Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12, 2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce catalog search solution
So what?  It’s still just a catalog
nThe library systems puzzle
nReversal of fortune
One bona fide complaint that we have heard is that the catalog is still just the catalog.  There are no articles, and journal titles are still hard to find.  So why bother re-inventing what some are calling an end-of-life product.

I want to talk briefly about two reasons why we think that new technologies are required to carry on.