Sirsi Corp. and Blue Angel Technologies (a firm that provides software solutions for locating information) have implemented the Z39.50 Bath Profile at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. The Bath Profile improves interoperability between or among electronic library catalogs and other database applications—in this case, the State Library's online catalog and TRAIL, the locator of resources in 150 Texas state agencies. In the future, additional resources such as full-text and specialized reference database services will be added as more vendors support the Bath Profile.
Although Sirsi appears to be the first automated library system to provide a Bath Profile implementation, several other vendors appear to be planning to conform to the standard specification.
[Contact: Sirsi Corp., 101 Washington St. SE, Huntsville, AL 35801; telephone: 256-256-7000; fax: 256-704-7007; Web: www.sirsi.com.]
