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CAIRNS aimed to integrate 25 Z39.50-compliant library catalogues or information services across Scotland into a functional and user-adaptive test-bed service. This offered efficient and effective search and retrieval capabilities across a ‘clump’ of services comprising all of the individual CAIRNS bibliographic databases and also across various smaller sub-clumps. It provided a comprehensive virtual union catalogue for Scottish HE without the cost and continuing effort of setting up and maintaining a central database. Funding programme: Clumps area of the Electronic Libraries (eLib) programme. Project dates: ended 31 Dec 2000.
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