15. Texas

Group

The Texas Group is a Group Access Group (GAG) on OCLC. It includes all types of Texas libraries with full AMIGOS and OCLC membership (full members) and libraries that are full AMIGOS members, but are not full OCLC members (selective members). Both types of libraries have access to all the records in the OCLC database. There are several differences, however, in what they can see and do on OCLC:

• Full members see the entire bibliographic record; selective members only see brief records.
• Full members are required to contribute their holdings to the OCLC databases. Selective members may put their holdings in the database, but they are not required to do so.
• Full members and Selective members can see the holdings for all libraries that have their records listed.
• Full members and Selective members may borrow directly from any full OCLC member lending library and any lending member of their GAC(s).

Submitting
Requests

The Full member and Selective member libraries should do their own requesting. Requests from them should be received via OCLC. Treat them as requests from a library outside your service region.