Open Library Management
Systems
JA-SIG Spring Conference
The Community Source Way
John Little, Duke University
April 28, 2008

ILS Environment
• ILS does not fit modern
scholarly process
• Workflows adapted
to manage
collections are based
on outdated
assumptions

ILS Environment
• Dissatisfaction among libraries with proprietary ILS
• Our collections are changing more rapidly than our systems
o Data
o Mass digitization
• Early efforts in the OS model have a different primary
constituency.