1. May 13, 2015 CSG Meeting - Boulder, CO What Is An ILS Anyway? Robert H. McDonald Associate Dean for Library Technologies Indiana University

2. Charleston and ILS 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

3. Outline ILS Defined History of Academic Integrated Library Systems Current Marketplace for Academic Libraries Core Functionality of Academic ILS Core Functionality Needs of Academic Libraries Developments in the Open Source Community 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

4. ILS Defined Integrated Library System - Legacy Concept  ILS = Integrated Library System  (Cataloging + Serials + Acquisitions + Circulation + Catalog)  Focused on print and physical inventory  Electronic content at the Journal Title or collection level  Emerged in the 1960’s – 1970’s  Functionality has evolved and expanded, but basic concepts and modules remain intact 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

5. ILS Defined Continued In addition to the core ILS layer libraries operate seperate systems to handle the following:  Electronic Resources Management System  OpenURL Linking Systems  Proxy or VPN Systems/Identity Mgmt Systems  Advanced Discovery Systems  Digital Library Content Systems  Digital Preservation Systems 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

6. ILS History History of Library Automation  Follows history of computing Eras of Change (40 years – 1968-Present)  Pre-Mainframe Era  Electromechanical automation  Mainframe Era  MARC Record 1968  Client/Server Era – 1990s  Open Source Era – 2000s  Cloud Era – 2008 - OCLC 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

7. Current Academic ILS Market Ex Libris/Endeavor - 1465  Voyager - 862  Aleph 500 – 603 Innovative Interfaces - 1163  Millennium – 1163 SirsiDynix - 1076  Unicorn - 740  Horizon/Symphony – 336 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

8. Legacy ILS Functionality 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald Circulation Acquisitions Cataloging Serials Staff Interfaces: Public User Interface: Data Stores: Functional modules: Vendor Based ePurchasing Vendor Based Metadata Enhancement

9. Legacy ILS Functionality + eContent Module + Advanced Discovery Interface 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald CirculationAcquisitions CatalogingSerials Federated Search/ Advanced Discovery OpenURL Linking Electronic Resource Mgmt. System Unified Workflow Interface for Staff Learning Mgmt./Campus Portal Feeds Proxy/VPN for eContent Access

10. National Library of Australia Four Reorganized Areas of an ILS  Bibliographic Subsystem  Search/Discovery Subsystem  Customer Management Subsystem  Document Delivery Subsystem 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

11. Current Academic ILS Needs  Bibliographic Subsystem  Electronic Leased Content  Electronic Owned Content  Physical Inventory  Search/Discovery Subsystem  Customer Management Subsystem  Document Delivery Subsystem  Physical Delivery Library to Library  Electronic Delivery to Customer  Digital Preservation System 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

12. New ILS Needs Enterprise Layer: Can this be an SOA Model? 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald Data Stores: Reusable Business Services Composite Applications Rule Oriented Workflow Process

13. Developments in Open Source ILS Evergreen Koha OPALS Learning Access ILS NexGenLib 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

14. Evergreen Developed by the Georgia Public Library Service Small development team June 2004 – development begins Sept 5, 2006 – live production Currently a group in Canada is developing Serials and other academic library requirements for Evergreen - called Conifer Project Includes a Business Service Bus called OpenSRF Supported vendor services provided by Equinox 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

15. Libraries Using Evergreen Georgia PINES http://gapines.org Georgia PINES: 1 Installation 54 Public Library Systems 260+ library facilities Does not include municipal systems: Atlanta- Fulton County, Cobb County Province of British Columbia in Canada – SITKA Kent County, MD Evergreen Indiana (Consortium of 35 Public Libraries) Under consideration by academic libraries in Canada 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

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17. Koha First open source ILS Includes Serials functionality in latest version (required for academic functionality) Includes Federated Search and Discovery System Supported vendor services provided by LibLime 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

18. Libraries using Koha 300+ libraries Horowhenua Library Trust Nelsonville Public Library Athens County, OH Crawford County Federated Library System 10 Libraries in PA Howard County, MD Service area population: 266300 4.7 million circulation transactions in 2006 1 million volumes Central Kansas Library System Santa Cruz Public Library Central, 9 branches 2 million volumes Near East University Library 1.5 million volumes 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

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20. Works Cited Antelman, K., E. Lynema, and A. Pace. 2006. Toward a Twenty-First-Century Library Catalog. Information Technology and Libraries. 25(3): 128-39. Borgman, C. L. 1997. From Acting Locally to Thinking Globally : A Brief History of Library Automation. The Library Quarterly. 67(3): 215-49. Breeding, M. 2008. Making a Case for Open-Source ILS. Computers in Libraries. 28(3): 36-9. ----------. 2007. An Industry Redefined. Library Journal. 132(6). ----------. 2007. The Sun Sets on Horizon. Computers in Libraries. 38-41. Cervone, F. 2007. ILS Migration in the 21 st Century. Computers in Libraries. 27(7). Demspey, L. 2009. Always On: Libraries in a World of Permanent Connectivity. First Monday 14(1): http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2291/2070. Pace, A. 2007. In the Beginning… A Historical Glimpse into Library Automation. American Libraries. 38(6). 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

21. Web Sites of Interest Library Technology Reports http://www.librarytechnology.org Evergreen ILS Ga Pines – http://www.gapines.org Evergreen Indiana - http://www.in.gov/library/5592.htm Equinox - http://www.esilibrary.com Evergreen - http://www.open-ils.org Koha ILS Koha - http://www.koha.org LibLime - http://liblime.com/ National Library of Australia ILS Redesign http://wvw.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/redevannounce.html 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald

22. Questions and Discussion Most current ILS systems are out of date  Old code  Last generation technology  No means for innovation (dwindling market)  Do NOT handle digital content well  Do not function at an enterprise level with current ERP systems  Which direction should libraries be pushing toward in regards to enterprise functionality for the academic arena?

23. Thank You robert at indiana.edu mcdonald {twitter} rhmcdonald {Gtalk, skype} 5/13/2015What is an ILS? - McDonald