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2025 Library Systems Report: Companies see platform upgrades, new leadership, and AI enhancements
American Libraries [May 1, 2025]
Abstract: The library technology industry showed its maturity in 2024. Businesses have become increasingly stable and robust products delivered rich functionality. But decades of consolidation have created a narrower slate of competitors, resulting in a smaller number of products available for each type and size of library. The marketplace is seeing more specialized solutions but fewer options. Companies continue to tailor products to the diverging service needs and collections of public, academic, school, and special libraries. Library services platforms (LSPs) designed for academic libraries, for example, are not well suited for public libraries. This stratification further narrows customers’ choices.
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Abstract: The library technology industry showed its maturity in 2024. Businesses have become increasingly stable and robust products delivered rich functionality. But decades of consolidation have created a narrower slate of competitors, resulting in a smaller number of products available for each type and size of library. The marketplace is seeing more specialized solutions but fewer options. Companies continue to tailor products to the diverging service needs and collections of public, academic, school, and special libraries. Library services platforms (LSPs) designed for academic libraries, for example, are not well suited for public libraries. This stratification further narrows customers’ choices.
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| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Type of Material: | Article |
| Language | English |
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American Libraries |
| Issue: | May 1, 2025 |
| Publisher: | American Library Association |
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Library Systems Report |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago, IL |
| Show FT: | N |
| Online access: | https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/05/01/2025-library-systems-report/ |
| Record Number: | 31314 |
| Last Update: | 2025-07-06 11:02:01 |
| Date Created: | 2025-05-01 08:35:23 |
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