University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Durham College Implement Cuadra STAR/Archives Software to Manage Multiple Collections

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and Durham College have implemented STAR/Archives to manage its collections, as well as the collections of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and several other technical societies. STAR/Archives, a product of Cuadra Associates, Inc., supports the management of archival collections of all types. It works with Cuadra’s acclaimed STAR knowledge management software and follows the international standards for archival description--ISAD (g), DACS, Dublin Core, EAD, and MARC.

“We have been especially pleased with the support we have received from Cuadra’s Help Desk”

As Ontario's first laptop-based university, UOIT offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its faculties of Business and Information Technology; Social Science and Humanities; Education; Energy Systems and Nuclear Science; Engineering and Applied Science; Health Sciences; and Science. In 2003, UOIT began accepting students at the north Oshawa campus and now has a full-time enrollment of more than 6,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The archival collections will eventually include a comprehensive history of both institutions, including the papers of the founders and presidents, boards of governors, chancellors, schools and faculties, and graduate theses.

According to Pamela Drayson, Director of the UOIT Library and Archives, the archives staff has been using STAR/Archives on Cuadra’s Hosted Service and making excellent progress in cataloging the collections, with the goal of making them publicly accessible through the application’s built-in web search interface. “We have been especially pleased with the support we have received from Cuadra’s Help Desk,” she said.

About Cuadra Associates, Inc.

Founded in 1978, Cuadra Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of knowledge management software products. The core of every Cuadra product is STAR, a highly acclaimed multi-purpose software package with the power and flexibility to manage information collections of all types. STAR is used to manage information collections from many types of environments, including archives, libraries, museums, and publishing houses.

For more information on Cuadra products, contact Ilene Slavick at 800-366-1390 or 310-591-2490 or visit the company’s Web site at: http://www.cuadra.com