This profile, referred to as the NCIP Direct Consortial Borrowing: INN-REACH DCB Application Profile (INN-REACH DCB) of the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) describes the functions, applications, and the operating environment in which the INN-REACH DCB application manages the circulation transactions.

Through the INN-Reach Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB) application, users of one agency can request and borrow items from another agency within a consortium. This standard facilitates the transfer of user and item data between disparate circulation applications, thereby allowing an agency to manage traffic for non-local patrons and/or provide local control of items belonging to another agency. The INN-Reach DCB Application acts only as an initiator, never as a responder.

Submitted by: Eric Leckbee, Innovative Interfaces
Revised: November 2011