National Library of Australia to use OCLC PICA Central Library System to support National Bibliographic Database

Citation

(2005), "National Library of Australia to use OCLC PICA Central Library System to support National Bibliographic Database", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 33 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2005.12233aab.011

National Library of Australia to use OCLC PICA Central Library System to support National Bibliographic Database

OCLC PICA spreads its net beyond EuropeThe National Library of Australia has selected the OCLC PICA Central Library System to support the Australian National Bibliographic Database and Kinetica, the internet-based service for Australian libraries and their users.

The OCLC PICA Central Library System will provide the infrastructure for creation and management of the shared Australian union catalog, and tools for nationwide interlibrary loan. The system will be implemented over the next year and will be operational in December 2005.

Library workstations throughout the country will be connected to the system that will support a national catalog of 13 million records and will enable researchers, librarians and students to use one system to search the collections of more 1,000 Australian libraries.

Source: OCLC press release, 2004, October