[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] An unexpected peril of proprietary ILSs

[David Fiander]

Cory Doctorow reports on his blog at BoingBoing that

Speaking of which: recently, a librarian friend was telling me that her
> collection had gotten an extra staffer that they'd been begging for for more
> than 20 years, but that they weren't allowed to teach this new person
> anything about cataloguing. That's because their site license for their
> proprietary cataloging software requires that they pay for another seat for
> every person in the department who is qualified to catalog, and they can't
> afford another seat.
>

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/05/worlds-tiniest-open.html
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