Currently my medical library is still using the card catalog and my assistant is checking our serials in on a rickety home grown program. So, I am investigating various library automation products.
I am in the very very beginning stages of looking at products, so I have not come down with my top choices for evaluation. However, one product, Cyber Tools for Libraries is making it my short list of top choices.

Here are some of the things that made Cyber Tools for Libraries stand out:

1. Complete, automated integration with MeSH: True, concurrent MeSH integration updates authority files and bibliographic records with National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings changes, including qualifiers.
2. OpenURL for link resolution from databases such as Ovid, EbscoHOST, and Serials Solutions.
3. You can choose to run on your own server, or to access your database via the Web with our popular ASP Web Hosting.
4. Has an integrated Serials Management.
5. Prices are according to the number of concurrent library staff users.

Most of the library automation systems that I have discovered so far target small public or school libraries. While small medical libraries share the some similar needs with public and school libraries, we also have some unique requirements for automation systems.

Like I said I am still in the very beginning of looking at various vendors, but I was so intrigued by Cyber Tools for Libraries that I felt I needed to blog about it as I have never heard of the company until now.

If you are interested in what others are saying about Cyber Tools for Libraries, check out this email on the Medlib-l archive.

When I have created my short list of products I will blog about my top choices and why they made it into the top choices list. Until then have a good weekend.