OCLC Canada LTS Library Technical Services has announced that it will perform full cataloguing and physical processing of library materials for 18 of the 24 publicly-funded Ontario colleges, under the terms of a consortial agreement negotiated on behalf of the colleges by the Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS).
Established in 2009, OCLS is responsible for providing a suite of services to the libraries of the 24 colleges of applied arts and technology throughout the province. Beginning in March 2010, library materials for the 18 participating colleges will be shipped from various vendors directly to OCLC Canada LTS for MARC cataloguing and physical processing. Once fully implemented, OCLC Canada LTS will catalogue and process an estimated 40,000 items annually.
OCLC Canada LTS will work with OCLS to retrospectively update the holdings in WorldCat for each of the participating college libraries. WorldCat claims to be the world's most comprehensive database of library materials. Updated in libraries and by library professionals around the world at a rate of nearly one new record every second, WorldCat comprises more than 180 million bibliographic records and holdings contributed by thousands of libraries.
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