Bill,
I'm not sure that I fully understand your questions, but here is some information.
I wrote an article for Smart Libraries Newsletter in Feb 2006 just after they acquired Openly Informatics that includes a chronology of OCLC's earlier mergers and acquisitions.
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=11862
I understand that a great deal of the research and development of the current project is taking place by the folks in Sheffield, UK, former HQ of Fretwell-Downing and in Germany in the former HQ of Sisis Informationssysteme, not to mention individuals from OCLC Research, Openly, and RLG.
So the personnel associated with LS 2000 are long gone, but OCLC has fresh talent from its more recent ILS company acquisitions.
-marshall
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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?
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