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Libraries are organized around automation and their ILS

Libraries are isolated in their efforts and independently create separate architecture

Redundancy is rampant

User Login:

  • EZProxy
  • ILLiad
  • Course Management
  • Portal
  • OPAC

Overlapping Functions

  • Delivering a book (either in-house or ILL)
  • Describing some metadata
  • Financial accounting (in ILS and in organizations Financial system)

Open to

change your

Library Environment

Leverage Experience and Expertise

Unite the Collection

Highlight Your Strengths

Acquire

Manage

Influence Development

- Experiment

- Try to be more efficient

Describe

share services with others

Acquire

Deliver

Manage

Create Flexible Workflows

user

experience

Describe

identity

management

Deliver

Integrate / Interoperate

Reduce Double Actions

Best practices

Deliver

Describe

Manage

Acquire

Build Services

MARC Limits

Unifying Collections and Partnerships with OLE

Break past limits

User Interface Limits

Timothy M. McGeary

Team Leader, Library Technology

Lehigh University - Bethlehem, PA

Statement #1:

ILS's have not changed signficantly in the past 10 years

Statement #2:

Libraries have not changed ILS vendors in last 10 years

Marshall Breeding -

"It's these very long cycles, I think, that lead libraries to being behind the technology curve. Libraries seem unwilling to jump into new systems that might better match their broader strategies; the inertia of legacy systems largely shapes the library automation landscape.

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Staff Workflow Limits

Questions?

Timothy M. McGeary

tim.mcgeary@lehigh.edu

610-758-4998

Google/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary

Lehigh University Libraries

System Architecture in 2001

Lehigh University Libraries

System Architecture in 2009