... as gaining insight into the expanding role of technology librarians today’s library. While it did not address job advertisements, Keith Kelly’s (2015) book, The Myth and Magic of Library Systems, gives a wide variety of tasks that relate to library systems including networking, user support...

...Robert Marijan; Robert Leskovar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the information retrieval component of a daily newspaper publisher’s integrated library system (ILS) in comparison with the open source alternatives and observe the impact of the scale...

... Software development Library systems Software licensing Software sponsorship Open Source Software (OSS) refers to software that is distributed with its source code under a license that sets out terms and conditions for use, modification, and re-distribution (Subramanyam and Xia, 2008...

...Joseph Pruett; Namjoo Choi Purpose – As libraries face budget cuts, open source integrated library systems are an attractive alternative to proprietary choices. Even though open source software is free to acquire, administrators must consider factors other than initial purchase price. This study...

... Z39.50 Technical services Cataloguing Online catalogues Library systems Web sites The purpose of a current‐awareness service (CAS) is to inform users about new acquisitions in their library. Libraries have always used CAS, but the methods of delivering it to the library's users has changed...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 Cloud computing Information technology Omeka Amazon Web Service Archivists Toolkit Libraries Private cloud Linux MySQL Library systems Worldwide web There are few terms as nebulous as cloud computing. It is defined in many different ways, in many...

... apparatus and apply this to traditional library systems. Findings Through this process it is found that there are many ways library interfaces can be augmented to go beyond the processes of find and get and evolve to include processes of use and understand. Originality/value To the best...

... Publishing Limited 2011 Bradford's law Bradford analysis Systems librarianship Linear regression Library systems Library management Bibliographies Mankind's recorded information has once been considered to be randomly dispersed everywhere, but Samuel C. Bradford changed this viewpoint...

... collections to the patron without having to edit them into the video files. Mark O'English can be contacted at: markoe@wsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Archives Audiovisual media Cataloguing Collections management Data handling Library systems The Washington State...

...Guoying Liu; Huoxin Zheng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the integration of SFX link resolver with Evergreen open source integrated library system (ILS). It also aims to describe a method to incorporate print serials into SFX. Design/methodology/approach A print serials...

... Libraries who are considering de‐coupling their OPAC from their Integrated Library System will find useful information about this process as undertaken by the University of Virginia, as well as more information about Blacklight, and more information about whether Blacklight might be a good fit...

... Publishing Limited 2007 --> Library management Library systems Library and information management Database management systems Electronic resources now consume more than 60 per cent of the information materials budget of any state‐of‐the‐art library. And of all electronic resources journals...

... the world – that are intending to migrate from a legacy system to a new system. Zahiruddin Khurshid can be contacted at: khurshid@kfupm.edu.sa © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Library systems Data management Change management Saudi Arabia During the last decade, academic...

.... While there is no theoretical limit on the number of resources that can be searched at once, response time will degrade with as selections are added. Information retrieval Library systems Academic libraries Computer software Faced with the choice between multiple subscription databases...

..., and that the collection will be entirely cataloged. Furthermore, both well‐known and less‐used, more obscure items will be more easily accessible to users. Federal Government Library systems Training Automation Storage systems Information retrieval Government publications have played a significant...

..., such as the Safari media distribution system [8] and Pharos Uniprint print cost recovery system [9] have grown to encompass other users. Uniprint, along with the library's integrated library system, Innovative's Innopac Millennium [10] , illustrate how many of the existing systems have significantly changed...

... of electronic resources in an integrated technology environment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Digital libraries Library systems Academic libraries Communication technologies Information services Librarians have in the past been referred to as “information gatekeepers”. Over...

...Susan Cleyle It is clear there will always be a need for library systems support, but will libraries always need professional librarians in the systems office? The authors of this theme issue unanimously agree that there is a role for librarianship in the library systems. Eight articles showcase...