Marshall Breeding provides his annual overview of the shifts and trends in the world of the Integrated Library System (ILS) in the current issue of Library Journal.
Of interest is the definite movement of the open source systems, Koha and Evergreen, into the mix. I’m surprised that they haven’t made this much impact in the past year or two, but I suspect that contracts and switching effort has made the library world very hesitant to try out new technologies at the level of the ILS and OPAC until they sense that others are using them effectively.
We could stand more experimenting, even on the sandbox level… who knows how much better we could be with a bit of time and effort?
