LEX SYSTEMS

Lexwin is a freeware Online Public-Access Cataloguing System, It is used to allow users to search a collection of catalogued items. Support can be purchased for $200 CDN, but it is not mandatory Lexwin was written with libraries in mind but any collection of items can be described and searched with the product... Registered users of Lexwin can create an online version in minutes called Lexweb . For an excellent example view an online database of 44,000 books readable by link to the Project Guttenberg collection. Read about the history of the collection here... Lexwin allows users to control an inventory of resources in the way a library controls the searching, circulating, inventory, and related functions. Because it uses industry standard MARC records the data is transferable to many other libraries around the world.

Also known as: Lex Systems Inc.

Primary location: Lucky Canada