Huntsville, Alabama - SIRSI Corporation is pleased to announce that its library automation systems have been installed at the Fontana Regional Library and the Strughold Aeromedical Library.
The Unicorn Collection Management System is installed at the Fontana Regional Library. The Fontana Regional Library is a system consisting of four public libraries serving Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties in North Carolina. Unicorn is installed on an IBM RISC System/6000 Model 340 host computer at the Macon County Public Library, and the remaining libraries will access the system via modem. Fontana has licensed the authority control, bibliographic and inventory control, circulation, and enhanced public access modules. a fifth library will be added in the summer of 1994.
STILAS is running on an IBM RISC System/6000 Model 360 host computer at the Strughold Aeromedical Library. The library has licensed the acquisitions, bibliographic and inventory control, circulation, enhanced public access, and serials control modules; intelligent interface to DTIC DROLS; Internet Navigator; and multiuser gateway. Strughold is the largest Air Force medical library and serves the Armstrong Laboratory and other components of the Human Systems Center. The library has a collection of over 156,000 volumes and 158,000 technical reports in areas such as aerospace medicine, occupational and environmental health, astronautics, and military medicine. Strughold is using STILAS to download DTIC records, and dial-in access is provided to patrons.
Founded in 1979 by information and computer professionals, Sirsi Corporation, based in Huntsville, Alabama, is one of the world's leading suppliers of information automation. Sirsi automates all aspects of information management, from information consortia to the single desktop user. Sirsi systems are installed worldwide in academic, public, law, medical, government, and corporate environments.