Thanks for all the comments! It's really interesting getting the perspectives, I agree with Ian that we've heard from everyone except the library staff....
Firstly though I need to clarify that the link posted is from a gentleman called Walter Nelson, Library Manager at RAND Corporation - I can't take credit for his comments. Interestingly I was recently able to hear his presentation in person and it was very powerful.
As you probably have already realized I bring another perspective to the table as my background is with an ILS vendor, EOS International. That said identifying with the needs of library's and their users is so important if we all are going to be around in the future, it doesn't matter if we are consultants, vendors or librarians. The future is about working together!
Thinking about the short term, namely the next few years, can we adapt the ILS to maintain its relevance?
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Ian Haydock wrote:
> People from outside libraries tend
> to be very frustrated by the complexity of library systems (or maybe
> just libraries!), which in turn limit integration with other systems,
> while possibly being unaware of the fact that much of this complexity
> has been added to meet the demands of library users.
I understand some of this.
Currently we have a conventional library catalogue system and, separately, a bibliographic database system. Bibliographic reference data, index terms and so on are typed into each independently; index terms come from separate controlled lists evolved for different purposes; and the systems are searched separately. We would like a system to bring it all together, so data entry happens once and searching covers both library content and the database.
Backwards compatibility is just one of the problems.
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