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Evaluating OSILS Products for Indian College Libraries


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1 SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore, India
2 Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, India
     

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The paper presents the requirements of Indian college libraries in ILS products in general and Open Source Integrated Library Systems (OSILS) in particular. The requirements are analyzed for the housekeeping modules and viability indicators (Technical and Software Service Support requirements) by direct questioning. The performance of the 9 OSILS Products: ABCD, Emilda, Evergreen, Koha, NewGenLib, OPALS, OpenBiblio, PMBILS and PhpMyLibrary is evaluated against the listed requirements.

Keywords

Open Source Integrated Library Systems, OSILS, Performance Analysis, Evaluation of OSILS Products.
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M. V. Sunil
SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore
India

N. S. Harinarayana
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore
India


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Authors

M. V. Sunil
SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore, India
N. S. Harinarayana
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, India

Abstract


The paper presents the requirements of Indian college libraries in ILS products in general and Open Source Integrated Library Systems (OSILS) in particular. The requirements are analyzed for the housekeeping modules and viability indicators (Technical and Software Service Support requirements) by direct questioning. The performance of the 9 OSILS Products: ABCD, Emilda, Evergreen, Koha, NewGenLib, OPALS, OpenBiblio, PMBILS and PhpMyLibrary is evaluated against the listed requirements.

Keywords


Open Source Integrated Library Systems, OSILS, Performance Analysis, Evaluation of OSILS Products.

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