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Oxford libraries chose VTLS.(Oxford University Library Services)(VTLS Inc.)(Brief article)

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| November 07, 2005 | Caldwell, Tracey | COPYRIGHT 2005 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Oxford libraries choose VTLS

Oxford University Library Services (OULS) has signed US company VTLS to supply its Virtua library management system, in a breakthrough deal for VTLS as it enters the competitive UK library automation market.

OULS is the largest university library service in the UK, with 700 staff at 80 libraries, including the Bodleian legal deposit library (above).

The new library management system will handle acquisitions, cataloguing, OPAC, non-Roman scripts, circulation, serials and automated stack requests and will support an average of 9,000 closed-stack delivery requests every week. Inter-library loan and warehouse management interfaces will be added later.

OULS holds about 15 million items. Initially, the ...

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