The Eyring Research Institute, Inc.--owner of Dynix, Inc., a company that is rapidly establishing itself as a major vendor of turnkey automated library systems--has established another library automation-oriented company, Eyring Library Systems. The new company will market the CARL system developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
The CARL software, designed for use on Tandem Non Stop hardware, is currently being used in CARL's six-institution network to support a bibliographic file of some 1.5 million records. Data base creation and maintenance, circulation, and public access catalog functions are operational, and the system handles full MARC records. Eyring plans to market the system to large academic research libraries and major public libraries. It sees particular strengths in the system's public access catalog capabilities, and the reliability offered by the Tandem hardware. An article on CARL appeared in the March 1985 issue of Colorado Libraries (Vol. 11, No. 1).
[Eyring has also been awarded the contract to develop Maggie's Place III for the Pikes Peak Library District in Colorado.]
[Contact: Eyring Library Systems, 5280 South 320 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 (801) 263-9200.]
