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3. Library Automation Łódź, 15 June 2010 Gemma Ros Manager of Operations VTLS Europe

4. About VTLS • Fully dedicated to Library Automation • Same ownership for over 30 years • Long term consistency in management • Financially sound, privately held, fast growing, really international • Here for the long term

5. About VTLS • More than 900 systems worldwide • Serving more than 3000 libraries • ISO 9000 Registered Company • Committed to standards: active in NISO, ALA and IFLA… • Strong R & D program • Not as focused on profit • Can invest as needed to stimulate growth

6. Corporate Offices • Blacksburg, Virginia, USA • Barcelona, Spain (EMEA) • New Delhi, India • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • Melbourne, Australia • + Distributors around the world

7. Prestigious Virtua Customers • Many libraries in Poland and Slovakia • University of Geneva • Polish Union Catalog [NUKat] • Library of Alexandria • Belgian University Collective • Swiss Library Collective [RERO] • All Tunisian University Libraries • Lund, Göteborg & Uppsala Universities • Tamkang University • Queens Public Library • Princeton University

8. Swiss National Library National Library of Wales National Library of Pakistan National Library of Slovakia National Library of Azerbaijan National Library of Malaysia National Library of Singapore National Library of India National Library of Ireland National Library of Morocco National Library of Belgium* National Libraries

9. New Customers • European Union Publications Office (Luxembourg) • PBW- Pedagogiczna Biblioteka Wojewódzka (Poland) • Hong Kong Public Library • Palau de la Música (Spain) • National Centre for Vocational Education Research (Australia) • Multimedia University (Malaysia) • University of Higher Education, Winneba (Ghana) • Gran Canyon University (United States)

10. VTLS Users’ Group Organizations IVUG EMEA N.A. Asia Australia Malaysia India USA Poland Canada Switzerland

11. VTLS Has Three Core Businesses • Integrated Library Systems • Institutional Digital Repositories • RFID for libraries

13. Comprehensive • FRBR • Archives Management • Profiler • Reports • Language Editor • More…. • OPAC • Web Portal • Cataloging • Circulation • Acquisitions • Serials

14. Versatile • User input: permissions, screen layouts, workflow and interface design • Simple AND can handle exceptions • Z39.50 for everything • Unicode compliant • Dynamically multilingual • Standards based

15. Parameters GUI – easy profiling Many buttons, pull-down menus, etc. Permissions management for users & groups Create Just For You Software Manages views of data for screen layouts Changes immediately Delivered pre-configured

16. Virtua Profiler - Permissions

17. Virtua Profiler

18. Languages Support of many languages simultaneously including right to left languages Polish, Welsh, CJK, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Urdu…

19. Help System Online Help Context-Sensitive pop-up help via mouse click or function key (F1) Online documentation search engine Printed manuals

20. FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Report published by IFLA study group (1997) VTLS, LC & OCLC are particularly interested in FRBR projects

21. It is the basis for RDA, coming soon! Users of libraries do NOT understand our collections as we do FRBR brings together collections in meaningful displays for them It is up to us to ‘organize chaos’ Why is FRBR an important consideration?

22. Chamo

23. What is Chamo? Social OPAC interface Build from the ground Option to work with Drupal Fast development techniques

24. Main features Facet Refinement

25. Main features Relevancy sorting (Solr)

26. Main features User Reviews & Ratings

27. Main features User Self Registration & Contact Information updates

28. Main features Social Tagging

29. Main features RSS Feed

30. Main features Interface with social networks

31. Archives Management

32. Archives Management • Developed with help of archivists of the NLW • Completely integrated in Virtua, can also be isolated • ISAD (G) compliant • Real links between records, not just display • Archives, cannot be described in isolation; require understanding of both its content and its context

33. Archives Management

34. Tree display

35. RFID for Libraries

36. RFID • (Radio Frequency IDentification)

37. Uses of RFID in Libraries

39. An OAI data provider tool • Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) • Allows libraries to "expose" their Virtua DB to OAI harvesters • Theses, dissertations, serials, other.. • Gives more access to your library’s resources by carving new channels for information to flow

40. VTLS Information Technology for Advanced Learning

41. What is an Institutional Repository? • Stores and maintains digital objects • Provides external interface for Digital Objects • Creation • Modification • Access • Enforces access policies • Facilitates self-submission • Offers preservation facilities

42. VITAL - Introduction Institutional Repository (based on Fedora) Software for creating, storing, managing, cataloging, indexing, searching & retrieving your digital collections Backed by VTLS software and service solutions

44. Discovery tool Offers users a unified interface for searching or discovering content Allows faceted browsing - also traditional keyword search Makes direct links to source content - (iPortal or Chamo for Virtua, any ILS, repositories, etc) Collocate information while providing branding [consortia, university departments, etc.] What is Visualizer?

45. More Powerful Searching • Facets dynamically change based on results • Breadcrumbs make navigation effortless • Sorting is always available • Knowledge base is applied to enrich data results

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