Open Library Management
Systems
The Transformed Library
SAMM 2008
John Little, Duke University
May 8, 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on outdated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.

OLMS in Academic Libraries
Convene the academic library community in the design of an
Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented
Architecture model
Seeking funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation