Comments on: LIbraries ahead of the game http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/07/01/libraries scratched tallies on the prison wall Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dorothea Salo http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/07/01/libraries#comment-1517 Dorothea Salo Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2004/07/01/libraries/#comment-1517 I dunno. They ever heard of an authority file? I hadn't before I went to library school.<br /> <br /> What really fuels my angst is that the library world needs help too -- if we could choke off the triply-damned ILS vendors with open source, libraries might make some progress on important usability issues -- but there's never a meeting of the minds! I dunno. They ever heard of an authority file? I hadn’t before I went to library school.

What really fuels my angst is that the library world needs help too — if we could choke off the triply-damned ILS vendors with open source, libraries might make some progress on important usability issues — but there’s never a meeting of the minds!

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2004/07/01/libraries#comment-1518 sil Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2004/07/01/libraries/#comment-1518 I know exactly what you mean about software vendors. Believe me, the legal industry is exactly the same. If software doesn't cost a hundred thousand pounds, plus about fifty grand minimum on consultancy, setup, and training, no-one's interested in buying it. So we haemorrhage money on these things where you could do a credible job just plugging together open-source products instead. Every day of my life. I know exactly what you mean about software vendors. Believe me, the legal industry is exactly the same. If software doesn’t cost a hundred thousand pounds, plus about fifty grand minimum on consultancy, setup, and training, no-one’s interested in buying it. So we haemorrhage money on these things where you could do a credible job just plugging together open-source products instead. Every day of my life.

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