OCLC has developed software based on Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol for information retrieval (NISO Z9.50) and has agreed to provide the software to the National Library of Canada (NLC). NLC plans to test the feasibility of using the software to provide intersystem access to union catalogs to support interlibrary lending. The OCLC-developed Z39.50software is also being made aailable to the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
[Contact: OCLC, 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, OH 43017-0702; (516) 764-6000.]
