The project was lead by the University of Wales, Bangor, and the software was developed by teams at Cardiff University and at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education at Wrexham. It has the support of all the Higher Education Institution libraries in Wales. NEWI has now taken responsibility for the further development and commercial exploitation of the software, and is rolling out the software to all members of the Regional Library System in Wales.
Users can opt to be suppliers and receivers, or receivers only.
Its flexible architecture means that it does not require a single central server, though at least one of the member servers will have to handle system administrative functions. It can easily adapt to other languages if they use web-supported fonts. The user can choose which catalogues or groups of catalogues to search. When the result set is returned the user then selects the required item and the system then performs a search against the catalogues of designated supplier libraries. The process of identifying a required item is therefore separate from that of requesting it.