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Digital Library Products in an Academic Library Consortium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sloan, Bernie)
Thu Sep 30 20:03:28 2004
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:05:16 -0500
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FYI, for those of you interested in digital library applications, RFP &
system acquisition processes, library cooperation/consortia, academic
libraries, and other related areas.
I was project manager for the selection process and wrote the final
report, so feel free to contact me if you have questions.
Bernie Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From: Sloan, Bernie
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:57 AM
To: ALL ILCSO
Subject: <ANNOUNCE>ILCSO Digital Library Products Update
At its September 24, 2004 meeting, the Illinois Library Computer Systems
Organization (ILCSO) Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve the
consortial purchase of the three digital library products recommended by
the ILCSO Digital Library Products Committee (DLPC):
* Digital Object Management System - CONTENTdm from OCLC
(http://www.oclc.org/contentdm)
* Federated Search Engine - WebFeat as bid by Dynix
(http://www.webfeat.org)
* Link Resolver - SFX from ExLibris
(http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/sfx.htm)
Final contract awards are subject to UI administrative approvals and
pending successful completion of contract negotiations with each
recommended vendor.
ILCSO has budgeted for these products consortially, so ILCSO libraries
will have no out-of-pocket costs associated with software, hardware,
training, support, and maintenance for each product. Libraries will be
responsible for the costs of supporting local staff time and travel
expenses incurred in attending training, participating in implementation
planning sessions, and configuring their profiling options. Libraries
that opt to run the software on their own servers will also be
responsible for all incremental costs related to purchasing and
operating those installations.
The ILCSO Digital Library Products Committee (DLPC) was established by
the ILCSO Board of Directors at its January 10, 2003 meeting. The
Committee was charged with investigating and evaluating digital library
products for possible purchase, including a digital object management
system, a federated search engine, and a link resolver. The DLPC issued
an RFP for digital library products on February 13, 2004. Following
extensive deliberations that included review of vendor responses,
on-site demonstrations by finalist vendors, interviews with vendor
references, and review of vendor responses to a follow-up Best and Final
Offer request, the DLPC recommended the vendor products listed above to
the ILCSO Board of Directors. The DLPC was discharged on September 24,
2004.
For more details, the DLPC's final report to the ILCSO Board is
available upon request.
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL 61820
E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu
