Introduction and Purpose

The purpose of the website is to evaluate and recommend an ILS software package for a Public Library Setting.  We have established a series of our own unique criteria and have evaluated four different packages according to the needs and setting of a fictional institution.  Two of the packages are vendor-based and two are open source.  The criteria were developed by all four contributors with each taking one specific software package to examine independently.


Contributors are:


John J Adams
Andrew Brookhart
Jacquie Demuth
Chrissy Klenke