Before this I already explain about what is integrated Library System (ILS) and the uses of it, it needs to understand to make sure that the operation of library are in the right track. From that integrated system, now people talk much about the open source. First thought we heard about the open source surely the freely service or system provided by the internet user worldwide. Generically, open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use or modification from its original design free of charge. Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations. But while open source software may be free, a developer may charge for services, including custom programming, installation, training, technical support, and hosting services for those who do not want to implement and maintain the software in- house. Some distributors of open source software are for-profit organizations and may charge prices for their services comparable to those charged by proprietary software vendors.
Integrated Library system management refers to the overall operation to become competencies such as knowledge, know-how, skills and attitudes, necessary to create, store, analyze, organize, retrieve and disseminate digital information (text, images, sounds) in digital libraries or any type of information.
Now with the ILS are widely used in the library as their system support, librarian surely find the service or to reduce the cost of operation. So it is suitable for collaborative development.
Collaboratively developed computer programs are known as free software or open source software (OSS). Librarians and programmers have worked together to produce several open source ILSs. Users and developers are free to share and change open source programs, a practice similar to sharing recipes. Open source licenses ensure that OSS and its derivatives may be freely viewed, used, copied, modified, and redistributed. Examples of well-known OSS include the Mozilla Web browser, Apache Web server, and Linux operating system.
To make sure that library are successful in the ILS uses, it need the specialist staff in the library as a technical staff for maintain and make sure that all the system involves in ILS are working well. These staff requirements are hard to find but are necessary to fulfill that position. But in the same time the other staff also need to understand the function and how to use the system basically because when the library start using ILS, all the operation are totally changes. The librarian need to understand the system function to make sure that when patron ask about that, the can answer it as a reference.
By exiting the open source now days, some open source is covering the task or job for the library for example like DSPace, greenstone which help library to organize, restoring, managing their data and information. By using and integrating this technology open source it will reduce task that library needs to develop but just using the open source approach existing. At this point, by existing many of open source in market todays it not kill or overtook the librarian role or library function but it will make many patrons, researcher or information seeking people come to the library for asking their service because the open source are developed for the library so that they will sure take the librarian as their reference to understand and knows the service better.
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