Easy Data Systems, Ltd., a Canadian automated system vendor relatively unknown in the United States, has come to prominence on being awarded the contract for an online automated library system for the Exxon Corporation libraries. The company is offering an enhanced version of the minicomputer-based system it has installed in a number of western Canadian libraries.
The online modules offered by the Easy Data system include ordering, cataloging and circulation. While "capable of accommodating all the data within the MARC international standard record format' the system does not store records within that format. A patron access catalog is planned as are serial capabilities. The software operates on Datapoint minicomputers.
[Contact: Easy Data Systems, Ltd., 1234 Marine Dr., North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7P lT2; 604-986-8261.]
