A Long Look @ Service Oriented Library Systems

Be sure to check out Eric Schnell’s Service Oriented Library Systems series. In Part 4: Challenges he says if we step back and look at it, we have nobody to blame for outdated library information systems or our inability to more readily adopt SOA except for ourselves. We keep licensing these products at a time when the number alternative approaches available to libraries has never been greater.

In the last posting in these services he’ll provide some closing remarks and observations.

Be sure to read all 3 posts so far:

Introduction

What We Have Today

Where Are We Heading?