Deborah Kaplan wrote:
> [snip] Until librarians get
> heavily involved in the design of the software products, and
> until we insist on going the open route so we don't get tied into
> massive ILS systems which require at a minimum a three-year
> migration strategy, and which we therefore stick with simply out
> of inertia, we're not going to get what we want.
I suspect that even with OpenILS or any of the alternatives, planning a
migration will still take time.
The bigger question is in a loosely coupled/decoupled set of ILS
applications can you migrate individual pieces without throwing the
"couplings" out of balance? In theory, with well thought out interfaces
between the parts (that include people beyond the specifics of the
library world when it comes to acquisitions etc.) this is
straightforward. But the interfaces evolve as well ...
None of which is to say that this is not Worth Doing.
Walter
Received on Thu Jun 22 2006 - 09:54:11 EDT