Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and the Orbis Cascade Alliance are working together to migrate the Alliance's Summit union catalogue to a consortial borrowing solution based on the integration of WorldCat.org, VDX, WorldCat Resource Sharing and a new circulation gateway. The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of academic institutions in Oregon and Washington.
The Alliance will implement a WorldCat Group Catalog with an interface based on WorldCat.org, one of the world's largest online databases for discovery of items in libraries. This union catalogue will present the 28-million-volume collections of the 35 Alliance member institutions at the top of results sets, followed by results from the rest of WorldCat. The migration of Summit to OCLC's consortial borrowing solution will include an immediate initiative to increase the accuracy and comprehensiveness of member library holdings in WorldCat and the implementation of a resource sharing system that combines the best of ILL and circulation capabilities and workflows.
Alliance member libraries also will have the option to implement WorldCat Local, a new service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to customise WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services.
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