tomeboy spotted The Case for Open Source Software in the Library Market, by David Dorman, the marketing manager for Index Data.
He says solutions based on freely distributed software will give libraries another choice for obtaining the support services that best meet the needs of their users. This should be a must read for all administrators
“. In a market where Open Source Software solutions thrive, every library will be able to obtain whatever combination of vendor, in-house, and peer support for digital library services that best meets the needs of its users.“
oss4lib.org
oss4lib “maintains a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and tracks news about project updates or related issues of interest.”
The site has a related readings page with articles not unlike the one that started this thread. They probably need a pointer to the acm.org story so they can link to it 🙂