(libraryjournal.com): Little more than a year ago, OCLC unveiled its ambitious cloud-computing-based integrated library system (ILS) project, Web-scale Management Services (WMS). That project has now moved into an early-implementation stage at a handful of libraries, including the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's (UTC) Lupton Library, marking the last major phase in WMS's development before a planned U.S. rollout next year. WMS aims to use several existing OCLC services--such as WorldCat Local, which is the discovery layer of WMS--as well as newly developed applications, to combine the many different functions of a locally installed ILS into one cooperative online network.
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