May 01, 2008
OCLC, Orbis Cascade Developing Consortial Borrowing Solution
The Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington, and OCLC are working together to migrate the Alliance's Summit union catalog to a consortial borrowing solution based on the integration of WorldCat.org, VDX, WorldCat Resource Sharing and a new circulation gateway in time for the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic school year.
The Orbis Cascade Alliance will implement a WorldCat Group Catalog with an interface based on WorldCat.org. This union catalog will present the 28-million-volume collections of the 35 Orbis Cascade member institutions at the top of results sets, followed by results from the rest of WorldCat.
The migration of Summit to this new consortial borrowing solution includes an immediate move to increase the accuracy and comprehensiveness of member library holdings in WorldCat and implementing a resource sharing system that combines the best of ILL and circulation capabilities and workflows.
Alliance member libraries also will have the option to implement WorldCat Local, a new service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to customize WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services.
For additional information, visit the OCLC website.
