Comments on: Can you be trusted with Library 2.0? http://about.scriblio.net/scribbles/142/can-you-be-trusted-with-library-20/ open source software for libraries Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: panlibus http://about.scriblio.net/scribbles/142/can-you-be-trusted-with-library-20/#comment-1668 panlibus Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:28:38 +0000 http://libdev.plymouth.edu/?p=27#comment-1668 <strong>The rise of the Platform - Continuing the Library 2.0 discorse with Blyberg</strong> For those of you who haven't been following this conversation, here is a brief history to for you: Nov 15th 2005 - Talis launch white paper Do Libraries Matter? The Rise of Library 2.0 at Talis Insight Conference 2005Nov 18th... The rise of the Platform – Continuing the Library 2.0 discorse with Blyberg

For those of you who haven’t been following this conversation, here is a brief history to for you: Nov 15th 2005 – Talis launch white paper Do Libraries Matter? The Rise of Library 2.0 at Talis Insight Conference 2005Nov 18th…

]]> By: casey20 http://about.scriblio.net/scribbles/142/can-you-be-trusted-with-library-20/#comment-1667 casey20 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:21:15 +0000 http://libdev.plymouth.edu/?p=27#comment-1667 It strikes me that although vendors may reinvent the way that library users interact with library systems, they have no interest in disrupting the way that library systems interact with them. ILS vendors, from the dawn of time, have been trying to keep their customers' data locked up in these little proprietary boxes. While that may be great for an ASP solution geared towards smaller shops, this strikes me as a fundamentally flawed business model when it comes to bigger customers. In my experience library patrons don't give a crap about why your systems aren't working. Whether you tell them that it is your fault or the fault of some company you pay tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money a year to really doesn't matter -- and why should it? A systems administrator's job is to make things work, by whatever means necessary. I'm sure savvy places like Ann Arbor have dedicated development machines & databases and do benchmarking before rolling something out. And as long as the system isn't running inside of some locked down or proprietary database, it's (usually) easy to tell if some in-house generated program is making the database slow. 100 John Blybergs + Georgia PINES = ? It strikes me that although vendors may reinvent the way that library users interact with library systems, they have no interest in disrupting the way that library systems interact with them.

ILS vendors, from the dawn of time, have been trying to keep their customers’ data locked up in these little proprietary boxes. While that may be great for an ASP solution geared towards smaller shops, this strikes me as a fundamentally flawed business model when it comes to bigger customers.

In my experience library patrons don’t give a crap about why your systems aren’t working. Whether you tell them that it is your fault or the fault of some company you pay tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money a year to really doesn’t matter — and why should it? A systems administrator’s job is to make things work, by whatever means necessary.

I’m sure savvy places like Ann Arbor have dedicated development machines & databases and do benchmarking before rolling something out. And as long as the system isn’t running inside of some locked down or proprietary database, it’s (usually) easy to tell if some in-house generated program is making the database slow.

100 John Blybergs + Georgia PINES = ?

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