1. Scottish Library & Information Council Cross searching & Z39.50 Penny Robertson, Information Officer SLIC & CILIPS Scottish Library & Information Council

2. Overview Background Issues Tools Future

3. Scottish Library & Information Council Background CAIRNS (Cooperative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland). A cross sectoral z39.50 interface. Developed by Centre for Digital Library Research & Scottish Library & Information Council Users can dynamically landscape z targets for their own use

4. Scottish Library & Information Council CAIRNS CAIRNS, the service

5. Scottish Library & Information Council Issues Jumping the IT hoop Limited systems experience Inconsistency of Z servers Promotion of CAIRNS

6. Scottish Library & Information Council Tools Horizon Information Portal test bed for Z targets SCAMP interface and the traffic light system

7. Scottish Library & Information Council SCAMP SCAMP, staff portal

8. Scottish Library & Information Council Future Liaise with Z contacts to alert CAIRNS to upgrades migration etc. Interrogation of non SQL databases

9. Scottish Library & Information Council Thank You! http://cairns.lib.strath.ac.uk CAIRNS: http://cairns.lib.strath.ac.uk scotearl@slainte.org.uk Contact: Penny Robertson e: scotearl@slainte.org.uk; t: 01698 458888