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WV firm universal in appeal

TECHNOLOGY

IT’S AN _ international
business run out of residen-
tial West Vancouver.

By KIM PEMBERTO
Ne Reporter

President of Universal Library
Systems Jim Speight, who founded
the business in Toronto 10 years
ago, says it was moved to West
Vancouver a short time later
because this is where he prefers to
live.

“One of the things about the
North Shore is it’s very quiet.
We’re all high strung people...we
can work hard then go for a walk
in the perk, and I don’t have to
fight the bridge.”’

The business computerizes

library systems, and counts West
Vancouver Memorial Library
among its clients as well as the city
and county of San Diego, Califor-
nia.

Speight says a computerized
library system allows a library user
to save time when searching for a
particular book. The system pro-
vides a code number to every book
and every library member.

Speight says one of the com-
pany’s main strengths is its per-
sonnel.

‘High technology businesses are
interesting. They don’t necessarily
have a large number of employees,
but they do however have very
highly experienced and intelligent
people. We don’t have space for
people who are average.

‘*At the same time the people we

Learn from your dreams

AN EVENING study course in
dream work is being offered this
month by the Continuing Educa-
tion Dept. of the North and West
Vancouver School Districts.

_ The course is designed for ad-
vanced and beginning students
who would like to learn how to use
their dreams. Ken Strang, course
instructor, points out, ‘‘Some of
the uses one can make of dreams
and their study include such things
as personal problem solving of real

world issues, increased understan-
ding of one’s own inner nature,
more insight into personal and
business relationships, and
enhanced emotional growth and
spiritual development.”’

Further information about the
course may be obtained from the
Continuing Education Dept. of the
North and West Vancouver School
Districts at 985-8741 or 987-8141,
or from the instructor Ken Strang
at 683-2754,

require have greater demands
placed on them,’’ he says.

He notes one demand is meeting
the deadlines for submitting pro-
posals to various libraries. Another
is dealing with any breakdown the
computer system may have.

“| know when there’s a system
down in North America. This
whole place becomes electric. You
have to have people who can look
at the problem and solve it quick-
ly,” he says.

Speight says the company is
continuing to expand, and he sees
a bright future ahead.

He says major libraries in
Canada and the United States are
switching to computers at a rate of
about 100 a year, and there are
over 3,000 libraries that Speight
believes will become computerized..

NEWS photo Teny Petecs

PETER SMODE, assistant support analyst for Universal Library Systems
Ltd., works at a problem in his West Vancouver office. The North Shore
firm computerizes libraries enabling readers to use video display termi-
aals to look up books at libraries ali across North America.

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