I recall OCLC supporting ILS's of one sort or another through the 80's
and 90's - picking up ILS's that had or were going out of business
but with a significant number of customers otherwise left with no support.
Question to be researched - did they continue that through to today and
are those consultants/programmers with ILS support experience still there?
- Bill
Karen Coyle wrote:
> OCLC already does ILL, but that's mainly because ILL depends on interaction
> with other libraries. Some of the other functions, like circulation or
> acquisitions, don't currently need to take advantage of information about
> other libraries in order to work. Will there be an advantage to having them
> run by OCLC over a local system, other than outsourcing the system aspects?
> What will the disadvantages be? What about all of the customization that
> libraries always ask vendors to do for certain functions (acquisitions,
> notably)? Will OCLC provide customization?
Received on Thu Apr 23 2009 - 17:36:53 EDT