On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
On another topic, I also think it's good to have options, so I'm not
sure I expect (or would welcome) total convergence between various open
source ILS projects. But to the extent we're imagining various loosely
coupled modules which can be mixed-and
Sounds like you are on a reasonable track overall.
John Little wrote:
It may be that some components of an ideal ILS are already available, some
are under development by academic libraries and some will require new
programming. We expect that different open-source ILS projects will lead
toward
Thanks for the initial response. Obviously I can easily agree with Erick's
and Peter's responses. I do realize that some will not find value in this
approach but many others will. In fact, I am very pleased with the initial
responses and am reasonably convinced that the interest comes from an
un
On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:26 PM, John Little wrote:
The Duke University Libraries are preparing a proposal for the Mellon
Foundation to convene the academic library community to design an open
source Integrated Library System (ILS)
Personally, I think this is a good idea. Yes, there are exist
a few years ago. It's great that an
institution of Duke's standing is taking the lead.
Peter
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> Isn't there already an extant open-source ILS that's out there, and
> reputed to be rather good?
>
> I'm all for parallel approaches to problems... but the world of ILSes
> is pretty sma
Isn't there already an extant open-source ILS that's out there, and
reputed to be rather good?
I'm all for parallel approaches to problems... but the world of ILSes
is pretty small. Maybe use fat cash from Mellon to help bake
Evergreen the rest of the way?
Just a thought,
-Nate
Wendt Library
UW
Code4Lib:
The Duke University Libraries are preparing a proposal for the Mellon
Foundation to convene the academic library community to design an open
source Integrated Library System (ILS). We are not focused on developing an
actual system at this stage, but rather blue-skying on the elements th
