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July 31, 2006
The Cost of Library Management Systems
From limited figures I have seen in a number of councils I estimate that, across the country we spend £50-80m each year on licenses for public library management systems
Among the problems these various systems bring is one of incompatibility of the system in one council with that of its neighbours.
Would any council or groups of councils join me in setting two objectives: firstly that the overall cost should be halved and secondly that each should be compatible with the others? Would those councils agree to an "invest to save" programme, to achieve these two objects?
Would any supplier. or potential supplier of a library management system like to discuss the opportunity?
Posted by Perkins at July 31, 2006 8:56 AM
Comments
Tim,
What is the purpose of library management systems? What are they supposed to do? There might be low cost or free alternatives available. Open Source CMS has demo versions of a number of free content management system engines available to try out. One might be what U. K. libraries are looking for.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at July 31, 2006 2:26 PM