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07 Nov 07
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We are moving to an age of less integrated systems (this is not just true in library automation) - increasingly we see the 'core' ILS supplemented by additional systems (Link resolver, federated search, ERM, etc.)
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Many companines involved in library automation are not involved in ILS - e.g. OCLC, Cambridge Information Group/Bowker, WebFeat, Muse Global etc. - none of these produce an ILS.
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- VuFind
- C4
- Fac-back-OPAC
'Next Gen' catalogue interfaces:
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Companies are starting to appear that sell support for Open Source library systems (Index Data, LibLime etc.)
Open Source then is a form of competition for the commercial vendors - which hopefully will lead to pressure to increase innovation, decrease cost, make systems more open, and generally disrupt the Status Quo (in a good way Marshall believes)
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We spend 'at leat half' of collections budgets on Electronic resources - but the traditional systems don't help us with this.
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Current systems are not fulfilling library need, they are monolithic and complex to administer, and they miss out large areas of functionality (ILL, Book binding, Remote storage management)
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Libraries are demanding more openess - this doesn't necessarily mean Open Source, but open/documented API (beyond proprietary APIs). The ideal is an Industry-standard set of APIs - but this may not be realistic. However there is a current NISO effort to define API for an ILS for decoupled catalogues.
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OCLC Worldcat - why have a local OPAC when you can have Global one?
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