Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that the Spanish consortium BUCLE ("Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León") has become the first institution in Spain to implement WorldCat Local as its new Search and Discovery platform. The service delivers single-search-box access to more than 800 million items of the library's electronic, digital and physical collections.
BUCLE launched WorldCat Local as a group catalogue solution for the university libraries of Burgos, León, Salamanca and Valladolid. It will be available to the university's over 100,000 registered library users at the end of April 2011. With WorldCat Local, library users will not only be able to access the library's local bibliographic records but also the titles from the BUCLE group catalogue and from OCLC's WorldCat.
Due to the integration of the WorldCat Knowledge Base users have direct access to electronic resources from search results, and a 'View Now' feature on brief records connects users directly to the electronic articles and open-access content that their searches retrieve.
More than 100,000 library users of the BUCLE member libraries will be enabled to search via a single search box - which eliminates the need to consult separate resources and interfaces - both the local library and the BUCLE group catalogue, as well as in all other WorldCat libraries. Search results include multiple formats of materials, including digital objects, electronic materials, databases, journals, music, video, audio, eBooks, theses and print.
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