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Hawaii Cancels Dynix ContractHawaii's new state librarian Virginia Lowell swung into action September 14 and canceled a controversial contract with Ameritech Library Services, suppliers of the library's Dynix computer system. Lowell told American Libraries that Ameritech agreed to serve as interim vendor until a new one is chosen through the state's procurement process. Former state librarian Bart Kane awarded the $595,453 annual contract to Ameritech in July 1996, setting off a lawsuit from competing vendor CARL, which claimed that Kane had signed the agreement prematurely. In August 1997, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that "Kane's conduct was in bad faith." Lowell told AL she "didn't want to take a position on the rightness or wrongness of the lawsuit," which is ongoing, "but canceling the contract unties our hands so that planning for the library can move forward." A new system will improve the quality of the library's Internet access, now mostly limited to text-only features with no graphics, Lowell said in the September 15 Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The procurement process could be completed as early as May 1999. Posted September 21, 1998. |
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