Library to begin Integrated Library Management System

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  • By Nick DeCicco
  • 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --  Mitchell Memorial Library customers will soon be able to browse the collections and catalogs of all Air Mobility Command libraries without leaving their homes.

Set to launch Sept. 27, the Integrated Library Management System will allow book borrowers to reserve a book from home or borrow a book from another AMC base's library.

"We'll be hooked in with all of AMC," said Susan Gilroy, library director. "You'll have remote access so you can dial into our collection and the collections of anybody else and put in an interlibrary loan request from some of those other bases."

"When you do a search now, you'll also be able to search all our databases, our books, all the other people's books and the Web to do your work, so, it's like one-stop shopping," Ms. Gilroy added.

Checking out a book at the library will not change. Books can still be borrowed for three weeks.

Additionally, magazines and reference books, previously unavailable for checkout, will now available for loan. Magazines, prior to the current copy, can be checked out for a week while reference books will be loaned for two days.

Books desired from other AMC libraries will be sent to the Mitchell Library for pickup.
Another added feature will allow library visitors to learn 30 different languages thanks to access to a new program for Rosetta Stone language lessons.

Set to begin in October, these will not be available for checkout.

"However, up to 1,001 people can use them simultaneously," Ms. Gilroy said.
"The new system will provide better service to library customers," said Anthony Gonzales, senior library technician. "Now you won't have to run to the library and say, 'Hey, you don't have this book. Where can I get it?' You can do it all online, sitting at home."