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M25 Services for Library Users
M25 Online Services Overview

InforM25 is funded by the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries and consists of four integrated services:

  • Find a library contains general information about M25 Consortium institutions and associated site libraries.

  • Visit a library is an online tool that gives guidance on which M25 libraries you can visit and what you can do when you get there.

  • Search catalogues is a distributed library catalogue that searches over 40 academic libraries.

  • Union List of Serials the ULS holds data on periodicals in the libraries of the University of London and University of Westmnster.
 
M25 Systems Team

The M25 Systems Team provide the online services (collectively called InforM25) for the Consortium. The team also oversees the various M25 websites and server hardware based in the Library of the London School of Economics. For full details of the tasks carried out by the team, please see the Service Delivery Plan .

Please see our latest M25 Systems Team Annual Report

In addition to supporting the Consortium, the team have been involved in a number of resource discovery related projects:

If you have any queries relating to the operation and maintenance of InforM25 or any of the M25 websites, please contact the M25 Systems Team.

 
M25 Systems Team Documents

Useful documents realting to InforM25 and the work of the M25 Systems Team are listed below.

 
M25 Systems Team Consultancy

The Systems Team has considerable experience and expertise in resource discovery and particularly knowledge of:

  • Z39.50 and its implementation on many popular library systems
  • the Bath Profile
  • union catalogues and related issues
  • user interface design

The Team's expertise in Z39.50 has led to involvement in a number of different projects and also to carrying out consultancy for non-HE organisations. An example of this is acting as technical consultants for the Whats in London's Libraries Service that is available and run by the London Libraries Development Agency.

 

 

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