Cuadra Announces New ``Budget-Friendly'' Library Automation Software.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers National Online Meeting 2000 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Cuadra Associates (CA), developer of the STAR(R) information management and retrieval software, has announced a new library automation product designed to meet the needs and budgets of small and medium-size libraries and information centers. Cuadra ILS ILS In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Israeli Shekel. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. (Integrated Library System An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. ) is a version of the award- winning Cuadra STAR software that includes a full array of features and capabilities needed by most libraries but excludes STAR's graphical design tools for customizing the application. The product will be unveiled at the National Online Meeting 2000, May 16-18, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "Over the years, as we have added new capabilities to our library application, we have found that it meets more and more of the needs of libraries, right out of the box," said Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra, president of Cuadra Associates. "This either eliminates or sharply reduces the need for our library customers to do any customization." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cuadra, with the downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing of libraries that has been occurring in corporate America, the staff resources to do the kind of customizing that was popular in years past are no longer readily available. "That's what makes the new Cuadra ILS product an attractive option for small libraries and information centers," he said. "First, no customizing needs to be done, and second, the price of the product starts at under $10,000. That price includes a three-user license, conversion of the customer's USMARC USMARC US Machine Readable Cataloging USMARC United States Meat Animal Research Center bibliographic data, two full days of training, and a year of upgrades and customer support." Like the fully customizable version of STAR, Cuadra ILS runs on Windows/NT and Windows 2000 servers and on a number of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Customers who later decide to customize the product to meet their unique requirements have the option of purchasing the STAR graphical design toolkit. Cuadra Associates' STAR software was designed specifically to provide fast access to descriptive information of all kinds. Thus, it can be used in a variety of information management applications, by libraries, corporate information and records centers, publishers, film and document archives, museums and other organizations that need to manage paper and electronic files of all kinds. |
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