Head Tale

John M., who knows his stuff from both sides of the coin, having been an IBM web developer before beginning library school, has written a post entitled “Eight Laws of Library Technology” that's worth a read.

This is a topic that's in my head a lot having recently been introduced to Evergreen, an open source ILS whose core components were built from the ground-up in less than a year when various libraries in Georgia decided to go this route for an ILS rather than dealing with traditional corporate vendors. 

And I'm trying to remember – what was the software that they used in the Digital Libraries course at FIMS?  I don't think it was Evergreen but maybe something that sounded similar?