The Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaires (BCUF) in Fribourg, Switzerland, has started using Virtua Acquisitions in production mode, marking the first "live" use of Virtua Acquisitions. The implementation is also the first to make use of Virtua's unique capability of managing Acquisitions for local libraries from a Union Catalog, in this case the RERO Union Catalog. BCUF is a member of the RERO consortium which had earlier migrated their VTLS-99 Union Catalog to Virtua. The Union Catalog implementation of Virtua Acquisitions allows streamlined workflows for RERO member institutions while ensuring confidentiality of local data.

BCUF's requirements for an Acquisitions system are demanding. "Our Library spends 3.4 million Swiss Francs each year on books and materials," noted Pierre Buntschu, BCU-Fribourg's Project Manager. "We order from 600 suppliers from about 20 countries. Each year we place about 18,000 orders. We are happy to be the first user of the Virtua Acquisitions system. We have started using it in production mode. On the basis of our initial tests, Virtua Acquisitions is very complete and powerful." With the implementation of Virtua Acquisitions at BCUF all of the major subsystems of Virtua are available in production mode.

Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire in Fribourg is a Union Catalog serving 16 libraries and is one of seven regional union catalogs that in turn contribute to the Réseau des bibliothèques romandes et tessoines (RERO). The RERO consortium consists of a total of 183 libraries. The RERO Union Catalog is currently the largest Virtua database, containing 3.4 million holdings with nearly 2.5 million bibliographic records and 85,000 multilingual authority records.