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OCLC Plans to Distribute ILLiad Software

By Rosario Garza

OCLC has signed a letter of intent with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. and Atlas Systems Inc. to license and distribute ILLiad software, a leading inter- library loan management tool that automates routine interlibrary loan functions and provides sophisticated tracking statistics to library staff.

Pending completion of a final agreement, OCLC, working with BCR, other regional networks and international distributors, will become the sole licensor of ILLiad software. Atlas Systems will continue to develop and support the software.

OCLC ILLiad software will provide a comprehensive interlibrary loan management system that automates routine borrowing and lending functions within a library's interlibrary loan department. ILLiad software includes interfaces to the OCLC ILL service, National Library of Medicine's DOCLINE service and RLG's RLIN ILL service.

Currently ILLiad licensees include Brigham Young University, a BCR member library, as well as 34 other institutions.

BCR will provide you with more details as they become available.

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