According to one of those crazy Anonymous Patrons, Oxford University Library Services has chosen the VTLS VIRTUA software as its preferred library management system for the University of Oxford and its member libraries.
The new library management system is being commissioned by Oxford University Library Services (OULS), which is the largest university library service in the UK, and one of the largest in the world. Oxford expects to contract with VTLS Inc. for eight subsystems: Acquisitions, Cataloguing, OPAC, Non-Roman scripts, Circulation, Serials, and Automated Stack Request. Additional subsystems, such as an interface with a depository warehouse management system and the incorporation of allegro CJK catalogues may be implemented later.
The Oxford University library system consists of more than 100 libraries housing approximately fifteen million items, and employs about 700 staff. The system will initially be used to manage 5.4 million bibliographic records associated with 8.7 million items. VTLS will carry out customized development of the system to support an average of c. 9,000 closed-stack delivery requests per week.
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