Muhlenberg College is adopting a new “integrated library system (ILS).” After extensive testing of different systems, library staff selected a new ILS called WorldShare Management.The new ILS will manage many aspects of the library, from purchasing to licensing to cataloging to circulation–far outpacing our current system. (The current system/catalog, to be retired June 30, 2015, will soon lose vendor support.)What does this change mean for library users?Encompass Search, the discovery tool of the new ILS, offers library users:
- Access to our collection, including
- an additional 100,000+ ebooks and streaming video titles (not in our current system/catalog)
- thousands of articles from multiple databases
- Access to other libraries’ collections
- Links to interlibrary loan
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More information about the new system will be distributed over the next few months via email, library liaison meetings, etc. Questions? Query refdesk@muhlenberg.edu.
