Report on Cal State University Plans to Build Unified Library Management System (ULMS) Across 23 Campuses

From the Long Beach Press Telegram:

The Council of Library Deans for CSU is working on a cloud-based service platform to deliver and manage library services and content with the aim of creating a single library management system across all 23 schools. The system should increase campus collaboration and form a more equitable research system for students, from Chico State to the Channel Islands, and from San Bernardino to San Diego State, according to officials.
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Gerry Hanley, assistant vice chancellor of academic technology services in the Long Beach-based Chancellor’s Office, said each library 30 years ago had its own checkout system for their vast collections of print books.
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With digital content becoming dominant in CSU libraries, deans across the system are working on an array of projects, in addition to the unified library-management system, that should further transform libraries from 20th century dustbins to modern dens of study.
That includes an overhaul of the way print collections are managed. Twenty-one campuses in the CSU system are using the same software to conduct inventory and research the usage their books.

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See Also: Unified Library Management System Fact Sheet (via CSU Libraries Network)
See Also: Unified Library Management System: The tech to make services simpler (via CSU Libraries Network)

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