The 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego was not one characterized by
major announcements by the field of library automation vendors. Rather,
most of the companies reported incremental progress on existing
products or projects previously announced. Developments seen at the
conference boil down into themes of a shift toward cloud computing,
increasing interest in and development in discovery services, and
emerging products that embrace new models of library automation.
The
twenty-first annual “RMG Presidents Seminar: the view from the top”
included the presidents from each of the major library automation
companies and focused primarily on the theme of the ILS shifting to a
model of implementation through software-as-a-service. While each of the
companies offers some flavor of SaaS, the discussion revealed many
different interpretations of cloud computing and relative advantages and
disadvantages of deploying an ILS as a service. The panel reinforced
the trend, as seen throughout the technology and automation products
represented at the conference, that a major shift is underway from local
implementations to cloud-based services.
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