[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“With 500 staff, two buildings, seven public readings rooms and
information sharing relationships with 1100 libraries globally, the
National Library of Australia is an organisation bound to have
unique IT requirements.“Couple its physical scope with the plethora of media types
maintained by the organisation, ranging from books and manuscripts
to complex digitised maps, images, audio and online data, and the
need for adaptable software from the open source community is
paramount, NLA director of IT business systems Mark Corbould
says.“Corbould said a willingness to invest in the skills of the
library and a commitment to standards as whole has seen the
organisation employ a variety of open source solutions over recent
years…”