v Contents Preface: A Word of Caution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowl­edgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Introduction to the Revised Edition: A Word of Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii PART I—­THE BROADER CONTEXT 1 The Evolution of Information Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Origins of Library Information Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Historical Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Developments Impacting Library Information Systems. . . . . . . . . 9 Hardware: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing. . . . . 10 The End of Moore’s Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Software Ranging from Proprietary to Open Systems. . . . . . . 13 Telecommunication Developments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What’s Old Is New Again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Questions to Consider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2 The Library Information Systems Marketplace. . . . . . . . . 19 Sources of Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Complexity of Commercial Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Size of the Commercial Library Automation Marketplace. . . . 21 The Integrated Library Systems Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 System Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mergers and Acquisitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Current System Architectures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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