More cloud for TiU

After a long period of developing library systems in house, Tilburg University (TiU) decided to buy a new integrated library system (ILS) and at the same time go for a cloud solution. Functionality, cost and vision of the future of scholarly communication were weighed up, and OCLC came out as the winner: TiU is now implementing OCLC’s ‘Web-scale Management Services’ (WMS) and WorldCat Local (WCL). The road leading to that decision is described and some issues to be resolved are mentioned. The implementation project is intended to end in June 2012. Additionally, a short description is given of a possible future Dutch national information infrastructure for scholarly output that consists of just four major building blocks which partly already exist.

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