Breeding, "Closing Presentation: Where can we go from here?"
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The document discusses the evolving challenges and opportunities in library resource management systems, highlighting the need for new technologies to support changing roles and collections in libraries. It explores the slow turnover of library automation products, the impact of budget cuts, and the shift towards open source solutions, as well as the collaboration between vendors and libraries for effective system development. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of new standards and interoperability amidst the changing landscape of library automation.
Breeding, "Closing Presentation: Where can we go from here?"
- 1. WHERE CAN WE GO FROM HERE? Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities October 8-9, 2009 Marshall Breeding Director for InnovativeTechnology and Research Vanderbilt University Library LibraryTechnology Guides http://www.librarytechnology.org
- 2. FORGING A PATH THROUGH A MAZE OF OPTIONS
- 3. Trajectory Changing roles of libraries and the nature of their collections demand corresponding changes in supporting technologies Enormous challenges to deliver appropriate: Discovery platforms Business automation systems Yet…turnover of library automation products very slow
- 4. Library Context Academic libraries: increased emphasis on enterprise interoperability All Libraries:Transition to larger proportions of non-print content Emphasis on full-text delivery: e-journals, e- books, digitized books Shrinking library budgets: Cuts made in these economic times may never be recovered Public Libraries: operational efficiency All libraries: higher levels of resource sharing
- 5. Technology context NewTechnology Cycle Cloud computing: Platform-as-a-service (Amazon EC2) Storage services (C3) Software-as-a-service Delivery to mobile devices Enterprise level infrastructure Legacy: Local/departmental computing Client/server Local servers
- 6. Business and procurement cycles
- 7. General Business Trends Very complex market Local national and regional companies & Global competitors Increasingly consolidated and global Concentration of library automation into a smaller niche of companies
- 8. Predominance of Proprietary ILS products The vast majority of libraries choose to license proprietary ILS products from established vendors Some of these companies continue to see growth in new client libraries Defections to competitors and open source currently happen at relatively low levels Many unannounced open source projects may alter this trend
- 9. Dynamics of library automation changing Commercial companies developing and supporting proprietary products prevail Open source ILS procurements Non-profit OCLC cooperative positioned to play a larger role
- 10. Technology and product strategies Evolved products? Can the existing slate of major ILS products morph over time to meet the ever widening gaps between design and functionality and changing library requirements Fresh starts possible?
- 11. Evolutionary path Unicorn -> Symphony INOVAQ > Innopac -> Millennium/Encore Urica -> Spydus VUBIS ->Vubis Smart ->V Smart ALEPH 100… ALEPH 500/Verde/SFX -> URM
- 12. Forging a fresh path OLE – Ready to launch 2-year build phase Open Source URM -- (New or evolved?) Commercially licensed open platform Web-scale library automation OCLCWorldCat Local cooperative library management system
- 13. Research and development activities Do the systems libraries really need exist yet? Research and Development essential to develop systems to meet the needs of libraries and issues identified in this Forum Where will this take place? Companies? Libraries? Vendor / Library collaboration
- 14. The Business of Open Source ILS Library procurement of open source ILS Commercial support companies Small and fragmented Many open source implementations taking place independent of commercial support contracts
- 15. Open Source ILS Companies Exists at the lower bounds of sustainability, with some showing significant growth. Fragmented approach can diffuse already limited resources
- 16. Open source alternatives gaining increasing support Many libraries energized to take on local development projects Traditional vendors interested in making best use of open source components The direct adoption of open source products represents only one aspect of open source in the library automation industry.
- 17. Support by Grant-making bodies AndrewW. Mellon Foundation Georgia Public Library Systems recognized with Award for Technology Collaboration ($50,000) OLE (Open Library Environment) $475,700 Phase I ?? Phase II eXtensible Catalog $283,000 Phase I $749,000 Phase II IMLS “Empowered by Open Source” $998,556 Led by King County + Peninsula Library System in California, the Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan and the Orange County Library System in Florida
- 18. A conversation about software licensing Move beyond Open Source / Proprietary software as philosophical arguments. SaaS largely neutralizes the pragmatic differences Software choices made on the merits of functionality Company choices made on the merits of their service delivery
- 19. Discovery / Library Business Automation Now viewed as separate problem Many interdependencies Current model of feeding discovery systems from many underlying repositories ILS / e-journal collections / collections of digital objects Will models of resource management change to consolidate the repositories? Realign Discovery and management?
- 20. Discovery interface arena Technology platforms becoming more mature Major projects and products to bring full text article-level content within the primary purview of the discovery interface. Next challenge: Full text indexes of books
- 21. New options and opportunities springing up Many opportunities for libraries to contribute Partnerships with vendors Development partner / Beta test site Participation in open source initiatives Contribute to new and existing projects VuFind, Blacklight, OLE, Evergreen Koha
- 22. Service oriented architecture Preferred technology for new development projects Web Services Can function as the glue that ties legacy systems together Building blocks of composed applications in an SOA environment Legacy software will be around for a very long time.
- 23. IssuesforStandards Library infrastructure may be positioned for many major shifts Will new models of automation be served by existing standards and best practices? What will be the points of interoperability that will require technical agreements, best practices, standards as library automation models morph? Help NISO and other relevant organizations broker technical agreements in time to drive, not hold back, new initiatives. Increased library involvement will be extremely helpful