1. 1 CoSouth Interoperability in action Carol Marshall: Requests Manager

2. 2 Agenda Background Information Objectives Interoperability

3. Background Information Set up in 2002 Founder members Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Southampton Current members Surrey, Buckinghamshire Potential members already supplying representatives to sub-groups W.Sussex, Slough

4. Objectives To facilitate co-operation, connectivity, interoperability and resource sharing between members To provide day to day management of resource sharing systems within CoSouth To develop new regional services in accordance with the principles of CoSouth To extend membership and encourage co-operation within the library and information sector, museums, arts and archives

5. Membership and Sub-Groups Cost of membership £50 pa CoSouth is run by the Management Board All members automatically get a place/vote on the Management Board. Participation in the sub groups is voluntary and may involve additional costs, (eg members of the ILL group need to invest in Xchange Z39.50 software) Sub-groups: Heritage, Inter-Library Loans; Reader Development; Reference; Technical Support

6. Sub-Groups Activities Heritage Investigating links via DScovery into Museums, CRO databases Reader Development Joint Reader Development projects Reference E-books pilot, Joint purchase online reference resources Technical Support Day to day support of projects such as Xchange, e-books etc

7. Xchange Product CoSouth Partner Library Management System To other partners’ Z servers Partner Corporate Network DS Hosted Network Public CoSouth Partner Z server Z39.50 Partner DMZ Network Z39.50 Staff Public searches Staff Searches Integration messages Partners with ISO ILL compliant systems ISO-ILL messages Email ILL messages ILL request e-mail messages (non ISO-ILL) XChange Partners without ISO ILL compliant systems