It is a great news for Indian libraries. Congratulations for those who are
responsible for making this great software available under GNU GPL. It is
one of the few Indian software which adheres to international library
standards. I am not very sure that the installation of the software is
straight forward. It might require some efforts. But it is worth investing
the efforts taking in to account its overall features and capabilities.
On 12/01/2008, Dr. R.K. Kamat
Dr. P.V. Konnur (Librarian, Bangalore University) will be the happiest person with this announcement. I remember that Goa University Library was used as test bed for testing few modules of New Gen Lib when Dr. Konnur was working as Librarian there.
Dear Members of the List
I am a very happy to announce that NewGenLib, the integrated library management system is now open source. Details are given below. * * *NewGenLib Open Source*
1. NewGenLib (www.newgenlib.com http://www.newgenlib.com) is now open source under the most widely used open source software licensing system called GNU GPL (General Public License) 2. The open source binaries and source code can be downloaded from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/newgenlib. Installation notes for Linux and Windows are also available at the site. The user manual is also downloadable. 3. Librarians/developers who download the software can post their views, problems, solutions, discussions, etc., on https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=210780. 4. NewGenLib is web-based and has a multi-tier architecture (www.kiikm.org/newgenlib_architecture.jpg); uses Java (a swing-based librarian's GUI) and the JBoss (J2EE-based Application Server). The default backend used is the open source PostgreSQL. 5. 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. 6. NewGenLib is compliant with MARC-21 format. 1. Has a MARC editor 2. Allows seamless bibliographic and authority data import into cataloguing templates 7. Form letter templates are configurable using openOffice 2.0 as ODT and htm. 8. SMTP mail servers can be configured for emails that can be sent form functional modules. 9. NewGenLib allows creation of institutional open access (OA) repositories compliant with the OAI-PMH. 10. 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. 11. NewGenLib is Unicode 3.0 compliant. It is an internationalized application. English and Arabic interfaces are already available. 12. Is RFID ready.
Regards L.J.Haravu Trustee Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management
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