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This report looks at the state of OSS in local government.

Full Report

Some headlines from the survey:

• 64% believe their council needs to increase its use of open source software (27% agreeing strongly)
• Around half say their council will increase its open source use by 2011
• 370 local government open source deployments identified
• Software licensing costs represent 30-40% of some councils IT budgets
• Why do councils go open source? 75% put lower cost as #1 factor
• Office software is where open source will impact most in local government over the next three years
• 65% believe perceptions of open source being ‘too risky’ stops councils from using open source more widely.

Interesting for anyone in this sector.

http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/609

Here is the link to the complete article

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/06/kuali

A useful report from Dick Boss from December 2008 —

“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software”

A number of public libraries have been investigating “open source” integrated
library system software. However, the percentage of libraries that would seriously
consider implementing an open source ILS is still small, approximately three percent in a
survey of 80 North American libraries conducted by the author in October of 2008.
Marshall Breeding of the Vanderbilt University Libraries came up with a similar figure
in a much larger international survey in late 2007 (www.librarytechnology.org).

Full report is here …

http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/platechnotes/OpensourceILS.pdf