LiSA 2008 Conference Opening Session

Largest LiSA conference began this week in Charleston at the Francis Marion Hotel, representatives from nearly 100 libraries attending. Innovations at TLC will be discussed. Chance to communicate with TLC staff and other Library.Solution customers. Nearly 50 registered users on the TLC Knowledgebase. We will learn how TLC is changing. Showed a video of TLC staff who couldn't be here in charleston this week.

Is Open-Source software a threat to TLC? Advatages: It's Better, it's free, it can be what you want it to be.

Have automation vendors dropped the ball?

Is it really free?
Still have to pay for training, support and added functionality.

Software cost is not that much over a five year contract. TLC is not afraid of the open-source threat. Indigo is a demonstration of how open-source can be used in the library automation business.