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- ↑ The full list of participating libraries can be found here.
- ↑ "About ULI".
- ↑ Ahava Cohen, By Trial and Error : the implementation of RDA in Israeli Academic Libraries and the process of managing change (doctoral dissertation), page 69-70.
- 1 2 Presentation from Ariel Lock and Professor Elhanan Adler about the new interface of ULI (Hebrew).
- ↑ Information from Elhanan Adler .
