Computer library service and research organisation OCLC, US, has announced that the University of New Brunswick Libraries is the first Canadian library to sign up to use OCLC Web-scale Management Services, the Web-based cooperative library management tools for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, license management and workflow improvement.
As a member of the OCLC Web-scale Management Services Advisory Council, John Teskey, Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick, helped to shape and guide development of the innovative new cloud-based library management services.
The University of New Brunswick was interested in keeping costs down and at the same time, wanted to offer emerging and transformative services to students and faculty. The University plans to have OCLC Web-scale Management Services in production by May 2012, ultimately using cloud-based services running from servers in a Canadian data center.
In addition to the University of New Brunswick and 35 libraries in the US, BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium, signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. The Tilburg University Library, in the Netherlands, announced earlier this month that it selected WMS and WorldCat Local as its new library management solution and integrated discovery-to-delivery service.
Of those libraries that have committed to using OCLC Web-scale Management Services, 21 are already in production and using the services.
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