Sunday, December 02, 2018

Survey on Canada's New National Union Catalogue

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations and Library and Archives Canada have launched a survey to gather information on what the library community thinks of the move of the National Union Catalogue  once known as AMICUS to the OCLC platform Voilà.

Comments are due by December 14, 2018.

Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic include:
  • AMICUS National Union Catalogue to be Replaced Under Deal Between OCLC and Library and Archives Canada (March 27, 2017): "Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has signed a deal with OCLC, the international non-profit library co-operative, to replace AMICUS. AMICUS serves as a national union catalogue, helping users locate materials in hundreds of library collections across the country. It is often used for the purposes of identifying libraries that can provide copies of material via inter-library loan."
  • Library and Archives Canada Launches New National Union Catalogue (February 4, 2018): "The launch of Voilà, a milestone for LAC in its library renewal project, marks the completion of the migration of the national union catalogue holdings from AMICUS to OCLC (...) The new catalogue offers an intuitive interface with modern features for searching published materials located in hundreds of libraries across Canada that subscribe to OCLC services, or had their holdings migrated from AMICUS to OCLC.  LAC will start enriching Voilà to provide public access to its own holdings later this year."

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