UTLAS, the Canadian bibliographic utility, has purchased the Tandem-based ALIS III library system from DataPhase Systems, Inc. UTLAS has also acquired DataPhase's Eastwind microcomputer software and its Datashare networking facilities. No details were available at press time as to how UTLAS plans to manage its new acquisitions, nor on DataPhase's strategies for the support of its other systems--ALIS I and ALIS II.
[Contact: UTLAS, Inc., Library Automation Systems, 80 Bloor Street West, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2Vl (416) 923-0890 or UTLAS Corp., 701 Westchester Avenue, Suite 308W, White r Plains, NY 10604, (914) 997-1495.]