Understanding Information Retrieval Systems

    37 Integrated Library        Systems (ILS)

Emily Gallup Fayen

CONTENTS

Introduction

Background

Components of the ILS

New Modules

Other Services

Status

Conclusion

A Look to the Future

Acknowledgments

References

INTRODUCTION

Integrated Library Systems (ILS) are a natural outgrowth of Library Automation systems. Libraries have eagerly employed whatever tools have become available to assist in the enormously labor-intensive tasks of managing a library. In the early twenty-first century, ILS combine various components in numerous ways to meet the needs of libraries ranging from small school and hospital libraries, large academic and government ...