[Web4lib] Planning open source Library system at Duke

[Chris Strauber]

VuFind (Villanova), Blacklight (University of Virginia), and the eXtensible
Catalog project (University of Rochester) are also exploring some of the
same territory. It would be wonderful to have several groups working on the
same problem...and even better if much reinvention of the wheel could be
avoided.

<http://www.*vufind*.org/>
<http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/blacklight.html>
<http://www.extensiblecatalog.info/?page_id=60>

Chris Strauber
Wofford College

On Jan 28, 2008 11:25 PM, D.H. Mattison <dmattison at shaw.ca> wrote:

> This is rather interesting because there already is at least one open
> source
> integrated library system that has aspirations for use by academic
> libraries
> ... and at least three Canadian academic libraries are already
> contributing
> to its development. Georgia Public Library Service created the system with
> some financial support from the US federal government. The system is
> called
> Evergreen (http://www.open-ils.org/).
>
> The better known Koha (http://www.koha.org/) is another open source ILS
> that's already in use by a few academic libraries.
>
> No doubt the existence of two open source ILS will help shortcut any
> design
> decisions.
>
> David Mattison
> Victoria, BC, Canada
> http://www.davidmattison.ca
>
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