Dear Sir,<br><br>Hearty Congratulations to your for your one-of-its-kind effort.&nbsp; The LIS Community&nbsp; should now make the best use of the software.&nbsp; I'm very delighted.&nbsp; Thanks.<br><br>Regards,<br><br><br><b><i>Jai Haravu &lt;haravu@newgenlib.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">     <big>Dear Members of the List<br> <br> I am a very happy to announce that&nbsp; NewGenLib, the integrated library management system is now open source. Details are given below.<br> <b><br> </b></big> <div align="center"><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><b>NewGenLib Open Source</b><o:p></o:p></span></big></div> <ol>   <li><!--[if !supportLists]--><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family:
 &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib (<a href="http://www.newgenlib.com">www.newgenlib.com</a>) is now open source under the most widely used open source software licensing system called GNU GPL (General Public License)</span></big><!--[endif]--></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch:
 normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The open source binaries and source code can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib</a>. Installation notes for Linux and Windows are also available at the site. The user manual is also downloadable.</span></big><!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;
 line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Librarians/developers who download the software can post their views, problems, solutions, discussions, etc., on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780">https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780</a>.</span></big><!--[endif]--></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib is web-based and has a multi-tier
 architecture (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.kiikm.org/newgenlib_architecture.jpg">www.kiikm.org/newgenlib_architecture.jpg</a>); uses Java (a swing-based librarian’s GUI) and the JBoss (J2EE-based Application Server). The default backend used is the open source PostgreSQL.<span style=""> <br>     </span></span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib functional modules:
 Acquisitions management (monographs and serials); technical processing; circulation control; system configuration; a desktop reports application and an end-of-day process (scheduler) application.<span style=""> <br>     </span></span></big><!--[endif]--></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib is compliant with MARC-21 format.</span></big><!--[endif]--></li>   <ol>     <li><!--[endif]--><big><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Has a MARC editor</span></big></li>     <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Allows seamless bibliographic and authority data import into cataloguing templates&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New
 Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"></span></span></span></big><!--[endif]--></li>   </ol>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Form letter templates are configurable using openOffice 2.0 as ODT and htm.</span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">SMTP mail servers can be configured for emails that can be sent form functional modules.<span style=""> <br>     </span></span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib allows creation of institutional open access (OA) repositories compliant with the OAI-PMH.</span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;
 font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib servers are SRU/W compliant supporting MARC-21 and MODS 3.0 metadata formats. CQL (level 1) with both Bath and Dublin Core Profiles are supported.</span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">NewGenLib is Unicode 3.0 compliant. It is an internationalized application. English and Arabic interfaces are already available.</span></big></li>   <li><big><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Is RFID ready.</span></big></li> </ol> <big>Regards<br> L.J.Haravu<br> Trustee<br> Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management<br> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
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