RIDING

building a Z39.50 Gateway to Yorkshire Libraries

Funded under the UK eLIB Phase 3 Programme.

Partners: Led by the University of Sheffield on behalf of the nine university libraries within the Yorkshire and Humberside Universities Association. Partners include the British Library, Leeds Public Library and Information Services and Fretwell-Downing Informatics Ltd.

Aim: To support large scale resource discovery across the Yorkshire and Humberside region. Work on the project will provide a coherent, large scale demonstration of the use of Z39.50 to create a distributed union catalogue. By involving the public library service of the City of Leeds the project plans to demonstrate the benefits of the collaborative resource discovery across multiple sectors, providing an important underpinning to both the Anderson and Dearing reports with their emphasis on regional partnerships. From a national viewpoint, the project will provide a coherent, large scale demonstration of the use of Z39.50 to create a distributed union catalogue which includes cross-catalogue searching and collection level profiling. The participating libraries employ a diverse group of commonly used library management systems.

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