ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the library management systems (LMS) used in United Kingdom (UK) libraries between 1991 and 2000. Further details are provided in the excellent directory of 30 LMSs compiled by Juliet Leeves with Rosemary Russell through funding from the British Library Research and Development Department under the auspices of the Library Information Technology Centre at South Bank University in London. The Computer Assisted Information Retrieval System (CAIRS) was initially developed as an in-house information retrieval system for the Leatherhead Food Research Association in the mid-1970s. CAIRS-LMS was developed to complement this and was used by those libraries in the 1990s which typically had sophisticated information retrieval requirements and comparatively low numbers of loans. The Galaxy 2000 LMS, from the British firm DS Ltd proved to be a popular system, particularly in public libraries, during the 1990s. Galaxy 2000 offered the usual LMS modules but also had a separate issuing function for use of the Birmingham's housebound service.
