LONDON-July 13, 2005-Sirsi Corporation announced that Universal Knowledge Software (UKS) has recently been appointed as a Sirsi distributor in Africa. Specializing in the field of library and information management software and with an impressive customer list including five of the six South African metropolitan councils, the success of UKS can largely be attributed to strong customer relationships built up over more than 20 years.

In addition to comprehensive application support, a wealth of local knowledge gained through years of experience enables UKS to offer a broad range of value-added services to customers in Africa. These include consultancy, data conversion, software customization, application implementation, system administration, project management, and training.

Peter Gethin, managing director of Sirsi Limited said, "There are tremendous opportunities for our products and services throughout Africa in general but particularly in South Africa. This partnership with UKS improves substantially our ability to serve users in this important sector."

The agreement places UKS in a position to offer the full range of Sirsi products to both existing and prospective customers throughout Africa, while continuing to support their existing products, Erudite and Urica.

About Sirsi

Founded in 1979, Sirsi Corporation develops, sells, and supports a omprehensive integrated suite of software solutions for meeting the information management and sharing needs of libraries and library users around the world. From the open, evolutionary integrated library system technology in the Sirsi Unicorn Library Management System... to leading-edge data analysis and intelligence tools in Sirsi Director's Station... to leading-edge solutions such as Sirsi Rooms 2.0 for library users seeking unparalleled access to the world of knowledge... Sirsi and its partners provide the broadest array of information management products and services for the library community. Sirsi solutions serve more than 10,000 libraries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about Sirsi, please see www.sirsi.com.