Haven’t other groups already developed open source ILS products for libraries?
Current open source projects do address aspects of the limitations in commercial ILS systems, and thus offer an excellent starting point. At the same time, we think there is more work to be done in rethinking completely the library management systems needed by academic libraries. We are optimistic that the open source library projects now in progress will inform our work, and possibly lead to some convergence or joint activities in the future. We would expect any software development project which comes after our planning project to leverage software developed by other community-source projects.
