Talk:Library automation system

Voyager ad

I'm at 68.204.216.89. I removed the Voyager ad from this article. Some people just have no shame. It would have been OK if other systems were also represented, but this was clearly a plug for Voyager and only for Voyager. News flash, there are a number of product suites in this market, not just one!

Suggested merge into Integrated library system

"Library automation system" is a synonym for "Integrated library system". The latter is a more modern term so I suggest merging this article into Integrated library system. Nurg 00:29, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This article is fairly useless as is and it would make more sense to spend time developing the ILS article, since that's the contemporary terminology. Planetneutral 04:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The merge is reasonable, the two terms are the same and the information contained in both articles should be retrieved from a single article. I have been actively involved in this field of software for the last several years and see need for the continuation of these two articles as separate entities.

Strong Support The library industry recognizes the term "Integrated Library System" as the proper term, at least in the US. I believe some countries refer to this as a Library Management System. Either way, "Library Automation System" is nothing more than a laymans' term, and as such I don't believe it to be encyclopedic enough to bear more than a redirect to the proper article. Dmcmorris 00:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that Integrated library system should also be linked to library catalog. I do think a list of systems would help people who may be searching for a new ILS/ or library system. I agree that "library automation system" is not really a correct term, though should be included as a searchable term where searchers are referred to the ILS definition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.223.52 (talk) 00:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this page should indeed dissapear. Integrated Library Sytem is the right term. Something that is going to dissappear by the way. It will be replaced by a loosely coupled set of Web Services that work together within a Service Oriented Architecture. --Peter van Boheemen 07:20, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]