I am very sorry for what's going on. I am still working on my list, and just
send the message to the list to let you know how the work proceeded. In
fact, I added at the end of my list: "...If You find anything incorrect or
have anything more to tell me about this list, please contact me".
I have not contacted directly the GEAC Corporation because I have always
preferred to contact libraries; when I told you that I had collected
information directly from vendors I meant that looking at vendors web site,
sometimes I've found the list of customers. In any case, it's not true that
"no-one has approached us for accurate information about our users in the
UK" as Mr. Dan Holmes said, because he recieves Jiscmail Publis, so he could
answer to my first message.
I will send an "errata corrige" to the list as soon as possible;
unfortunately I am quite sure that it won't be correct and complete.
I would like to tell you that the work I am attending it's not easy, because
I'm not in UK and have no possibilities to contact all 4,600 public
libraries existing. I have not commercial purpose, just hope it will be
helpful the same for libraries.
Best regards,
Giovanna Frigimelica
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Provincia di Treviso
Centro Servizi Biblioteche
V.le Cesare Battisti, 30
31100 TREVISO - ITALY
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Centro Servizi Biblioteche' <[log in to unmask]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Library Systems in UK : response
> So far as Geac is concerned no-one has approached us for accurate
> information about our users in the UK - and the information below is both
> inaccurate and misleading. Geac has in fact over 400 public libraries in
the
> UK including Europe's largest library system (Essex County Council) and
four
> of the five libraries which issue over 1,000,000 items per year.
> Staffordshire is not one of our customers. In addition our customers
include
> many academic and special libraries, including three of the six copyright
> libraries in the UK. Worldwide we have over 800 customers. If accurate
> information on this topic is needed then please contact me.
>
> Dan Holmes
>
> Geac Library Systems
>
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