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Article: Standing up for open source.(LPP Special Issue on Libraries and Google)
- Article from:
- Library Philosophy and Practice
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Introduction
It is time for librarians to stand up for open source. Based upon shared values of openness and accessibility, the library world has common cause with the open source community. Further, open source solutions offer many functional and practical advantages, including potential answers to some of the issues currently frustrating libraries. However, libraries have thus far adopted open source solutions at a rate far below other sectors and, notably, have not made a commitment to development of open source integrated library systems (ILS).
This trend not only means that libraries will continue to depend on expensive, proprietary products but ...