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A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman Apr 2013

A Year From Now You Will Wish You Had Started Today - Redefining Strategy And Organization For Library Automation And Content, Daniel Forsman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is a need for a new breed of organization and strategy in a changed landscape for library systems, acquisitions and discovery. This paper presents Chalmers library re-organization and strategic viewpoint on library systems, acquisitions, collection development and development methodology based on a complete overhaul of those areas to prepare us for a changed paradigm of how library systems and media is delivered to our organization and users.

Software and Data as a Service has changed the infrastructure for library automation and content delivery. Media and systems are merging in the Cloud, with vendor promise of lower total cost of …