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Examining the ILS: Taking a fresh look at library automation workflows

Explore the dynamic shift in library operations over the last two decades as libraries adapt to digital resources dominating collection budgets. Discover the dissatisfaction with current ILS products, demand for openness, and the need for comprehensive, lightweight automation systems. Learn about redefined workflows, service-oriented architecture, enterprise interoperability, updated data structures, and separation of front-end from back-end interfaces. Delve into the evolution of software development models for more efficient library automation.

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Examining the ILS: Taking a fresh look at library automation workflows

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  1. Examining the ILS:Taking a fresh look at library automation workflows Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University

  2. Working toward a new ILS Vision • How libraries work has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. • ILS built largely on workflows cast 20 years ago • Based on assumptions that have long since changed • Digital resources represent at least half of most libraries collection budgets

  3. Change demanded • Level of dissatisfaction with the current slate of ILS products is very high. • Large monolithic systems are unwieldy—very complex to install, administer and maintain. • Continue to be large gaps in functionality • Interlibrary loan • Collection development • Preservation: print / digital • Book binding • Remote storage operations

  4. Less Proprietary / More Open • Libraries demand more openness • Open source movement greatest challenge to current slate of ILS products

  5. Comprehensive automation • Need the ability to automation all aspects of library work • Suite of interoperable modules • Single point of management for each category of information

  6. More lightweight approach • More elegant and efficient • Easier to install and administer • Automation systems that can be operated with fewer number of technical staff

  7. Redefining the borders • Many artificial distinctions prevail in today’s ILS model • Circulation / ILL / Direct consortial borrowing / remote storage • Collection Development / Acquisitions • Digital / Print workflows

  8. Service-oriented Architecture • Work toward a service-oriented business application • Suite of light-weight applications • Flexibility to evolve in step with changes in library services and practices

  9. Enterprise interoperability • Interoperate with non-library applications • Course management • Accounting, finance, ERM applications • External authentication services • Other portal implementations

  10. Data structures • Reliance on MARC widely questioned • XML widely deployed • The next-gen ILS must natively support many flavors of metadata: MARC, Dublin Core, Onix, METS, etc • LCSH / FAST

  11. Separation of front-end from back-end • ILS OPAC not necessarily best library interface • Many efforts already underway to offer alternatives • Too many of the resources that belong in the interface are out of the ILS scope • Technology cycles faster for front-end than for back-end processes.

  12. New models of Software Development • Role of commercial partners • Increased partnerships • Accelerated development cycles • Cost-effective / realistic cost expectations

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