Innovative and OCLC join the Gang
Following in the footsteps of their counterparts from Ex Libris, SirsiDynix, and Talis, Betsy Graham, Vice President Product Management for Innovative Interfaces, and Matt Goldner, Executive Director End User Services at OCLC, joined The Library 2.0 Gang for the June show.
The topic for the show is Bolt-on OPACs - search and discovery interfaces sourced from the open source community or vendors other than the incumbent ILS supplier.
Aquabrowser was the first commercial product of this type. Taco Ekkel Director of Development for Medialab Solutions, the Amsterdam based company who produced Aquabrowser, is guest for the show.
Matt reflecting on the OCLC experience with WorldCat Local and Betsy with Innovative’s Encore product, are joined by Andrew Nagy, lead developer on the VuFind project, Marshall Breeding, and Carl Grant, in a open discussion about the way such products are evolving.
Apart from being an interesting discussion, it is yet another example of how key commercial players in the library systems marketplace are starting to open up and join a conversation about the opportunities for libraries, and their users, as well as the issues behind creating those opportunities.
