Library cooperative OCLC has announced that it will perform cataloguing and processing services for the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), Canada's national science library and the library for NRC.
Under the new agreement, OCLC will perform all of NRC-CISTI's cataloguing in a variety of formats, including serials. OCLC will catalogue a wide range of publications from all NRC Institutes, programmes and branches. Catalogued materials will be discoverable through NRC-CISTI's Catalogue, as well as through OCLC's WorldCat.org, an online resource for finding information in libraries.
It is anticipated that OCLC Canada LTS will catalogue and process roughly 17,000 items per year in English and French once the processes between the respective organisations have been fully implemented. Materials will vary from monographs and serials to proceedings, technical papers and journals.
The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) has been an integral component in the growth of Canada's innovation capacity. NRC-CISTI provides Canada's research community with high-value authoritative information and information services in science, technology and health to accelerate innovation and commercialization. In addition, NRC-CISTI maintains and makes accessible to all Canadians the National Science Library Collection, one of North America's largest.
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