Thursday, September 07, 2006

LJ article on Library 2.0

The current issue of Library Journal includes an article on Library 2.0 that's worth a read. John Blyberg's comments on ILS vendors and the lack of open standards are of particular interest. We have recently purchased some 2.0-ish products from Innovative, but they are, of course, proprietary and -- as far as I know -- cannot be accessed except via Innovative's ILS. That's quite different from the leading Web 2.0 sites, most of which offer a variety of ways to interact with content outside of their own interfaces (e.g. APIs, RSS). Isn't it ironic that these private, for-profit companies can open their systems, but many nonprofit libraries can't?

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