In 1980, the Illinois State Library sponsored a project to mount the software
of the Western Library Network (WLN) to demonstrate how that
software might be used as the basis of a statewide automated system for
Illinois. The cooperative venture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (UIUC) and the River Bend Library System resulted in a joint
catalog of their holdings that became operational in summer 1984. The
joint online catalog, which now contains over 1 million titles and supports
approximately 250 terminals, has proven to be a cost-effective prototype
for a statewide online catalog. At present, the database of this online
catalog only contains records for these two institutions. However, the
database can be searched from a dedicated terminal in each of the eighteen
regional library systems headquarters in Illinois as well as in each of the
twenty-eight LCS academic libraries.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (24th : 1987)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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