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
Influence Development
- Experiment
- Try to be more efficient
share services with others
Create Flexible Workflows
Integrate / Interoperate
Reduce Double Actions
Best practices
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
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Lehigh University Libraries
System Architecture in 2001
Lehigh University Libraries
System Architecture in 2009