Duncan Systems Specialists Inc.
Union Database Creation and Maintenance
A union database can be created manually during a retrospective conversion, reclassification project or at the time of current cataloguing. Machine and manual options exist for merging branch or individual school collections into a union file.
By creating a union file libraries and school boards can significantly reduce the costs associated with repetitive cataloguing for each site.
For newly amalgamated library systems and school boards, DSS also offers "super-union" file creation and ongoing maintenance.
The local systems need not be the same within a union environment.
DSS outputs full MARC records to different local systems for many of its customers.