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British Geological Survey (BGS), the largest organisation within the Natural Environment Research Council, has selected OLIB7 to replace Libertas at
both their Keyworth and Edinburgh offices. The full range of OLIB7 modules, including VDXrequest for Interlibrary loans, will be implemented during the year.
BGS holds a geoscience information resource of worldwide significance, comprising a major national collection of
published maps and ‘grey’ literature. The library serves the staff at BGS sites and regional offices, geosicence professionals and also the general public.
Janet Fileman, Systems and Resources Librarian at BGS, explains the rationale behind selecting a new system, “We
were aware that what we needed was not a library system, but an information management system, that could pull together the variety of resources onsite and deliver additional resources direct to users
desktops. The new system had to have an impact on the Survey as a whole”.
Books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, BGS publications and archives from both sites, will
be integrated into the OLIB7 database, with plans to attach full text reports, photographs, images and electronic journals to the database.
The library’s resources will be made more widely accessible using the OLIB7 WebView
OPAC. WebView will be integrated with the BGS intranet and there are plans to use WebView to provide Internet access to the collection. BGS staff, many of whom carry out
their own searching, will also have access to OLIB7’s advanced search tools such as filtering, sorting and saved searches, via the Windows OPAC, WorldView.
Janet summarises the library’s plans, “We are in the process of repositioning our service as
the central source for information provision within BGS and we needed to bring external resources into the library to extend what we can offer. OLIB7, with its Z39.50 capability and
the ability to integrate photographs & external resources into the catalogue, will help us to achieve this.
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Aberdeen College has selected OLIB7 to manage library administration and OPAC services. With no automated system in place, the college needed
a system that would improve services to students, save staff time and enhance the IT skills of the students.
With over 6,000 fte students, Aberdeen College is the largest college in Scotland.
Students and staff will access the catalogue using OLIB7's WebView interface, which will be made available college-wide.
Acquisitions, cataloguing and circulation management functions will be implemented initially, with live
operation planned for September 1999.
Serials management will come on stream during 2000. OLIB7 will reside on a SUN server and will be delivered to all three college sites, using the college's fibre-optic network infrastructure.
To build the OLIB7 catalogue, the college will be matching their ISBN with an external records supplier, and
will then import catalogue records. The college also plans to link into their MIS system, to transfer student records into OLIB7.
David Morley, Head of Information Services at Aberdeen College, outlines the college's ambitious plans for the
future, "The college is committed to a 20% growth in computer-based learning this year. Therefore whilst we needed to streamline our administration functions, it was important that the new system could
develop with us as we move into new areas, such as internet and resource-based learning and Z39.50 services".
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