%D 2004 %A Ronald M. Schmidt %T HBZ Consortium -- Networking Aleph and Non-Aleph Local Library Systems %X The Hochschulbibliothekszentrum serves a consortium of 100+ libraries in two federal states in Germany . The database of the network is 12 Mio title records and 65+ Mio holdings records. It includes a bibliographic utility for resource sharing from national bibliographies and other bibliographic resources. This database is the hub for networking library systems using ALEPH and non-ALEPH software locally. The presentation will show the structure of data flows providing updated and synchronized data centrally and locally. The function of an online interlibrary loan system nationwide will be elucidated. Audience: Systems librarians, library managers, decision makers Version: 16.2 Educational outcome: Exchange of experience %C Massachuesetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA %L eluna71