University of Oxford signs with VTLS

VTLS Inc. has announced that Oxford University Library Services has chosen VIRTUA as the preferred library management system for the University of Oxford and its member libraries. There are approximately fifteen million items held within the libraries at Oxford, including one million maps, one million musical scores and 1.5 million manuscripts. The system will initially be used to manage 5.4 million bibliographic records associated with 8.7 million items. VTLS will carry out customized development of the system to support an average of c. 9,000 closed-stack delivery requests per week