OCLC PICA
OCLC PICA was a
The Pica Foundation was created in 1969 as an initiative of the
In December 1997 Pica became part-owned by OCLC, and this was further consolidated in January 2002, at which time OCLC PICA also became responsible for all of OCLC's activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. At the time, OCLC held 60% of the shares in OCLC PICA, while the Pica foundation held 40%. In 2005 OCLC PICA acquired Sisis Information Systems of Germany and the Fretwell-Downing Informatics Group (developer of the VDX interlibrary loan software) of the UK. In 2007, OCLC acquired the remaining shares of OCLC PICA to become the sole shareholder of OCLC PICA.
OCLC PICA / OCLC EMEA employed over 200 people.
OCLC PICA software is used by the Netherlands union catalog, several German library consortia (including GBV, Hebis and SWB), the Australian national library, the French union catalog SUDOC and many other libraries. Sisis and Fretwell-Downing also have many notable customers in Germany, the UK and worldwide.
(This information is based on a rough translation of the German Wikipedia page 'PICA'.) de:PICA
References
- ^ "OCLC and OCLC PICA form one global organization". OCLC News Release, 22 October 2007
External links
- OCLC PICA
- Corporate history from OCLC PICA