Marshall Breeding--TechTrends Slides

Tech Trends at the ALA Annual Conference
ALA TechSource Webinar
Marshall Breeding
Director for Innovative Technology and Research
Vanderbilt University Library
Founder and Publisher, Library Technology Guides
http://www.librarytechnology.org/
http://twitter.com/mbreeding
July 13, 2010

Marshall’s tech beat
Library Automation Industry
Integrated library systems
Discovery Products
Other major library technology products
General Technology Trends
Theme: track the trends that impact library strategies and large technologyinvestments.

Conference Tech Theme
Incremental advancement
http://www.uoguelph.ca/theportico/science/people/

No Major break-through announcements
No mergers or acquisitions
No new products announced

Cloud computing
Gaining wide use as a prototyping platform
SaaS offerings widespread – not exactly cloud deployments
Some true cloud deployments:
LibLime Enterprise Koha
Primo Central

Open source ILS
Continues as a major trend
Still a small faction of overall ILS arena
Exhibits
Equinox Software -- Evergreen
LibLime – Koha
Much Koha activity beyond exhibiting vendors
Sessions
The Ultimate Debate
Moderated by Roy Tenant
Stephen Abram
Karen Schneider
Marshall Breeding

Mostly quiet on the ILS front
Enterprise faceted discoveryMany new SaaS sites – McMaster University
Some new features in Polarismore municipal library clients
Encore Synergy: article level discovery without central index
Cognite: New learning management system for K-12 schools
New version of AGent VERSO with many new features
New strength in large municipal libraries: Hong Kong Public
Continued development of URM

OCLC Webscale Management system
New automation platform based on global WorldCat to replace local ILS implementations
Makes critical benchmarks
Now available to early adopters
Production product next year

Discovery

Ex Libris
Primo
Primo Central launched
Primo Version 3 released
bX Recommender service
Recommendations for related scholarly articles
271 subscribers
Now integrated into Serials Solutions products through API

Serials Solutions
Continued expansion of the content indexed by Summon
Summon integration through API
Villanova: VuFind + Summon Index
National and University Library of Denmark: Summa + Summon

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