Moving Your Library to the Cloud

Bucknell was an early adopter of OCLC's WMS solution in summer 2011. The session will overview this project and focus on the new realities cloud-based services present and engage the audience in some lively dialogue, perhaps about how practical the cloud is for libraries and how it fits with the vision of open-source library systems. Will cloud-based library systems become as common as Google e-mail systems on college campuses? Will libraries embrace the idea that their core system is more commodity than cottage industry? And if so, what does that mean for the future?