OCLC is introducing SyndeoTM, a flexible suite of services specifically designed to facilitate national and regional library collaboration.
Syndeo, which means 'I connect' in Greek, supports OCLC cooperative cataloging, resource sharing and library management services necessary to run individual institutions along with the technology and infrastructure required of a national library.
Syndeo provides improved efficiencies with support for in-region workflows, including authority file management and copy cataloguing from more than 400 million records in WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Syndeo offers greater visibility of regional collections to searchers worldwide by registering collections in WorldCat. And the suite reduces maintenance costs with a new, state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Many national libraries and strategic library organigations around the world currently use OCLC services to facilitate collaboration. For instance, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) recently launched Voilà, Canada's new National Union Catalogue that will make the country's documentary heritage more widely accessible and available to library users in Canada and around the world through WorldCat. Later this year, LAC will begin implementing OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform to manage its collection.
Syndeo brings together metadata management services that support regional workflows as well as resource sharing, discovery and other services into one suite that can be customised to meet the needs of specific regional groups or national libraries.
Syndeo runs on the OCLC WorldShare platform, a global, interconnected web architecture that provides an environment for managing activities and delivering services as well as providing an access point through which libraries connect to WorldCat.
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