St. Louis, Missouri, USA July 20, 1994: Data Research Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRAI) today announced that it had signed a definitive agreement for the purchase of the library automation system and related assets of multiLIS, a division of Sobeco Ernst & Young, Inc.; certain assets of multiLIS distributor Avec Technical Services, Inc.; and the stock of multiLIS distributors multiLIS Corporation; Multicore Library systems, Inc.; and multiLIS Europe S.A. The companies said that they expected to close the purchase within 60 days, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions of closing.

Data Research, headquartered in St. Louis, is a leading systems integrator, providing its own proprietary information services software as well as third-party software and hardware, networking services and other related services to libraries and other information providers