applications around WorldCat data

Increase the number of links coming into your library catalog! The WorldCat
Search API gives your developers access to WorldCat bibliographic records
and holdings information, as well as the FRBR concepts that pull together
various editions of the same work.
With the WorldCat API, you can:

Query the WorldCat database, containing more than 100
million bibliographic records contributed by librarians and [...]

Open Library Environment Project

http://oleproject.org/
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented Architecture. The project leaders are a multi-national group of libraries dedicated to thinking beyond the current model [...]

Metadata to Support Next-Generation Library Resource Discovery:

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retrieve/14621/Bowen_article_27n2.pdf
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project at the University
of Rochester will design and develop a set of open-source
applications to provide libraries with an alternative way
to reveal their collections to library users. The goals and
functional requirements developed for XC reveal generalizable
needs for metadata to support a next-generation
discovery system. The strategies that the XC Project
Team and XC Partner [...]

NISO announces CORE initiative

http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=cf864b64c85f36c3692178685f719f345d70ccdd
Proposed Standard to Form Information Bridge Between ILS and ERMS
Baltimore, MD — The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has approved work on a new standard project, CORE (Cost Of Resource Exchange), to facilitate the exchange of cost, fund, vendor, and invoice information between Integrated Library Systems (ILS), Business Systems, Electronic Resource [...]

DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Group Technical Recommendation

http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/DLF_ILS_Discovery_1.0.pdf
An API for effective interoperation between
integrated library systems and external discovery
applications
June 4, 2008

The Michigan Library Consortium is going open source.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6553800.html?nid=2671&rid=76250400&source=title
The Michigan Library Consortium is going open source. The group April 14 announced that it has selected an Evergreen system as its next automation solution, as well as signing with Equinox Software Inc., which will “provide comprehensive library data migrations service, software configuration, consultation, and on-going Evergreen support.”

Major new study of the Library Management System market

http://www.kenchadconsulting.co.uk/images/stories/lmsstudy.pdf
A major study has just been published on the Library Management System (LMS or– ILS is US parlance) market in UK Higher Education. It was commission by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Society of College, National and University Librarians (SCONUL)
‘The JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study An Evaluation and [...]

Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium

http://www.valenj.org/newvale/ols/symposium2008/program-schedule.shtml
VALEnj is investigating the idea that a single shared open library system would benefit and improve users’ services for academic institutions throughout the state of New Jersey
presentations from the conference available now.

ILS Basic Discovery

http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php?cat=71
from Peter Brantley’s blog:
With the advent of widely available, powerful network-based search engines, libraries are struggling to keep library services and collections at the forefront of academic research.
In the summer of 2007, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) convened a working group, the ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, to analyze the issues involved in achieving effective [...]

Reconfiguring the library system environment

This guest editorial by Lorcan Dempsey is available through Supersearch from Portal: Libraries and and Academy, v.8, no.2, 2008, pp.111-120