by Carla Pfahl
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American Libraries has recently published Marshall Breeding’s “Library Systems Report 2014.” Highlights from this year’s report include information about the rise in
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American Libraries has recently published Marshall Breeding’s “Library Systems Report 2014.” Highlights from this year’s report include information about the rise in competition of products to enhance integrated library systems, new library services platforms, and discovery services. The CLIC libraries were mentioned in the report for their selection of ProQuest’s Intota:
“ProQuest continues its development of Intota, its planned library services platform offering. Cooperating Libraries in Consortium, a consortium of private colleges and universities in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, selected Intota in 2014 through a competitive procurement process.”
Discovery platforms are also discussed. EBSCO Discovery Service is noted as the current industry leader with 5,612 library subscribers, followed by OCLC’s WorldCat Local with 1,717 library subscribers. Ex Libris and ProQuest finish out the round of leading discovery services. Integrated library systems, open source developments, school library automation, special library services, and information about events in the international community are detailed as well. A separate pdf of charts covering vendor product activity, sales, and installations is included.
