We’re really pleased that Richard Burkitt, the Director of Discovery Innovation in Europe, is joining us for the EDS Conference. Richard is giving us a main presentation on developments in EDS, and a running a breakout session on FOLIO, the new open source library service platform EBSCO are working on. EDS update and roadmap session EBSCO Discovery Service is significant in its ability to expose relevant results to your library users. Its means of doing this is unique, but EBSCO recognises that the requirements of libraries and demands of library users evolves rapidly. Richard will share road map items for EBSCO Discovery Service, highlighting how changing research habits are impacting upcoming user interface features. In addition, Richard will share details of the Holdings and Link Management (HLM) administration area and how it is evolving into a tool that does so much more than managing your holdings for EDS and Full Text Finder – from consolidating COUNTER statistics to providing Cost per Use analysis to Collection Analysis to tracking licenses and other key resource details. FOLIO – A new approach to the Open Library Service Platform The Library Management System market is complex. Systems do not always support the workflows required in today’s library. The market is demanding better value and more choice for systems. Richard will provide an overview of a new collaboration of partners who are developing an Open Source Library Service Platform, FOLIO, to support their current and future workflows. Richard will explain the reasons for the development of FOLIO; how it will open the market for libraries to have more choice; how libraries’ staff will have a greater voice in system development; and ensure workflows specific to each library are able to be supported.

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Announcing a new
COLLABORATION
between OLE libraries,
other libraries,
Index Data
& EBSCO
Future of Libraries is Open - FOLIO

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OLE & Other Libraries Index Data
EBSCO EBSCO & others
The Collaboration
Guidance
Community building
Forum facilitation
Software development
Solution architecture
Software development
Platform and apps
Financial support
Project guidance
Community outreach
Hosting and services
Software development

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Supporting ILS
open source & ILS partnerships
60+ ILS partnerships
Koha and OLE
Open source and commercial ILS with choice

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CHANGE
In libraries
Emerging Requirements
Changing Collections
and Spaces
Evolving User Needs

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Change
In the vendor community
#ofvendors
Time-line

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CONSOLIDATION
In library automationVendor Consolidation
Fewer ILS Options
Monolithic Systems

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Fewer Vendor
Closed Systems
Multiple Vendors
Risk Mitigation
Cost Drivers
Open Systems

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A new way forward?
Another ILS?
More consolidation?
What to Do?
OR

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Agility Choice Affordability
Principles
In library technology

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There is an opportunity to do things differently,
and advance library technology

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Our concept of the Open Source Platform
• Multi-tenant, cloud-ready, built around an open
knowledge base, linked data, electronic and print
resource management
• Can be hosted by commercial vendors, library
networks, or locally
• Apache 2 license: Everyone can play
• Design for community engagement
• Modular – snap-in modules (apps) can be contributed
by libraries or vendor

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Time-line
Now Mid-2016 2017 2018 >>
Community
Code on
Github
Base platform
release
1st apps
release
Service
organizations
LSP release
2015 development began

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Old Fashioned

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All in one systems
Discovery
Circulation
Acquisitions / Serials
Cataloging
Reporting
Old Fashioned

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MODERN
Extensible
TRADITIONAL
FUNCTIONS
NEW
FUNCTIONS
NEW
FUNCTIONS

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SPECIFICALLY
CREATED APPS
Modular
Deconstructed
You are in control
Many vendors
Dev. community

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UI layer
"App
store"
Plugin
DAM
Citations?
Resource
Mgmt
Plugin
Plugin
Publishing
Metadata UsersItems
Persistence/system services
KB

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BASE APPLICATIONS
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Circulation
Data
Conversion
Tools
Resource
Management
Resource
Sharing
OPAC
Functionality
Serials
Check-In
Union
Catalog

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REVOLUTIONARY PLATFORM WITH
EXTENDED APPLICATIONS
• Authority Control
• Content
Management
Systems
• Data Mining
• Grant Management
• Institutional
Repositories
• Learning Management
Systems
• Research Data
• Predictive Analytics
Will scale to support extended apps and new areas
of information management for university libraries,
such as the following:

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Ways for libraries and new community
members to engage
• Listen in on the forum; online community and webcasts
• Endorse the project
• Become part of the conversation, review ideas, designs
and prototypes
• Host local events
• Contribute interest, expertise, developers
• Informed discussions with vendors & service providers

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Strategists
Practitioners
Developers

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FOLIO.ORG

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Thank you
Richard Burkitt
Director of SaaS Innovation
rburkitt@ebsco.com
+44 (0)7803 508 041