UTLAS, the Canadian bibliographic utility now making a marketing push in the United States, has developed an online catalog designed for small libraries with collections of up to 25,000 volumes. Dubbed “InfoQUEST,” the system is mounted on an IBM PC or a look-alike with MS-DOS and 250K memory, and utilizes a hard disk. Currently designed to accept bibliographic and authority records from a library's UTLAS data base, it is expected that future developments will include the ability to input records by keying. The system supports retrieval by author, title, and subject and by control numbers such as LCCN, ISBN, and UTLAS control number. The system displays the full subject reference structure allowing users to explore related subject terms. Input of a subject search on a term recorded as a See reference automatically retrieves records indexed under the preferred term. InfoQUEST supports a simplified MARC record format and offers three levels of bibliographic display. It is targeted at school libraries, small special libraries, and small special collections within larger institutions.
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