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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Dear All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">I am starting a small specialist library and have to select a Library Management System.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Opting for one of the big vendors seems easy to justify because everybody else does it. However, before I can seriously look at something as unusual as Open Source I need to be able to present a watertigh, fair and thorough evaluation method.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">I would be interested in the procedure and related documentation which other libraries used when they had to select a LMS. If you had documents you could share with me I'd be very grateful!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Kind regards,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Gerhard</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Gerhard Bissels</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Librarian</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust<BR>
60 Great Ormond Street<BR>
London<BR>
WC1 3HR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">Gerhard.Bissels@uclh.nhs.uk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Book Antiqua">++44 20 7391 8825</FONT>
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