Library of Congress, Contracts & Logistics Services, 1701 Brightseat Road, Landover, MD 20785-3799

D -- INTEGRATED LIBRARY SYSTEM SOL RFC97-1 DUE 020397 POC Kaye Klinker, Contracting Officer, (202) 707-8608. Pursuant to 52.215-3 SOLICITATION FOR INFORMATION OR PLANNING PURPOSES. (APR 1984) the Library of Congress requests comments from the vendors regarding its efforts to acquire an integrated library system (ILS) to support acquisitions, bibliographic control, inventory control, serials management, circulation, binding and preservation, public and staff searching of the Library's bibliographic records, access to other databases including digital repositories and databases of electronic text resources, as well as management statistics and reporting. Respondents to this Request for Comment (RFC97-1) can retrieve the appropriate documents from an anonymous FTP host at ftp.loc.gov (140.147.69). Logon to the server using ''anonymous'' as the account name, and your Internet address as the password. Change directory to the public directory by entering cd pub, and change directories again to the ils directory by entering cd ils. Set binary mode by entering bin, and get the following documents: ilsrfc.doc (statement of work in WordPerfect 5.1 format) and ilsrfc.cov for the cover letter with instructions to the offerors. Upon written request to the Contracting Officer, the Library will provide a disk containing these documents in WordPerfect 5.1 format via mail. Comments from respondents are due by 02/03/97 and should be delivered to Kaye Klinker, The Library of Congress, Contracts & Logistics Services, 1701 Brightseat Road, Landover, MD 20785 or sent vie email to bdul@loc.gov. A conference with all interested parties is scheduled for Friday, 01/17/97. Attendance at the meeting is not required, but will provide an opportunity to tour the Library, assess the size and complexity of the procurement, and ask questions regarding the Statement of Work. Those wishing to attend the conference should contact Ms. Klinker by 01/03/97. The time and place for the meeting will be provided at that time. Specific questions or issues that prospective respondents would like to see addressed at the meeting should be sent to Ms. Klinker by 01/06/97. The Library expects to issue an RFP as early as March 1997. All comments received shall be considered proprietary and confidential as shall be distributed t only those within the Library having a need to know. (0332)

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