Dear Professionals,

There are many posts we use to get now regarding Open Source Tools with cooperative approach from different IT skilled LIS professionals.

Anyway, I consider that the ultimate challenge is the customization according to the organization as per their requirements and changed requirement which is time related task and a matter of system analysis. For a sustainable and consistent system it is required different phases like planning, setting, access management, implementation etc. The total thing is a matter of project management with professional approach from requirement analysis to testing after designing even documentation. So, the whole thing is not a task of one day or one week or even one month. When technology appears at market, whimsically it is not wiseful to use in case of specially repositories, e-Learning, CMS and automation tool; though the popular technology which are cited by different members of the forum are widely used.

I think, before setting-up or using any technology always initiate to a team consisting of administration and staff of the library of the organization and information technology professionals with mature as well as professional outlook. Moreover, each member can contribute expertise on how the system should operate and the features required, i.e. for repositories – feature of the services (metadata, submission workflow, content types, etc.) or underlying technical issues (operating system, databases, search mechanisms, etc.) or even the policies and legal issues for the collections. So, no shortcut technique will be effective in this case for long run, not only installation or a little customization will perform all the tasks, it can be a pilot task of starting the main tasks or project. A 'Gantt chart' should be followed for designing a system lifecycle. For better information literate community it is needed long term sustainable, consistent and coherent system with matured working process.

Regards,

Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb

Independent University, Bangladesh