I’d like to suggest that we should abandon the term “integrated library system.” Like in other areas of life, what we call things and how we talk about them have a huge impact on our ability to reconceptualize them. The ILS, I believe, has too much bagage associated with it to allow us effectively to move beyond it.

Many of us, like Sarah, have been talking about the option of using OCLC, in particular Open WorldCat, as a replacement for a local OPAC, but how many of us have made any progress in getting our organizations to make this happen? How many of us have actually had discussions or, better yet, performed user testing with our constituents to determine what might work for them?

–Tom