Operational and Financial Aspects for Delivering a Consortium Shared LMS - The MITOS Project

ABSTRACT

The Shared Library Management System (LMS) model is not a new concept. Lately, many libraries consortia have migrated to a shared LMS to reduce their services' total costs. The Hellenic Academic Libraries consortium has implemented a shared LMS service, hosted in a private owned cloud infrastructure for its members during the past years (known as the MITOS project). Recognizing the complexity and significance that joining a shared LMS represents, it is important for librarians and other decision makers to have access to the MITOS experience for operational, technical and financial aspects, during and after the transition.

KEYWORDS:

• shared LMS
• stand-alone LMS
• multi-tenant system
• libraries consortia
• data migration
• governance model
• financial comparison