I wrote yesterday of Nicole Engard’s comment that the ILS was about as open and flexible as a brick wall. Today I learned that the vendor of that ILS had tried to squash her public criticism.
Not cool.
It’s pure speculation on my part, but what comes next? Surely no vendor would send Vinny over to bust [...]

Posted June 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: criticism, iii, ils, ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights, Innovative Interfaces, John Blyberg, libraries, library, Nicole Engard, squashing criticism, squelched. 6 Comments.

Nicole Engard last month posted about The State of our ILS, describing the systems as:
I’d say it’s a like the crazy cousin you have to deal with because he’s family! It doesn’t fit, we are a very open IT environment, we have applications all over that need to talk to each other nicely and the [...]

Posted June 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: AALL, American Association of Law Libraries, future libraries, ils, interoperability, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, Nicole Engard, standards, Steve Lawson. 3 Comments.

I feel a little misrepresented by a post from Talis’ Richard Wallis claiming you don’t need technology for Library 2.0 – but it helps, but the company blog doesn’t allow embedded URLs, so I’m posting my comment here:
Richard, please don’t misunderstand me. Technology is the essential infrastructure for Library 2.0. My point was that technology [...]

Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: future, ils, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, open systems, talis, vendor, vision, web 2.0, web20. 2 Comments.

Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). The easiest one to grok is this spelling service, but there are others that are cooler.
He also alerted me to a Perl script to proxy Z39.50 to RSS. Though for those more into PHP (like me), [...]

Posted October 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cat date, ils, index data, information retrieval, libaries, library, library catalog, library systems, ockham, opac, perl script, php, rss, search by cat date, sort by cat date, xml, yaz, z39.50, z39.50 proxy. Be the first one.

There’s an interesting discussion going at LibDev about what our ILSs are. It all started with a discussion of what role XML and webservices could/should play with ILS/catalogs, but a comment reminded us that Vendor’s decisions about adding new features to products that have been around for 20 or 30 years sometimes edge towards lock-in. [...]

Posted July 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: david walker, electronic resources, electronic sources, flickr, google, ils, integrated library system, inventory system, libdev, library system, search and retrieval, search help. Be the first one.