LJ recently asked librarians to tell us what they, and their patrons, thought of their ILSs. Nearly 1300 librarians responded, including 709 public librarians and 541 academic librarians, and their answers will strike a chord with many readers.
"another open source ILS called Kuali OLE. Kuali is a open source extensible service driven library management system geared towards academic and research libraries."
Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing.