The system will be primarily serving the main University library with the smaller college libraries contributing to the main database via the cataloguing client. There are 97 university and college libraries serving the campus and Voyager will manage the 7 million volume union catalogue. Endeavor Information Systems announced today that the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, has purchased the Voyager integrated library management system. Cambridge also selected Endeavor's Universal Catalog for a de-duplicated database of bibliographic records, detailed holdings and item information from the databases of the local libraries. With a small system support team, we like to devote as much time as possible to supporting individual libraries, so we need a good systems administration module.
Some libraries have major historic collections and all have collections of modern material.
In our current Union Catalog, to which all 97 libraries contribute, the records are not de-duplicated as in the Endeavor Universal Catalog, and all of our sites are protective of the ownership of their records. Endeavor's hierarchy of records allows them to all use the system, yet continue to operate independently. The OPAC's range of search options, particularly the keyword anywhere search, will enhance the facilities we can offer to our users, as will the extensive patron self-service functions. Endeavor has a strong project management history. We're joining a international group of research and legal deposit libraries with similar interests.