Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed an agreement with library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group. The deal will enable Ex Libris to incorporate the WorldCat Search API into several Ex Libris discovery and delivery services, providing OCLC member libraries access to WorldCat through the Ex Libris Primo and MetaLib solutions.
Ex Libris will integrate the WorldCat Search API, which provides machine-to-machine access to WorldCat bibliographic records and holdings data, into its applications to make the collections of OCLC libraries discoverable. Libraries will be able to activate this functionality by registering their key to the WorldCat Search API within their Ex Libris system.
With this cooperative agreement, both organisations seek to adopt an open approach that will improve services for the libraries that they mutually serve, as well as foster collective innovation. The integration of the Search API into Ex Libris unified discovery and delivery services provides for a content-neutral solution that ensures the broadest possible coverage of the resources which are most important to libraries.
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