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Research at the library now means travelling between catalogue terminals, PCs for CD ROM access, Geac terminals - arranging inter-library loans. It is difficult to find out if the Libraries at the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University have the material that you need. Our objective is to be able to perform all those tasks from one standard workstation - in the library, from the office, or from home.
Having jointly developed the shared storage facility located in Guelph, the three libraries embarked on a more ambitious project. Faced with the imminent obsolescence of information systems at UW and WLU, and some inadequacies with the Guelph system, the libraries decided to pool their resources with a common "integrated automated information system". All three libraries needed new network and computing environments and none of the three systems currently in use was suitable to our needs. Fortunately, the automated library system marketplace, in response to the demand for systems capable of dealing with full text, graphic and sound information sources (both locally held and available via the Internet), is improving rapidly.
