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February 99

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Libertas Millennium upgrades     details

More libraries move direct from old Libertas systems to Millennium.

Sirsi News                                                             details

Three new sales announcments from Sirsi maintain their momentum in Europe and UK.

Aleph for universities + major special           details

Ex-Libris continues to sell across academic and special library markets in Europe.

SydneyPLUS Global Cataloging System      details

ILS announce a global union catalogue system designed to assist librarians trying to co-ordinate global corporate libraries.

GeoWeb 4.0 released

Geac have announced the release of GeoWeb 4.0, the latest version of their Web-based public access catalog.  GeoWeb provides Z39.50 access to the library's collection and other Web-based resources; offers simultaneous searching of multiple databases and access to multimedia resources; and incorporates patron self-service functions, such as placing holds, renewing material, viewing circulation information, and submitting Interlibrary Loan and Purchase Requests.

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Garcia joins CARL

June Garcia, currently Director of San Antonio Public Library will join CARL as CEO on May 1st.

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Choosing a system - a journey into the unknown...chart the progress of a slightly less than perfect project.

Nichols and Winnebago adopt Microsoft´s SIF initiative           details

Microsoft´s SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework) is designed to aid interworking between various education software packages - Nichols and Winnebago announce compliance.

Athena´s OPAC sees the Light                                                         details

Nichols continue to innovate and have now announced a link up with Northern Light to allow a search to transfer automatically to the INternet search engine.