ILS Assessment : A Background Document (Pdf) is an excellent overview of the Integrated Library System issues facing libraries today. Created by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor (Canada), it is their first step towards “evaluating the current environment with respect to Integrated Library Systems (ILS).”
Drawing from blogs, journals and presentations, this paper should be read by anyone recognizing that the current state of the ILS is lacking, and that libraries are in danger of falling further behind if we don’t educate ourselves and take action.
Of additional interest to me was that this paper is written from an academic library perspective, and that they are currently using Voyager, the system I worked with until last October. Neither of these perspectives diminishes the usefulness of this document for those who work in non-academic libraries and/or with non-Voyager ILSs, however.
found in American Libraries, August 2007, p. 36.
