Committee on Institutional Cooperation and OCLC building a Virtual Electronic Library

摘要

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and OCLC are creating a Virtual Electronic Library that 'will provide seamless, desktop access to information to the 500,000 students and 35,000 faculty associated with the CIC's 12 major teaching and research universities. The CIC Virtual Electronic Library uses OCLC cataloging, the Internet and OCLC WebZ software to integrate electronic library resources and end-user services by offering a single interface to search local, group and external resources and to allow patron-initiated interlibrary loan or document delivery requests, while allowing libraries to maintain local control for services.