TECH TRENDS AT THE ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

ALA TechSource Webinar

Marshall BreedingDirector for Innovative Technology and ResearchVanderbilt University LibraryFounder and Publisher, Library Technology Guideshttp://www.librarytechnology.org/http://twitter.com/mbreedingJuly 13, 2010

Marshall’s tech beat

Library Automation Industry Integrated library systems Discovery Products Other major library technology products General Technology Trends Theme: track the trends that impact

library strategies and large technology investments.

Conference Tech Theme

Incremental advancement

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No Major break-through announcements

No mergers or acquisitions No new products announced

Cloud computing

Gaining wide use as a prototyping platform

SaaS offerings widespread – not exactly cloud deployments

Some true cloud deployments: LibLime Enterprise Koha Primo Central

Open source ILS

Continues as a major trend Still a small faction of overall ILS arena Exhibits

Equinox Software -- Evergreen LibLime – Koha Much Koha activity beyond exhibiting vendors

Sessions The Ultimate Debate

Moderated by Roy Tenant Stephen Abram Karen Schneider Marshall Breeding

Mostly quiet on the ILS front

Some new features in Polarismore municipal library clients

Enterprise faceted discoveryMany new SaaS sites – McMaster University

Cognite: New learning management system for K-12 schools

Encore Synergy: article level discovery without central index

New strength in large municipal libraries: Hong Kong Public

New version of AGent VERSO with many new features

Continued development of URM

OCLC Webscale Management system

New automation platform based on global WorldCat to replace local ILS implementations

Makes critical benchmarks Now available to early adopters Production product next year

Discovery

Ex Libris

Primo Primo Central launched Primo Version 3 released

bX Recommender service Recommendations for related scholarly

articles 271 subscribers Now integrated into Serials Solutions

products through API

Serials Solutions

Continued expansion of the content indexed by Summon

Summon integration through API Villanova: VuFind + Summon Index National and University Library of Denmark:

Summa + Summon