Operational and Financial Aspects for Delivering a Consortium Shared LMS - The MITOS Project. Issue 5 (4th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kouis, Dimitrios; Veranis, George; Papadatou, Eleni; Mitrou, Nikolaos
• Is Part Of: Journal of library administration. Volume 58:Issue 5(2018)
• Page Start: 482
• Page End: 502
• Publication Date: 2018-07-04
• Subjects: shared LMS -- stand-alone LMS -- multi-tenant system -- libraries consortia -- data migration -- governance model -- financial comparison; Library administration -- Periodicals; 025.1
• DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2018.1468662
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0193-0826

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Shared Library Management System (LMS) model is not a new concept. Lately, many libraries consortia have migrated to a shared LMS to reduce their services' total costs. The Hellenic Academic Libraries consortium has implemented a shared LMS service, hosted in a private owned cloud infrastructure for its members during the past years (known as the MITOS project). Recognizing the complexity and significance that joining a shared LMS represents, it is important for librarians and other decision makers to have access to the MITOS experience for operational, technical and financial aspects, during and after the transition.