Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS) was an online

union catalog A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases. P ...

of books held by the libraries of the

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, which include the

Bodleian Libraries The Bodleian Libraries are a collection of 28 libraries that serve the University of Oxford in England, including the Bodleian Library itself, as well as many other (but not all) central and faculty libraries. As of the 2016–17 year, the librari ...

group, and also those faculty libraries which are not members of the group, and the libraries of individual colleges. It operated the Geac ADVANCE

integrated library system An integrated library system (ILS), also known as a library management system (LMS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. An ILS usually is co ...

(ILS). Prior to 1996 it operated DOBIS/LIBIS software (which itself replaced the LS/2000 system). Oxford University Library Services (OULS) issued a tender for new software in 2005 which culminated in the selection of the Virtua system from

VTLS VTLS Inc. was a global company that provided library automation software and services to a diverse customer base of more than 1900 libraries in 44 countries. The for-profit company was founded in 1985 by Dr. Vinod Chachra, who became the Presiden ...

, but in August 2008 Oxford announced that the implementation would not go forward. In 2010 it was confirmed that Aleph from Ex Libris would replace Geac ADVANCE. Aleph was implemented in July 2011. OLIS was deprecated with the move to Aleph in 2011 and replaced by a new Integrated Library System (ILS). The functions offered by OLIS were moved to Search Oxford Libraries Online (SOLO).

References

* Burnett, Peter P. 'Emerging from the Bibliographic Wilderness: Catalogue Automation in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.' Simultaneously published in ''Cataloging & Classification Quarterly'' 30(1) (2000) pp. 51–72 and in Carter, Ruth C. (ed.) ''Managing Cataloging and the Organization of Information: Philosophies, Practices, and Challenges at the Onset of the 21st Century'' (Haworth, 2000). * Price, Dave. 'Implementation of a new integrated library system.' In: Heaney, Michael & Cannon, Catríona (eds.) ''Transforming the Bodleian'' (De Gruyter Saur, 2012). * Wilkinson, Laura
'Retreat from Advance'
''Laura's Dark Archive'', 6 July 2011.

External links

Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS)
(defunct)
Search Oxford Libraries Online

Oxford University Library Services
(defunct)
Bodleian Libraries
Libraries of the University of Oxford Library catalogues {{library-stub

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