Dear All,
Just to let you know that at the moment 28 of the 33 London public library
catalogues are connected to the WiLL service - we are hopeful that all 33
will be linked by the end of the year.
For those of you not familiar with the service, I should point out that it
is not a union catalogue in the traditional sense but uses distributed
search technology which allows parallel real-time searching of live
catalogues. Thus each catalogue selected by the user is searched remotely
using the Z39.50 protocol and there is not one single database.
If anyone would like further details or to offer feedback on the service,
please do not hesitate to get in touch via the website
www.londonlibraries.org.uk where you can also find a link to a similar
service for academic libraries in London through the M25 Consortium website.
Thanks
Fiona O'Brien
Development Manager
London Libraries Development Agency
35 St Martin's Street
London
WC2H 7HP
Tel/Fax: 0207 641 5266
www.londonlibraries.org.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Godfrey Oswald
Sent: 06 October 2004 20:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: London public libraries union catalog
Dear librarians,
First of all, I want to say thank you very much, to all those who sent in
URLs of union catalogs to add to my growing list of global list of union
catalogs at:
http://lwrw.com/union_catalogs.htm
I have been asked on 3 different occassions by U.S. librarians, if there is
a London public libraries union catalog.
Can anyone help here. Perhaps e-mail me the London public libraries union
catalog URL.
I do remember reading in the former "LA Record" about a project (government
funded) to create a union catalog that will provide a single combined access
to all the individual library catalogs in the 32 London boroughs. Am not
sure the project has finished yet.
Thanks in advance for help.
Godfrey Oswald,
London.
http://www.lwrw.com
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