ARIS Survey Certification Construction Continuing Ed. It's the beginning of the new millennium. A central goal of the Strategic Plan is for a user to be able to do a single author, title, or subject search and retrieve results from all online library catalogs in Massachusetts. We are taking our first important steps in that final integration, but there is a long road to hoe. The pilot project alliance issued a Request for Proposals in July 1999.
Final negotiations are underway.
These libraries and networks will configure and test the CPS software, and begin to draft policies and procedures for successful multi-system cooperation. Work will continue during the summer with a second wave of library systems to be added in the fall. Virtual Catalogs Many elements need to be in place for a virtual catalog to function satisfactorily. Though the ISO ILL standard is very elegant, by itself it doesn't include many of the functions that make automated ILL requesting useful on a statewide level. The ISO standard describes transactions between peer libraries, where each library acts independently and keeps its own transaction records.