Smart Libraries Newsletter [October 2012]

BIBSYS and OCLC Withdraw from Partnership

Breeding, Marshall.

Copyright (c) 2012 ALA TechSource

SummaryIn previous issues of Smart Libraries Newsletter, we reported on the partnership for the BIBSYS consortium, comprising more than 100 research and special libraries in Norway to implement OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS). The BIBSYS project has been presented by OCLC as an example of a large-scale project based on WMS that uses it as a foundation to support applications and services created by libraries and other third parties, as is the vision for the WorldShare Platform. OCLC and BIBSYS have recently announced that the project has been discontinued.

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Publication Year:2012
Type of Material:Article
LanguageEnglish
Published in: Smart Libraries Newsletter
Publication Info:Volume 32 Number 10
Issue:October 2012
Page(s):4-5
Publisher:ALA TechSource
Place of Publication:Chicago, IL
Show FT:N
Company: OCLC
Products: WorldShare Management Services
ISSN:1541-8820
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Record Number:17486
Last Update:2012-12-29 14:06:47
Date Created:2012-12-07 08:53:28