Edtechkat

Bibliocommons has just gone live at Oakville Public Library in Canada, as reported in the latest Library Journal -“>BiblioCommons Emerges: “Revolutionary” Social Discovery System for Libraries

It is a discovery layer (like Encore or Primo or VuFind) that sits over the top of a library management system.

This is definitely one to watch – the vendors claim to have thought more about the “architecture of participantion” (what will make people *want* to tag, review etc) and have worked with major LMS vendors like SirsiDynix.

It seems to be funded privately and by subscription, but to have arisen out of library consortia. I will be interested to see what their pricing/support/source code policy will be.