Global library cooperative OCLC, US, and the CIPE consortium, which comprises 11 university libraries in northern and central Italy, have signed an agreement to load CIPE library records into WorldCat. With this initiative, the consortium seeks to increase visibility of these Italian collections, and enrich the world's largest resource for discovery of library materials.
The CIPE consortium (Consorzio Interistituzionale per Progetti Elettronici - Interistitutional Consortium for Electronic Projects) was founded in 2007 with the objective to promote national and international cooperation, research, standardisation, training and development of services for the consortium members aimed at library innovation and efficiencies of scale. Participating in CIPE are the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Padua, Parma, Pisa, Sassari, Siena, Venice and the Polytechnic University of the Marche. Some items in these collections date back to the 15th century.
The agreement to load the records of these public Italian universities will make them discoverable through WorldCat.org on the Web.
The records of the CIPE universities are in UNIMARC format and will first be converted by OCLC before batchloading is done for each university. Once the records are added to WorldCat, the consortium can take advantage of other OCLC services made available through WorldCat.
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