From local project to open source: a brief history of the Loughborough Online Reading List System (LORLS)
Gary Brewerton
(Pilkington Library, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. E‐mail: g.p.brewerton@lboro.ac.uk)
Jon Knight
(Pilkington Library, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. E‐mail: j.p.knight@lboro.ac.uk)
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Abstract
Following a proposal at Loughborough University that “reading lists should be made available online” the university library undertook responsibility to design and develop a system to achieve this aim. Using open source tools the rapid development of a reading list management system soon followed, and by Autumn 2000 the solution had been successfully implemented at the university. The system is now available to other institutions as open source software.
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Citation
Brewerton, G. and Knight, J. (2003), "From local project to open source: a brief history of the Loughborough Online Reading List System (LORLS)", VINE, Vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 189-195. https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720310510909
Publisher
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