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1. Where can we go from here? Library Resource Management Systems: New Challenges, New Opportunities October 8-9, 2009 Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technology and Research Vanderbilt University Library Library Technology Guides http://www.librarytechnology.org

2. Forging a path through a maze of options

3. Trajectory Changing roles of libraries and the nature of their collections demand corresponding changes in supporting technologies Enormous challenges to deliver appropriate: Discovery platforms Business automation systems Yet…turnover of library automation products very slow

5. All Libraries: Transition to larger proportions of non-print content

6. Emphasis on full-text delivery: e-journals, e-books, digitized books

7. Shrinking library budgets: Cuts made in these economic times may never be recovered

8. Public Libraries: operational efficiency

10. Cloud computing:

11. Platform-as-a-service (Amazon EC2)

12. Storage services (C3)

13. Software-as-a-service

14. Delivery to mobile devices

15. Enterprise level infrastructure

16. Legacy:

17. Local/departmental computing

18. Client/server

20. General Business Trends Very complex market Local national and regional companies & Global competitors Increasingly consolidated and global Concentration of library automation into a smaller niche of companies

21. Predominance of Proprietary ILS products The vast majority of libraries choose to license proprietary ILS products from established vendors Some of these companies continue to see growth in new client libraries Defections to competitors and open source currently happen at relatively low levels Many unannounced open source projects may alter this trend

22. Dynamics of library automation changing Commercial companies developing and supporting proprietary products prevail Open source ILS procurements Non-profit OCLC cooperative positioned to play a larger role

23. Technology and product strategies Evolved products? Can the existing slate of major ILS products morph over time to meet the ever widening gaps between design and functionality and changing library requirements Fresh starts possible?

24. Evolutionary path Unicorn -> Symphony INOVAQ > Innopac -> Millennium/Encore Urica -> Spydus VUBIS -> Vubis Smart -> V Smart ALEPH 100… ALEPH 500/Verde/SFX -> URM

25. Forging a fresh path OLE – Ready to launch 2-year build phase Open Source URM -- (New or evolved?) Commercially licensed open platform Web-scale library automation OCLC WorldCat Local cooperative library management system

26. Research and development activities Do the systems libraries really need exist yet? Research and Development essential to develop systems to meet the needs of libraries and issues identified in this Forum Where will this take place? Companies? Libraries? Vendor / Library collaboration

27. The Business of Open Source ILS Library procurement of open source ILS Commercial support companies Small and fragmented Many open source implementations taking place independent of commercial support contracts

28. Open Source ILS Companies Exists at the lower bounds of sustainability, with some showing significant growth. Fragmented approach can diffuse already limited resources

29. Open source alternatives gaining increasing support Many libraries energized to take on local development projects Traditional vendors interested in making best use of open source components The direct adoption of open source products represents only one aspect of open source in the library automation industry.

31. Georgia Public Library Systems recognized with Award for Technology Collaboration ($50,000)

32. OLE (Open Library Environment)

33. $475,700 Phase I

34. ?? Phase II

35. eXtensible Catalog

36. $283,000 Phase I

37. $749,000 Phase II

38. IMLS

39. “Empowered by Open Source”

40. $998,556

42. Discovery / Library Business Automation Now viewed as separate problem Many interdependencies Current model of feeding discovery systems from many underlying repositories ILS / e-journal collections / collections of digital objects Will models of resource management change to consolidate the repositories? Realign Discovery and management?

43. Discovery interface arena Technology platforms becoming more mature Major projects and products to bring full text article-level content within the primary purview of the discovery interface. Next challenge: Full text indexes of books

44. New options and opportunities springing up Many opportunities for libraries to contribute Partnerships with vendors Development partner / Beta test site Participation in open source initiatives Contribute to new and existing projects VuFind, Blacklight, OLE, Evergreen Koha

45. Service oriented architecture Preferred technology for new development projects Web Services Can function as the glue that ties legacy systems together Building blocks of composed applications in an SOA environment Legacy software will be around for a very long time.

47. Will new models of automation be served by existing standards and best practices?

48. What will be the points of interoperability that will require technical agreements, best practices, standards as library automation models morph?

49. Help NISO and other relevant organizations broker technical agreements in time to drive, not hold back, new initiatives.

54. Many paths forward…