The Next Generation Library Catalog: A Comparative Study of the OPACs of Koha, Evergreen, and Voyager
Sharon Q. Yang, Melissa A. Hofmann · Information Technology and Libraries · 2010
Open source has been the center of attention in the library world for the past several years. Koha and Evergreen are the two major open-source integrated library systems (ILSs), and they continue to grow in maturity and popularity. The question remains as to how much we have achieved in open-source development toward the next-generation catalog compared to commercial systems. Little has been written in the library literature to answer this question. This paper intends to answer this question by comparing the next-generation features of the OPACs of two open-source ILSs (Koha and Evergreen) and one proprietary ILS (Voyager’s WebVoyage).