The OUSFG Virtual Library

The OUSFG Virtual Library (OVL or VLib) is a cunning entity which was dreamed up by an expert bibliographic team of the special projects ad-hoc working group. It is not an electronic library (else it would be called an electronic library), but a library composed of the union of our own collections of books.

The books themselves are held by members, and there is (as yet) no central index. Rather, each member maintains a list of the books they have, and either publishes it on their web-page or gives it to someone else to publish for them.

I am planning to implement some sort of library database computer which will know about the physical and virtual libraries. However, this may just be vapourware (and it does rather depend on me getting the RDBMS to work).

There is now, at least, a union catalogue for the virtual library. It's not up-to-date.

To answer a frequently asked question, a page about raw format.

On a library tip, observe also some library-related resources, and an article by a librarian rather similar to our own Niall Harrison.