Our students can look for everything they need, whether it’s print or electronic, from a single screen. Through the LMS we can provide access to e-books from a vast number of sources, and the library only pays for the ones borrowers use.
Deputy Director of Library Services (Digital and Research), Bath Spa University
Bibliographic database information from UK and US libraries, including the British Library and the Library of Congress, have been brought together allowing any LMS to search records with a single query. Through this combination of co-operative cataloguing, commercial data sources and major databases, your library can become an academic resource of rare and out of date library stock - with an international reach.
Sourcing metadata across a variety of databases can be costly and time consuming. Base provides access to 30 million records from 20 databases, minimising the need for local record creation. Staff can focus more on user services, and less on cataloguing. The costs associated with the production of local databases is greatly reduced, while the search function is simplified and fast.
