicorn products as the leading client/server library information system in the world.
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