Varsity installs Urica
The University of Canterbury is one of three libraries to sign up for Urica software, from AWA Computers, in the last two months. AWA introduced Urica to the Australasian market in 1981, and since then has spent 56.2 M on developing it. Urica consists of modules. Cataloguing and inquiry provide the essential input and output of records. It is integrated, has a relational database and vari-able-length fields and records. Books can be reserved which are on order, and lent before they are catalogued. The other two recent buyers in New Zealand were the Social Welfare Department and the Education Department. There are now 12 Urica sites in New Zealand ranging from special libraries such as that of New Zealand Railways to large users such as the university and the Auckland Technical Institute. The University of Canterbury will run the software on an AWA 7820 computer, the first library in New Zealand to take this model. Two South Island sites have this computer. At Canterbury the computer will control more than half a million book titles and serve up to 10,000 students.
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Press, 24 May 1988, Page 27
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