Dismantling
Integrated Library Systems – Andrew Pace 2/04
-early 90’s librarians cautiously embraced web as new
gateway to information
-resulting in old technology of ILS clashed with new web
technologies
-library’s dismantle systems and create new modules due to
frustration with inflexibility of technology of current systems
-vendors creating standalone products to harness new
technologies and capture or inven6 new maekt shares
-any basic ILS is going to get you where you need to go
-RFP process doesn’t reflect the similarities among current integrated
systems and require retooling to distinguish one vendor from another
-achieving the “same intellectual” logic that is part of the
older system as develop the new system is the key
-when a library opts to alter/tinker with either the back or
front end of current system there is a temptation to start from scratch
- Incremental functionality improvement to current systems
is more and more expensive
--serving larger and larger customers in a web based environment
with one stop search option is norm of today’s library
-some librarians and vendors are content with current levels
of features and functionality
-some librarian’s feel current systems don’t satisfy
internet savvy users
-some vendors acknowledge the revenue flattening with lack
of any development to ILS platforms
-ILS vendors say that new products are a direct response to
newer and better technologies, but that these technologies cost money in
development and third party alliances
-Author states that ILS maintenance fees are cheap yet it is
librarian’s resistance to pay for development that has caused the lack of
technological development with traditional ILS systems
-When organizations do create their own modules often these
systems integrate easily with the legacy system and often need patch
programming in Perl to connect to main system
-At eth heart of the issue is that by redefining ILS as application
platform vendors should be have to offer better integration with third party
systems while simultaneously fiving librarians better interoperability tools
-prior to interoperability can meet libraries changing needs
vendors need to re-direct their efforts
A few
Thoughts on the Google Books Library Project – Charles Edward Smith
-Main point: Google’s initiative will not make books obsolete;
it will make the information in them more widely available
-digitalized endeavors will preserve and perpetuate the
ideas of thousands of authors by transferring them to today’s technology
-books are other printed material would quickly reach
obsolescence if not easily accessible through digital technology
-we now expect information to all kinds and form all sources
to be only a few keystrokes away
-search engines are the new subject indexes to virtually
infinite amount of information on the internet
-still: performing research in a major library remains the
preserve of specialists
-as the internet generation graduates from school research
that can’t be obtained via the keyboard might as will not exist
-therefore: an author’s efforts to compose their life’s work
should not be irrelevant simply because they wrote and published in the wrong
format
-Summary: the successful transfer of knowledge is the task
that les before us…any effort that responsibility further that task benefits
all of us
How Internet
Infrastructure Works – Jeff Tyson
-Nobody owns the internet
-the Internet Society
is a non-profit group est. In
1992 that oversees the formation of policies and protocols that define usage
and interaction with the web
-dozens of large internet providers interconnect at NAPs in
various cites and trillions of bytes of data flow between the individual
network at theism points
-All of these networks rely on NAPs , backbones and routers
to talk to each other
-Routers have e2 separate but related jobs
-ensure
information doesn’t go wee it is not needed
-make
sure information makes it to the intended destination
-Routers join to 2 networks allowing information to pass
between and protect the network from
over flow of information traffic spilling over unnecessarily
-National Science Foundation created first high speed
backbone in 1987
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