Thank you to everyone who answered my query about opac vendors. My supervisor is still looking through all of the replies and has expressed great appreciation for the information provided. If anyone is interested, I will be glad to forward what I received. Here is a summary. Once a decision is made, I can share that, too.
Past Perfect: good, low cost; can get a fully functioning trial cd
Mandarin Automation System by SIRS: inexpensive but user has had many problems
Sagebrush Athena: inexpensive; “Sagebrush had a fantastic look, but did not import the subfield b of the 090.”
Follet: inexpensive, performs well at importing records from RLIN
Caspr: inexpensive, but tends to import odd punctuation marks.
SIRSI net customer: very pleased. Did not have to buy hardware or software
Thanks again.
Joy Robinson
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