Novanet and University of New Brunswick to use OCLC WorldCat Local service
Novanet and the University of New Brunswick have signed agreements to implement OCLC's WorldCat Local, the service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to use WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services.
Novanet and the University of New Brunswick are the first library systems outside the United States to use WorldCat Local. These Canadian libraries join a growing number of libraries in the United States that are using WorldCat Local to help their users more easily find and get items in library collections.
WorldCat Local provides a powerful discovery environment that presents localized search results most relevant to the library user while at the same time allowing the user to search the entire WorldCat database of more than 100 million records.
"A key tenet of Novanet, a consortium of the post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia, is that members work collaboratively to provide our users with greater access to resources not held locally," said Bill Slauenwhite, Novanet Manager. "WorldCat Local will allow us to build on this to provide our faculty and students one-stop access to electronic and print materials available at their institution, at other Novanet institutions, regionally, and worldwide. Additionally, WorldCat Local, as a discovery layer on top of our shared database, will give individual Novanet universities and colleges the ability to apply their specific institution branding to the WorldCat Local interface."