Title
Standing up for Open Source
Author
Lee David Jaffe, Interim Assistant to the University Librarian University of California, Santa Cruz, and Greg Careaga, Head, Film and Music Center University of California, Santa Cruz
Date
5/16/2008
(Original Publish Date: 6/1/2007)
(Original Publish Date: 6/1/2007)
Abstract
It is time for librarians to stand up for open source. Based upon shared values of openness and accessibility, the library world has common cause with the open source community. Further, open source solutions offer many functional and practical advantages, including potential answers to some of the issues currently frustrating libraries. However, libraries have thus far adopted open source solutions at a rate far below other sectors and, notably, have not made a commitment to development of open source integrated library systems (ILS).
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