With the right connections between your system and other libraries' systems, you open doors for your students to more information. With support for standards including NCIP DCB, ISO ILL and Z39.50, Dynix URSA enables connectivity between multi-vendor library systems so that you can share and exchange information with any library you chooseregardless of the library management solutions your library and these libraries run. In fact, with URSA, your students have the ability to search these other libraries' catalogs and request items that are unavailable in your library.

URSA products thus provide your students with better service and, more important, relieve your staff of the time-consuming and costly tasks typically associated with interlibrary loans. The average interlibrary loan request costs nearly US $30, of which 75 percent reflects the cost of your staff's time. URSA gives this time back to your staff.

URSA enables libraries with reciprocal borrowing arrangements to automate this processworking across multiple library automation systems and using the new NCIP standard to authenticate and create users across a variety of circulation systems. Your staff members authenticate visiting users against their home library and consequently trigger the automatic creation of a record for these users. Visiting users are then able to check out items from your library. URSA empowers both you and your students by automating otherwise time-intensive processes, and in doing so saves your library money.

Dynix URSA Product Overview