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The LILRC Group Purchasing Program offers substantial discounts to electronic databases from Britannica, EBSCO, Elsevier, OCLC, WALDO (Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization, a statewide database aggregator), etc. Please visit LILRC Web site at http://www.lilrc.org/progsvce/electronic_resources.php for further information. The Group Purchasing Program is available to all academic, public, special and schools libraries either as a member or non-member of LILRC. While LILRC is offering these subscription services at a significant discount, a small administrative eligibility fee is added to partially offset our costs. Non-member libraries pay an additional surcharge for all services. Currently, LILRC offers access to the following electronic databases or database packages: OCLC FirstSearch (Base Package and Wilson Select Plus Full-text Database)Since 1996, LILRC has offered Long Island libraries a low cost group subscription to OCLC FirstSearch package. The current LILRC FirstSearch package includes 11 OCLC base package databases and the Wilson Select Plus Full-text database. Our FirstSearch subscribing libraries also receives the newly created regional group catalog, LILCat (Long Island Library Catalog) without additional charge. LILCat is the replacement of the old Long Island Union List of Serials and it is an OCLC WorldCat -based real time product.