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Unified Library Management Systems: Issues

Unified Library Management Systems: Issues. Gordon Dunsire Depute Director Centre for Digital Library Research University of Strathclyde. General systems. To get best value, any “system” needs to organise its information for Effectiveness Does it do what it’s supposed to? Efficiency

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Unified Library Management Systems: Issues

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  1. Unified Library Management Systems: Issues Gordon Dunsire Depute Director Centre for Digital Library Research University of Strathclyde

  2. General systems • To get best value, any “system” needs to organise its information for • Effectiveness • Does it do what it’s supposed to? • Efficiency • Does it do it well?

  3. Organised information • Coherency • Are you talking about the same thing as me? • Consistency • Are you saying it in the same way? • Completeness • Is what you’re saying the whole picture? • Achieved through the application of standards

  4. Library management systems • A type of general system • But dealing with information itself • So need to organise information about information • Metadata • Not just bibliographic metadata (catalogues, indexes) • Also stock management (barcodes), etc.

  5. Scope • Metadata is the stuff on which an LMS operates • The data which it processes • But system isn’t just data and hardware/software • Humans • End-users, Administrators, Operators, Managers • Other systems • Very few “systems” are self-contained • LMS might interact with: external LMS(s); personnel; authentication; etc.

  6. Distributed LMS • Designed for more than one “organisation” • Branches and/or separate institutions • Additional functionality required • Human components distributed in space • Multiple instances of types of external system • Local needs to be met • But systems must be unified at “consortium” level

  7. Local vs Global • But LMS itself must interact with even larger aggregation of LMS • NHS elsewhere; health/medicine elsewhere; Web/Internet • So distributed LMS lies between local, consortial, and “global” • Balance is required

  8. Local/global balancing act • Ultimately, human system operation is local (branch or institution) • Local operation must meet needs at two higher levels (ULMS < global LMS) • Best value through standards • Practices/workflows and good/effective (U)LMS tools operating on metadata/stuff

  9. Evolution • External systems at local and global level likely to change, so ULMS needs to able to respond • ULMS itself is a change, and may in turn influence local systems (including humans as users, operators, etc.) • Global level changing rapidly

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