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Re: Blowing the lid off the ILS

Hmmm. Read the post. Isn't the point to no longer "ILS", that is to no
longer have a single, integrated system? This post seems to be
suggesting that we add APIs to our ILSs for the creation of "discovery
systems" as if the ILSs are just fine for everything else. I don't think
that's the case. If we are separating the discovery function from the
rest of the library management functions, then we need to go back and
analyze the whole workflow, from purchase, account management, check in
of serials, circulation, bindery .... Right now our data is designed to
move through the flow and end up in the catalog. If discovery is
happening through a non-integrated interface, I think the whole data
flow comes under question.

'Next Gen' catalogue interfaces:




• VuFind



• C4



• Fac-back-OPAC

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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• No Barcode Items


• Duplicate Barcode Items


• Out of Range(s) Items


• Inventory Statistics

• Access to the Bibliographic, Authority (optional), Holdings, and
  Patron databases through a large variety of indexes


• Support of full MARC 21 Format standard for all record types

The following modules and features are integrated:





• Windows OPAC


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• Inventory


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• ReportTool and over 800 reports (with
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