Success and Abandonment of OSS Library Management Systems

Nagesh L. Londhe; Suresh K. Patil

doi:10.14429/djlit.35.6.8866

Nagesh L. Londhe Department of Library and Information Science, Jayakar Library, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshk Road, Pune-411 007E-mail: nagesh@unipune.ac.in
Suresh K. Patil Symbiosis International University, Gram LevaleTal, Pune-412 115E-mail: librarian@siu.edu.in

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.35.6.8866

Keywords: Library management system, integrated library system, success, abandonment

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the open source library management systems (LMSs) and to find the present development. The development and community activity is studied by examining ‘release activity’ and ‘mailing list /discussion forum activity by applying different the methodologies. Other aspects of open source library management systems such as longevity, features, license, documentation, technology used are also studied. It is found that out of 31 open source library management systems only 15 systems are currently active. Maximum active open source LMSs have institutional support. Fifty per cent of LMS project are inactive or abandoned. This study covers success and abandonment aspects of open source LMSs and provides current status open source library management systems.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.35.6.8866