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Western Libraries OneSearch (Beta)
 

Western Libraries OneSearch

Western Libraries OneSearch (beta), when completed, will represent a shared catalog for books, journal articles, multimedia, and more, for the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 37 academic libraries across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, of which the Western Libraries is a long-standing member. To give you an indication of the size of this system, when complete, it will contain 8.8 million titles and over 26 million resources.

The Western Libraries, along with the University of Washington Libraries, is among the first institutions within the consortium to move to this new environment. Other institutions will migrate to the shared system in cohorts over the next 18 months. 

This is the largest project that the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, as well as our vendor, the Israeli company ExLibris, has ever been involved in.  As with any new system there will be problems, but Western, the Consortium, and ExLibris, are committed to solving problems as quickly as possible.

Major benefits of this system will be to unify book and journal searches, allow Summit and Interlibrary Loan from within the system, and give access to millions of articles and reports previously unavailable. 

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Western Libraries OneSearch (Beta)
 

Research Tools

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