{"id":230,"date":"2013-01-25T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T07:03:30","slug":"perceptions-2012-highlights-for-tbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/2013\/01\/perceptions-2012-highlights-for-tbos\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions 2012 &#8211; Highlights for TBOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarytechnology.org\/breeding-bio.pl\">Marshall Breeding<\/a> has published his sixth annual review of LMS systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarytechnology.org\/perceptions2012.pl\">Perceptions 2012: An International Survey of Library Automation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarytechnology.org\/blog.pl?ThreadID=251\">highlights of the report<\/a>, he notes a couple of particularly interesting facts that are relevant to this project, and to the new <a title=\"New SCURL \u2018task and finish\u2019 group\" href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/2013\/01\/new-scurl-group\/\">SCURL task and finish group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>634 libraries indicated that they are considering migrating to a new ILS. Ex Libris Alma (121) and Sierra from Innovative Interfaces (120) were mentioned most frequently by libraries systems under consideration, followed by WorldShare Management Services from OCLC (99), the open source Koha ILS (71) or Evergreen (65), Symphony from SirsiDynix (51), Intota from Serials Solutions (48), and Kuali OLE (21).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new group being formed by SCURL will be asking a similar question, to discover if and when SCURL members are going to be thinking about migrating to a different LMS. \u00a0For example, the report states that 48% of Voyager customers, 34% of Aleph customers, 31% of Alto customers, 42% of Millenium customers, and 20% of Symphony customers are looking to migrate to a new system. \u00a0Many of these percentages are much higher than previous years, suggesting that the trend towards new library service platforms (a.k.a. &#8216;next generation library management systems&#8217;) is influencing decisions, rather than just the usual percentage of churn in the market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Except for the libraries already using one, the survey reflected fairly low levels of interest in\u00a0migrating to an open source ILS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an interesting finding. \u00a0Libraries that have tried Open Source continue to show interest in it, and those that haven&#8217;t continue not to. \u00a0Without further questioning it would be hard to find out why: is it because there is still concern about open source and those that try it find that it works OK, or is it that open source options only suit a certain type of LMS customer, and those that it suits have already moved to Open Source. \u00a0I suspect the former, but have no data to base this on. \u00a0Linked to this, the above statistic shows that open source systems figure reasonably well in the list of possible solutions to move to (in comparison to their current market share), and interest in Kuali OLE is now at a not significant level &#8211; we and many others continue to watch this with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Stuart Lewis, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Breeding has published his sixth annual review of LMS systems: Perceptions 2012: An International Survey of Library Automation In his highlights of the report, he notes a couple of particularly interesting facts that are relevant to this project, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/2013\/01\/perceptions-2012-highlights-for-tbos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/benefitsofsharing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}