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J U L 111989 boor 77 FACE =.13J <br />At the May 3, 1989 Public Library Advisory Board meeting, a presentation <br />was held of the circulation and on-line public access catalog systems <br />offered by CLSI. The Public Library Advisory Board endorsed <br />staff's recommendation that CLSI be considered the vendor of <br />choice for library automation system and services for the Indian <br />River County Library System. <br />Staff is in receipt of a purchase proposal, maintenance agreement and <br />pricing for data conversion services from CLSI. <br />RECOMMENDATION AND FINDING: <br />Staff recommends that CLSI be declared as vendor of choice and that <br />staff be authorized to negotiate the proposals provided by CLSI for <br />automation system and services for the Indian River County Library <br />System. The final proposal and costs would be forwarded to the commis- <br />sion for approval and funding upon completion. No funding is required <br />by this action. <br />Sonny Dean, Director of General Services, advised that on <br />suggestion by the Board, staff contacted 34 libraries that use <br />the two automation systems that we had in mind. Seventeen used <br />the Dynix system and 17 used the CSLI system. Basically we <br />learned that everyone was satisfied with the equipment and the <br />operation they had. Both of the systems had lived up to their <br />guaranteed "up time", which is 95-990 of the time. <br />Director Dean advised that Dynix uses an IBM RT Model 135 <br />software that requires an extra set of software in order to use <br />the library program. At this time Dynix doesn't have a serials <br />software for the system they propose for Indian River County. <br />They are in the prototype stage, and that could cause a problem. <br />Dynix is located in Utah, which could cause some problems <br />timewise as they are on Mountain Standard Time. Their <br />maintenance is not provided by their people; it is provided by 3 <br />different vendors, and this causes a problem sometimes in getting <br />the right vendor in to do the right kind of maintenance. The <br />oldest user of any of the Dynix systems is 4 years. <br />Continuing, Director Dean advised that CSLI is located in <br />Florida and has one person to do their maintenance, which <br />53 <br />� s � <br />