About the session
Plenary Session 1 - Sleepwalkig Toward the Future
Chair: Helle Lauridsen, Lyngsoe Systems
Intermediaries between publishers and libraries consist of
agents and aggregators. Each faces a future which will
include considerably more open access content, as well as
prevalent open source technologies. Library vendors must
embrace both, and help solve problems for academic libraries.
Libraries also face challenges: information discovery,
inaccuracy of links, a lack of curation in many commercial
products, managing open access workflows, keeping track of
titles moving into and out of packages, integration between
systems from different vendors, etc. These challenges are
actually opportunities for vendors who are listening, willing
and planning to exist in the future.
