Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Chancellor James H. McCormick announced May 19 that the state library’s database of two-million holdings will soon be available to state university library users in the Keystone Library Network. The new arrangement, scheduled to begin July 1, will also allow patrons of the State Library of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg to search the six-million holdings of the 14 KLN libraries.
The state library will save money by letting KLN take over the management of its automated system and paying a fee that is less than the cost of doing it locally. The fee, in turn, will reduce the amount the universities will pay to keep the network in operation.
State-library users will also have access to the KLN’s Information Access and SilverPlatter periodical databases, as well as OCLC.
Posted May 24, 1999.