The Consortium of Catalonian University Libraries (El Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya) has announced a partnership agreement with Innovative Interfaces for Encore for a Group. The Consortium of Catalonian University Libraries is comprised of nine of the most prestigious academic libraries in Spain.
The Consortium libraries are Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona University, Catalonia Technical University, Girona University, Lleida University, the National Library of Catalonia, Open University of Catalonia, Pompeu Fabra University, and Rovira and Virgili University. The Consortium will leverage its existing Millennium Union Catalog and ILS implementations.
The Consortium's Encore for a Group project integrates with Millennium and brings their collections into a single discovery environment without the need for El Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC) staff or local staff maintenance. The implementation will make possible real-time access to holdings of different sites and item availability information; direct, patron-initiated requesting across the entire collected collection; and improvement of the user experience through the introduction of 2.0 services.
The Encore discovery services platform transforms how users uncover the rich and varied resources the library has to offer by uniting content, community, and discovery. At its core is the Encore Framework developed using modern, Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design principles. The Framework supports a suite of robust applications and Web Service offerings that can be tailored to meet the needs of any library.
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