In a move that could have far-reaching implications for competition in the library software and technology services industry, SkyRiver Technology Solutions, LLC has filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems, by anticompetitive and exclusionary practices.
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“OCLC started out 40 years ago as a library cooperative, but it has become a corporate monopoly.” said SkyRiver’s President Leslie Straus. “In the process OCLC has punished its own members who have tried to seek out lower cost alternatives like SkyRiver.”
For more information about the SkyRiver’s lawsuit and the issue of choice for libraries in the marketplace for library software and services, visit www.choiceforlibraries.com. Twitter users are encouraged to use hashtag #skyoclc.
Source: SkyRiver Website Hat Tip: P.B.
SkyRiver Users (Compiled Using News Releases on SkyRiver Website, Likely Not Comprehensive)
In a summary of the discussion, Richard Wallis on Panlibus writes, "We then moved on to discuss how new entrants, Biblios and SkyRiver, in to the record supply sector may alter that landscape." Again, this interview took place in November, 2009.
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