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A discovery system is a public catalog system usually created by exporting the data from the ILS or LSP onto a separate server. These can be created independent of the ILS or LSP allowing the possibility to mix and match library systems and discovery systems. Marmot’s discovery system is Pika which is able to accept data from many different library systems.
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A newer term for the computer system a library uses to manage all of it’s activities. The primary difference between an ILS and LSP is that an LSP is designed from the beginning to deal with electronic resources in addition to older material forms.
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The public facing part of an ILS that allows people to search for material in the library. More recently they are often replaced by a discovery system.
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