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An integrated library system (ILS), also known as a library management system (LMS), is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. An ILS usually comprises a relational database, software to interact with that database, and two graphical user interfaces (one for patrons, one for staff). Most ILSes separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, each of them integrated with a unified interface. Examples of modules might include: acquisitions (ordering, receiving, and invoicing materials); cataloging (classifying and indexing materials); circulation (lending materials to patrons and receiving them back); serials (tracking magazine and newspaper holdings); the OPAC (public interface for users). Each patron and item has a unique ID in the database that allows the ILS to track its activity. Larger libraries use an ILS to order and acquire, receive and invoice, catalog, circulate, track and shelve materials. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Library management system)
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Implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System |
Gary Brewerton takes us step by step through the various stages of implementing a Resource or Reading List Management System for your institution. |
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Developing a Prototype Library WebApp for Mobile Devices |
Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the development of a prototype WebApp to improve access to Library systems at Loughborough University for mobile devices. |
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The Wellcome Library, Digital |
Christy Henshaw and Robert Kiley describe how the Wellcome Library has transformed its information systems to support mass digitisation of historic collections. |
July 2013, issue71, feature article |
JABES 2013 |
Marlène Delhaye reports on the two-day annual conference organised by the French Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur (ABES) held in Montpellier, France over 14-15 May 2013. |
July 2013, issue71, event report |
Redeveloping the Loughborough Online Reading List System |
Jon Knight, Jason Cooper and Gary Brewerton describe the redevelopment of Loughborough University’s open source reading list system. |
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Walk-in Access to e-Resources at the University of Bath |
Kate Robinson, Lizz Jennings and Laurence Lockton outline a low-cost solution to walk-in (visitor) access to licensed e-journals, drawing on their practice at the University of Bath with a wiki ERM and OPAC terminals. |
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Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System |
Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 68 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68. |
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Book Review: University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments |
Sylvie Lafortune reviews a collection of essays that examine the transformation of academic libraries as they become part of digital learning environments. |
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From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
Internet Librarian International Conference 2010 |
Claire Tylee, Katrin Flemming and Elly Cope report on the two-day Internet Librarian International Conference focusing on innovation and technology in the information profession, held in London on 14-15 October 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE |
Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge |
Dorothea Salo examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
FRBR in Practice |
Wendy Taylor and Kathy Teague describe what they learnt about how FRBR is used at the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki, during their Ulverscroft/IFLA-funded visit. |
July 2010, issue64, feature article |
Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (emtacl10) |
Andrew Walsh reports on a new international conference on emerging technologies within academic libraries organised by the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and held in Trondheim, Norway in April 2010. |
July 2010, issue64, event report |
RDA: Resource Description and Access |
Wendy Taylor and Helen Williams report on CILIP's Executive Briefings on RDA : Resource Description and Access held at CILIP on 23 March 2010 and repeated at the Bloomsbury Hotel on 30 March 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 62: The Wisdom of Communities |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 62. |
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Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London |
Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
Book Review: Information Tomorrow |
Lina Coelho is delighted by this pick-and-mix collection of reflections on the technological future of libraries. |
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Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference |
Christina Claridge reports on the conference, held 3-5 September 2008, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 56: More Light Than Heat |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 56. |
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New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies |
Grainne Conole reflects on the implications of Web 2.0 for education and offers two new schemas for thinking about harnessing the potential of technologies. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Integrating Journal Back Files Into an Existing Electronic Environment |
Jason Cooper describes how Loughborough University Library integrated a number of collections of journal back files into their existing electronic environment. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
The Networked Library Service Layer: Sharing Data for More Effective Management and Cooperation |
Janifer Gatenby identifies criteria for determining which data in various library systems could be more beneficially shared and managed at a network level. |
July 2008, issue56, feature article |
Implementing Ex Libris's PRIMO at the University of East Anglia |
Nick Lewis outlines the University of East Anglia's experience of implementing Ex Libris's Primo, a new search and retrieval interface for presenting the library catalogue and institutional databases and e-resources. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Research Libraries and the Power of the Co-operative |
John MacColl considers the 'co-operative imperative' upon research libraries, and describes the work which the former Research Libraries Group is undertaking as part of OCLC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Libraries of the Future |
Michelle Pauli reports on the National e-textbook Debate and Libraries of the Future panel sessions held by JISC in Birmingham over 14-15 April 2008. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
Book Review: Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management |
Martin White reviews a book that sets out to provide very practical guidance on managing software projects. |
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Book Review: Blended Learning |
Brian Whalley reviews Barbara Allan's book on blended learning for Information and Library Science staff and educational developers. |
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ECDL 2007 |
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
What Happens When We Mash the Library? |
Paul Miller looks at recent attempts to make library resources more appealing, including the Talis competition to build library 'mashups'. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
Book Review: Digital Libraries - Integrating Content and Systems |
Chris Awre finds a useful toolset to guide librarians and LIS students on the future use of IT to deliver their services. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 48: Extended Family Net Works |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne 48. |
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Library Systems: Synthesise, Specialise, Mobilise |
Robin Murray examines how the changing landscape for library systems is altering their service model. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts |
Lorcan Dempsey explores how the library catalogue will develop alongside evolving network discovery systems. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
Code4lib 2006 |
Jeremy Frumkin and Dan Chudnov report on the inaugural conference of the Code4lib community of programmers, hackers, and techies working in or with libraries and information systems. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
Revealing All |
Ann Chapman describes Revealweb, a Web site that brings together information about accessible resources for visually impaired people. |
July 2005, issue44, feature article |
