Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information), or ICCU, has certified the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform for use with the shared cataloguing service of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (National Library Service), or SBN. The certification encourages collaboration between libraries, a key capability of the Alma platform.
SBN procedures enable Italian libraries to work independently while participating in a cooperative national system that provides shared cataloguing. When a member library of the network acquires an as yet uncataloged document, that library catalogues it in the SBN Central Index. Member libraries that need to catalogue the same document subsequently can capture its bibliographic description and add their own location.
Alma was awarded a level-three certification, which means that libraries can collaborate via the Alma platform and use it to contribute to and benefit from the SBN Central Index. The certification also validates Alma's author and uniform title authority files for use with the SBN system.
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