Electronic catalogue

IRBIS – Automatic libraries system responding to the World requires of  modern libraries.  IRBIS was created in SPSTL in Russia and introduced in many libraries of ICC (Commonwealth of Independent Countries. In Russia and in ICC system of IRBIS takes leading position. At present IRBIS is used in hundreds libraries of different scales and profiles. The main idea of IRBIS is that it can be used by specialists  who do not have high quality in computing. IRBIS has huge advantages and make easier to serve the library users.  
This system has all typical library technologies: acquisition, systematization, catalogue, searching, book lending.     .

The system operates with five types of atomizing work places:
"Administrator",       
"Aquisitor ",       
"Cataloguer ",       
"Reader”       
"Book lending".   

The system allows to create and support any quantity of database. Dictionaries can be formed automatically, provides  fast search according to descriptions and their components. Means of Cataloging allows to describe all kinds of editions (books, journals, video materials,  CD-ROM). The system supports the traditional “paper technologies”: from typing lists of orders till typing all kinds of catalogue cards. The user can make his search in electronic catalogue according to key words, author, title, year of publishing, BBC (Bibliographical Library Classification) . 
Electronic catalogue is the main tool in information searching.