The Integrated Library Management System (ILMS): A Core Component in the Fusion of E-learning and E-knowledge

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The Integrated Library Management System (ILMS)
A Core Component in the Fusion of E-learning
and E-knowledge

• Joanna Richardson
• Digital Repository Administrator

eAgenda Forum 2004
Information Services
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Integration of Core Support Systems

• ROI for learning objects library resources
• Penetration of knowledge silos
• Sharing / (re) combining content

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Myths

• If e-learning is not equal to LCMS
• And e-knowledge is not equal to portals or
  corporate systems
• Then ILMS is not equal to the Librarys online
  catalogue

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The End-user As Driver

• Students will have increased expectations for
  technology-based resources
• Students will want all content to be
• -- available
• -- interrelated
• -- easily accessible
• Terry, Charles 2001, Content Delivery
  Applications The Net Generation, InfoToday 2001
  Conference

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The Back End As Driver

• Library staff need access to
• local systems for finance, library records,
  student information, learning platforms
• remote systems for online ordering, bibliographic
  utilities, online work tools

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And Yet . . .

• Most ILMS vendors can supply APIs which enable
  interfaces between their system and various
  institutional administration systems
• But these linkages beyond the student
  information system are rare in Australia

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And the Solution Is . . . ?

• Service convergence ILMS LCMS
• Portal products ILMS hybrid information
  systems
• Enterprise MIS integration ILMS finance

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Goal

• Address business processes and knowledge
  management issues
• ROI
• Resource sharing and collaboration both
  internally and at the inter-organisational level

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The Future Integration and Dis-integration

• Opportunity for librarians and IT professionals
  to work with ILMS vendors to develop solutions to
  a range of knowledge management / access issues
• ILMS may be less integrated and more modular
  various functional applications (products)
  treated as discrete interoperable systems which
  can then be integrated with individual enterprise
  systems