AdLib is an integrated library system with modules to support acquisitions and financial management, cataloging and authority control, circulation, online catalog, serials control, materials booking and interlibrary loan/electronic mail. The system is built on the Pick operating system and will function on a wide range of hardware including IBM, DEC, Prime, Honeywell, Altos and Pertec. Advanced Library Concepts markets AdLib as a turnkey system. The company is beginning the installation of its first system -- at the University of Hawaii.
AdLib supports full MARC records and provides interfaces to the bibliographic utilities for the online transfer of records. The authority control module provides for the global change of headings and the online catalog offers both menu-driven and command structure searches with keyword, truncation and Boolean features. The circulation component will function using either barcode or OCR technology.
The serials control function is still being developed. Operational features included are check-in, gap identification, claiming and routing. Check-in records can be retrieved by title, keywords or ISSN. The system predicts the issue identification for all issues expected to be received for the duration of a subscription allowing receipt of the next expected issue, earlier issues and later issues to be accomplished with minimal keying. Multiple copies of an item can be checked in on a single screen, even if each copy receives different processing treatment. The system will alert the operator to the receipt of more copies than expected and will seek guidance on the dispersal of the extra copies.
Gap identification and claiming functions support the usual range of processes. The routing capability allows prioritization of routes and the priority identification of the routes on which issues of items received in multiple copies are to be sent when less than the full number of copies have been checked in. Routing slips, spine and other labels can be generated at the check-in station.
Other capabilities under development include binding control and the automatic summarization of holdings for publications with a predictable pattern of publication.
In all functions, the system supports detailed verification capabilities and offers the library a wide range of reports.
[Contact: Advanced Library Concepts, Inc., 9343 Tech Center Drive, Suite 175, Sacramento, CA 95826. (916) 364-O340.]
