Open Source Initiatives and Studies

Looking for more information on a specific Open Source ILS? Jump on over to our Open Source Integrated Library Systems page.

  • BC Pines
    BC Public Library Evergreen open ILS pilot project
  • Bulletin of the ASIS&T (December issue with focus on Open Source)
    The December 2008/January 2009 issue of Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology with several great articles on Open Source in the Library.
  • Developers
    Are you a developer? Click on the above link to add yourself to our developer directory.

  • Developer Directory
    A list of developers that have expressed working with libraries on this project.
  • Indiana State Library Open Source ILS Initiative
    Indiana State Library and the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library (Zionsville) investigating the feasibility of adopting an open source ILS for Indiana libraries.
  • Michigan Library Consortium
    Michigan’s Open Source ILS Project
  • Tech Notes
    Sponsored by the PLA Technology in Public Libraries. Useful information on everything from wireless deployment to Automated Material Handling.
  • The Social OPAC
    The Social OPAC application suite is an open source discovery platform for bibliographic data.

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