Open AccessWorking with or around your ILS?: Solutions from the real world. Sponsored by SIG LAN
Author(s) -
Cuddy Colleen,
Wu Carol,
Spore Stuart,
Needleman Mark,
Schlumpf Peter
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.1450390198
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , work (physics) , world wide web , library classification , digital library , software , computer science , multimedia , engineering , operating system , mechanical engineering , art , literature , poetry
The Integrated Library System (ILS) is the backbone of the library. Traditional systems supplied by a handful of vendors have done the job more or less. However, with the advent of the WWW and the digital library, librarians have become more demanding about the features of these systems. Integrated Library Systems need to be more sophisticated and more adaptable to the needs of libraries. ILS vendors are not always ready or able to keep up with the demand for added functionality and libraries are often left to develop intermediary solutions or look to thirdparty software applications to achieve the functionality they need. This session will present the work of four projects undertaken to add functionality to ILSs.