The Care and Feeding of Your Integrated Library System
Your integrated library system is like the plumbing in your home: you don’t think about it much when it is working well, but when it stops working or becomes obsolete, you are faced with some difficult challenges. Good maintenance practices, forethought, and planning can keep the trials and tribulations to a minimum.
We are part of a consortium of six small public libraries in southwestern Ontario, the Saugeen Library Consortium. The consortium was formed in 2007 after our ILS, Winnebago Spectrum, was “orphaned”: Spectrum was bought by Follett, and Follett informed us that they would no longer be supplying updates or support for the program. For small rural libraries like ours, this was a huge problem, since our budgets are already very tight, with no spare funds for the enormous cost that a new ILS can represent.
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