Cap Gemini SA announced that France’s National Library has awarded it the final phase of implementing its new information system. Under the contract, Cap Gemini will act as project manager for the system with the participation of IBM France SA and its CGI Informatique SA subsidiary for software design and implementation, and Alcatel TITN Answare for data conversion and migration of data. Cap Gemini has committed to deliver a first version of the system by April 1998. The first version is expected to provide the public access to a card catalog of 10 million items and 30 million digitized pages, reservation of reading rooms, as well as internal administrative systems for library staff.
