NOTIS (Northwestern Online Total Integrated System) was a seminal integrated library system first created at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA in 1968.
John P. McGowan, University Librarian from 1971 to 1992, recruited Professor James S. Aagaard to spearhead the project as lead programmer, and Velma Veneziano as systems analyst.
[1] In 1987 Northwestern University restructured the internal marketing department that had already sold the NOTIS system to several libraries outside of Northwestern, as NOTIS Systems, Inc, a for-profit corporation owned by the university.
Jane Burke, who had been the marketing director for the NOTIS system since 1983, was appointed as President of the new corporation.
Ameritech purchased NOTIS Systems, Inc. from Northwestern University on October 1, 1991.