On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Tito Sierra wrote:
> Academic libraries have typically serviced both of these functions in
> single "ILS" platform, but that is not a technical requirement. One
> can imagine one library system that handles inventory, and a
> different library system to handle the online public access to the
> catalog (oops, I almost said OPAC).
In my opinion, this is correct.
There are two functions going on here: 1) creating a list of things a
library owns (or licenses, ick), and 2) creating a front-end enabling
the primary users of a particular library to find, acquire, and use
information to meet their needs as defined by the library's hosting
institution.
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Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 10:23:50 EDT