1SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore, INDIA. E-mail: sunilmv@sdmimd.ac.in
2Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore, Mysore, INDIA. E-mail: ns.harinarayana@gmail.com
Online published on 5 October, 2011.
The paper presents the requirements of Indian college libraries in ILS products in general and Open Source Integrated Library Systems (OSILS) in particular. The requirements are analyzed for the housekeeping modules and viability indicators (Technical and Software Service Support requirements) by direct questioning. The performance of the 9 OSILS Products: ABCD, Emilda, Evergreen, Koha, NewGenLib, OPALS, OpenBiblio, PMBILS and PhpMyLibrary is evaluated against the listed requirements.
Open Source Integrated Library Systems, OSILS, Performance analysis, Evaluation of OSILS products
